User:Luxartisan

Not much to tell until I start talking. ;D

I am an ancient otaku. Well, maybe not ancient, but I enjoy anime and always have, ever since I was five years old and Osama Tetzuka's Astro Boy -- the original, not the remake - please don't do the math ;) -- was shown on television on one of the more obscure networks of the day. Not sure why, but I loved the drawing style and have to admit that Astro Boy, with his dark spiky hair and rocket-feet, was my first anime crush.

Anyway, I was hooked without even knowing that it was Japanimation that had entered my creative soul. Life being what it is, I moved on. Random programs like Voltron (the original), Belle and Sebastian and Kimba the White Lion were treats to be treasured, but I still had no idea that the artwork was Japanese. Years passed and animation of the American brands were the only means of satisfying a love for the artform at my disposal, or so it appeared. Finally, years later, my son went off to college and came home with DVDs of Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star and Evangelion. "What's that?" I asked. "Anime, Mom." "Oh. OH!"

When Princess Mononoke was shown at a local university, I forced a friend to go with me and immediately realized that this was what I had been hankering for since those early days and it was now called anime. I viewed all the anime my son owned and needed more! But DVD sets were expensive and websites with anime were few. Besides, anime was a crazy college kid thing or childish entertainment, wasn't it? Wasn't it?

At the time, I was immersed in a very different fandom (i.e. The X-Files) and that's also when I began writing posted fanfiction. Writing original fiction and closeted fanfiction has been a passion since childhood, but sharing it was not -- until I began reading what was being posted online. "I can do that and better," I thought, but thinking and doing are very different things. Still, I began posting X-Files fanfiction in 1998 and continued for ten years in that fandom. It was a transformative experience but when the franchise ended, the writing ended, as well, or so it appeared once more.

I returned to searching for anime and discovered that, lo and behold, online anime websites had proliferated and I could watch all the anime I desired. I did and I do with fanfiction resumed courtesy of a few select series. I can be found on ffnet and Archive of Our Own as "luxartisan" writing in the "Ouran High School Host Club," "Psycho-Pass" and "Blood+" fandoms (for now). My stories are primarily M-rated, so kiddos stay away. I'm on Tumblr as luxartisan and that's as far as my social media involvement extends.

My favorite OTPs of late are Kusakabe/Sajou of Doukyuusei and Makoto/Haruka of Free! I don't think of myself as fujoshi because I believe that love is love regardless of whether it's between male/female, male/male, female/female or however you choose to identify. It's time to put the labels away, eh?

What else can I say? I'm INFJ. I've been told I represent only 2% of the population. Figures. But I say embrace your weirdness because that's what makes you, YOU.

Peace out.