Greetings, all! I'd been experiencing a recent fanfic-writing jag, and went looking for places to share the product of this obsession, and stumbled upon you all here. Looks like fun ... !
So, about me: I suspect I'm probably at the upperish end of the age-range participating on this board ... par for the course, though--I've never figured out what this whole "acting your age" business is about. I'm basically a left-over hippy type, who's been writing all sorts of stuff for literally decades. Even gotten a few (all-original) pieces published here and there, in admittedly obscure little journals and anthologies and such. And that's not counting the writing and editing I've done for pay--though that's mainly way boring technical/documentation writing/editing. Hey, it's a living ...
I'm a big anime fan, but I tend to only have the hots for a very few series at a time. Right now I'm majorly getting off on Lupin III -- my fanfic WIP is all on him and his gang. Other series I've been known to obsess about include Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and Trigun. I also am a long-time comics fan -- grew up reading Silver Age Marvel! I'm not currently following any series right now, but I was heavy-duty into Sandman while that series was active.
What else? I'm also into lots of classic rock, especially Steely Dan and Frank Zappa; and science fiction, especially Samuel Delany and William Gibson (also really dug Snow Crash but have yet to read anything else by Neal Stephenson). My movie tastes tend to be idiosyncratic too -- favorites range from Lawrence of Arabia to Buckaroo Banzai. I'm also a bit of a scholar of world religions, folklore, and mythology. Some or all of that tends to show up in my fiction (whether fanfic or original).
Oh yeah--I'm originally from New York, spent significant hunks of life in Boston and in Seattle, and am now in San Diego trying to make sense of this SoCal lifestyle.
See y'all 'round the forum!