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Name: Cadenza, Denzi, or [Walletname], interchangeably
How did you end up in CP fandom?

thefourthvine led me into hockey RPF fandom. And then when I realized that C,P! was not in fact a horribly boring webcomic about gay restaurant staff in love (and like, why was there someone that everyone universally thought was so bad that they called him Shitty instead of his name?), I read it all in one go and then went looking for fic. As with most fic, I actually often like the fic better than the source, because it makes explicit a lot of things that the source keeps implicit, e.g. coming out, toxic frat culture, toxic Ivy League culture, toxic hockey culture, Canadian culture, Southern culture (although honestly as a Southerner ngozi's ear is not perfect? *shrug*), Johnson's fourth-wall-breaking meta-character, Lardo and the awesomeness thereof...I'll stop now. I've always liked fic-as-discourse, and I love fic for getting to have both genderqueer Lardo and cis Lardo who encounters lots of racist microaggressions. Or Shitty the perfect fantasy ally bro and Shitty the ally bro who sometimes fucks up.

Primary modes of fannish expression (fic, meta, tags, lurking) I try to write comments! My goal is to always comment when I bookmark a fic. Sometimes I don't. Mostly I do. I also reblog Tumblr fic and have Dreamwidth conversations.

Favourite character? From most most favoritest to just favoritest: Lardo, Jack, Johnson, fanon!Kent Parson, Ransom, Chowder, George. (Since nearly everyone else went with just one, it's really Lardo.)