June Something Day 3

June Something Day 3: What's a favorite, or at least memorable fandom meeting/interaction that you've had?

i met my best friend through the Rigel Black Chronicles recursive fandom! though it feels a little odd to list that as a fandom interaction since the two of us don't usually talk all that much about RBC? but it is how we met :D

honestly maybe i should just cite RBC fandom as a whole; a good chunk of my current online friends are people i met via RBC! i'm very grateful to the person who made the RBC discord 3 years ago, my online social life would look very different if it had never been created.

June Something Day 4

June Something Day 4: What are the origins of your penname/username?

short answer: Homestuck.

long answer: in 2012, aka like ninth grade, i was looking for a new pseudonym, and Homestuck was my big interest at the time. so i decided to make a username in the Homestuck style, a camelCase mashup of two words. graveExcitement is what i came up with, and according to a journal entry at the time, i felt it was "rather accurate regarding myself," whatever that means (excitable yet serious? enthusiastic but depressed??? i don't know lmao i was 14). i got used to being called Grave, though, and while i'll leave off the "excitement" on platforms where i can be just "grave," it's still my standard username anywhere that demands a unique username. (though i have basically abandoned the camelCase, so usually i use graveexcitement rather than graveExcitement.)

funnily enough, the site that i first used graveexcitement for is Dreamwidth... which i joined in 2012 in order to participate in the Homestuck Shipping Olympics. so really, my username and my presence here are both thanks to Homestuck :y