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) was shown on television on one of the more obscure networks of the day. I don't know why, but I loved the drawing style and I have to admit that Astro Boy, with his spiky hair and rocket-feet was my first anime "crush." Maybe it was the fact that it had a real "story" that I could empathize with or maybe it was just Astro Boy!

Anyway, I was hooked without even knowing that it was Japanimation (later shortened to anime) that had entered my creative soul. Life being what it is, I moved on. I re-discovered anime when my son went off to college and came home with DVDs of Cowboy Bebop, Berserk and ''Evangelion. '' What's that? Anime, Mom. Oh. ::shrug::  Princess Mononoke was being shown at a local university and something told me to go and see it, which I did. The seed was planted and home I went to watch those DVDs that my son brought home. This was Japanimation - only better! Waaaay better!! But DVDs were all I thought existed.

At the same time, I was an obsessed X-Files fan and a fanfiction writer in that fandom for over nine years, so I was a little slow to jump on the anime bandwagon and its accompanying fanmedia, thereby missing the heyday of Ouran fanfiction (2006-2009). I was still a "phile" when I started watching anime online. The first anime series I ever watched online was Chobits - adorable, right? Then came Blood+  and I was hooked. Since then, I've steadily viewed series after series (one at a time, however; I'm a serial monogamist when it comes to anime).

Finally, I began searching for Ghibli films online and ordered myself a set. Now I watch at least one every day as it plays beside my bed. Via subliminal learning, I probably know the dialogue word for word. Fast forward to December 2012. With the "end of the world" pending, I splurged some hard-earned money on purchasing a few anime series on DVD, one of which was Blood+, which got me re-hooked on anime and re-invested in creative writing. Along came Ouran which is my obsession and then a friend recommended Psycho-Pass which I absolutely love. I've written fanfiction for those three series and have stories at ffnet and on Archive of Our Own - all under luxartisan.

It's all good.

Y'know, anime used to be a quirky subniche of sci-fi culture that has had its ups and downs. Right now it's in an upswing and nearly "mainstream." ComicCons and the Wiki movement have made the free flow of information not only possible, but accessible to the average person. Suddenly, I'm "cool" because I know about anime when, really, I've known about it for most of my life and just figured I was quirky. And so I am.