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I am a fandom old who has used many pseuds over the years... so it's kind of ironic that Mrs Leary is the one that has survived through to now, because it's the pseud I created when I wanted to compartmentalise my RPF.

To start at the beginning, though... I think I've always been a fan in various ways, though it took me a while to find fandom itself - my first fic published in print zines was in 1985, and my first in-person encounter with fandom was at Eccentricon in July 1987 in Richmond NSW (Australia), when I was 24. I have tended towards slash, but am happy to follow the Muse if she leads me elsewhere.

My first big fannish love was the film Buckaroo Banzai, which led to me publishing a fanzine called Samurai Errant. Then it was The Professionals, with much of my fic being kindly accepted by other zine editors. My next grand passion was Due South, which resulted in my zines titled Pure Maple Syrup.

I was always a fannish butterfly, so there's been lots of other loves and handfuls of other fic. Hence I published a multi-media slash zine called Homosapien - and then a multi-media multi-relationship zine, Espresso.

After a period of hibernation, I briefly flirted with Die Hard 4 before being utterly consumed by BBC Merlin... These were my first online fandoms. My love of Merlin spilled over into RPF - not the first time I'd written about 'real people', but the first time I'd ever shared it.

This has all resulted in a number of pseuds, though the first fic I submitted for publication (Blake's 7) was under my real name. I've otherwise been known as Stew, Julien, Harlequin, Slashweaver, Mrs Leary, and (on occasion) John Anonymous Actually.

Thoughts re this journal, friending, and such...

When Mrs Leary first created this journal, it existed mainly as a place in which to post my Merlin RPS fic, which started off as mostly Bradley/Colin but later expanded into rarer pairs. There were also occasional outbreaks of fannish squeeing when I happen to have met a member of cast or crew in 'real' life. There are very very few f-locked entries. I don't post all that much personal 'news'.

That said, I have been more active here than in other journals, so it's kind of stuck! And I very much want to be more active again in fandom, so this is where I'll try to do that.

If you would like to friend (or indeed de-friend) me, please feel free. You're very welcome, and it's entirely your decision. I am trying to break out of hibernation mode, so I hope I will friend you back. Give me a prod if I don't!

But maybe you're looking for my Transformative Works Statement, which is:

TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS ARE GREAT! MAKE ALL THE THINGS! \O/

If you are so inspired, please feel free to use my transformative works in your own transformative works, whatever they may be. I would appreciate credit and a link back to my “original” work, but I won’t insist. I would also like to be informed, and to have the opportunity to share the love with you, but again I won’t insist. Do as you wish or as you will!

On a broader philosophical level, while asking permission of each other is lovely, and it’s certainly something I strive to do within the fannish community, I don’t feel it’s absolutely necessary. I feel rather strongly that one of the fundamental aspects of transformative works is that no permission is needed from the original creator, whether their work is professional or fannish, in the public domain or otherwise. Get in there and have fun!

(Thanks to analise010, sophinisba, akamine_chan and other fans for prompts, words and ideas - though obviously they are not accountable for my version of their thoughts.)

If you have any queries or comments to make about any of this, please feel free to comment on a recent post, or PM or email me directly: mrs_leary@live.co.uk

Thank you for reading! ♥

Thanks are also due to readbeforesleep, who prompted my new lj subtitle with the comment (in response to my fic The Black Lace Mantilla), 'I loved the sexykinkysweetness of it all.'