The READE Interview

PART ONE: AS AN X-FILES FAN

When did you start watching The X-Files?
Since the pilot...I've been invested since the first ep which, BTW, aired on my birthday...

Just off the top of your head, some classic episodes?
Pusher, Bad Blood, Never Again, Memento Mori, JCFOS, CBFR...to name few. There aren't many I don't like. The ep that got me truly truly addicted, still the scariest in MHO...was Squeeze.

How long have you realised you were a Noromo? What do you think about the whole Shippers vs. Noromos thing?
I confess I wasn't a Noromo in Season One. I don't think anyone was anything. But as the UST got stronger I realized that I didn't want them to get together...I just wanted them to keep flirting and solving interesting cases. I would have to say it happened somewhere in Season 2.

What was your opinion on the movie, and in particular, ~~that scene~~?
I liked the movie, but I didn't love it. I think they could have done a much better job with parts of it. And the bee. The bee was good, good indeed. I didn't think the almost kiss followed the plot really well, I felt like it was inserted as a manipulative tease. I don't know how the shippers stand it...

How do you feel about the characters now (eg, are you a OBSSEsor, a Mulderist, a Frohike Liberationist)?
I am a proud Sister in the OBSSE, a card carrying FLOvian (with Frohike Lib. Org) and Skinner makes me melt in a huge puddle on the floor. Mulder bugs me. Personality clash I think :>

X-F links you love to death?
X-Files University
The OBSSE
The Frohike Liberation Org.
Skinnerotica
The Temple of Modell
Gossamer
Spoilerville
Filking Through The Conspiracies of Life
Tiny Dancer's X-Files Episode Guide
The Abbey Library

What are your thoughts on fanfic? Do you read it regularly, write it? If so where is it archived, under what name?
I love fanfic. I read it very regularly. I like Jennifer Stoy, Jill Selby, Marguerite, Nascent, Red Valerian, Lyrica and a whole bunch of other folks that I am forgetting to mention. I do write fanfic although I have a whole bunch on the go that I haven't posted yet. Most of my stuff is under Reade. The smut...well the smut is under a different name. If someone really needs to know...they can ask me! And I also write those silly songs called Filks. They entertain me.

PART TWO: AS A WEBMASTER

How old is your site now?
Gosh, LOON must be going on 8 or 9 months old now. I have other web pages too that are older, but LOON is my favourite!

What inspired you to create it in the first place?
One day one the OBSSE list we were in a heated discussion about how many Shipper sites were out there. I decided that we needed a Noromo one. And LOON was "born".

Do you still enjoy updating it and looking after it?
I do, except I have been really pokey of late. Sometimes RL can just be evil.

Have you had much interesting feedback from it, made any new friends / enemies?
Lots of new friends, no enemies that I know of. The Shippers on OBSSE as well as the Fence Sitters all get along anyway. We have fun with it. If it stops being fun, well then I'll have to think long and hard about everything.

How did you come to be so involved in the XFU? It must be hard work. Has there been much interest in the Noromo Studies diplomas?
I got involved with XFU when Amy was getting it off the ground. I offered my help. She accepted and we've become good friends. I am also the Co-Dean of Villain Studies (MOTW specialist) and the Head of the Dept of Filkology. I took over Noromo Studies from Amyzon, who is also a long standing member of LOON (and OBSSE) she asked me if I would, and I said.."What the hell, why not." We have had a couple of people in the process of writing a thesis but no one has graduated yet. Come on folks...you can even write Noromo Safe Fic...this would make me much happy!

PART THREE: AS A HUMAN BEING

Real name-
Joni Contant

Alias' used, if any?
Reade (and I am not sharing the other one...:>)

Please list all the websites / webpages you run...
I look after LOON and it's offshoot, the LOON Noromo Friendly FanFic archive. I also have an Early Childhood Educators resource web page.

If you have a picture, please send it to me! [ I know, I know, but it'd be nice for all us Noromos to see what our heroes and heroines look like :) ]
Click through to a picture...here.

Which mailing lists / message boards / newsgroups do you usually hang around?
LOON of course, OBSSE, FLO, Blarg, XFU, LOON's message board and the Morley Foundations Message Board. I really try and avoid newsgroups but I do peek in on ATX and AXTC sometimes.

E-mail addie:
jonicontant@sprint.ca or sisreade@yahoo.com

What would be likely to find you reading / listening to / playing?
When I am not reading fanfic I like to read medical thrillers. I listen to lots of stuff - 80's music, Jewel, Natalie Imbruglia, Great Big Sea, Alanis Morrisette...and more. I pretty much don't listen to country music or heavy metal.

What do you spend your time doing when your modem's turned off?
It turns off? Seriously, I do work, so that takes up a hunk of my day. And I have a husband and a 6 year old son who keep saying they want to go do something....sooo sometimes I cave!

Any other links of interest?
OtakuWorld for Kisekae Dolls
Monty Python Heaven
Moyra's Web Jewels
MABTNG'S Forensics and the X-Files

LOON - http://members.tripod.com/~SisReade/noromain.html