Coincidences?

[jtthomas]

As I listen to more and more filk and start to become slightly more involved, I can't help but laugh at the sheer number of coincidences in my life, if one can even call them that when they pile up quite this high. Probably more things I haven't thought of, but the point is.

• ASL as a first language as my mother's research project.
• Writing music and performing it comes from my dad's side of the family (and he accidentally filked and flat-out parodied church songs with the help of friends starting in his teenage years, including Donuts No Peas Parchment / Dona Nobis Pacem. One of said friends may or may not be / have been involved in the Star Trek fan community, no guarantees but he's about that dedicated).
• Writing my own music and arranging pieces since middle school (and ran across ABC notation, fiddle stuff, while researching Christmas songs ... about six years before I actually started to play fiddle).
• Currently owner and player of a 50-year-old guitar from my dad's friend, my sister's old fiddle, possibly my sister's old flute given a bit more practice, my brother's drum pad, a travel keyboard that can't play more than two notes at a time, and whatever other instruments we've got scattered around the house that I can scrounge up. Probably getting more for the holidays.
• Theatre kid since kindergarten, Shakespeare fiend since sixth grade, and Gilbert and Sullivan fanatic since early in high school. Tom Lehrer's music followed G&S about two months later.
• Reading and writing SFF prose and poetry, both fanfiction and original, for quite literally half my life.
• Brother taught me to code around age nine and I taught myself astronomy and basic physics around the same time, with more since then.
• Found filk through a chain of events that I believe started with ffn, progressed to AO3, which in turn led me to Livejournal and Dreamwidth around age 16, and then I got bored enough to go exploring on the site and found filk in five seconds flat.

Basically, filk was bound to happen and the real question was when.

...there's a song in there somewhere. (It'll have to happen after the Scottish play ends in just over a week, probably. No free time at current.)