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1. How I started watching--I'd been in the novel fandom for almost a year when the drama came out. I remember some people in the fandom were eagerly anticipating it and some were (mostly due to production rumors that I won't go into here) dreading it, but after the first six episodes aired, the reaction was overwhelmingly positive. Up till then I'd been kind of "well, I'll get around to watching it someday" because my visual media consumption is...very, very low. But suddenly I was interested...and those first six episodes weren't subbed yet. Oops. It became a challenge to avoid looking ahead too much at spoilers and I had to mute a few chinese-speaking people I followed on twitter for the duration of the drama. 
tl;dr, it was pretty much a given that I would watch it eventually but I didn't expect it to pull me in the way it did

I was going to start the snowflake challenge too but I ended up spending most of my evening on a cat costume for my 3yo (the first convention where she chose her own costume is tomorrow, and she wanted to dress as our cat). Maybe another day!