I am a media junkie and board-lurker extraordinaire, who became interested in fundie-watching back on the original (infamous!) TWOP 14 Kids and Pregnant Again forum.

I can hardly believe I have devoted (read: wasted) so many years to Duggar watching, but it’s like a magnificent kaleidoscope of horrors  - so scary, so shiny – that I just can’t seem to stop.

I was raised pretty standard issue Baptist, with a preteen switch to evangelical non-denominational thrown in for good measure.  I definitely wouldn’t consider my background fundie, but I’m the non-religious black sheep in a fairly uber-religious family (my grandfather even worked for Billy Graham for a time when he was younger).

I was a pretty religious kid, but turned into a morbid (we weren’t called goths back then), rebellious teen, and the way the church turned against me pretty much pushed me away from religion for good.  They even tried to anoint me with oil and cast the demons out of me because I had the gall to walk out on a cheesy 80s Geraldo special on Satanism. I guess that makes me a reformed possessee!

I’ve been obsessed with cults and religious abuses since I was a teenager – probably a subconscious reaction to that bit of craziness (or the demon that they failed to cast out trying to drive out the fundamentalist threat – take your pick), so Free Jinger was a pretty natural place for me to land.  The freakier the topic, the more glued I am to the forums.  I came for the Duggars, but the Arbys courtship and the hate email miscarriage kept me coming back.

I’ll be doing mostly TV recaps, and when I’m not fundie watching, you can usually find me obsessing over television, adaptation and media theory or Victorian lit.  So seriously, if anyone ever wants some BBC costume drama recaps, I’m right on it.