Same, actually. Except, I think the gifset that got me to watch it was the one of Finn punching Big G.I’m curious how everyone found My Mad Fat Diary.
For me, I had a patient, at the doctor’s office I work at, tell me I reminded them of Rae. I asked if I should be insulted or not, since I’d never heard of her. They told me to watch the show and see for myself. To this day, it’s one of the best compliments I’ve ever received.
Then I greedily snatched up the my library’s copy of the book.
What about everyone else?
Through gifsets on Tumblr. I remember one was the Archie ‘i’m starting to think i’ve got not sexuality’ scene, the other had to be something with Finn because i knew Rae didn’t stay with Archie and there was something going on with one of the other boys. Binge watched it on youtube, spent a good week emotionally wrecked after, then kind of forgot about it until right before S2 started. I also discovered MMFD fanfic on AO3 around that time. What a life changer that was…
breath of life;
