first story love meme!
So I love the pink sparkly hearts challenge, both as a meme and as an idea for 
fanlore, originally from
kass:
What was the first fanwork (story, vid, artwork, podfic) you ever fell in love with?
I've got a couple. My first discovery of fandom was in the days of reading mailing lists (I think there were maybe 40 to choose from?) on the mutter-cough-uhm Brown VAX/VMS server, where I came across STREK-L and thought "hey!" because my whole dorm hall got together to watch ST:TNG every week, and then amidst all the discussion I realized I was in the middle of seeing this story get posted in segments:
A La Q by kelliem and Julia Kosatka (does Julia have an lj/dw these days? anyone know??)
-- and I went "hey, you can DO that?" and it was pretty much the beginning of the end for me right then. *g*
Then a few years went by of playing Transformers MUSHes, and then I fell back into fanfic fandom permanently with a bang by randomly thinking, "Hey, I wonder if there's a website about that wacky Dracula tv series I remember" -- and I think I found the Lucard Home Page via Yahoo? I don't think Google existed yet, seriously, that's how long ago this was -- and that is where I found Domestic Tranquillity, by
saraht.
(Argh, does anyone know how to rename a fanlore page? I accidentally miscapitalized that second one, grumble.)
SEKRIT TIP for making your own fanlore page! Use the fanwork template -- just copy and paste that sucker into the edit box and fill out, and you will get the spiffy box on the right like on my two new pages.
ON OUR NEXT THRILLING EPISODE OF PINK SPARKLY HEARTS THEATER: FANGIRL'S FIRST SLASH STORY <3
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fanlore, originally from
kass:
What was the first fanwork (story, vid, artwork, podfic) you ever fell in love with?
I've got a couple. My first discovery of fandom was in the days of reading mailing lists (I think there were maybe 40 to choose from?) on the mutter-cough-uhm Brown VAX/VMS server, where I came across STREK-L and thought "hey!" because my whole dorm hall got together to watch ST:TNG every week, and then amidst all the discussion I realized I was in the middle of seeing this story get posted in segments:
A La Q by kelliem and Julia Kosatka (does Julia have an lj/dw these days? anyone know??)
-- and I went "hey, you can DO that?" and it was pretty much the beginning of the end for me right then. *g*
Then a few years went by of playing Transformers MUSHes, and then I fell back into fanfic fandom permanently with a bang by randomly thinking, "Hey, I wonder if there's a website about that wacky Dracula tv series I remember" -- and I think I found the Lucard Home Page via Yahoo? I don't think Google existed yet, seriously, that's how long ago this was -- and that is where I found Domestic Tranquillity, by
saraht.
(Argh, does anyone know how to rename a fanlore page? I accidentally miscapitalized that second one, grumble.)
SEKRIT TIP for making your own fanlore page! Use the fanwork template -- just copy and paste that sucker into the edit box and fill out, and you will get the spiffy box on the right like on my two new pages.
ON OUR NEXT THRILLING EPISODE OF PINK SPARKLY HEARTS THEATER: FANGIRL'S FIRST SLASH STORY <3
You can also read this entry on Dreamwidth (
comments)