slightly belated fanniversary, less joy day
It is hard for me to have More Joy today, as Alan Rickman's death casts a very long shadow across my fannish life. Which, incidentally, started only slightly more than thirteen years ago. January 8th 2003 is the date I created my fannish livejournal. I learned about this type of fandom* in late 2002. I'd been living on a sailboat and thus only vaguely aware of pop culture for many years. Shortly after we returned to the US, the second Harry Potter movie came out, and my sister-in-law, who was a children's librarian, raved about the series. We rented the first, and both B and I were sucked in by Alan Rickman's portrayal of Snape, particularly his voice. We watched the second in the theater, and then I went to the library and checked out all four (at the time) books, and we devoured them.
I wanted more, so I got online (wow, cool, this internet that you can just do so much with!) and found Harry Potter fanfiction. (Actually, I found the Severus Snape Fuh-Q Fest, and was like, o.O) Even though I haven't been in that fandom for nearly a decade now, that's where it all started for me. So basically, my entire involvement in fandom - all the stories I've written, the fests I've done, the people I've met, the incentive to go to Connexions and Con.txt and The Witching Hour and Pacificon - is due to Alan Rickman.
*As opposed to traditional SF fandom, which I participated in while in high school and college. We attended conventions where we wore costumes vaguely related to SF sources**, listened to our favorite authors in panel discussions, watched movies, and loudly sang ridiculous filks. Of course fanfiction zines must have been trading hands at these cons, but I was unaware of their existence.
**I guess this was cosplay, but I never heard that word until I got involved with fandom-fandom.
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I wanted more, so I got online (wow, cool, this internet that you can just do so much with!) and found Harry Potter fanfiction. (Actually, I found the Severus Snape Fuh-Q Fest, and was like, o.O) Even though I haven't been in that fandom for nearly a decade now, that's where it all started for me. So basically, my entire involvement in fandom - all the stories I've written, the fests I've done, the people I've met, the incentive to go to Connexions and Con.txt and The Witching Hour and Pacificon - is due to Alan Rickman.
*As opposed to traditional SF fandom, which I participated in while in high school and college. We attended conventions where we wore costumes vaguely related to SF sources**, listened to our favorite authors in panel discussions, watched movies, and loudly sang ridiculous filks. Of course fanfiction zines must have been trading hands at these cons, but I was unaware of their existence.
**I guess this was cosplay, but I never heard that word until I got involved with fandom-fandom.
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