Fandom life

Apr 08, 2014 22:43

Fandom Life cronology

1980 - Born.

1988 - I'm madly in love with TV anime series called The Three Musketeers. I remember being grounded on an episode day and begging my mother on my knees to watch it (to her absolute amazement). Spend the early 90's recording all 52 episodes on VCR (and mistakenly re-recording over them). 3 episodes per tape. Yep. Knew nobody else who liked this series. I was a fandom of one.

1994/5? - 1st internet contact: a new tech exhibition. They had PC's connected to this new "internet" shizz. Browser was Altavista and I asked the guy next to me what to do. He told me to look for something. What? Anything. I searched for "Queen" as was a big fan. Browsed a few fansites. All a bit boring.

1995-6 - Huge internet boom. I go to internet shops once a week, to basically chat on mIRC and spend a lot of money on 2 hours of internet. Ahahahaha, what a waste. Meet up with other internauts, who are as boggled by meet-ups as I am. Everybody is safe and nerdy.

1997-9 - Become huge fan of anime Rurouni Kenshin. Search the web and start reading fanfiction. For a couple of years I'm even a moderator/poster in a Kenshin fanfiction mailing list (that's right!!!). It's there I'm introduced to lime/lemon (aka het porn) and eventually yaoi (gay porn). At first super weird, then I really like it. Jump on the Yaoi bandwagon. Go on to original slash stories and random other slash anime fandoms/doushinjis.

2000-6 - There's rumours of a real, live, in the flesh, gay TV series. I jump ship from Yaoi to Slash and become huge fan of Queer as Folk (US). At this time the only things I had acess to were recaps, fanfic and small clips of scenes people shared online (via ZIP files and direct download). Only saw the full episodes years after series is over. Start on LiveJournal (2004) to be able to read all the fanfic. There's space for a little bit of LoTR's fanfic, but I don't go deep into the fandom.

2006-9 - Through LJ I dable in lots of interests, like Sherlock Holmes (yeah, slash of the original stories) and keep in touch with random Yaoi groups.

2009 - An old friend from the Yaoi days writes a ficlet for the new Star Trek. I go to see the movie so I can read her new story. Boom. Star Trek happens. New fandom.

2010 - Rumours of a new Sherlock Holmes adaptation abound. Very sceptical. Boom. Sherlock happens. So does Benedicts Cumberbatch. New fandom. Find out AO3.

2014 - Still in love with all my fandoms. :D

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