Comments | amelialourdes: Fandom Story Time, everyone!

amelialourdes

Fandom Story Time, everyone!

Oct 03, 2014 22:57

All right, I was having a very lively discussion with my friends and we started getting into our fandom origin stories. I want to know your fandom origin stories. What was the fandom that got you into fandom? When did you start discovering fic? Discussions? Did you become involved in a message board? Were you on a ListServ? Was the Internet around ( Read more... )

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popfly October 5 2014, 00:06:04 UTC

QaF was my first active - and interactive - fandom. Got into it randomly in 2004, started writing fic on LJ (and my own site!) and the rest is history.

ghettogreta October 5 2014, 01:24:57 UTC

*nsync was my first. Well, the first I was aware of. I remember when I was younger, I wrote this entire book which was basically a rewrite of 90210, like, the same characters with different names, adding a new one that I made up. So I guess in my head, I've been writing longer. But it was the *nsync boys that eventually sucked me into popslash. And back then, there were message lists or something. It wasn't exactly a board? But it was an email list, and you posted to the list? I don't really remember, because then my friends that I met through there, we all went in on a website and then lj burst onto the scene and the lists were sort of obsolete.

evie October 5 2014, 12:53:22 UTC

The first fandom where I actually interacted with people was Star Wars. There was no internet at the time. I joined the official fan club, read their magazines and had various SW pen pals. I got an internet connection in 1996 and became more aware of SW fic, but didn't get into it much. The fandom which made the internet essential for me was the band HIM. I was active on message boards, emailed like crazy, opened a Yahoo!Club and then my own website. Funnily enough, the fandom that got me into reading fic from start to finish was The Patriot/Tavington. And later I discovered QaF and LJ via Ethan's site xhaleslowly.

fansee October 5 2014, 21:46:39 UTC

I've had two distinct fandoms. Are you sure you want my history in both? Really?

The first one was a literary fandom that grew up around a six-volume series by Dorothy Dunnett that features a beautiful, neurotic, tortured (sometime literally) hero, Francis Crawford of Lymond. When I found Dunnett in 1969, only the first three volumes were written, and they struck me like lightening in the brain. I knew nobody who would be interested in reading them, so I wrote to Dorothy. Silly woman, she wrote me back. I wrote again. She answered. I wrote again. She cried 'Uncle' and put me in touch with two other readers ( ... )

reeface October 23 2014, 06:20:37 UTC

Hi, my name is Ree and I'm old skool. Gosh, lesse, we're talking late 80s I'd say, so way before I even knew what internet was. I was a teen and Star Trek/Next Gen/Star Wars were my first fanfics. I read the pro novels and had a subscription to the Official Star Trek Magazine and iirc it was through their classifieds that I found out about fanzines. Bought new and old ones (through used lists) and was addicted like crack. They were all gen or het, as slash wasn't really on my radar yet. I was such a wee babe ( ... )