I've been feeling rather nostalgic lately for my first true fandom. I'm not sure why, but that old longing of yore has crept up on me. You see, before there was Buffy/Spike there was Batman/Catwoman and Nightwing/Oracle. Here's a brief history on how I got into them - TV and comics brought me to fanfic - the first fic stories that made an
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I'd love to tell you all about my first real fandom - but you're looking at it! Never really got into anything pre-Buffy.
(Looking back, though, the first major indication of my fannish tendencies probably popped up back in my Dawson's Creek days. When I wasn't watching the show for the plotline nearly so much as the directing. Had I been on LJ back then, I probably would have written lots of meta about it.)
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Yes. Imagine my annoyance when Marvel and DC starting pumping out all their comic movies and I was like, "Hey! I was into this stuff before it was cool, okay?" Most of the movies have little bearing on the comics, really. They might as well be AUs. But I do think the Chris Nolan Batman movies are great! Much better than the Tim Burton and early '90s sequels.
Looking back, though, the first major indication of my fannish tendencies probably popped up back in my Dawson's Creek days.
Oh, so with you. I loved Dawson's Creek. I think it followed Buffy its first season? I recently rewatched a number of S1 eps that I'd taped off TV when they originally aired. They didn't really hold up like I thought they would, but they still were highly entertaining and omg! so racy. I never thought so at the time, but damn. All of them having sex with teachers, and Jenn's sordid past and how are they supposed to be 15!?I'd be interested in a meta about the directing. I never really thought about it one way or another. What stood ( ... )
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I mostly have seasons 1 and 2 for the silly fun, seasons 3 and 4 because they're fascinating... and try to pretend that seasons 5 and 6 never ever happened.
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I did watch the last episode though and totally cried. Poor Jen. And yay Doug and Jack!
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Isn't it always? You just must have it ALL. I don't think I've been as enthusiastic about any fannish thing since Buffy ended. I had a brief explosion of interest in Spock/Uhura after the Star Trek reboot came out, but that died after a few weeks.
I was first introduced to fandom when I stumbled upon theforce.net at age 13 due to searching for Thrawn fanfiction.
I'll be really interested to see how old other people were when they first got into fannish pursuits. Awhile back I made a post called When Were You First Corrupted? and, not surprisingly, a lot of well known books and erotic literature were what opened youngsters eyes to the world of sex and porn. It seemed most people had exposure at around age 10 or so.
Side note: I remember Batman: The Animated Series, that was an awesome show.Yes it was! I have all the DVDs and too many lithographs, collector plates and other memorabilia to name. *sigh* Miss it so much. Really do ( ... )
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I also loved Catwoman/Batman when I was younger. Now I'm mostly about the femslash in the Batverse.
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I was flipping through old Birds of Prey earlier today and damn, they were really pushing the subtext with Dinah/Babs weren't they? I think there was one full page illustration in the Hunt for Oracle where B is injured and D is cradling her, but it's uber sexual. It was one of those "Huh!" moments.
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I was a big fan of independent/alternative comics in the heyday, most especially Love & Rockets, which was a life-changer. I wrote and edited comics, as well as writing articles, but eventually slacked off due to my involvement with music, then child-rearing. After I discovered Buffy in Jan. 2006 or 2007, all my obsessive tendencies were inflamed. It doesn't seem to be diminishing.
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Oh, what I would give to read that! What angle did you use for your analysis? When I was working at the paper, there was more than one female journalist I overheard wishing she were like Lois Lane.
I always say that comics helped me get into college. I wrote my college essay on their influence on me as a writer and aspiring journalist (references to hallucinatory ravings about me not wanting to be Batman anymore were included), specifically Spider Jerusalem from Transmetropolitan, whose a Hunter S. Thompson sort of lunatic/crusading urban journalist in the future. Maud would actually fit right into his world, come to think of it ( ... )
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Definitely check out Love & Rockets if you get the chance. I'd start with the earlier stuff, if possible. Some of brother Gilbert's more recent work can be sort of nihilistic and brutal, which wasn't the case originally. The thing that stands out about Los Bros. Hernandez' work is the variety and realism of the female characters, which most of them are. This was incredibly rare in comics in the 80s, and is only marginally less so today in any type of media, alas. They always got the same questions Joss gets today, "Why do you write ( ... )
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