noblopomo day 3: fandom.

[jaq_of_spades]

 What was your first fandom love(s)? Your first ship(s)?

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*Oh*.  What a question.  Pull up a chair, dear reader.

It all started with the X-Files.  There I was, a humble little tv writer for a newspaper in Queensland, getting these big, fat VHS tapes every week to write about new tv shows.  The X-Files was the one I would just hang out for, and the

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[kathrynthegr8]

*wishes she still had her paid LJ and Bender icon*

YES to all of this! Loved the X-Files and so shipped Scully/Moulder. It's weird, but I feel like I won't be able to pinpoint when I became a fangurl, because I think I've ALWAYS been one...

[vikingprincess]

I think the X-Files are widely regarded as the start of the "shipping" usage, anyway - from Mulder and Scully Relationship.

OMG, who DOESN'T love Bender when they first see TBC? I sure did! (And I thought Emilio Estevez was an idiot. This opinion has not changed.)

You had an AWESOME job, being required to watch tapes of new shows!

[empty_marrow]

I somehow missed seeing a single episode of the X-Files. 0_o I've heard universally wonderful things about it so I really have to rectify this one day.

...and I did the exact same thing in my teen years (also early 80s, incidentally)! There were a whole bunch of movies/TV shows etc. that I re-wrote in my head. It took another 15 years or so until I translated that to actually writing things down. I think if the Internet had been around in those days I would have started a lot sooner.