December Talking Meme - Day 4: What was your first fandom? Are you still involved with it?

[taiyou_to_tsuki]

Watch me do the December Talking Meme and fall behind after two days! In my defense, last week was super-intense; I had an exam and two hand-ins on friday and spent all week studying for that, spent most of the weekend baking and being with friends from the corridor, and yesterday I read in the library for hours and cleaned my room in the afternoon

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[liadtbunny]

I feel so old! I think most people cringe over the stuff they did as teenagers. Still what is aging but an opportunity to learn how to do things better?:)

[taiyou_to_tsuki]

True. I just have this idea that, idk, being able to distance yourself from things you did as a kid makes you more mature somehow? Whereas for me I get intensely uncomfortable pretty quickly whenever my early teens are brought up, ahah. But yeah, at least there's the comfort of knowing you're not that person anymore...

[liadtbunny]

I tell myself people are too busy worrying about all the stupid stuff they did as a kid to remember what I did - I hope!

[spaciireth]

Don't worry! I went on holidays and am something like 5 days behind now!

It's interesting hearing you talk about your fandom interactions being predominantly in Swedish at first. Coming from an English-speaking country, I've never really had the experience of the smaller fandom groups in another language.

And I totally hear you on trying to distance yourself from the person you were back then. I did some pretty stupid things I look back on now and wonder what on earth I was thinking.

[taiyou_to_tsuki]

Same, same. Sitting down and talking about things is surprisingly hard.

Fandom interactions online; I should specify-- several friends irl are fandom people, and we speak Swedish most of the time. ;) But yeah, it was a strange thing; maybe it was partly due to the nature of the web site, but the most striking difference is how whole it was. While in English-speaking fandoms each fandom tends to become fragmented into fandoms for separate shows, separate ships, etc., back then we were comparatively few people (which would still be probably a couple of thousand though) all hanging out on the same forum. Seeing as comparatively few series were translated to Swedish, it was also easy to keep track of everything if you didn't follow any manga published in English, meaning that a lot of people all read exactly the same things.

I didn't do any monumentally stupid things, I think - at least nothing I could help - but there are definitely things I could have handled better. Also, I have better taste now than then. :P