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Dec. 10th, 2020 04:37 pmG: What was your first fandom?
I'm going to cheat and copy what I wrote for my intro post a few days ago :D
I would say I've always had a fannish personality, even before I knew what fandom was and way before I ever got online. When I was young I'd collect stickers of my from my favourite soap opera (Neighbours was massively popular over here in the 80s) and cover my wall in posters. When I was a little older I got into Take That (a British boyband) and collected anything I could get my hands on. There's photos out there of my bedroom in the 90s and you can barely see the wallpaper for all the posters and merchandise.
Back then I didn't really have anywhere to channel this though. I just holed up in my bedroom reading any books or magazines I could get my hands on while obsessively listening to their music.
Of course, as is the way, I grew out of it and got into TV fandoms around the time Buffy and the X-Files started airing. I had no idea what fanfic was back then because we didn't have the internet but my best friend from school and I used to write cracky X-Files and Buffy stories to amuse each other.
We got the internet in 1997 and that opened up a whole new world for me. Now I could engage with other fans of the things that I loved and it didn't matter where I lived! I started off on roleplay mailing lists (where we were all either assigned or chose a character and posted as them).
I was in my first year of uni when someone on a mailing list asked me if I wrote fanfic and I had no idea what it was. I wandered over to ff.net to investigate and wow. The stories I'd been writing in my head had a name and there was a place I could publish them.
I published my first Buffy fic in 1999 and have never looked back. Fun fact my ff.net account still exists even though I don't look at it.
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I'm going to cheat and copy what I wrote for my intro post a few days ago :D
I would say I've always had a fannish personality, even before I knew what fandom was and way before I ever got online. When I was young I'd collect stickers of my from my favourite soap opera (Neighbours was massively popular over here in the 80s) and cover my wall in posters. When I was a little older I got into Take That (a British boyband) and collected anything I could get my hands on. There's photos out there of my bedroom in the 90s and you can barely see the wallpaper for all the posters and merchandise.
Back then I didn't really have anywhere to channel this though. I just holed up in my bedroom reading any books or magazines I could get my hands on while obsessively listening to their music.
Of course, as is the way, I grew out of it and got into TV fandoms around the time Buffy and the X-Files started airing. I had no idea what fanfic was back then because we didn't have the internet but my best friend from school and I used to write cracky X-Files and Buffy stories to amuse each other.
We got the internet in 1997 and that opened up a whole new world for me. Now I could engage with other fans of the things that I loved and it didn't matter where I lived! I started off on roleplay mailing lists (where we were all either assigned or chose a character and posted as them).
I was in my first year of uni when someone on a mailing list asked me if I wrote fanfic and I had no idea what it was. I wandered over to ff.net to investigate and wow. The stories I'd been writing in my head had a name and there was a place I could publish them.
I published my first Buffy fic in 1999 and have never looked back. Fun fact my ff.net account still exists even though I don't look at it.
( Master List of Responses )