Fandom Alphabet: G
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hilsG: 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.
A: Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
B: A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
C: A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
E: Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what?
F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?
G: What was your first fandom?
H: Do you prefer live action TV shows or animated TV shows?
I: Has online caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over the internet.
K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.
M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!
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.
A: Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.
B: A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.
C: A ship you have never liked and probably never will.
D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?
E: Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what?
F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?
G: What was your first fandom?
H: Do you prefer live action TV shows or animated TV shows?
I: Has online caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over the internet.
K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc?
L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves.
M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom.
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!