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theladyscribe asked: What was your first fandom and how formative was that first experience?
It really depends on how you see 'first'.
So.
I first plotted fanfic out for Star Wars circa 1986– my ‘Luke turns to the Dark Side and Leia has to save him and the galaxy’ fic.
I first wrote fanfic circa 1986 involving She-Ra and a TV show called ‘MASK’ which was sort of like Transformers, but with more humans.
I first joined a ‘fandom’ as we understand it today circa 1997. It was either for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, X-Men comics – probably either the main stream of X-Men or Generation X, or Melanie Rawn’s Dragon Prince/Dragon Star/Exiles.
I first got into my current iteration of internet fandom via Stargate SG1 in 2001. Joined LiveJournal in 2002 and it's been downhill since then.
How formative has it been?
I'd say crucially formative, given that a large portion of my current social and recreational activities are related to fandom. Fandom also gave me the opportunity to work out who I was and who I wanted to be, outside of the norm, which was very valuable in late 20s and early 30s. There might be some things I'd do differently in my life, but getting involved in fandom is most definitely not one of them.
theladyscribe asked: What was your first fandom and how formative was that first experience?It really depends on how you see 'first'.
So.
I first plotted fanfic out for Star Wars circa 1986– my ‘Luke turns to the Dark Side and Leia has to save him and the galaxy’ fic.
I first wrote fanfic circa 1986 involving She-Ra and a TV show called ‘MASK’ which was sort of like Transformers, but with more humans.
I first joined a ‘fandom’ as we understand it today circa 1997. It was either for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, X-Men comics – probably either the main stream of X-Men or Generation X, or Melanie Rawn’s Dragon Prince/Dragon Star/Exiles.
I first got into my current iteration of internet fandom via Stargate SG1 in 2001. Joined LiveJournal in 2002 and it's been downhill since then.
How formative has it been?
I'd say crucially formative, given that a large portion of my current social and recreational activities are related to fandom. Fandom also gave me the opportunity to work out who I was and who I wanted to be, outside of the norm, which was very valuable in late 20s and early 30s. There might be some things I'd do differently in my life, but getting involved in fandom is most definitely not one of them.
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Long long ago I had a site, back before blogging became a thing. I put my fics up there - X-Men and early SG1 fics. Most of my early SG1 fics are now on AO3 - one reason why I have such a large body of work there - but not all of them. I'm not even sure I have the old X-Men fic documents anymore...
I submitted to a couple of zines in the early 00s, but internet archives and LJ were taking off by then, and they were easier platforms to submit to. (Plus: feedback!)