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anenko

Your Fannish History

Jan 11, 2012 15:13

Back during the OTW elections, there were people on my flist/circle who were discussing the fact that they entered fandom through very different directions than most of the OTW bigwigs. I picked up on many of the Western-based slash BNFs through fannish osmosis, but they were never my BNFs. In this post,

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taraljc January 11 2012, 20:52:58 UTC

I'm a dinosaur. RAWR.

I entered fandom through Robin of Sherwood fanzines back in 1991. Back then, the 'zine editors were really the BNFs as we know them today, cos they were keeping the fandom alive via annual 'zines. Helen & :aura, Maddog & Rastro, and Rache were the BNFs I guess. Oh, and Hilda Marshall, who ran the pagan letterzine "Cousins ( ... )

taraljc January 11 2012, 21:02:42 UTC

Oh! And re: classic stories, Joe "Little Otter" Macedon & Peg Robinson's "Talking Stick/Circle" series was THE series in VOY fandom for a very very long time.

anenko January 11 2012, 21:05:10 UTC

I never read the whole series, but yes. I adored the Tuvok-Chakotay interaction in the first story.

taraljc January 11 2012, 21:32:50 UTC

It's been so very very long. But I really do miss ASC sometimes. It was a really close-knit group of writers and readers.

darkeyedwolf January 11 2012, 22:11:10 UTC

Oh the nostalgia! Harry Potter was my first fandom, which I think was both the best and worst introduction I could've had, honestly. On one hand, it was pretty much the best fannish experience ever - drowning in fic, art, meta, the books were still coming out, the movies had just started, it was basically a free-for-all of fandom fun and fan interaction. I read my first fics for HP. I learned about slash and porn and every manner of kink. HP fandom was my exposure to just about everything.

The bad thing, though... no other fandom can ever compare. Nothing else has ever been that massive or that active, you know? I don't think I'll ever have that experience again.

tucuxi January 12 2012, 02:06:47 UTC

Harry Potter was my first fandom, which I think was both the best and worst introduction I could've had, honestly.

THIS. It was also my first fandom, and the time between books four and five was kind of amazing for fandom: it was so active and speculative and there was some really, really good fic being written.

I confess I drifted away after book five actually came out, and haven't been much involved in HP fandom for the last few years. Are you still in HP fandom? (How much of it is there still?)

darkeyedwolf January 12 2012, 13:17:24 UTC

My experience was the same, actually - wandered away during the later books. I do remember my brief but furious participation in "Bring Back Black," though. THE MEMORIES.

caeseria January 12 2012, 00:41:41 UTC

Hmmm... I ignored fandom until about five years ago. I never realized it was out there, to be honest. At the time I was writing for an online historical group and that sucked up my entire life until the site went down in 1991 due to corporate/owner bullshit.

So I was disillusioned and wrote crappy novels for a couple of years, and then discovered that one of my favourite tv shows ever, Robin of Sherwood had a fanbase. I was all like O_O ! That was how I discovered slash at the ripe old age of about 35 ( ... )

tucuxi January 12 2012, 02:04:51 UTC

I fell into fandom by accident in 2003 via Harry Potter, which was a wide enough fandom to encompass pretty much any kink or het/gen/slash/multi pairing you could think of. I fell into anime by reading didodikali's Four Minutes: For the True Lover, a Year is as a Day and getting a friend from high school to show me Escaflowne over a break from university ( ... )