More fannish stuff...
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schala4:
1. What was your first fandom? The first thing you were obsessively fannish about? It doesn't have to be a TV show or movie.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I was twelve when I saw my first episode: "The Dove Affair". I saw it in the States in a funny little hotel room in Lordsburg, New Mexico - my parents were taking me to visit my grandfather in Arizona for Christmas. I loved it. When I got back home, I recruited my friends. We wrote fanfic, made maps and pictures. I collected the toys, the books, the record album. The central question was, which do you like better, Napoleon or Illya? Most people I knew preferred Illya. I preferred Napoleon. I always like the dark-haired ones.
X-Men was in many ways my fandom before that, depending how you define a fandom - it was a fandom of one: I didn't know any other X-Men fans, so even though I was passionately into it, there were no stories, no discussions, not even pen-pals. I used my creative energy in becoming a letterhack, which is a lapsed art now.
2. Are you still interested in your first fandom or are you so over it?
I have fond memories but I'm not interested in U.N.C.L.E. as a fandom now. The old thrill is gone. I find that it aged (or dated) badly. There are other fandoms I discovered in my early teens that are still with me, like Dorothy Dunnett and Tolkien.
X-Men is still very much with me. It has grown with the times. Adapted. Mutated.
3. What was your first zine/fic fandom?
K/S. Star Trek. It was all there was in the way of slash back in those antediluvian days of the 1970s when I first discovered fandom and discovered zines. I was enthralled.
4. What was your first online fandom?
Dorothy Dunnett. Essentially, back in 1990 I got a computer and got online so I could talk to other Dunnett fans.
5. What was your first live journal fandom?
Smallville. Just a matter of timing, really, though I suppose it could have been The Lord of the Rings that caught my focus, or X-Men. But the SV LJ community is terrific - articulate, interesting, and with scope.
schala4:1. What was your first fandom? The first thing you were obsessively fannish about? It doesn't have to be a TV show or movie.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. I was twelve when I saw my first episode: "The Dove Affair". I saw it in the States in a funny little hotel room in Lordsburg, New Mexico - my parents were taking me to visit my grandfather in Arizona for Christmas. I loved it. When I got back home, I recruited my friends. We wrote fanfic, made maps and pictures. I collected the toys, the books, the record album. The central question was, which do you like better, Napoleon or Illya? Most people I knew preferred Illya. I preferred Napoleon. I always like the dark-haired ones.
X-Men was in many ways my fandom before that, depending how you define a fandom - it was a fandom of one: I didn't know any other X-Men fans, so even though I was passionately into it, there were no stories, no discussions, not even pen-pals. I used my creative energy in becoming a letterhack, which is a lapsed art now.
2. Are you still interested in your first fandom or are you so over it?
I have fond memories but I'm not interested in U.N.C.L.E. as a fandom now. The old thrill is gone. I find that it aged (or dated) badly. There are other fandoms I discovered in my early teens that are still with me, like Dorothy Dunnett and Tolkien.
X-Men is still very much with me. It has grown with the times. Adapted. Mutated.
3. What was your first zine/fic fandom?
K/S. Star Trek. It was all there was in the way of slash back in those antediluvian days of the 1970s when I first discovered fandom and discovered zines. I was enthralled.
4. What was your first online fandom?
Dorothy Dunnett. Essentially, back in 1990 I got a computer and got online so I could talk to other Dunnett fans.
5. What was your first live journal fandom?
Smallville. Just a matter of timing, really, though I suppose it could have been The Lord of the Rings that caught my focus, or X-Men. But the SV LJ community is terrific - articulate, interesting, and with scope.
