daily december-->january - fandom and me!
Last week was just a zoo, y'all, but maybe this one won't be quite as bonkers. Going back to the rest of the December posting meme topics, this next one is:
How did I first happen upon fandom life and do I remember my first impression of it? (for
verdande_mi)
okay, I... think I have to blame the fandom stuff on
rogoblue. Not the part about being fannish, mind. That I did all on my own, watching Han Solo blast Darth Vader into deep space in the summer of 1977, when I was 14, and then going and finding the sci-fi magazines that were out there back in the day so I could find out as much as I could about the movie and the characters. I already was hopelessly addicted to the X-Men, too, but I could just go read the next issue there. So I had the part where something was taking up residence in my brain, but no greater group to share it with, at least not until ro somehow got her hands on 'zines, actual paper, stapled-together, mailed-through-the-post-office 'zines, full of fic and artwork, and voila: a lifetime hobby was born.
And then I was working in software when the internet blew up (oh, people, I remember Mosaic like it was yesterday) so I had reliably fast internet (though, god, how slow was it, really?) and could follow along as theforce.net got started, and theonering.net tracked all the details and rumors from New Zealand and the LOTR movies as they were filming. gossamer started archiving thousands of XF fics and the Bronze kept me fit for public interaction (because 30-something mothers were not supposed to be dying to talk about Tuesday's episode of Buffy, but how could I not, especially through the second half of the second season. I could at least to online and read and post and gasp and squee and get it out of my system so I could at least carry on normal conversations in public.)
LOTR rpf led me to lj and popslash, and then the Winchesters moved into my brain and I started writing more and longer fic, which made me super-happy when AO3 came around, because wow, so much easier than coding HTML by hand (and I don't want to talk about the posting interface at fanfiction.net, because that thing was a horror, though I hear it's gotten better now.)
I don't really remember what I thought originally, except that it was something along the lines of omg, MY PEOPLE, which I still feel every year when DragonCon gets going and I'm drifting along with the fannish energy. Plus, my icon. :D
...and y'know, so it goes: 'zines to yahoo groups and assorted posting boards to livejournal and twitter and tumblr and whatever comes next, because I don't think the fandom thing is going anywhere.
How did I first happen upon fandom life and do I remember my first impression of it? (for
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
okay, I... think I have to blame the fandom stuff on
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
And then I was working in software when the internet blew up (oh, people, I remember Mosaic like it was yesterday) so I had reliably fast internet (though, god, how slow was it, really?) and could follow along as theforce.net got started, and theonering.net tracked all the details and rumors from New Zealand and the LOTR movies as they were filming. gossamer started archiving thousands of XF fics and the Bronze kept me fit for public interaction (because 30-something mothers were not supposed to be dying to talk about Tuesday's episode of Buffy, but how could I not, especially through the second half of the second season. I could at least to online and read and post and gasp and squee and get it out of my system so I could at least carry on normal conversations in public.)
LOTR rpf led me to lj and popslash, and then the Winchesters moved into my brain and I started writing more and longer fic, which made me super-happy when AO3 came around, because wow, so much easier than coding HTML by hand (and I don't want to talk about the posting interface at fanfiction.net, because that thing was a horror, though I hear it's gotten better now.)
I don't really remember what I thought originally, except that it was something along the lines of omg, MY PEOPLE, which I still feel every year when DragonCon gets going and I'm drifting along with the fannish energy. Plus, my icon. :D
...and y'know, so it goes: 'zines to yahoo groups and assorted posting boards to livejournal and twitter and tumblr and whatever comes next, because I don't think the fandom thing is going anywhere.