1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? Ha. I was NINE. I was given one of the Redwall books - the ones with the anthropomorphic animals fighting wars, with vaguely racist undertones - and thought it was the best thing ever. I devoured them all. Then I discovered Tamora Pierce, which is slightly more respectable, and Harry Potter.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? About the third Redwall book I got said on the inside cover something like 'Visit the author's thoroughly marvelous website!' OOH, I said, with glazed eyes. WEBSITE. And on his website, the guy even listed his favourite fansites. Some of which contained the mythical beast known as fanfiction. Tamora Pierce's website also figures in here somewhere, but to a crazed by-now-probably-ten-year-old it wasn't quite so exciting.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? Fanfiction.net! Oh dear. Even then, I felt that there was something missing from much of what I was reading. (Here is where a joke is made about ffn's lack of grammar, punctuation, etc.) I'm pretty sure I wrote fanfic? Redwall, Tamora Pierce, The Dark Is Rising - things like that. Then I hung out at theonering.com, until in a blinding flash I realised that I wasn't really that into Lord of the Rings and had no real business hanging out with people who really, really were. I stumbled across slash on ffn, spent a while being utterly baffled and then increasingly intrigued, and then went looking for more. It didn't bother me what fandom - I read my way through the entire Speranza and Resonant Due South back catalogue before I ever watched an entire episode of the actual show.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? I feel like this list is going to be a bit arbitrary, because I'm not particularly in fandom, but anyway, in approximate order: Redwall *cries*, Tamora Pierce, The Dark is Rising, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Buffy, Angel, Due South, Good Omens, Queer As Folk (UK version!), Sherlock Holmes, Green Wing, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, CW RPS, Life on Mars, Heroes,The Mighty Boosh, Stargate Atlantis, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain RPS. (which one of these is not like the others, hmm?)
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Mostly? I lurk. I guilt myself over never leaving feedback. Oh, once or twice immoralilly asked my opinion on something she was writing! Sometimes I talk about things that happen on TV shows! Occasionally I write fanfic in tiny tiny fandoms, waving the flag particularly for ukulele players who are in love. Ukulele players should be free to love anyone they choose! Including other ukulele players!
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? My first slash pairing was Will/Bran, from The Dark is Rising, which I read on fanfiction.net because it had the intriguing summary of "Will falls in love with someone - and it's not Jane [the only female character in the book remotely his age]!" The subtext of this went completely over my head. I was actually surprised. The first slash pairing where I said to myself, "Ohhh, I get it now!" was probably something in Buffy or Angel - Spike/Xander? Wes/Gunn? Something like that.
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2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? About the third Redwall book I got said on the inside cover something like 'Visit the author's thoroughly marvelous website!' OOH, I said, with glazed eyes. WEBSITE. And on his website, the guy even listed his favourite fansites. Some of which contained the mythical beast known as fanfiction. Tamora Pierce's website also figures in here somewhere, but to a crazed by-now-probably-ten-year-old it wasn't quite so exciting.
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? Fanfiction.net! Oh dear. Even then, I felt that there was something missing from much of what I was reading. (Here is where a joke is made about ffn's lack of grammar, punctuation, etc.) I'm pretty sure I wrote fanfic? Redwall, Tamora Pierce, The Dark Is Rising - things like that. Then I hung out at theonering.com, until in a blinding flash I realised that I wasn't really that into Lord of the Rings and had no real business hanging out with people who really, really were. I stumbled across slash on ffn, spent a while being utterly baffled and then increasingly intrigued, and then went looking for more. It didn't bother me what fandom - I read my way through the entire Speranza and Resonant Due South back catalogue before I ever watched an entire episode of the actual show.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? I feel like this list is going to be a bit arbitrary, because I'm not particularly in fandom, but anyway, in approximate order: Redwall *cries*, Tamora Pierce, The Dark is Rising, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Buffy, Angel, Due South, Good Omens, Queer As Folk (UK version!), Sherlock Holmes, Green Wing, Firefly, Veronica Mars, Supernatural, CW RPS, Life on Mars, Heroes,The Mighty Boosh, Stargate Atlantis, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain RPS. (which one of these is not like the others, hmm?)
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. Mostly? I lurk. I guilt myself over never leaving feedback. Oh, once or twice
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? My first slash pairing was Will/Bran, from The Dark is Rising, which I read on fanfiction.net because it had the intriguing summary of "Will falls in love with someone - and it's not Jane [the only female character in the book remotely his age]!" The subtext of this went completely over my head. I was actually surprised. The first slash pairing where I said to myself, "Ohhh, I get it now!" was probably something in Buffy or Angel - Spike/Xander? Wes/Gunn? Something like that.