1. What was your first brush with fandom - TV, movie, book, anime, etc.? How old were you? I didn't have a computer until I was 14. Then I didn't have the internet until I was 15. So my first real fandom experience was I think the day after the net was installed and it was Good News Week (a now cancelled Australian comedy show) and the Doug Anthony Allstars (a now defuncted Australian comedy trio that one member was the future host of GNW). That was 12 years ago.
2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? How did I find it online? Or what did I think of it? I found it from this IRC chatroom for GNW/DAAS. Practically everyone there was a member or a mod. And I thought it was cool :D
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? The GNW/DAAS fandom used to be on this messageboard service at www dot beyondtheweb dot com and now I feel super old. BTW died sadly and I never really liked the new messageboard service it switched to so mostly I lurked towards the end of it.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. 1996-2001 Paul/Tim or Paul/Rich, GNW/DAAS (active, mostly), 1996-2001 H/D, Harry Potter (lurk-mode), 2001-2007 H/D, Harry Potter (active), 1999-2001 S/X, Buffy (lurk-mode), 1999-Ongoing J/D, SG1 (lurk-mode), 2004-2007 J/R, SGA (lurk-mode), Dec 2007-Ongoing J/R, SGA (active) ... 1981-Ongoing, random shiny things, peoples and places that catch my eye for a few weeks or so
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. I'll say predominiently 'Author', to keep it simple. Let's just say even back in 1996 I was putting words together and calling them fic. They were not. I think back and cringe but I like to believe I've gotten better. Everyone has to start somewhere right?
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Paul/Tim (DAAS), Paul/Richard (DAAS). And yeah, found slash first (almost unavoidable for a comedy trio of three guys ... but not impossible). Never really been into het. I've read het and femmeslash but eh, I guess it's just not my thing. Femmeslash has no penises and het is apparently only interesting to me when I'm participating IRL. (Except soulless-Spike/Buffy ... I used to be a fan on that in fic)
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2. How did you find fandom (as an internet entity)? How did I find it online? Or what did I think of it? I found it from this IRC chatroom for GNW/DAAS. Practically everyone there was a member or a mod. And I thought it was cool :D
3. Was livejournal your first fannish home? If not, how were you involved? The GNW/DAAS fandom used to be on this messageboard service at www dot beyondtheweb dot com and now I feel super old. BTW died sadly and I never really liked the new messageboard service it switched to so mostly I lurked towards the end of it.
4. How many fandoms have you been in since your first? If you can, list them. 1996-2001 Paul/Tim or Paul/Rich, GNW/DAAS (active, mostly), 1996-2001 H/D, Harry Potter (lurk-mode), 2001-2007 H/D, Harry Potter (active), 1999-2001 S/X, Buffy (lurk-mode), 1999-Ongoing J/D, SG1 (lurk-mode), 2004-2007 J/R, SGA (lurk-mode), Dec 2007-Ongoing J/R, SGA (active) ... 1981-Ongoing, random shiny things, peoples and places that catch my eye for a few weeks or so
5. If you participate in fandom actively (aka, you aren't a lurker), what's your role? Author, artist, beta, commenter, enabler, etc. I'll say predominiently 'Author', to keep it simple. Let's just say even back in 1996 I was putting words together and calling them fic. They were not. I think back and cringe but I like to believe I've gotten better. Everyone has to start somewhere right?
6. If you're a slasher, what was your first slash pairing and why? Did you find slash first? Paul/Tim (DAAS), Paul/Richard (DAAS). And yeah, found slash first (almost unavoidable for a comedy trio of three guys ... but not impossible). Never really been into het. I've read het and femmeslash but eh, I guess it's just not my thing. Femmeslash has no penises and het is apparently only interesting to me when I'm participating IRL. (Except soulless-Spike/Buffy ... I used to be a fan on that in fic)
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Edited because I forgot to list my pairings.