My fannish history
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luzulaVarious people on my reading list are writing about their fannish history, so I figured I'd do the same.
I suppose my very earliest fannishness was in Tolkien fandom, but I don't know if you can call it fandom if it's done in isolation? Anyway, I read LotR countless times (the first time, I was eight or nine), and also Silmarillion and the other associated works. I drew lineage trees, learned Quenya, etc.
When I was around 20 (don't remember the exact years), I was quite fannish about Robert Jordan's series The Wheel of Time, which I have since outgrown. I was on a web forum with lots of discussion about the books, but there was never any fanfic (I didn't even know what fanfic was back then). I even met a boyfriend on that forum. *nostalgic*
After that, I was into anime for quite a few years (a fellow math student and friend got me into it). Some of my favorite series were Utena, Haibane Renmei, Princess Tutu, Tactics, Gankutsuou, Evangelion, Trigun, Gravitation, Yami no Matsuei, etc. I still remember these with fondness, and some day I'm going to rewatch them, but I wouldn't say I'm an active anime fan right now.
I discovered fan fiction through anime, and that's also where I discovered the m/m thing, and that I liked it. I wasn't aware of Western media fandom at all at first, until I stumbled onto it online. My first Western fandom was Good Omens, which I was really into, though mostly as a lurker. I pretty much read all the fic there was. After that, I think I was actively looking around for another fandom, and checking out the big ones. due South caught my attention because a favorite anime writer of mine started writing it (she was madsciencechick on LJ, then somewhatdeluded, then she disappeared /o\), and because the canon appealed to me (sled dogs!). Then I read Speranza's "Wildly Dangerous Ways" and was hooked. This was early in 2007.
I watched all of dS canon (my boyfried used to tease me about the involuntary squeeing noises I made while watching), fell madly in love with Fraser, and started writing. I'd never actually been able to write fiction before, and it still feels like an unexpected gift.
I haven't really fallen for any other fandoms in a major way since then, despite occasionally listening to podfic in various fandoms like SPN RPF, bandom, etc (none of them have grabbed me, though). I had a brief but intense flirtation with Generation Kill, where I read ALL the fic for a while, but now I only occasionally read in the fandom. And I never started writing in it (except for 400 words of abandoned WIP). I read a bit in Sherlock Holmes fandom (not Sherlock BBC, though) and Master and Commander. Those are both book fandoms, which brings me to: I sometimes feel like an unusual media fan, because I almost never watch TV (or movies). I mean, I still haven't watched "Sherlock", even though I've planned to do it for the longest time. I do read a lot of books, though, and most of my fannish reading outside of dS, C6D and GK is in various book fandoms (which is probably apparent from my podfic index).
I still have lots of due South fic ideas, and feel enthusiastic about them. My smaller, secondary writing fandom seems to be fairy tale fics, and I sometimes feel like podfic is a secondary fandom in itself. But overall, I suppose the conclusion is that I'm in a happy long-term relationship with due South!
I suppose my very earliest fannishness was in Tolkien fandom, but I don't know if you can call it fandom if it's done in isolation? Anyway, I read LotR countless times (the first time, I was eight or nine), and also Silmarillion and the other associated works. I drew lineage trees, learned Quenya, etc.
When I was around 20 (don't remember the exact years), I was quite fannish about Robert Jordan's series The Wheel of Time, which I have since outgrown. I was on a web forum with lots of discussion about the books, but there was never any fanfic (I didn't even know what fanfic was back then). I even met a boyfriend on that forum. *nostalgic*
After that, I was into anime for quite a few years (a fellow math student and friend got me into it). Some of my favorite series were Utena, Haibane Renmei, Princess Tutu, Tactics, Gankutsuou, Evangelion, Trigun, Gravitation, Yami no Matsuei, etc. I still remember these with fondness, and some day I'm going to rewatch them, but I wouldn't say I'm an active anime fan right now.
I discovered fan fiction through anime, and that's also where I discovered the m/m thing, and that I liked it. I wasn't aware of Western media fandom at all at first, until I stumbled onto it online. My first Western fandom was Good Omens, which I was really into, though mostly as a lurker. I pretty much read all the fic there was. After that, I think I was actively looking around for another fandom, and checking out the big ones. due South caught my attention because a favorite anime writer of mine started writing it (she was madsciencechick on LJ, then somewhatdeluded, then she disappeared /o\), and because the canon appealed to me (sled dogs!). Then I read Speranza's "Wildly Dangerous Ways" and was hooked. This was early in 2007.
I watched all of dS canon (my boyfried used to tease me about the involuntary squeeing noises I made while watching), fell madly in love with Fraser, and started writing. I'd never actually been able to write fiction before, and it still feels like an unexpected gift.
I haven't really fallen for any other fandoms in a major way since then, despite occasionally listening to podfic in various fandoms like SPN RPF, bandom, etc (none of them have grabbed me, though). I had a brief but intense flirtation with Generation Kill, where I read ALL the fic for a while, but now I only occasionally read in the fandom. And I never started writing in it (except for 400 words of abandoned WIP). I read a bit in Sherlock Holmes fandom (not Sherlock BBC, though) and Master and Commander. Those are both book fandoms, which brings me to: I sometimes feel like an unusual media fan, because I almost never watch TV (or movies). I mean, I still haven't watched "Sherlock", even though I've planned to do it for the longest time. I do read a lot of books, though, and most of my fannish reading outside of dS, C6D and GK is in various book fandoms (which is probably apparent from my podfic index).
I still have lots of due South fic ideas, and feel enthusiastic about them. My smaller, secondary writing fandom seems to be fairy tale fics, and I sometimes feel like podfic is a secondary fandom in itself. But overall, I suppose the conclusion is that I'm in a happy long-term relationship with due South!
