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[janus_74]

so _elektra asked the question:

So tell me, people, how did you find out about fandom? What are your early fandom memories? How'd you break in? Did anyone help you when you were new? When'd you first start getting notice?

Feel free to have your friends answer this as well... it'll be interesting, I think.


Lets see...my earliest fandom memory is...wait for it...alt.tv.x-files. On university dumb terminals, back in the day before real webpages. Then there was ATXC when my sister introduced me to fanfiction, and it's been downhill ever since. Because of my lurking nature I didn't actually participate until I started vidding Buffy/Spike a couple of years ago.

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[usedtobeljs]

See, I feel so young and foolish now -- I only started a few years ago on a Yahoo group. :-) Thanks for posting this.

[janus-74.livejournal.com]

Ahh to be young and foolish :)

What's really sad is the number of hours I spent reading fic when I could have used that time to study.

[kashmir1.livejournal.com]

OMG... I found T7S fandom -- my first -- through google! Can you believe it? I had never heard of fan fic before and suddenly... there it was. Jackie/Hyde fan fic in all its glory. I stayed up til 4 am that night, just reading and reading.

Then I discoverd F4F and it all went downhill from there. ;)

I just remember biting the bullet and writing my first fic, Pretty Baby and posting it. Got a couple of reviews and then I started Reasons and posted that. Through the course of writing that is when I think I started talking to Lee (holycitygirl), you, Annie (asleeper) and a few others but mostly you guys. =)

I think I first got noticed when I wrote Lay Me Down In Sheets of Linen. I think. *lol* Maybe. I don't know.. Maybe a little before that for Reasons? Probably cause of the smut. ;)



This was fun, dear! I think I might have to do this in my LJ! =)

How's the boy?

[janus-74.livejournal.com]

smut will always get you recognized :) I didn't realize T70s show was your first fandom.

The boy's doing good, trying desperatly to suck his thumb.