08:14 PM
Fandom Days of yesteryear

Didn't like the Friday Five so I'll do this bunch of questions instead, from Sophia:

1. What was your very first brush with fandom? Highlander! I started watching reruns on USA and got online around the same time and out of curiousity, typed in Highlander in some search thing and found the alt.tv.highlander newsgroup, wow, look at all this intelligent discussion! and I jumped in...
2. How long did it take to go from "hm, cool" to obsesso fan? About 30 seconds. :)
3. What was your initial fannish personality? What were you into? Highlander and nothing but Highlander, then after I learned about slash, it was nothing but Highlander slash. Took me a year before I started looking around for other things, ran into Sentinel fandom, then X-Files fandom.
4. Dig deep. What was your fannish round in the early days (ie, the daily sites)? In the beginning, nothing but the newsgroup. Then a group of us started a small mailing list and I switched to that. After I was introduced to slash fanfic, I haunted Maygra's website several times a day.
5. Compare and contrast. If you've gone multi, what was the difference between your first fandom experience ever, and your first fandom experiences with later ones? The first one was like an HS crush, all undying true love and obsession, the rest have been fun but never quite as passionate and whole-hearted.
6. Have you been around for the very beginning of a fandom? How was that different from coming into a later one? Did it give you "higher status" in the fandom, or just make you bitter as it changed? I came into most fandoms after the shows had been airing for a couple years, recently I've gotten into one at the beginning but usually I watch a show for awhile before I go looking for fannish stuff, groups, lists, archives so I'm rarely there right at the beginning. And "higher status"? No idea, probably not since I lurk alot.
7. Given the choice, would you have made that first delve into fandom? What would you change about your early experiences? I'd change nothing and would definitely do it again, I've made some wonderful friends, had some great and awful experiences, wouldn't miss it!

And in the What fandom dinosaur are you? quiz, I'm an archaeopteryx! I think it's some sort of bird.