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healingmirthWhat was my first fandom? For theladyscribe
I really, really wish I could remember how I discovered fandom, and fic. What was I even looking for? It had certainly never occurred to me that people could rework the characters and settings of published media into something else. Heck, I don't think I even played make-believe with actual characters when I was a kid.
In 2006, I was in graduate school, living in a town where the only people I knew were my grad school friends and the out-of-town boyfriend who had moved in sort of without my asking him to, and I was watching a lot of TV. We were watching a lot of TV, including most of Stargate SG-1 in reruns. We had discovered Netflix, and my dad had given ma a TiVo for Christmas.
There was, after basically ten years of not watching TV with any amount of attention, loyalty, or frequency, really, really a lot of TV watching going on.
Somewhere in there, season one of Veronica Mars on DVD showed up in my apartment, and then I might have watched season two as it aired, because lord knows I wouldn't have had the first clue how to find anything online if it was floating around it there, but I was caught up when season 3 premiered. And somewhere in there, great mystery of mysteries now lost to the sands of time, I discovered the Veronica Mars fic communities on LJ.
I was still spending a lot - A LOT - of time gaming, and trying to live the rest of my actual life, I read pretty widely and indiscriminately in Veronica Mars, and wrote a few short, terrible things of my own, but itwasn't until I discovered Jim and Pam on the early seasons of The Office (via a post Casino-Night fan edit) that I really disappeared down the rabbit hole.
theladyscribeI really, really wish I could remember how I discovered fandom, and fic. What was I even looking for? It had certainly never occurred to me that people could rework the characters and settings of published media into something else. Heck, I don't think I even played make-believe with actual characters when I was a kid.
In 2006, I was in graduate school, living in a town where the only people I knew were my grad school friends and the out-of-town boyfriend who had moved in sort of without my asking him to, and I was watching a lot of TV. We were watching a lot of TV, including most of Stargate SG-1 in reruns. We had discovered Netflix, and my dad had given ma a TiVo for Christmas.
There was, after basically ten years of not watching TV with any amount of attention, loyalty, or frequency, really, really a lot of TV watching going on.
Somewhere in there, season one of Veronica Mars on DVD showed up in my apartment, and then I might have watched season two as it aired, because lord knows I wouldn't have had the first clue how to find anything online if it was floating around it there, but I was caught up when season 3 premiered. And somewhere in there, great mystery of mysteries now lost to the sands of time, I discovered the Veronica Mars fic communities on LJ.
I was still spending a lot - A LOT - of time gaming, and trying to live the rest of my actual life, I read pretty widely and indiscriminately in Veronica Mars, and wrote a few short, terrible things of my own, but itwasn't until I discovered Jim and Pam on the early seasons of The Office (via a post Casino-Night fan edit) that I really disappeared down the rabbit hole.
