[ SECRET POST #3311 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3311 ⌋

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Re: How and when did you come to fandom?

[(Anonymous)]

I too was a kid in the late '80s/early '90s, so it took a while before I got to explore the internet side of fandom. We didn't have a computer in my home until I was 16, but prior to that, there was a place downtown that my dad liked to visit 'cause they had a lot of cool music-related things and whatnot to look at, and they also had computers there. So he'd sometimes bring my sister and me along and we'd poke around on the computers there for a bit.

The first time I encountered fandom online was when I was about, like, 11, 12 years old, I want to say? I'd type in whatever TV shows or books I was a fan of at the time and come across websites about them. "Babysitters Club" and the "Beetlejuice" cartoon were a couple biggies. Then when my family did get a computer, I remember attempting to make my own site to talk about things I was a fan of, but that didn't exactly pan out 'cause I'm shitty at web design :p.

After that, I discovered fanfiction communities and got interested in that side of things. And around that same time, I also went to teen-related forums (TeenInk and Teenspot being a couple notable ones) and would talk about a variety of music and movies and TV shows with them.

I've been fannish about things since I was a little kid, though. I'd happily sit and watch whatever TV shows were my favorites, taping them off the VCR to have my own copies to watch (and I'd go through phases with my Barbies where I'd name them after characters in whatever I was into at the time). I wrote stories about those characters, too, though I didn't know it was called fanfiction back then. And if I was into a book series/author, I read virtually everything in that series or by that author.

And I've loved music practically my entire life, so thanks to my parents, I'd gotten into making mix tapes (and later, mix CDs), and I would read all the rock and roll encyclopedias my dad had stacked around the house, and learn stuff about various artists that way.