When I was growing up, my mom was obsessed with soap operas. I watched a few of them with her, and I think they were actually my first fandom-ish type thing. I remember writing what was essentially a fanfic for one of them in middle school and turning it in as a short story. I can't remember what show it was for or much about what happened except that I think it involved a sinking cruise ship or something, but I remember I got 100 on it. :) I also remember using various soap characters' names when I had to write example sentences for vocab words when I was even younger. I was a weird kid.