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[ SECRET POST #2192 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2192 ⌋

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I started off with Sailor Moon when I was 10 which gradually led into Card Captor Sakura and then Harry Potter opened my fandom eyes beyond anime into SPN and Merlin.

How did you end up where you are?

I started with Pokemon in my 30s, then tried Trigun, then got into video games, and now I'm into all sorts of stuff.

I think the first fanart I ever drew was when I was eleven. It was all poorly drawn Sailor Moon/Pokemon stuff. :D I've never really been too far into fandom, but I love drawing fanart

Death Note when I was 13 or 14... never really got into anime as a whole, though I still have a lot of affection for Hellsing, Claymore, and Ghibli's stuff.

Didn't get back into fandom until recently, and now I'm really into shows and movies. I tend to jump from fandom to fandom and write a little bit of fic for everything.

I was into a ton of stuff as a kid but there was no way to talk to anyone about what I liked, since nobody I knew was into the stuff I was into (mostly books like the Little House on the Prairie series, Wizard of Oz series, Sherlock Holmes) and these were the olden days before most people had internet and we certainly didn't (ie the early 90s). I was also really into natural sciences and stuff and I wish someone had fostered that interest but oh well that's a tangent

My first real fandoms were stuff like Sailor Moon or Dragon Ball, I was heavily into the Dragon Ball/Z fandom and posted a lot to alt.fan.dragonball and I have a really good friend from back then that I've known for like 17 or 18 years now, wow (and we've met in person and hung out several times, we don't talk about DBZ anymore obviously though LOL)

Then I started getting into classic anime... this started because I got a vhs fansub of the Sailor Moon R movie as a teenager, and it had a bunch of Lupin III previews at the beginning, and the pilot film from the late 60s (so the very first thing Lupin III that I ever saw was actually the pilot film). I was super interested right away and thanks to some creepy ephebophile dude I knew from the internet I was able to get my hands on the Mystery of Mamo movie and some other films, I started watching the tv episodes and became a really huge fan. I even got interviewed for a Japanese website for some sort of fan event! After that I made it a point to watch as many "classics" as possible but it was hard back then. At the same time I was also watching a lot of shoujo like Card Captor Sakura and Utena and stuff. I got super into Escaflowne my senior year of high school and I collected all of the clamshell vhs tapes, I special ordered them at Suncoast when they came out. That got me interested in mecha and from there I started watching Evangelion and eventually UC Gundam and that's sort of where I am now, I'm turning 30 this year

Sorry, that was really long-winded

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I watched Sailor Moon but it was Gundam Wing coming to Toonami that really got me into fandom. And then Cardcaptor Sakura and somehow FAKE got in there and Final Fantasy and then BOOM MOTHERFUCKING HARRY POTTER and then a lot of movie fandoms and then HOMESTUCK was like sup girl? but then TEEN WOLF and THE WALKING DEAD slammed into me.

But anime and video games are still near and dear. |D

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Spyro the Dragon (best inoculation to furries ever) - discovery of fandom, message boards, fanfiction and fanart

InuYasha - discovery of poorly written porn D: also silly fandom fights (dubs vs subs, A character/pairing vs B character/pairing)

Danny Phantom - discovery of slash, discovery of even sillier fandom fights and disappointing creators

Kingdom Hearts - discovery of what it means to be in a fandom where slash is dominating to frightful extents

Harry Potter - discovery of how cool it is to be in a big enough fandom that you can cherry pick whatever you want :D (and even cooler if the big fandom wars have cooled down and yet the fandom is still going strong)

Xiaolin Showdown - discovery of what a semi-small fandom feels like :(

Final Fantasy VII - discovery that love of teenager-y things was not gone at all, but that it's okay (◡‿◡✿)

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Oh boy. Let's see... (And I'm twenty-six, since I'm using ages here.)

Age ten to twelve, Animorphs. Baby's first real fandom.

Age ten to ongoing, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, with major upswings around movie releases, and... well, now, at the moment, although I'm not super deep into the fandom.

Age ten to... well, it's tapered out a lot, but I still love the books, Harry Potter. I've read fic for it fairly recently, too, although I didn't actively go seeking it out.

Age eleven to thirteen, ReBoot. I used to have a little paper, coloured pencil, and safety pin Guardian badge which I had attached to my school backpack.

Age twelve to also tapered off but still love the movies, Star Wars, primarily concentrated around 12-15 and with a late upswing for Revenge of the Sith. The original trilogy are still my favourite movies of all time, but I'm not in the fandom.

Age thirteen to roughly seventeen-ish, anime, mostly Gundam Wing (the entire duration) and Dragonball Z (13-15). But lots of others in there, including Cardcaptors (and, about four episodes later, Card Captor Sakura - also coinciding with me becoming a sub snob), Sailor Moon, and Haibane Renmei, the latter of which I still quite enjoy.

Age thirteen to ongoing, Legend of Zelda <3 It's my primary fandom now - nearly thirteen years on! Back in my teenage years, it was my primary fandom from 13-14, then dropped a little. Picked up again around the releases of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess, fell back, picked it up AGAIN in early 2009, and it's been my main fandom ever since.

Age fourteen to early twenties, Australian comedy, with the real 'fandom' part being 14-18. Now, uh, RPF tends to creep me out more than anything.

Age eighteen to ongoing, Doctor Who. It was my primary fandom from around 18-21.

Age nineteen to twenty-one, Torchwood. Thanks, Children of Earth, for killing that. No, really.

Age twenty-three to ongoing, Pokemon. (...I'm a late-bloomer, okay. Always embarrassing when you say your first starter was Chikorita, and have to clarify that that was in HeartGold, not Gold! Interestingly, I refused to get into it when it first came out because I was a self-conscious eleven-year-old and Pokemon was for ~boys~. And then got heavily into Star Wars and science fiction the year later. Not sure why. When Diamond and Pearl came out, I realised that I had friends who were heavily into it, so when HGSS came out, I gave it a shot and promptly got hooked... anyway.)

Age twenty-three and only briefly, Mononoke.

And that's it, I think? Current fandoms are Zelda, Pokemon, Doctor Who, and Tolkien. I also still love Star Wars and Harry Potter, along with Star Trek (TNG, Voyager, and I've started on Enterprise), but I'm not involved in the fandoms for the first two any more, and never have been for Star Trek.

For primary fandoms, with some overlap - Tolkien from 10-12, Star Wars from 12-14, Zelda from 13-14, Gundam Wing from 13-15, Australian comedy from 14-18, Harry Potter from 15-20 (main period of fandom), Doctor Who from 18-21, Zelda again from 22-now.

...Sorry, I tend to tl;dr. I almost made a chart, too... and oops, nearly all of it is sci fi or fantasy...

ETA: I made a chart help me.

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Laurell K. Hamilton-->Forgotten Realms-->Lord of the Rings-->Weiss Kruez-->X-Men-->Harry Potter-->Naruto-->Gundam Wing-->Death Note-->Criminal Minds-->The Mentalist-->Batman/DC Comics-->Buffy-->White Collar-->Sailor Moon-->The Magnificent Seven-->Thor-->One Piece-->Avengers-->Fairy Tail

I've dabbled in a lot of others, and I think I got the order at least somewhat wrong, but that's kinda been my path through fandom. Harry Potter and Naruto have been the ones I return to the most, though. They're just so big that there's nothing I can't find in them! And I started when I was 12, 11 years ago.

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My fandom experience is a branching tree. The bid fandoms I've been involved in went:

Pokemon->Naruto->Pokemon again->Pokemon/Homestuck

because I'm just that mature a human being, but I'm always lurking around in a whole bunch of smaller fandoms as well, mostly for webcomics and anime/manga and videogames. I find the quietness and relative lack of wank in those very refreshing, haha.

Got my hands on the Star Trek Encyclopedia when I was like 6 or 7 and I was done for. I don't know why but it - the world it presented - fascinated me. From there, watched Star Trek. Was already a reader but then around 3rd grade or so I started reading as much science fiction as I could get my hands on (tons of Star Trek: TNG paperbacks) and then read Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings around the same time and started hoovering up fantasy novels as well. Mostly from the stacks at my public library system, although also some YA stuff from my school's library as well, where I also started reading old comics and manga which they had a really comprehensive, if old and eclectic, selection of. Started getting more into anime during high school, and then started watching more non-Star Trek TV during college, and that's about it. So, yeah, mostly just reading a ton of science fiction and fantasy at an early age did me in.

Harry Potter was my baby fandom, which I take as meaning that it was the first time I ever realized other people in the interwebs also enjoyed the same things as me and had websites devoted to them. I didn't read fic until I was much older, but when I was young I was an avid reader of essays/captions/jokey things/news/podcasts on mugglenet and the leaky cauldron. I started being obsessed when I was ten and it was my great love until I was 15.

When I was about 12/13 I was also majorly into Western Animation. I used to do ugly and embarrassing fan drawings and logos of Danny Phantom, Am. Dragon: Jake Long, Code Lyoko, Teen Titans, and Xiaolin Showdown. These fanworks have fortunately been lost to time.

When I was 14/15 up until my senior year of high school I was majorly into musical theater but that was a mostly offline obsession shared with others.

I really got into fandom though last year (my freshman year of college) because I started reading a LOT of Marauders Era fanfic during study breaks. I also followed MLP:FiM pretty religiously last year. Around the time I was running out (xmas), I found Sherlock and really started figuring out what being in a very active fandom was like. I found Community around September of this year and segued into that and that's mostly where I am now.

It started around 10 for me as a junior member in Sherlockian Society. I didn't get into shipping until I was in my teens but I didn't have anyone to talk to about it. It wasn until ff.net was launched that I was able to connect with any other shippers and LJ was a revelation for me. I spent ten years getting involved in the fandoms for everything that caught my eye but the last couple years LJ has just been dying off. Now I just read fic on AO3 and save all of my squeeing for text and emails with friends I made when I was on LJ.

I suppose it'd go Sailor Moon, Digimon, Cardcaptor Sakura, Fushigi Yugi, Inuyasha, Harry Potter, Star Wars, jpop, kpop, Doctor Who and I'm currently in the Hunger Games and Harry Potter.

I'm sure I've missed several fandoms that I only stayed in for a little while, but anime was definitely what got me started.

I grew up with my Holmesian grandfather who told 5-yr-old me stories about how Holmes and Watson were the greatest love story in history. Around 6 years later we got the internet at home and I discovered that there were lots of people out there who thought they were a wonderful couple too, but that some on them expressed it in ways that were frankly a little terrifying.

Two years on finds me writing porn about the Jedi Academy and Star Wars prequels, then LOTR, then Raffles and Jeeves and Wooster (still active in all of these, the last two very much so).

I tried SPN, but fell out of love with it when they stopped being Monster of the Week, same for Merlin, although I did stick it out to the end of the canon, just didn't bother with fandom after the first few series. After a brief foray into UK political RPF I've settled back into my old stomping ground.

I am considering setting up a Ripper St community if no one else does though. I think that may be my new fandom.

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My first fandom was American Idol RPF (Michael Johns/David Cook). I have no idea how I got into it, since I hadn't actually watched American Idol up until that point, but somehow that's how I fell into fandom and shipping.

From there I think I moved to Doctor Who (mostly lurking on the periphery of the fandom), and then Primeval. Then my friend convinced me to start watching Supernatural, and that was when I got into Tumblr fandom, so everything kind of snowballed from there. As it is, I mostly spread myself thin across a number of fandoms as opposed to focusing on one, but I'm feeling myself falling into the LOTR/Hobbit fandom right now (a new experience for me, as when I first watched the LOTR films I wasn't aware of fandom at all).

For major fandoms, my progression would go something like this: Pokemon > Digimon > Sailor Moon > DBZ > Escaflowne > Yu Yu Hakusho > Tenchi Muyo > Gundam Wing > Harry Potter > Final Fantasy VII & VIII > Fake > Gravitation > Supernatural > Avatar: The Last Airbender > Merlin > Sherlock > Doctor Who > Tales of Series & Fire Emblem (which are rather new obsessions).

I still participate in all those fandoms in some capacity. I have more, but they're not as large and then my post would never end!

Well, if you count pre-internet, I was a huge Baby-Sitters Club fangirl. But online, I started with Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, moved on to Degrassi: The Next Generation, then Lost, then PotC, then back to Lost, then Star Trek '09 and Glee, and then the Avengers movieverse, where I've more or less been for the past two years.

Star Trek TNG offline -> Star Trek TNG online -> LotR -> Harry Potter -> Holy fuck! I'm gay!! -> Harry Potter femslash -> Minor Femslash Fandom of Tiny -> Downton Abbey -> Current tiny fandom.

I've had more and more one night stands with various fandoms as I've gotten older, too.

A combo of Sailor Moon/Pokemon/Harry Potter (of which HP lasted the longest), to ATLA, to Doctor Who. I think I nestled down in Doctor Who since the ending of ATLA was extremely abrupt and heart-jerking for me in a "what do I do now?" sense, so now I have a canon that's always changing (don't like the current companions? wait a couple years and there will be someone completely new!) and cannot be killed. Even after a 15 year cancellation, it managed to rise again from the grave.

Animorphs was the first thing I became obsessed with (age six or so), but I think Harry Potter was my first online fandom (AOL Kids Only forums holla). I got into Pokémon and Digimon around the same time (first/second grade), which led to Yu-Gi-Oh in fifth grade or so, and then a bunch of other animes happened from there. Ninth grade was when I started internetting in earnest and I guess I just picked up fandoms as I went? idk man.

Started on FullMetal Alchemist in its heyday, then got into several anime fandoms. Heroes season 1 happened and sucked me in, and the high percentage of Supernatural writers took me to Supernatural. In the meantime, I started Torchwood and Doctor Who. Now I'm in all sorts of fandoms, even though I lurk more than I actively participate, and I stay in the safest corners (the Heroes shipwars taught me that!).

Also, I don't leave fandoms. I put them on hold, I can't really leave without turning back.

Taking into account LOADS of overlap and on-and-off, with the caveat that I almost never completely quit a fandom, just go into hibernation for an indefinite amount of time, here are my starting points (I'm defining my early fandom as "thought about it extensively while not reading and/or wrote fanfic in my head", since I didn't start venturing into online fandom until around 2006 when I was 14...

Grimm's Fairy Tales (age 6, aka 1998)
An American Tail (age 6)
Narnia (age 7)
Call of the Wild (age 7)
Disney (age 7)
All Dogs Go To Heaven (age 7)
Anne of Green Gables (age 8)
Harry Potter (age 9)
Toy Story (age 9)
Superhero comics (Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman only) (age 10)
Lord of the Rings (age 12)
Star Trek TOS/TNG (age 14)
M*A*S*H (age 15)
South Park (age 15)
The Simpsons (age 16)
Futurama (age 16)
Avatar the Last Airbender (age 16)
Marvel Comics (full-blown) (age 16)
DC Comics (full-blown) (age 16)
The West Wing (age 17)
Doctor Who (age 17)
Les Miserables (age 17)
Star Trek DS9 (age 18)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (age 18)
Angel (age 18)
Stargate SG-1 (age 18)
Order of the Stick (age 18)
Sluggy Freelance (age 19)
Sherlock Holmes (age 19)
ER (age 19)
How I Met Your Mother (age 19)
Scrubs (age 20)
Psych (age 20)
The Avengers (age 20)

Keep in mind, these are just my STARTING points for each fandom. If I tried to do a chronology of when I was most involved in what, I'd tie myself in knots (and I can't really remember anyway) because I keep coming back to fandoms full force after being away for long stretches. And it describes actual fandom-ness, not casually watching a show or movie/reading a book for the first time.

I'm also pretty sure I'm forgetting a few...

Gossip Girl, Doctor Who/Torchwood, finally other fandoms

As a kid, I would make up stories about the characters on shows I watched. I think the first one was the 1960s Batman series, which I watched when I was 3-5. I really liked Robin. Then I got into the X-Files when I was about 9. After that, I was really into James Bond for a couple years. Made up all sorts of stories.

My first encounter with an actual fandom was Star Wars, when I was 13. I got pretty involved in some online forums, and I started writing fic. I was into Star Wars until I was about 15-16, and then I started to lose interest.

After that, I got into Harry Potter, but I never wrote fic. I did spend time talking to fans on message boards. Then I got into Buffy, Angel, and Roswell, which I only read fic for. I was also into Heroes for a while.

In 2008, I got into Torchwood, which was my first major fandom experience. I wrote fic, made friends, and generally participated a lot. It was also what got me back into writing, in general, after I'd been discouraged for a while.

I left the Torchwood fandom in 2010, and eventually discovered Inception, which I flirted with for a while but never committed to that much. I did write some fic, though, and I still do write for it a bit.

Then, this past June, I discovered White Collar. Now this is the first time since Torchwood that I've been writing fic pretty regularly, and talking to other fans.

Edited 2013-01-03 05:25 (UTC)

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