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[ SECRET POST #2656 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2656 ⌋

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09. [WARNING for blood/gore, cannibalism, and incest]

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Grabbed some from next week's subs post so it wouldn't be all spoilers today.

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Is anyone involved in some of them? Better yet, are you a first-generation fan? I'm talking stuff that's been around for aaaages -- like, Classic Doctor Who, pre-reboot Star Trek TOS, Starsky & Hutch, pre-prequel Star Wars, M*A*S*H...I don't know what else was super-popular in fandom back then, but stuff like that. Or hell, even older than that, where it would be impossible for you to still be alive if you were a first generation fan -- Sherlock Holmes and Little Women and stuff.

If you're not a first-generation fan, how did you first get involved in these fandoms?

*flail* Hi! I'm not a first-generation fan for them, but I still regularly read/reread fic for Man from UNCLE, the original Battlestar Galactica, Starsky and Hutch, Sherlock Holmes (canon), and a couple of others. :D

MFU was my very first slash pairing back in the late nineties. :)

I like all of these! And definitely not a first generation fan -- I'm in my early 20s atm.

Lemme see...I watched M*A*S*H on TVLand in reruns starting when I was 14. I got into Star Trek TOS (long before the reboot) after watching Star Trek TNG. I watched Starsky & Hutch on reruns...um, ages ago, and later rediscovered it after trawling the Hurt/Comfort page on fanlore (:D). Star Wars...Star Wars hasn't ever gone away, has it? Classic Who...well, I admit I only got into that via New Who. Sherlock Holmes...I can't remember ever NOT being a bit of a Sherlock Holmes fan, although my level of involvement fluctuates. I was never in Little Women fandom though, but I read and reread it like crazy back when I was a preteen -- one of the only "girly" media I ever liked.

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Comic books count, right?

I'm definitely not a first-generation fan. I didn't start getting into comics on a serious level until a few years ago.

That being said, I tend to prefer old Bronze Age comics over the stuff we have now...

I've always been peripherally interested in comic books, though I never paid much attention to superhero stuff after a certain age until Batman Begins came out. Then I started reading some of the popular stories like The Dark Knight Returns (sigh) and Long Halloween and whatnot. In 2011 I got a friggin' mountain of Batman-related stuff for my birthday/Christmas and not long after that I decided to fill my unemployment with a comic marathon. I wanted to get into New 52 but so much of it seemed reliant on the previous continuity, so I decided I wanted to read every canon Batman story of that particular continuity.

I started off following a chronology that was almost entirely Legends of the Dark Knight arcs for the "first ten years" (chronology's standard) of Batman's career. The finale of those ten years was Crisis on Infinite Earths, so I read that (it's fun, but very dated.) After that I kept on reading Batman stuff, but I ended up reading Justice League International because he was in it. And then I kept reading it even after he stopped coming around anymore. I would also read the major events with the tie-ins and all, and sometimes that got me reading other books. I didn't start seriously branching out until a little bit into Kyle Rayner's career, however. But before I knew it, I was reading at least a quarter, sometimes half, of DC's 90s/00s catalog, and I don't regret it one bit.

I wanna do it again as soon as I get caught up on New 52.

Resident Monkees fan, checking in. I think I'm the main/only one on FS... I am not a first-generation fan, though. I came to it in the 80s.

My "oldest" active fandom is probably Saint Seiya (the original anime series is from 1986-89), to which I was introduced in 2002 by my 'anime mentor."

(By your definition I guess I am also a "first generation" TOS fan (I was glued to the TV every week when it was first broadcast), and was active for a while in first-generation SWars fandom.

I'm in the Babylon 5 fandom, though definitely not first generation.

TOS is still my favorite Trek. Technically it was my first, because I watched a few of the movies at the time they came out - and THEN I discovered that there was a TV series running, which was TNG, and then came DS9... but I never saw an episode of TOS, just the movies, until a year or so before the reboot showed up. I worked third shift at the time, and was flipping channels late at night on one of my days off, and happened to come across it. Smitten. So very smitten. I just love old-school sci-fi, before it became basically action movies with energy weapons and aliens. (Not that those types of sci-fi can't also be fun, but old-school sci-fi seems to be more about parables and philosophy and IDEAS rather than actions, and I find that really interesting.)

And then there's From Eroica With Love, a manga that has been running off and on since 1976. My girlfriend got hooked on it via fanzines in I think the 90s or something, and had a bunch of scanlations, then when it got a domestic release finally about ten years ago, she brought the first couple volumes to read on the plane when she came out to visit me, and told me to read it.

I was hooked pretty much at the same point she was, where she had had it described to her and she went "...That's the CANON?" Basically the scene in question involves the declaration "The world's fate depends on his underwear!" and ... it is entirely serious and true. And HILARIOUS.

Let's see, first generation fan for Star Trek TOS, Man from U.N.C.L.E, Starsky and Hutch and The Sentinel (which damn, is pretty old now!). Wrote fic for all of them, still adore them to this day.

(Could throw in SportsNight - after all, it was in the last century...)

I was really into G1 Transformers for a while, and that show is older than I am. Transformers Animated was sort of my gateway drug, and it was so distressingly short that I started looking into other TF shows after I finished it.

I didn't really wind up getting into any of the other continuities - tried Armada, Prime, and Beast Wars, none of them hooked me (though I might give BW another try at some point). But G1 was just so charmingly weird and goofy, I loved it.

Trekkie since childhood, ToS.

I'm easing my way back into comics and related. The Marvel Studios stuff generally doesn't suck (except for SHIELD), and Image is getting me back into buying individual issues again via DRM-free downloads. Although I don't see myself getting back into bagging and boxing my collection from the big 2 anytime soon.

I was so excited when I found out there was a War and Peace fandom. It was like three other people and two of them were writing in Russian, but still! My people!

Not first-generation, but I love Star Trek TOS and Lord of the Rings (the book) a lot. I knew LotR from childhood, but I didn't see Star Trek until I was almost thirty. I am one of those whiny first-generation Star Wars fans yelling for the CG1 kids to get off my lawn.

The "old" fandom I love the most is probably L. M. Montgomery novels. I could geek out about Emily of New Moon for days, and have, and probably will again very soon. I had a friend in elementary school who was basically the reincarnation of Anne Shirley (complete with Vocabulary-Building Insults and Melodramatic Reveries) and she talked Anne up so much that eventually I started reading them just so I would know what she was on about.

Aww man Emily of New Moon. I love her other books too--Blue Castle is about my favorite thing ever--but something about that one was great too, although it was intensely frustrating in many ways for me. I did really like the little hint of the supernatural in it, compared to her other stories!

What was your favorite Anne novel? I actually really like Rilla of Ingelside, it was so interesting to read a war novel from the perspective of those still at home.

Sherlock Holmes stories. Les Miserables (aka. The Brick).

Obviously I'm not a "first generation" fan! I got into them because my mother bought a lot of books as a kid (including Sherlock Holmes), and she was a massive fan of the musical of Les Miserables. (She got to see it in London.) And we'd always have the soundtrack playing in the car.

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