The First Baby Step

[polarissruler]

After recently I made a post in my journal about my first fandom, I decided to ask - how did it began to you? What was your first fandom? How did you found it? Did you start writing/drawing/reading/whatever else first? And do you look fondly on those good old days, or not so much?

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[silverr]

First "I have a crush on this character" was in the late 60s, the Aquaman cartoon and the original run of Star Trek.

First fanworks were in the late 70s after the release of the first Star Wars movie.

I didn't discover on-line fandom until 2002, but have frolicked most of the years since then. I think honestly the most fun I had in fandom was in those early days, in Saint Seiya and YGO:DM fandoms.

[polarissruler]

Hm, I dind't realize having a crush on character counts as a fnadom thing. I think my first was from Tsubasa from Metal Fight Beyblade.

[silverr]

If I'd had anyone to talk to about it, I probably would have gone on endlessly about how dreamy Spock was. *g*

A few years later I used to race home from school, watch Dark Shadows and then get on the phone with my best friend to dissect the episodes and talk about how dreamy Barnabas/Quentin/et al. were.

But if you're taking fandom to specifically mean written fanworks and meta, then yea, 1977 and Star Wars.