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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[polarissruler]

Oh, the yaoi. It shocked me a lot the first time I found yaoi fanart, but after that - there was not turning back for me.

[malurette]

I was very lucky, the very first yaoi fanarts I encountered were hidden behind Big! Honking!! Warnings!!! but were actual very tame (just the faces, a hint of bare chests, maybe leaning on each other's shoulder or a kiss on the cheek, and, oh the horror, a dribble of blood on the ones Extra-Warned for Vampires?) and here I was, wondering 1) what all the fuss was about, 2) but why this pair of boys and not another one that had more chemistry? and uh the rest was history.

[polarissruler]

Well, the first I saw was even tamer - just holding hands, but for me it was the peak of obscenity. (Don't ask why; I was a strange kid. It might have been because it was a non-canon ship and I could not believe something like that existed rather than being yaoi - strange kid, told you.) Once I got over that, my thougt process went in the same direction as you - and as you say, the rest is history.