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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[mrkinch]

I watched ST:TOS as it was aired because my terrible husband was a huge fan, and I certainly couldn't talk to him about it even if I'd had the terminology! A few years later a woman at a party was talking about K/S and I felt a strong kinship with her, but I never met her again and had other concerns.

Fast forward to 2001, when an internet friend in Michigan with whom I read manga found out that there was to be something called yaoicon right across the Bay and insisted I go. Which I did, for one day, and it totally sensor-overloaded me but there was no turning back. I'm not entirely sure how Gundam Wing became my first acknowledged fandom, since what I purchased at yaoicon was a Trigun fan comic. There may have been some recruiting for one or more GW yahoo groups, because that's where I ended up; they were great! I still know people I met there, including a very close friend. In April 2002 I was given an invite to LJ by darthneko, and at year's end I fell into LotR. Nothing's hit me like that since, though I've been active in XM:FC and Rivers of London.

It's nice to write this all out.^_^ <-- very old anime fan credential