Subject: CWACOM, shortly followed by Person of Interest
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Posted on: 2020-09-02 22:15:21 UTC
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (specifically the movies) was the first fandom I ever wrote fic (and RP) for; Person of Interest was the fandom I first properly engaged with after that, on forums and such.
And then there's Young Wizards, where I first started considering Tumblr (and then Slack thereafter, fortunately) to be a social media of interest...
Since it's an interesting thing to talk about, what're y'all's first fandoms, in the sense of the first thing you did fandom stuff for (reading/writing fic, drawing art, etc.)?
(This question came up briefly in chat last evening, but I figured it could use a longer-form discussion)
For my, I'm pretty sure my first fandom was Harry Potter (which seems to be a pretty common answer around here) - been at least hovering around there and reading stuff for about a decade now. Although, if we go off of active creative output, the first things I wrote fic for were Young Wizards and Animorphs, and that was only last year.
So waaaay back when I was a very tiny Scape, I was massively into Red Dwarf. I used to be able to recite entire episodes from memory. I was the Dwarfer equivalent of hS, and I don't say that lightly. However, I wasn't able to keep up with the newer stuff, nor have I read the novelizations after Better Than Life. There's a lot of stuff I missed. But I'm still a huge fan.
Also Robot Wars, which is a robot fighting program that was once described as the world's first vegan blood sport. But you all know about that already. =]
First for me, in both creative output and time spent in the fandom, would have to be Pokémon. I tried copying the pictures on Pokémon cards and from a puzzle book I had in third grade, which eventually spiraled into me drawing gijinkas of the eeveelutions until I lost the folder I kept everything in on a field trip.
First thing I wrote for was actually The Giver, because an assignment in sixth grade had us writing possible epilogues.
The first thing I wrote for, though without knowing exactly what the concept of fanfiction was, was Warrior Cats. Just recently I found a tiny 2x3" notebook literally bedecked in glitter and sparkles containing a small sliver of the story I'd tried writing about my fan Clans, which I've actually sporked on the discord server a couple times.
The first thing that was knowingly fanfiction and posted online is a fic for Fire Emblem: Awakening, which I'm eventually going to get around to writing a mission for it.
edit for "oops, I forgot I have to italicize canons"
I mostly drew pictures of Pokemon from a handbook.
My sixth grade teacher did a literature unit on "Compare and contrast the Hero's Journey as seen in the Chronicles of Prydain and the Star Wars Trilogy" (this was back in '97-'98, so there was only one of them at the time), thereby introducing me to Star Wars. I discovered the Star Wars EU in the summer of '98 and stated writing fic for it later that year.
I don’t write fic, but the first fandom I really entered was Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I also didn’t really read fanfiction at all until I joined the PPC.
Sometimes, I can’t believe I only started reading Harry Potter this summer. Then again, I’m on the last book already, which is good. I’ll finally be able to read missions again!
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (specifically the movies) was the first fandom I ever wrote fic (and RP) for; Person of Interest was the fandom I first properly engaged with after that, on forums and such.
And then there's Young Wizards, where I first started considering Tumblr (and then Slack thereafter, fortunately) to be a social media of interest...
(This would have been 2012/2013, btw. I came into the actual creative mode of fandom rather late, at least going by my generation's norms.)