From
blog prompts I devised a while back. I'm actually doing a few that I have shorter answers for. These are all fandom.
What was the first fandom you were in?
Everyone might guess Harry Potter, but actually, no! I was in the Baby-Sitter's Club fandom first. I already wrote things based on books I liked, but I didn't know there was a name for it - fanfiction. I think I visited forums more than wrote fic, but I know I dabbled in both.
I was also in the Sweet Valley universe fandom. There was this site where we could co-write the characters' diaries. The thing is that it was for the new Sweet Valley high series (not Sweet Valley High, there was a new one called Sweet Valley Senior Year, but everyone wanted it to be considerably soapier than what I wanted. Also, I actually wasn't into SVH or SVSY; I'd really only read Sweet Valley Twins, and I think I was twelve or thirteen by then, so I had outgrown them and mostly still read for nostalgia purposes. (Same with BSC, actually.) So this meant I was a little out of my league. It was fun for the brief time that it lasted, though!
What fandoms did you stick with even after the original canon closed?
I'm the kind of person who tends to dabble in and out of a lot of things,so this could be almost anything I like on some level, but I'd say Harry Potter is the best answer here. I still dabble a bit, but I don't think I've really been wholly involved for a few years. Still, it was really cool to see it evolve from 100 fics on fanfiction.net and a few websites in 2000(!!!) to the huge fandom it became, and interesting - if, arguably, a little sad in some ways - to see it morph into "modern" fandom. I can say with complete honesty that if it hadn't been for the Harry Potter fandom, my life would not have been the same.
I also got into Firefly and Buffyverse, but only after they'd been off of the air for a while, and I never got that into their fandoms. (Unfortunately with Firefly, I felt I kinda came in at the tail END of all the Browncoat Madness.) I was in the Earth's Children fandom (a lot of people know it by the first book, Clan of the Cave Bear) for a while after the sixth and (hopefully) last book came out, but I don't think I stuck around that long. I still sometimes visit the forums, though! And like Harry Potter, I was in that fandom starting back in 2000.
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