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mimesereother than being a wee me and making up stories in a vacuum about characters like Leia! and Gadget from Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers! and Wendy from Peter Pan! and Firestar from Spiderman and His Amazing Friends/The New Warriors! and Zorro! and Red Sonja! and Eilonwy and many many many others..
Did a web search for Buffy in college, found Slayerfanfic.com and was intrigued. Dug around a little more, found IRC (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
isabeau! and kidchyron! and katemonkey!), found mailing lists (ahahahahaha Forever Knight fandom! Natpacker and proud of it!) and archives (Gossamer and the main Sentinel one and the DS one and the Highlander one) and personal archives (way too many to count). Um. Mailing lists for a long while and then there was the split from personal mailing lists (listserv) to e-groups/yahoogroups (UCSL for me, brief dabbles in TPM and Xena) and then the kind of nebulous move to personal blogs.
And then there was popslash (which, IIRC, sort of started on a Sports Night mailing list) and the move to LJ in 2001. And then that's been pretty much it for me. Bandom is playing with more tools (and I recognize that other fandoms are doing it too, but bandom is the one where I see things like del.icio.us and myspace and whatnot being used hardcore in a way that I don't see it being done for other fandoms).
of all of them, I prefer LJ the most. Panfannishness ftw. Cross-pollination ftw. Diversified interests ftw.
Of course, this all can go horribly horribly wrong, too. but overall, I like it.
Did a web search for Buffy in college, found Slayerfanfic.com and was intrigued. Dug around a little more, found IRC (
isabeau! and kidchyron! and katemonkey!), found mailing lists (ahahahahaha Forever Knight fandom! Natpacker and proud of it!) and archives (Gossamer and the main Sentinel one and the DS one and the Highlander one) and personal archives (way too many to count). Um. Mailing lists for a long while and then there was the split from personal mailing lists (listserv) to e-groups/yahoogroups (UCSL for me, brief dabbles in TPM and Xena) and then the kind of nebulous move to personal blogs.And then there was popslash (which, IIRC, sort of started on a Sports Night mailing list) and the move to LJ in 2001. And then that's been pretty much it for me. Bandom is playing with more tools (and I recognize that other fandoms are doing it too, but bandom is the one where I see things like del.icio.us and myspace and whatnot being used hardcore in a way that I don't see it being done for other fandoms).
of all of them, I prefer LJ the most. Panfannishness ftw. Cross-pollination ftw. Diversified interests ftw.
Of course, this all can go horribly horribly wrong, too. but overall, I like it.