an inventory of past fannishness in light of recent discussions

[mimesere]

other 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 (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.

Comments

[wemblee.livejournal.com]

Remember all the Buffy fanfic archives? There were, like, a billion.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

There were! on geocities, mostly. Ahh geocities.

[cyprinella]

Aw, FK was my first fandom!

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Hee! FK! I remember watching it at 2 am in syndication when I was like 12.

[cyprinella]

Me too! I would set my alarm and everything. Then I discovered the wonder of VCR timers (and that Highlander and Due South were also on and OMG I went through a lot of video tape).

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

I didn't figure out VCR timers until really late, so it was just me staying up and going, "YAY!" with HL and FK. DS was on Sundays on CBS and then it wasn't, but I found it again in college right before a home shopping show about knives and my roommate and I watched it then.

[thelionforreal.livejournal.com]

annavtree and i were just discussing past fandoms last night. i have actively participated and considered myself a part of five. this, i realise, is because i am singlefandomed by nature and can really only do one at a time. *shrug* completely consuming. now i wish i still had my former fandoms icon.