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10/05/2003: that first (online/zine/fic/lj) fandom meme
Gacked from cesperanza:
1. What was your first fandom? The first thing you were obsessively fannish about? It doesn't have to be a tv show or movie.
Comics, in general. Carl Barks' Duck comics in particular.
2. Are you still interested in your first fandom or are you so over it?
I'm still very much into comics, less so into Carl Barks' Duck comics, but I still like them a lot. I still get zines regularly and I'm still a member of D.O.N.A.L.D., though I haven't been to a gathering in years.
3. What was your first zine/fic fandom?
The first fanzines I bought were about Carl Barks' Duck comics, they didn't have fanfic in them though. The first fanfic I read much later, that was online fanfic for The Sentinel. The first fanfic zine I bought was also for TS.
4. What was your first online fandom?
If checking and reading usenet groups counts, it was comic fandom as well. Actually finding stuff about comics was the reason for me to use the net for the first time, because my sister who had access to the internet told me that there were usenet groups for fun stuff like comics. Thankfully nowadays I don't have to commute to a particle accelerator research center anymore to get online. The first mailing list I signed up to was DSOUTH-L in October 1995. That was short lived however, since I actually signed up my brother's email (he was the first person I knew with private internet access), and the traffic on the list was too high for me to just check the mail every week or so. My first continuous online fandom, where I was really involved and actually posted on lists and joined discussions, was The Sentinel in early 1998, after I had my own computer with internet access.
5. What was your first livejournal fandom?
I'm not sure I have one. I started out reading blogs/journals by people in fandoms I already had. I guess the first fandom I got really into after being fully immersed into LJ was Batverse fandom, and I haven't joined any lists/boards for it either, but mainly tend to talk/read about it in blogs/LJs. So maybe that counts as LJ fandom?
