January talking meme 2: Fandom Firsts

[dhampyresa]

umadoshi : What was your first fandom?

This is one of those questions where the short answer is "how are you counting?", because wow, does the answer change depending on that.

I've always been fannish, have always made up stories about books or movies or shows I was watching or reading at the time (let's face it: it was mostly books and BDs).

I've sometimes said that mythology was my first fandom and, in a way, it was. It was certainly the first time I realised that you could make shit up about characters that weren't yours and it dodn't necessarily have to stay in your head. I'm hard-pressed to think of a specific moment where I reached this conclusion, but I'm fairly sure K. A. Applegate's Everworld series played a part in it.

The first fandom I read fic in was Naruto. It was in French and even then, I could tell the execution was terrible. I loved the idea though. Not th idea of the fic, but the idea of fic itself.

The first fandom where I wrote fic was Bleach and it was never finished or posted anymore. This is for the best. It was utterly terrible. No, really. It had every badfic clichés in it. it's also unfinished.

The first fandom I posted fic in was Hetalia. It was in French, it was unfinished and it still exists in that form on the internet. It exists on my harddrive in French and English. Both completed! But never posted.

The first fandom I posted fic in English in was Norse mythology. It's also the first fic I posted on Ao3. It's complete, technically, but was originally supposed to be part of a longer thing.

The first fandom I posted completed fic in was Fantastic Four (comics)/Journey Into Mystery/Young Avengers. It's the fic I wrote for nomadicwriter for yuletide 2012.

In some ways, I've been fandom forever and in others, not at all.