Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Fandom Firsts
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rogueslayer452Challenge #10: In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!
MY FIRST FANDOMS
I do believe my first fandom was probably Animorphs, the books by K.A. Applegate but more so the Nickelodeon adaptation television series. Yes, fans of the books have heavily criticized the show for not being faithful and for being incredibly low quality with its limited budget, but I adored it all the same. I remember going onto fansites at the time just looking for pictures and anything in regards to the show. I even read my first piece of fanfiction/slashfic for the fandom! It was a Jake/Marco fic on FF.Net.
Following that, a lot of the fandoms that I got into kind of happened around the same time. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Angel, and Harry Potter most notably were among the first that I actively participated with online fandom for, as well.
MY FIRST FANDOM WEBSITE
While this wasn't the first fandom website (since I cannot remember exactly the first, it was so long ago and I'm sure it's long been defunct by now), LiveJournal was probably the first biggest website I joined for the online fandom community, and FanFiction.Net was the first collective fanfiction website that I remember reading from back in the day that wasn't from personalized websites.
(Honorable mentions: The Leaky Cauldron, Chamber of Secret Forums, FanForums, and Buffyverse Music Video Database. While they might not have been the firsts, they're some of the earliest ones that I can clearly remember and that I constantly visited for fandom news, updates, and fanworks.)
MY FIRST FANDOMS
I do believe my first fandom was probably Animorphs, the books by K.A. Applegate but more so the Nickelodeon adaptation television series. Yes, fans of the books have heavily criticized the show for not being faithful and for being incredibly low quality with its limited budget, but I adored it all the same. I remember going onto fansites at the time just looking for pictures and anything in regards to the show. I even read my first piece of fanfiction/slashfic for the fandom! It was a Jake/Marco fic on FF.Net.
Following that, a lot of the fandoms that I got into kind of happened around the same time. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dark Angel, and Harry Potter most notably were among the first that I actively participated with online fandom for, as well.
MY FIRST FANDOM WEBSITE
While this wasn't the first fandom website (since I cannot remember exactly the first, it was so long ago and I'm sure it's long been defunct by now), LiveJournal was probably the first biggest website I joined for the online fandom community, and FanFiction.Net was the first collective fanfiction website that I remember reading from back in the day that wasn't from personalized websites.
(Honorable mentions: The Leaky Cauldron, Chamber of Secret Forums, FanForums, and Buffyverse Music Video Database. While they might not have been the firsts, they're some of the earliest ones that I can clearly remember and that I constantly visited for fandom news, updates, and fanworks.)
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Date: 2025-02-17 07:01 am (UTC)an unflinching look at how kids being forced to be soldiers in war would be like, the consequences that followed.
I only got that years later, when I was randomly reminded of the books and told a friend a out them. And this friend got this horrified look and said something a long the lines of "That sounds worse than the Hunger Games." Well, he had a point there.
doing the best they could with the limited amount of resources available
That's something I love, in Star Trek (the original series) and other shows like it. I'm not sure why, but it's very charming in it's own way.
Shawn Ashmore (and Aaron Ashmore, briefly) I had to look them up but both of them are in shows I love: Warehouse 13 and The Rookie! Looks like both are quite successful.