Fandom meme-age

[butterfly]

Because, well, on occasion, I will do this. You know, for sufficient reason and with good enough excuse to babble about what I love.

Fandoms that I still care about (and am inclined to read fiction in, even if just on occasion)
Angel; Boy Meets World; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; due South; House; Stargate SG-1; Stargate Atlantis; Lois and Clark; Dawson's Creek; Queer as Folk (UK); Smallville; Boondock Saints; CSI; Battlestar Galactica (new school version); Popslash; Hard Core Logo; Star Wars; Lord of the Rings; Harry Potter; Firefly

First Fandom
My first personal fandom was Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I discovered the show on my own and watched with giddy glee even though (at the time), the rest of my family went, "huh?". My dad and mom have since realized that it always was pretty kick-ass. My brother doesn't like non-traditional portrayals of vampires, though.

But I've always been around fandom. I watched Star Trek (Next Gen; DS9, and the first few years of Voyager) with my family when they were airing. We went to cons and got signatures. My mom was one of the people who wrote a letter to keep the Original Trek on air, back when. And I still really like DS9 and parts of the other three. I like Star Trek, clean as it can be.


Most Recent Fandom
Well, I just spent the last couple of days trying to find Anakin/Obi-wan fic, so I'll go with Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. That movie and the A/O in it just hit all my slash button in a way that The Phantom Menace (and Q/O) didn't. And AotC made me want to read Obi-wan/Padme. So, seeing slash in the Prequel Trilogies is new to me. And fun. And since I am, in fact, the type of person who can say, out loud, things like, "I don't watch [Back to the Future] for slash, I watch it for the incest!", the whole "You were my brother" thing, not so much with the making me dislike the pairing.


Five Fandoms that Mean Quite a Bit to Me, Really
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The one show that I can say saved my life. My feelings on the fandom fluctuate, but I wouldn't ever have wished not to be in it. BtVS fandom is where I've learnt to stand by my opinion of something. Very important. BtVS itself has put me through the wringer, so, honestly, it's only right that the fandom did the same thing. Life is pain, but it is also joy.

2. Popslash. Popslash informed my feelings on RPS and is a large part of my attitude about people -- namely that they are interesting and imperfect and wonderful, all at the same time. And through Popslash, I met some wonderful and outspoken people that I admire greatly.

3. Star Trek. Like I said, I grew up in it. I never thought that being fannish was weird, because both of my parents are, in their own ways, incredibly fannish. My dad goes to Klingon karaoke bars. So, ST fandom informed my feelings on fandom in general and my ease about it all.

4. Angel. God. There were times when I'd felt as if this show, and this fandom, had wrecked me, in the best and worst ways. The extreme nature of the emotions that it inspired, that just the thought of the finale can bring tears to my eyes, that the fandom has made me feel the best and worst that I've felt in my life. My love for BtVS is just as strong, but so much simpler (as is my love for Firefly).

5. Stargate SG-1. I can't express how much I needed this show. Angel had just ended and my heart was broken. Then, lo, on the suggestion of a friend, I watched Children of the Gods. Finding SG-1 has been amazing -- it's a show that I've shared both with a close friend and my mother. It's a show that my mom wants to watch (several years ago, she stopped watching tv for the most part) and that she always wants to make sure I've brought over when I visit. Being able to have something to give my mom is... a nice feeling.

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On the subject of fandom, fairly so. I'm glad that I got introduced to the world of fandom so young -- I knew that I wanted that fannishness out of BtVS right away, I knew what I was looking for. Saved time.