Old person meanderings ahead
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Today my computer is recognising the WiFi, but for some reason I can't read my flist! I can individually access comms, but when I click on the Friends page - nada.
Anyway, last night when I couldn't access the Wireless from my computer I was reading on my iPod. Reading the internet on my iPod is always productive of exasperation as I get aggravated with having to make every page I go to larger and that when I do so, I end up hitting Copy everytime which dims the screen, and then I can't read anyway *pouts*. So I'm bitching about this and then I think 'self get a grip! Do you remember when...?'
The first time I ever read a fanfic was about 32 years ago, and boy was it different then.
I was 17 when someone at work handed me a much photocopied, handwritten and carbon copied stack of papers with the remark that since I liked Dr Who and reading, I might like to read it.
I took it home and started reading and it was so different and interesting - I was hooked. Despite the terrible handwriting, the story got me in and I adored it. It was Nyssa/The Keeper of Traken and as such blew my mind. After all the KOT was a statue and Nyssa 17 or younger, not a relationship possibility that (at the time) I would ever have imagined. The Dr was there being his usual self and it was all new and not finished...
I rushed back to work and found the person who gave me the story and begged for the rest. But it turned out her cousin hadn't finished it. The cousin however sent me a zine to read and the rest is history...
How did my flisters get into fanfic and fandom in general? I'd love to know :)
Anyway, last night when I couldn't access the Wireless from my computer I was reading on my iPod. Reading the internet on my iPod is always productive of exasperation as I get aggravated with having to make every page I go to larger and that when I do so, I end up hitting Copy everytime which dims the screen, and then I can't read anyway *pouts*. So I'm bitching about this and then I think 'self get a grip! Do you remember when...?'
The first time I ever read a fanfic was about 32 years ago, and boy was it different then.
I was 17 when someone at work handed me a much photocopied, handwritten and carbon copied stack of papers with the remark that since I liked Dr Who and reading, I might like to read it.
I took it home and started reading and it was so different and interesting - I was hooked. Despite the terrible handwriting, the story got me in and I adored it. It was Nyssa/The Keeper of Traken and as such blew my mind. After all the KOT was a statue and Nyssa 17 or younger, not a relationship possibility that (at the time) I would ever have imagined. The Dr was there being his usual self and it was all new and not finished...
I rushed back to work and found the person who gave me the story and begged for the rest. But it turned out her cousin hadn't finished it. The cousin however sent me a zine to read and the rest is history...
How did my flisters get into fanfic and fandom in general? I'd love to know :)
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Date: 2011-09-07 09:58 am (UTC)I know that feeling :) For me it was Blake's 7. I was completely addicted to it and joined the fan club and discovered they were selling things called 'zines. The idea of more stories about my favourite characters really intrigued me and so I bought one, and that was it really. The start of a lifelong addiction.
Remembering the days when you had to wait months for zines really makes the instant gratification of internet fanfic a thing of absolute wonder.
I get aggravated with having to make every page I go to larger and that when I do so, I end up hitting Copy everytime
I'm glad I'm not the only person that does that. It drives me crazy but I don't seem to be able to avoid doing it.
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Date: 2011-09-09 09:50 am (UTC)And you have the same iPod problem? That makes me feel a lot better :)
Also Avon!
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Date: 2011-09-07 11:14 am (UTC)Me? I was bored and online and figured I'd look into a website for Lost, as I'd just seen it advertised at the end of an episode. Not sure if it was on that particular site or a link off of that one, but I found fic and loved the idea. Immediately did a search for Firefly fic and spent the next few days reading every single piece I could find. Pretty sure that's also how I found LJ... through the
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Date: 2011-09-09 09:53 am (UTC)It's amazing how we find stuff isn't it?
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Date: 2011-09-07 04:44 pm (UTC)For me it was about 11 years ago. A TV show was airing old episodes, I got hooked, and wondered when it would return to airing new episodes. I googled (was it google back then? Who knows - anyway, it was a search engine) the show, stumbled across a slash fanfic site, thought, "Wait...what is this? OMG!), and that was that! I did write in some fandoms for a while, but Firefly was when everything really solidified for me...it was the show I didn't even know I was waiting for!
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Date: 2011-09-09 09:55 am (UTC)Firefly was the catalyst for a lot of us it seems. It's still my most loved fandom!
For me it was the X-Files, around '98. or '99...
Date: 2011-09-07 05:23 pm (UTC)I remember reading the fics, and realizing that this was something I could do too...
To say that changed everything for me would be a massive understatement...
Vandevere
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