Old person meanderings ahead

[bookaddict43]

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 :)

Comments

[vae]

Gosh, you were well ahead of me. My first exposure to fandom was about 13 years ago, when one of my flatmates at uni introduced me to Robin of Sherwood. The internet was still in its infancy of Geocities and Angelfire, and we only had access to it in the university computer lab, but we found a discussion group for RoS on Yahoo Groups - and then a roleplay game for it. (She wrote a fantastic Sheriff.) After that, I didn't really know fandom existed until 2005. The year I broke my foot was the year I found Firefly, fanfic and slash, started writing, and a year later I went to my first con.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

I loved Robin of Sherwood! Which Robin was your fav? I had this whole life worked out for Nasir - but never wrote anything until Firefly.

[vae]

Oh, Michael Praed all the way. Though I did eventually warm to Jason Connery.

[bookaddict43.livejournal.com]

Me too for Michael Praed. I could never understand how he could join Dallas of all things :(

[vae]

I'm guessing money... but given how much fun they all appeared to be having in the gag reels, neither do I! (And gods I loved Nickolas Grace as the Sheriff)