Snowflake Challenge 2: Fannish History
Jan. 3rd, 2020 11:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arias_hollowWhile I have always gotten very actively into whatever my favorite stories were at the time (which for child!me was the Teen Titans cartoon, Avatar the Last Airbender, and the Harry Potter books. Spirited Away was another early obsession for me), I first started dabbling in fandom when I was about ten and obsessing over Pokemon (the original anime) and Powerpuff Girls/Powerpuff Girls Z. That was when I first started looking at, hesitantly, fan art and fanfic (hesitantly only because I had been warned about how much Adult Content existed in fandom spaces). Mostly though, I just saved a million screencaps of my favorite characters and then edited them with picnic.
(Other early series for me was X-Men (the cartoon) and some Batman: The Animated Series and The Justice League.)
Middle School was when I really got into it though with Fullmetal Alchemist, and soon after that Death Note and Cardcaptor Sakura. That was when I joined tumblr, which was when I finally took the deep Plunge into fandom. Though I think one of my earlier deep plunges into fanfiction specifically was with Thor (2011) and The Avengers (2012). I was deeply obsessed with that and read a dizzying amount of fanfic, especially for Loki since he was my fave, read every ounce of meta I could dig up, I even watched the commentary for the first Thor film and watched actor interviews which was unusual for me. When the second Thor film was announced I checked regularly for updates on any information or trailers, though I had some issues with the final results, I still enjoyed the second film and it gave me more ideas and metas to read. It's safe to say that at that point anime/manga and the mcu were some of my biggest obsessions in general. (After Ragnarok came and set fire to my crops and betrayed me I haven't really had the heart for the mcu as much, though I still watch all the new films and probably will continue to do so, but man the early obsession was Great. Plus, because I often listened to ccs music while reading loki meta/fic, I came to associate the first ending theme of the anime with Loki and that still amuses me, so)
Also, not sure exactly where this fits in, but at some point in the teen years I got really into vocaloid music. I didn't really fan over the personas/characters of the vocaloids as much as other people did, but boy howdy did I listen to a LOT of vocaloid, which definitely had an impact on my music identity (I like a lot of other styles, but that was My Thing along with game/film soundtracks and Disney songs, though that might have crept in a little later).
Another High Impact series I read as a teen was D.Gray-Man, and later there was the Good Omens tv series and more recently The Untamed. Eventually I started moving to Dreamwidth and Pillowfort since tumblr was/is getting more broken all the time, though I'm still definitely on there. At some point, probably also in high school, I started reviewing stuff after I finished reading/watching it. I haven't been exactly consistent with it, but even now I try to keep it up when I remember to and write my thoughts out after I have finished something.
I also had a distinct Super Smash Brothers fixation, more than once actually, I even went as far as creating dark mirrior oc versions of my favorite characters and giving them full on personalities and backstories, which was a ton of fun. The few other series I actually wrote some fanfic for was Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle (that obsession was LONG LASTING), Star Trek (TOS, TNG, and DS9, though I only wrote for the latter), The Untamed, and BBC Merlin (which is a series I was super obsessed with but also have a love/hate relationship with).
I finally got to go to my first con when I attended KuroNekoCon last year, which was absolutely fantastic, I went all three days, managed to buy a few souvenirs, played video games, and all around had a great time. I definitely look forward to going to more cons in the future!
I think that pretty much catches us up to the present. I don't have a clear cut obsession at the moment, though I'm always looking for a new one. So I guess we'll see how that goes!
(Other early series for me was X-Men (the cartoon) and some Batman: The Animated Series and The Justice League.)
Middle School was when I really got into it though with Fullmetal Alchemist, and soon after that Death Note and Cardcaptor Sakura. That was when I joined tumblr, which was when I finally took the deep Plunge into fandom. Though I think one of my earlier deep plunges into fanfiction specifically was with Thor (2011) and The Avengers (2012). I was deeply obsessed with that and read a dizzying amount of fanfic, especially for Loki since he was my fave, read every ounce of meta I could dig up, I even watched the commentary for the first Thor film and watched actor interviews which was unusual for me. When the second Thor film was announced I checked regularly for updates on any information or trailers, though I had some issues with the final results, I still enjoyed the second film and it gave me more ideas and metas to read. It's safe to say that at that point anime/manga and the mcu were some of my biggest obsessions in general. (After Ragnarok came and set fire to my crops and betrayed me I haven't really had the heart for the mcu as much, though I still watch all the new films and probably will continue to do so, but man the early obsession was Great. Plus, because I often listened to ccs music while reading loki meta/fic, I came to associate the first ending theme of the anime with Loki and that still amuses me, so)
Also, not sure exactly where this fits in, but at some point in the teen years I got really into vocaloid music. I didn't really fan over the personas/characters of the vocaloids as much as other people did, but boy howdy did I listen to a LOT of vocaloid, which definitely had an impact on my music identity (I like a lot of other styles, but that was My Thing along with game/film soundtracks and Disney songs, though that might have crept in a little later).
Another High Impact series I read as a teen was D.Gray-Man, and later there was the Good Omens tv series and more recently The Untamed. Eventually I started moving to Dreamwidth and Pillowfort since tumblr was/is getting more broken all the time, though I'm still definitely on there. At some point, probably also in high school, I started reviewing stuff after I finished reading/watching it. I haven't been exactly consistent with it, but even now I try to keep it up when I remember to and write my thoughts out after I have finished something.
I also had a distinct Super Smash Brothers fixation, more than once actually, I even went as far as creating dark mirrior oc versions of my favorite characters and giving them full on personalities and backstories, which was a ton of fun. The few other series I actually wrote some fanfic for was Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle (that obsession was LONG LASTING), Star Trek (TOS, TNG, and DS9, though I only wrote for the latter), The Untamed, and BBC Merlin (which is a series I was super obsessed with but also have a love/hate relationship with).
I finally got to go to my first con when I attended KuroNekoCon last year, which was absolutely fantastic, I went all three days, managed to buy a few souvenirs, played video games, and all around had a great time. I definitely look forward to going to more cons in the future!
I think that pretty much catches us up to the present. I don't have a clear cut obsession at the moment, though I'm always looking for a new one. So I guess we'll see how that goes!
