Fannishness

[stgulik]

This has been going around the journals, so I thought I'd take a crack at it. Prepare to be edified!

First TV show I had self-insertion fantasies about:
Hey, you young people? Just skip to the next question. Thanks! ...Are they gone? Okay. The rest of you, take your mind back, back, back ...
to 1971, and the live-action Saturday morning show H.R. Pufinstuf. The main character was a boy named Jimmy (who was also the Artful Dodger in Oliver!). I was fiercely in love with Jimmy, and would re-imagine every episode with me in it as Jimmy's partner in adventure.


Here he is. Wasn't he dreamy?

First fandom in which I interacted with other fans:
It must have been Star Trek: Next Generation. I was excited to find like-minded fans on AOL's bulletin boards in the mid-90s.

Pairing in the first slash fanfiction I read:
Harry/Draco, but I don't remember the author. I stumbled across it at random on the internet - never before knew such a thing was being written! (You'd think I would have run across stuff like that on AOL. Hmm.)

First RPS/RPF I read:
I've never heard of this! Thank goodness for Google.

First fanfiction I read that made me think, 'YES, this is exactly the kind of fanfiction I'd like to write...':
teddyradiator's Spellbreaker, for sure. I know that sounds brown-nosey, but it's just a historical fact.

First time I remember getting really turned on by a fic:
The first time? Well, that Harry/Draco thing was very hot ...

First OTP:
Hearkening back to my ST:TNG days, I was deeply committed to the pairing of Deanna Troi and Lt. Worf. I know, right? What was I thinking? But I can't exactly take the high ground on the matter, because here I am today, actively jealous of Nymphadora Tonks because my dear Lupin went and married her on some misguided impulse, even though she is clearly all wrong for him ... etc.

First RPS/F OTP:
Again, I've never heard of RPF! You really put real people together in a fiction? Like Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin? Seems weirdly invasive. And yes, I know how ironic that sounds.

First fannish friend I met in person:
I've never met a fannish friend in real life, unless you count RL friends who also happened to keep up with the sci-fi shows I watch. I assume you mean a deeper fannishness than that. And the answer is never.

First character I formally roleplayed:
I think it was Mary Poppins, and I was seven. I put on all my best, practically-perfect clothes - black tights and pointy shoes, some wool dress, a coat, gloves, a little hat, and! most crucially! an umbrella! I would "fly" around the house and then swoop down on some unsuspecting soul. Oftentimes I would quote the movie or stare disapprovingly. Sometimes I would sing. It was serious business; those who laughed would get stared at most disapprovingly.

What do you think?

Comments

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

We need to get you to a con!

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

LOL ~ it's a wonder that hasn't happened yet.

[teddyradiator.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jules, for the shout-out. You always have a way of doing or saying the right thing when I need it at the right time. And I appreciate it so much.

[arcanetrivia]

I'll see your Jimmy, and raise you a couple of young Canadian heartthrobs:

Alasdair Gillis



Adam Reid

(or, you know, the young Paul McCartney...)

Yep, some of the first TV crushes I remember were from that gripping drama, You Can't Do That on Television.

Oh me.

(Y'know, though, I wound up marrying a Canadian... hmmm...)

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of "You Can't Do That On Television" in years! Yes, you too had good taste in young heartthrobs.