Fandom Meme 28
Aug. 13th, 2021 07:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
osprey_archer28. How did you first get into fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote fic for?
Didn’t we already have this question? I guess technically the earlier question was “What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?”, which seems a bit more inclusive, actually, as someone might be an avid gif-maker, say, but not a fanfic writer.
Actually, it occurs to me that I answered that question incorrectly: my first fandom contribution (if it can be termed that) was a Fearless fansite that a friend and I started on Yahoo (I think) when we were in junior high. We emailed fanfic writers on fanfiction.net and asked if we could archive our fic there, which in retrospect sounds gauche, but a surprisingly large number of them said yes.
I also remember being deeply puzzled by the sprinkling of Gaia/Heather fics on ffn, because Gaia and Heather hated each other in the books (at least for most of the series, they do reach a rapprochement later on), and little baby me Did Not Understand why you would ship two people who so clearly despised each other. It just didn’t compute. And also if you are going to ship Gaia with a girl, I mean, Mary is RIGHT THERE.
But! Going back to the first part of this question, “how did you first get into fanfic?” Baby’s First Fanfic was Tamora Pierce fic, specifically Wildmage fic, on vividly colored Geocities sites, although I believe I stumbled on fanfiction.net fairly quickly. The first fic I remember reading was a Wildmage/Moulin Rouge fusion with Daine as a prostitute; this was probably not the first fic I actually read, but it stuck in my mind because the idea of changing the whole premise of the story like that broke my tiny brain just as much as Gaia/Heather.
Didn’t we already have this question? I guess technically the earlier question was “What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?”, which seems a bit more inclusive, actually, as someone might be an avid gif-maker, say, but not a fanfic writer.
Actually, it occurs to me that I answered that question incorrectly: my first fandom contribution (if it can be termed that) was a Fearless fansite that a friend and I started on Yahoo (I think) when we were in junior high. We emailed fanfic writers on fanfiction.net and asked if we could archive our fic there, which in retrospect sounds gauche, but a surprisingly large number of them said yes.
I also remember being deeply puzzled by the sprinkling of Gaia/Heather fics on ffn, because Gaia and Heather hated each other in the books (at least for most of the series, they do reach a rapprochement later on), and little baby me Did Not Understand why you would ship two people who so clearly despised each other. It just didn’t compute. And also if you are going to ship Gaia with a girl, I mean, Mary is RIGHT THERE.
But! Going back to the first part of this question, “how did you first get into fanfic?” Baby’s First Fanfic was Tamora Pierce fic, specifically Wildmage fic, on vividly colored Geocities sites, although I believe I stumbled on fanfiction.net fairly quickly. The first fic I remember reading was a Wildmage/Moulin Rouge fusion with Daine as a prostitute; this was probably not the first fic I actually read, but it stuck in my mind because the idea of changing the whole premise of the story like that broke my tiny brain just as much as Gaia/Heather.
