So I have decided to dump all of my fandom ramblings here. I am hoping to update once a week on what I've been doing. I've been in fandom quite a while, for over thirty years at least, and I think I am just now getting my act together when it comes to what I want out of the experience. I recently participated in a fandom festival and it brought into focus what I really enjoy about fandom. I love writing and creating things, not only for others to consume but also for my own enjoyment. So in the spirit of trying to get this writing thing off to a good start, I thought I would regale everyone with my start in fandom.
A lot of my earliest fandoms were anime and manga, but I think my writing really took off with some of the television shows in the late 90s to the early 2000s. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, X-Files and Stargate SG1 were all shows that I enjoyed. I know that at the height of its popularity I had attended an X-Files convention and that was one of my first exposures to fan culture outside of my group of friends gathering for Friday night viewings. I think one of the first fandoms I ever wrote for was actually Firefly. Until then, I was mostly unaware of online forums and did not even know Livejournal existed. I wrote simply for my own satisfaction.
Somewhere around 2004, I went to an anime convention in Los Angeles and a wonderful group of fans introduced me to Fanfiction.net. At this point, I was writing quite a bit but did not feel confident about posting anything. It wasn't until I discovered Criminal Minds that I seriously considered putting my writing out there. Somewhere around 2008, I posted my first story on Fanfiction.net, and for the next four years, I pretty much posted into the void.
I'm not a social person, so most of my fan experience comes from online. Somewhere around 2010, I discovered tumblr and my exposure to ship wars and fandom meta began. At this point in my life, my depression and work demands were making me escape into the internet more and more. I binged my first six seasons of Supernatural and that was the when my writing took off in earnest. Then the purge of adult content happened on Fanfiction.net in 2012 and more than half of my writing was wiped. I briefly moved everything over to Adultfanfiction.net but I continued posting at Fanfiction.net with censored stories.
November of 2012 rolled around and I finished my first NaNoWriMo since I joined in 2009. I was ecstatic. It also introduced me to Archive of Our Own (AO3). I pretty much abandoned the other sites for AO3. I continued posting fanfiction blissfully ignoring fandom nonsense until about 2015. About this time tumblr nerfed my original url due to adult content. I was mildly unhappy but created the one I am currently at. Somewhere around then, I stopped writing altogether for about four years due to real-life issues. I abandoned posting on tumblr around two years later because it wasn't fun anymore.
So my latest re-entry into fandom was because of Good Omens. I had read the book when it was first released and I was delighted that they made it into a miniseries. Suddenly my interest was piqued again and I started catching up on my favourite shows like Supernatural. I became a bitter Sam girl overnight. I dove back into tumblr looking for fanart and wanting to reconnect with old fandoms. This is what lead me to my current situation. I began a massive crossover series and started to re-visit some of my older favourites in relation to that. In the process, I stumbled over the 007 Fest and my writing took off again.
Hopefully, this anecdote hasn't been too tedious. So for the next post, I was thinking of discussing my tentative writing schedule and current hyperfixations. The most recent indicator is always what I'm posting on tumblr. Plot bunnies abound, until next time y'all!
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