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Fandoms Question Meme (1-4)
2 Mar 2018 02:28 pmI picked this up somewhere and thought it might be fun to do an old-style meme (although I think this was probably designed as a tumblr ask thing, but hey: there are still no meme police!) and have a reason to talk about fannish things, which is, after all, why I'm here.
(I did the first four together, because they're quite similar and predictable answers are predictable.)
1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?
Doctor Who! I first watched it in 1988 (last ten minutes of The Happiness Patrol, my mind was both deepened and boggled and love for Seven was instantaneous), I bought Doctor Who Magazine from about 91 or 92, I thought up fanfic in my head, and then in 1995 I went to university and there they had the internet and newsnet and I discovered rec.arts.drwho, and, more importantly, alt.drwho.creative, and though I had a big internet/fandom gap again afterwards, that was it, really. I came back to finish a historical fic with Four, Sarah, and Harry I'd started in 1998 before the Internet famine, but having returned to post it in 2007, I discovered the Teaspoon and LJ, and I was in love, basically.
2. What is your latest fandom?
A difficult question. In the sense this meme probably means, as in a fandom where I'm really involved in lots of things, probably still Doctor Who, but I like writing for anything that takes my fancy. It usually is old TV things that I've been watching, but I can't seem to help that. (I think it takes the pressure off to write for things where you're not writing something ten other people have already done, which just seems pointless).
But it is lonely and I should probably try harder at modern fandoms; it just never seems to work out. I'm too far behind when I watch them, or I can't ship just one thing and everybody else is all lined up in shipping teams on tumblr, writing fluff.
The last new thing I wrote for is When the Boat Comes In, but I don't think I'd say I was in the fandom, even if there was one. I just wanted to write a thing, and so I did.
3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?
Doctor Who, but I have also had a lot of fun in Blake's 7 and Sapphire and Steel. Most of my other fandoms are either too small or too big to work like that and so I'm not properly in them.
It also doesn't help that I can't really tumblr properly. I have a tumblr and I have fun there sometimes and have met a handful of very nice people, and it does some things very well, but I really preferred the varying levels of choice and filtering journalling and comms gave me, compared to newsgroups, forums, chatrooms, and now tumblr, which despite some filtering here and there are rather all-or-nothing in terms of public or private, which I've always found off-putting.
4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?
Since, in my case, this mostly means "I wrote a thing for it one time", then, no, I don't. And of the fandoms I've properly been in, that's mainly the three above and I certainly couldn't regret being in them, not even the worst corners of DW fandom that I've spent 20 years hiding from. I've made friends, read and written fic, and learned new things from them all.
( Full list of questions under the cut )
(I did the first four together, because they're quite similar and predictable answers are predictable.)
1. What was the first fandom you got involved in?
Doctor Who! I first watched it in 1988 (last ten minutes of The Happiness Patrol, my mind was both deepened and boggled and love for Seven was instantaneous), I bought Doctor Who Magazine from about 91 or 92, I thought up fanfic in my head, and then in 1995 I went to university and there they had the internet and newsnet and I discovered rec.arts.drwho, and, more importantly, alt.drwho.creative, and though I had a big internet/fandom gap again afterwards, that was it, really. I came back to finish a historical fic with Four, Sarah, and Harry I'd started in 1998 before the Internet famine, but having returned to post it in 2007, I discovered the Teaspoon and LJ, and I was in love, basically.
2. What is your latest fandom?
A difficult question. In the sense this meme probably means, as in a fandom where I'm really involved in lots of things, probably still Doctor Who, but I like writing for anything that takes my fancy. It usually is old TV things that I've been watching, but I can't seem to help that. (I think it takes the pressure off to write for things where you're not writing something ten other people have already done, which just seems pointless).
But it is lonely and I should probably try harder at modern fandoms; it just never seems to work out. I'm too far behind when I watch them, or I can't ship just one thing and everybody else is all lined up in shipping teams on tumblr, writing fluff.
The last new thing I wrote for is When the Boat Comes In, but I don't think I'd say I was in the fandom, even if there was one. I just wanted to write a thing, and so I did.
3. What is the best fandom you’ve ever been involved in?
Doctor Who, but I have also had a lot of fun in Blake's 7 and Sapphire and Steel. Most of my other fandoms are either too small or too big to work like that and so I'm not properly in them.
It also doesn't help that I can't really tumblr properly. I have a tumblr and I have fun there sometimes and have met a handful of very nice people, and it does some things very well, but I really preferred the varying levels of choice and filtering journalling and comms gave me, compared to newsgroups, forums, chatrooms, and now tumblr, which despite some filtering here and there are rather all-or-nothing in terms of public or private, which I've always found off-putting.
4. Do you regret getting involved in any fandoms?
Since, in my case, this mostly means "I wrote a thing for it one time", then, no, I don't. And of the fandoms I've properly been in, that's mainly the three above and I certainly couldn't regret being in them, not even the worst corners of DW fandom that I've spent 20 years hiding from. I've made friends, read and written fic, and learned new things from them all.
( Full list of questions under the cut )
