Fandom Story Time, everyone!

[amelialourdes]

All right, I was having a very lively discussion with my friends and we started getting into our fandom origin stories. I want to know your fandom origin stories. What was the fandom that got you into fandom? When did you start discovering fic? Discussions? Did you become involved in a message board? Were you on a ListServ? Was the Internet around when you were in the beginning stages? I want to know everything. Go on. I'm waiting.

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[ghettogreta.livejournal.com]

*nsync was my first. Well, the first I was aware of. I remember when I was younger, I wrote this entire book which was basically a rewrite of 90210, like, the same characters with different names, adding a new one that I made up. So I guess in my head, I've been writing longer. But it was the *nsync boys that eventually sucked me into popslash. And back then, there were message lists or something. It wasn't exactly a board? But it was an email list, and you posted to the list? I don't really remember, because then my friends that I met through there, we all went in on a website and then lj burst onto the scene and the lists were sort of obsolete.