Topic 5: First fandom

kassrachel asked: Reminisce about your first fandom: what did you love about it?

This is much harder to answer than anticipated, because my entry into fandom occurred stepwise across 15 or 20 years.

There was the first canon I obsessed over and daydreamed about and encountered ancillary storytelling for in the form of tie-in novels (Star Trek), the first for which I found fic online and engaged with my best friend in what I now recognize as RPing (Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles) [and I started writing stories for Trek and the VC around the same time, as a teen], the first for which I inhaled fic and couldn't figure out how to stop (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the first I wrote meta/acafan stuff about and went to cons for (Harry Potter), and the first fandom I fully participated in on LJ, including writing fic and commenting on other fans' posts (House).

When I asked kassrachel if she could help narrow down the definition of "fandom" in this case, she said: "First canon you fell in love with and wanted to tell stories about? First canon you actively wrote stories about? First canon about which you wrote stories which you shared with other fans?" Fortunately, for all of those, I think I can answer Star Trek.

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Miscellany, and topic 6 (dancey vid recs)

1. The busiest week of the month is over, and I can turn my attention to things like cooking and cleaning and my festivid. This of course means that I have lost inspiration for it. :( I need to either buckle down and see if this song will work after all, or find a new one. Somewhere.

2. In browsing arts markets and whatnot for Christmas-celebrating friends and family, I found this anatomy bracelet and bought it for myself. I don't tend to buy things for myself that aren't food, clothes or books, so it took some convincing, but I really like it. (I did get two used cookbooks for a few dollars that are as much technique as recipes: one on salad greens and dressings, and one on chicken.) I also now have, after being financially careful since moving up here, a TV! It is a real, grownup TV. I have never had a grownup TV; only a little portable one in college and the old CRT in my last apartment. No cable package, but no need just yet since it connects to the DVD player and Netflix. With HDMI. ~magic hands~

3. Speaking of medicine, which we were doing at the beginning of that list item. What does the spleen do? (Which led to a catch-up lesson in pop culture in the form of What does the fox say?, which made a lot more sense once I learned its origin story.)

4. Speaking of video recs. bitter_crimson asked: fanvid recs! hmmm maybe some fun dancey vids?

Funnily enough, I haven't watched a whole lot of vids these last few months; right now I should be asking you for recs. But I have loved many a dancey vid in the past, and here are some:

• Blue by kuwdora (multi)
• Filthy Mind by sol_se (multi)
• Battleflag by darlulu (SGA)
• I've Been to a Marvelous Party by charmax (multi/costume dramas)
• The Pirate Song by flummery (Crusoe)
• Last Friday Night by estalita11 (TOS)
• Tonight (I'm F**king You) by talitha78 (White Collar)
• Feel It by milly (So You Think You Can Dance)
• Open Up by boom-queen (The Fifth Element)
• Stayin' Low by hollywoodgrrl (Alien series)
• Zoolander and I Know It by cherryice (Zoolander)
• Titanium by giandujakiss (Wonder Woman)
• Everybody by kuwdora (Star Trek)
• Ride to California by bradcpu (Avengers)
• Run Boy Run by hollywoodgrrl (Game of Thrones)
• Paul McCartney by jarrow (Will & Grace)
• And of course Starships! (Monochromatic Remix) by jetpack-monkey (multi)