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[nny]

For the record, something I want to say before it's no longer true:

I have been in fandom and a slasher for ten years, now. Been posting stories online for five. And it has been the most amazing ride.

If you're in fandom, how long's it been for you?

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[tropes.livejournal.com]

12 years, been writing fic for...17?

@_@

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*grins* I've been writing stories as long as I've known about fandom, I just thought I'd get in trouble if I was posting under the age of 18. XD

[kenovay.livejournal.com]

Six years, I reckon. I dunno, I think I started when I was twelve. Hmmm.

[tropes.livejournal.com]

Oh well, I didn't know that my stories were fanfic until i was 14, and I never posted anything till like 2002, so. =))

[batyatoon]

About ... dayumn. Over ten years now.

(GARGOYLES FIRST FANDOM REPRESENT.)

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I arrived on the edges of LJ fandom about three years ago, started posting drabbles in Dark is Rising communities almost three years ago, and really settled in after you all invented Milliways. It's been fantastic, but sometimes I wonder what I'd do with my time if I didn't spend it on LJ and AIM talking about children's fantasy with all these wonderful people.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*grins* mine was X-Files. See, I thought 'Mulder/Krycek' in a search engine would bring up stuff about Mulder OR Krycek.

XD

[villainny.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU SO YOUNG! DAMMIT!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

Aah, the fictional Life Without Fandom. I don't believe it exists.

[kenovay.livejournal.com]

*youngs about*

[villainny.livejournal.com]

*points at icon*

[kenovay.livejournal.com]

Oh, mature.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

I have been writing THE MOST APPALLING fanfic online since December 2001, so nearly five years. I have been writing fanfic since I was eleven, so *mumblemumble13yearsmumble*. In terms on online fen I was musicfen before bookfen, otherwise it'd be seven years.

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

... I started RPing Dragonriders of Pern stuff when I was eight.

So I've been in my first fandom for ten years.

Holy crap.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I may be getting old but I can be immature FOREVER.

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

*thinks*

Wow, ten years. Discovered when I was 12 with the Sailor Moon fandom (shut up), discovered and then stepped away from slash after a few years in Gundam Wing and Clamp and scary, scary Gargoyles slasher ficcer stuff, and only posting stuff after getting into Milliways two years ago. Wow, I've been around a while.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I never came up with fanfic by myself. All the stuff I wrote before I was in fandom was original. For... a limited definition of 'original'. I mean, you can tell I was HEAVILY influenced by stuff I'd read. XD

[villainny.livejournal.com]

.......woah. Dude, I salute you. I didn't even know what the internets WERE at eight!

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Heee, I will not mock you for your fandoms. If I'd known what the internets were when I was wee, I probably would have started out in...

actually, probably Eerie, Indiana, now I think about it. XD

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Outing myself as an old lady. ::cheeky grin::

I started APA-hacking for the Minas Tirith Evening Star back in 1972, when I was 14. Been working convention art shows since, um, 1975? Filk-writing and fic-writing and working con security since shortly after that. But I only learned of GO fandom in February of this year, and have been writing A/C on lower_tadfield since then ...

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I got into GO fandom through bravecows' fic, and I have no idea what took me so long. I mean... it's not even subtext. Clearly I am teh blind.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! GO has been a favourite book of mine since it was first published, and as you say, it's not even subtext! Yet I didn't know about the online fandom for it, and I couldn't make the intuitive leap to their relationship by myself. (I've shipped a lot of couples over the years, but A/C is clearly my OTP, end of search.)

It was sff_corgi who told me about lower_tadfield and milliways for my birthday ... She had no idea what she was unleashing upon the world. ;]

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

My teachers used to tell me that they knew whether I'd been reading the Hardy Boys or the Discworld books each day by the way I wrote my stories. I don't think I've grown out of that, either. WOES.

[nepheliad.livejournal.com]

My mother curated the New York Branch Library, and I had no RL friends because I hated people my age.

And then I found this game (http://www.harpers-tale.com).

Rest? History.

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Huh. It must be going on... five, six years? Gosh, that seems like a long time. (And, naturally, I wouldn't trade a minute of it for anything. *smishes fandom*)

[rowanberries.livejournal.com]

Nine years, I reckon, online for five.

Yes, I'm a rank amateur.

[schiarire.livejournal.com]

6 years in fandom, 5.5. as a slasher. I was originally a fanartist. I didn't really start writing fic until 3 years ago. In fact, I still write very little.

[dramawench.livejournal.com]

It hasn't been nearly that long for me, mostly because I didn't have the internets until college. But I have been in fandom since 2001 (first was X-Files). And have loved every minute.

[batyatoon]

They didn't HAVE internets when I was eight.

[batyatoon]

... did I know you were in Gargoyles fandom?

I don't think I did.

[skygiants]

. . . my very first self-insert Mary Sues, at age eight, went like this:

a.) Get a notebook.
b.) Start writing out fulltext of stories that I liked.
c.) Insert myself in at relevant points. (As in: "They came down the stairs. AND BECCA CAME TOO.")
d.) PROFIT!

Um. Didn't post anything online until I was - sixteen, seventeen, though. So, four years.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...okay, that's the most adorable thing ever. Seriously.

[minkhollow]

Online-wise, seven years as of next Februaryish. I wrote my first fic some months before that, but (a) it was a different fandom and (b) I had the good sense not to post it anywhere.
Daria fandom was a good place to start, I think. Big enough to absorb the dreck, but also small enough that people offered to help me get better. XD

[silveraspen]

Oooh, you learned different REALLY fast, didn't you. *laughing*

XF was my first online fandom, really, with true fandom experience. So that's ten years, I guess.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Thirty two years. Started young. You young whipper snappers don't know what it was like back in the old days. We could have any fandom we liked, as long as we only liked Kirk/Spock, and fanzines cost $35 each! And we had to walk through the snow with no shoes on to get them!

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Uphill both ways, blizzards summer and winter! Modems that used a rotary dial! And you tell that to kids these days, and they dunt believe you! (34 years for me. Oog ....)

[wickedtrue.livejournal.com]

I do not know! It was on the fringes for I was still wee and for some reason, only thought anime could be online. I used to know one of the guys over in the...what was it called? The thing where they were writing additional seasons? It was fun. That and ah. Brooklyn/Lexington fanfic I read once by accident scared in to thinking all those people were nutty. I remember that.

[cyanei.livejournal.com]

Hm, I was twelve, so ... coming up on six years? I've been a slasher all my life. I have only posted a total of eight stories, or something, so I don't even count myself as a writer. One piece of fanart, in DCU fandom, many pieces drawn but never posted.

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Man, I am all inexperienced and shit.

I wrote my first fanfic (before I knew what fanfic was) when I was...fourteen? fifteen?...and didn't discover online fandom until I was almost sixteen. And started posting stuff a few months after that.

So let's call it about four years.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

Wow, long time! I've been in fandom for... *think* 8 years, dude, longer than I thought. 6 of those I've been a slasher. I've been posting stories online for 7, but it's only the last 4 or 5 that I've started writing more and actually finishing things and so on.

[tammaiya.livejournal.com]

(I started writing when I was 7 or 8-ish, but I don't think it was fanfiction then.)

[kleenexwoman.livejournal.com]

Ever since I was in 6th grade (so...nine years, I think). I started with a terrible Pokemon/Star Trek crossover and never looked back.

[vivien]

Heh, I didn't have it till I was 28. How sad is that?

[vivien]

Well, there was no Internet back in the dark days of my youth, but when I was 11 I wrote Mary Sue Star Wars fic which then led to a brief phase Romana-Dr. Who stories but was then trumped by an explosion of LotR Mary Sue fic written in runes. *facepalm*

But Internet fandom didn't start till 1998 when I stumbled upon X-Files fanfic. Mulder/Scully, baby. So only eight years for me.

[gramarye1971]

*thinks* I first had a decent Internet connection in mid-1998 or so, which would put my start in fandom (Sailormoon, with USENET groups) around late 1998 or early 1999. First story was posted online late in 1999.

Fandom progression (based on stories written) would probably read as follows: Sailormoon --> Utena --> Harry Potter --> Dark Is Rising. You could throw Yes, Minister in there as well, since it's my other big-ticket fandom even if I've never really done proper fic for it.

Going on seven years now. Good heavens. ^_^

[vimeslady.livejournal.com]

Started writing hurt/comfort Kirk/Spock when I was nine. Wrote my first explicit slash with Starsky/Hutch when I was 25; I thought I was the only person in the world who would consider anything like that, and that I was going to hell for it as soon as my ex-husband found out and killed me. Finally discovered fandom when I was 43, with Quantum Leap. This was when I found out that what I was writing was called 'fanfic' and that other people did the same thing. Finally published my first online fic in early 2002. I consume A/C, Snarry, and Snupin, but only produce Discworld fics.

[batyatoon]

Heee. No, there was actually startlingly little slash in that fandom.

The additional seasons -- that'd be The Gargoyles Saga? I was on the writing-and-editing staff for that, for the first two years.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

And I remember the first big fandom kerfuffle I saw... when new fandoms first came in! Oh noes! Professionals, Starsky & Hutch, MUNCLE! They were going to SPLIT FANDOM! NOOOOOOOOOO

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes! And TruFen were book-based, while these new "media fen" were some sort of fringefen, really, much like gamers or that new SCA thing ... ;D