Fandom Snowflake Challenge #2

[lucymorningstar]

To know where we are, we must know where we’ve been. Fanlore keeps up with the history of fandom as a whole, but what is your personal fannish history? How did you get here and now in fandom? What detours, curves, or shortcuts did you take in your journey? What were your first influences? Your most important influences?

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I grew up fannishly. My parents were huge fans of the Chronicles Of Narnia, my siblings and I are named after the characters - Peter, Susan, and myself Lucy (the Pevensies), Esme is a feminine form of Edmund (Pevensie) and Polly (from The Magician's Nephew). I grew up with the stories, and with the BBC Adaptations in the late 90s. I spent many summers as a child trying to walk through wardrobes and and talk to animals. I'm still devastated I've never found a Faun.

Like many a child in the UK, I grew up watching Doctor Who in the 80s, and the original Star Wars movies on VHS. We used to make up and act out our own stories, often combining Narnia with Doctor Who and Star Wars, and Enid Blyton characters and often featuring a Psammead. It was only growing older that I found out this wasn't 'normal' and that I was 'too old' for an imaginary friend (although, it was later discovered that this imaginary best friend was a delusion. As I went into the 90s, and was watching Star Trek and The X-Files, I'd still imagine the stories - but at this point I don't know whether or not this was the not being able to tell the difference between fiction and reality because of undiagnosed schizoaffective. And, to be quite honest, I don't care. I loved it at the time.

I've always loved watching sci-fi shows and movies, and superhero/comic book movies through the 90s and into the 00s, and had loved how over the last decade its become more mainstream and when you mention things like Iron Man or Wolverine, people know what you're talking about.

I only discovered online fandom about 4 years ago. I was looking up the show Lucifer which I'd just fallen in love with - and through googling, I found Twitter, Tumblr and Dreamwidth. I'm not really active in any fandoms but I enjoy reading fanfic for Stargate SG-1 (Jack/Daniel) and Stargate: Atlantis (McShep or Shex) and have written a couple of SG-1 fics. I've also started reading Good Omens fic and started looking at Prodigal Son - but not really sure what I'm looking for fic,wise.

I think my main fandoms now are Marvel movies, Stargate, Star Wars, Good Omens, Prodigal Son, Doctor Who, and Chronicles Of Narnia.

Comments

[hamimi_fk]

I think it's really kind of adorable your parents named yourself and your siblings after characters from their favorite series! I don't have any current plans to have my own biological kids but if I did, I already have Artemis picked for a girl as she is my favorite Greek mythology character and Archer for a boy because Artemis' weapon of choice is the bow. As well, my nephew that I raise, is named Mason. I'm not 100% positive why my sister picked this name but a fee months before he was born, someone suggested it would be cool if he had the same initials as our mom (MTA) so we were all coming up with 'M' names. The only one I mentioned, and honestly could think of, was Mason which was the last name of one of my favorite video game characters from the Silent Hill series (Heather Mason). I don't know if she took it from my suggestion or from something else but I love it.

And I had immediately thought of the show Lucifer when I saw your screenname! I wondered if there was a connection there lol.

[seleneheart]

I think reading fic counts as being active in fandom! Like the stories can't exist without those of us reading them?

[buggyfiction]

^this

[buggyfiction]

I used to imagine the same things with different fandoms. Telling stories in my head, talking to characters while cycling to school, etc.

I sometimes still do it.

Then again, I was undiagnosed with Aspergers until I was 26, bullied and lonely... *snorts*

[zombiezoo84]

I remember my friends and I as children in the early 90s, playing x-men outside, there would be three of us, one would sort of DM the game and spot the Sentinels.. some of the most fun I had outside. I was always Gambit. I think you would not have picked on us :)