Snowflake Challenge -- day twelve
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turpsDay 12
What makes you fannish? And by that we mean, what is it about a tv show/movie/book/band/podcast/etc that takes you from, "Yeah, I like that," to "I need MOAR!!!" Is it a character? A plotline? The pretty? Subtext that’s just screaming to be acknowledged?
In your own space, tell us what it is that gets you to cross that line into fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Simple answer, the characters, I've always been a OTC person and every active fandom I've been in has had one characters I've adored above all others.
My first obsession. Tom Paris. Oh how I loved that man. I was lucky enough to meet and get my photo taken with Robert Duncan McNeil at a Voyager convention, and how I managed to stay upright I'll never know.
My next big obsession was Blair Sandburg. The Sentinel had my attention for a very long time, and Blair was a huge part of that. I started writing in this fandom, posted on mailing lists and created my first community withcastalie
This next one overlapped with my popslash days for a while, but Brennan Mulwray. My beautiful mutant, he was the start of my mega busy fannish time, writing, creating archives, I was all over the place fannishly and enjoyed every moment.
Then came my move into rps, which started with Kevin from Backstreet Boys.
And because of Kevin I found Chris Kirkpatrick. Nsync were never big in England so I knew nothing about them until I read a Kevin/Chris cross, and became very interested in this Chris person. Soon Chris was my everything, and popslash was where I juggled multiple comms and challenges, wrote and made some of the best friends ever.
I was in popslash for many many years, and then one day I was watching a video on Kerrang. It was this band called Fall Out Boy, and included this guy call Pete who made me sit up and think, hello!
Then, much like Kevin and Chris above, I read a Pete/Mikey story, got intrigued by this Mikey person, and that was it. I fell and fell hard, and still haven't got up.
So yes, a lot of it is I need to fall for a character to be fannish, but that's not everything. I mean, I read in lots of other fandoms and enjoy characters but never had that final push to be fannish. Reid in Criminal Minds, Greg in CSI, Tony in NCIS, Nick in Poltergiest the Legacy, most shows I enjoy have a character I love above all others.
I think in the end that final fannish push can come from those around me. I'm much more likely to be involved fannishly and creatively if I have friends doing the same thing, even if that's just one person like in the Magic Mike fandom where onlysperrywink seems to share the interest.
Honestly, I doubt I could fully explain what makes me think, need more! But, on a very simplistic and shallow level, connecting with a characters is a hell of a start, and if that needing more is amplified by those around me, well, that's all the better.
What makes you fannish? And by that we mean, what is it about a tv show/movie/book/band/podcast/etc that takes you from, "Yeah, I like that," to "I need MOAR!!!" Is it a character? A plotline? The pretty? Subtext that’s just screaming to be acknowledged?
In your own space, tell us what it is that gets you to cross that line into fandom. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
Simple answer, the characters, I've always been a OTC person and every active fandom I've been in has had one characters I've adored above all others.
My first obsession. Tom Paris. Oh how I loved that man. I was lucky enough to meet and get my photo taken with Robert Duncan McNeil at a Voyager convention, and how I managed to stay upright I'll never know.
My next big obsession was Blair Sandburg. The Sentinel had my attention for a very long time, and Blair was a huge part of that. I started writing in this fandom, posted on mailing lists and created my first community with
castalie
This next one overlapped with my popslash days for a while, but Brennan Mulwray. My beautiful mutant, he was the start of my mega busy fannish time, writing, creating archives, I was all over the place fannishly and enjoyed every moment.
Then came my move into rps, which started with Kevin from Backstreet Boys.
And because of Kevin I found Chris Kirkpatrick. Nsync were never big in England so I knew nothing about them until I read a Kevin/Chris cross, and became very interested in this Chris person. Soon Chris was my everything, and popslash was where I juggled multiple comms and challenges, wrote and made some of the best friends ever.
I was in popslash for many many years, and then one day I was watching a video on Kerrang. It was this band called Fall Out Boy, and included this guy call Pete who made me sit up and think, hello!
Then, much like Kevin and Chris above, I read a Pete/Mikey story, got intrigued by this Mikey person, and that was it. I fell and fell hard, and still haven't got up.
So yes, a lot of it is I need to fall for a character to be fannish, but that's not everything. I mean, I read in lots of other fandoms and enjoy characters but never had that final push to be fannish. Reid in Criminal Minds, Greg in CSI, Tony in NCIS, Nick in Poltergiest the Legacy, most shows I enjoy have a character I love above all others.
I think in the end that final fannish push can come from those around me. I'm much more likely to be involved fannishly and creatively if I have friends doing the same thing, even if that's just one person like in the Magic Mike fandom where only
sperrywink seems to share the interest.Honestly, I doubt I could fully explain what makes me think, need more! But, on a very simplistic and shallow level, connecting with a characters is a hell of a start, and if that needing more is amplified by those around me, well, that's all the better.
