Snowflake Challenge #2

[craterdweller]

My fannish timeline

Does anyone even remember usenet and listservs? Or even Yahoo! groups? Well, my first fandoms were the X-Files and Star Trek:TNG on those archaic mediums. At first I just read fanfic- then I discovered x-files fan vids. One of my favorites was all the yummy X-Files men set to "It's Raining Men". That got me briefly into trying my own hand using adobe premiere elements. I made about a dozen Picard/Crusher vids and posted them to LJ where I made some lifelong friends. I also had my first exposure to the toxic side of fandom. I will never understand fans that feel it is okay to harass/attempt to bully others.

Livejournal introduced me to the wonderful world of challenges and omg the land comms (whedonland for example). The land comms nudged me to finally dip into writing fanfic as well as creating more icons/graphics. The whedon shows were my fandom of choice and then I started branching out into other fandoms: too many to list but landcomms and BTVS segued into Bingo/Prompt challenges and Stargate.

I tried tumblr for a bit, but ultimately wound up back at lj/dreamwidth where I found a few excellent writing communities. I'm still addicted to bingos and prompt challenges but I'm also heavily into NaNoWriMo and just writing for the joy of writing. 

Comments

[seleneheart]

Challenges are such a great way to get the creative juices going! For me, if I have a deadline and parameters, it makes me more creative? idk

[littlelostcat]

Baby me grew up on the Yahoo groups. And I remember loving the fan vids to some of the older TV shows <3

Also - yes - the old LJ comms were critical in my writing growth. Contre le montre, I don't know if you remember it, is a cornerstone of my fic writing memories, LOL.

[thatwasjustadream]

Just posted to the Snowflake Challenge, and noted that my first forum was a 5-subject notebook, lol.

From fanzines and notebooks to dial-up boards and now DW/LJ/AO3 -- I prefer today! Hooray for the web.