Fandom Snowflake Day 5
Jan. 14th, 2015 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Day 5
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. How did you come to fandom, why did you choose your fannish name, do you have more than one secret identity? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I was writing fanfiction before I knew what fandom was. I was in high school when I first started actually writing, in fact. None of it was very good - there were Mary Sues - but it was fun. The first fic I wrote was Final Fantasy VI; the first one I published online, I think, was for Final Fantasy IV. The fandom that I consider my first - as in, the one where I was actively involved with a group of people who also played the game and loved it - was a relatively unpopular SRPG called Brigandine, which I wrote about here.
I think I discovered fandom in 1997. At first I hung out on a couple of web forums, then on LJ, then IJ, then DW... now I'm spending my time between here and tumblr. I don't really like tumblr's user interface as well as I do DW's, and some of the arguments that start there can be particularly troublesome, but it has a queue feature (which is the one thing I wish Dreamwidth had) and is better for sharing pictures.
Also I finally started using my dA page a while back. I had one for years, but hadn't uploaded much. Then, about two years ago now, I stopped worrying about quality and started drawing fanart. It's not great, but I think I'm learning as I go, which is the important thing.
As you can see from that date, I've been at this a long time. It's been so long that I have to work at remembering the early days anymore. And as you can see by my list of fandoms on this page's profile, I'm mostly active in video game fandoms, which don't have as large a community as TV/Movie fandoms. It can get a little lonely sometimes, and some of the games that I particularly like have fandom arguments that get rehashed constantly and viciously. I tend to avoid those.
I do feel like I'm not a very social fan. I mostly write and draw; I don't get the chance to interact as much as I'd like. (Then again, tumblr is a terrible platform for interaction, which is why I started using DW again.)
