Snowflake Challenge #2

[softroe]

Challenge #2
In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story.

gosh… when have I NOT been in fandom spaces…? Thinking back hard on it now, I think my first foray into online spaces was in 2007?

I was a very active deviantArt user, and was on and off LJ though I often browsed LJ without an account. My very first fandoms were pokemon, happy tree friends, neopets, hetalia, vocaloid, soul eater, and just yaoi in general. My god the yaoi.

I was such a yaoi fiend as a grub, thinking back on it now makes me laugh a lot. I was always looking to rp or draw with people, and I remember spending a lot of time on websites like iscribble or sketchfu or like, flipnote hatena. I wish I still had any art from when I was a young deviantart user, but I had such a bad habit of deleting everything that it’s mostly all gone!

from deviantart I hopped to tumblr in 2008-09, and it quickly became my homebase so to speak for a very very long time. It was where my fandom experience really took off, just because it felt so easy to connect with other people, and I felt “cool” for finally having a blog which is what I would hear older people talk about online all the time, so I felt like part of the incrowd LOL!!!!!

sometimes i wonder about who I’d be if I wasn’t apart of fandom, and I truly do not think that me would have ever existed. I love being involved in things, I love being a member of a community, and I love meeting new friends and fans of the things I love.

it feels silly to say I’m grateful, but I really am.

Comments

[picori]

Same hat! Tumblr was my home base for so many years because of how easy it was to connect to others, and for me, that same "coolness" definitely got to my head a little, haha! I'm the same way, though—I can't imagine who I'd be if I'd never discovered fandom. It's taught me so much about myself and others! ^.^

[softroe]

waaaauuugh isn't it all so sweet to think back on? :') i can almost see my old blog now in my head, in all its awful crunchy jpeged out graphic having glory... typing this also made me realize how much i miss ASK BLOGS!!!!! it was almost a practiced art form at one point LOL

[picori]

OMG YEAH ASK BLOGS!!!! Even I ran some ask blogs when I first started out on Tumblr—man, those were fun, even if my inbox was constantly getting spammed, haha! xD