Monday

[clevermanka]

There is a stranger in my house working on the dryer which probably needs replaced but I don't blame my landlord for wanting to attempt a repair instead of replacing it yet. I've had more strangers in this place in the not-even-three months I've been here than I'd prefer. sigh

Question from brandywine28 ! What was the first fandom you ever wrote for? First fandom in general (assuming this one has a different answer!)? Baby's first OTP?

Well, er... the first fandom I ever wrote for was Guardian! It's a little surreal to me that I wrote my first fic in May/June of 2019. It seems like forever ago, but when I think about it from just a calendar perspective, it's not long at all. And honestly, I haven't even been reading fic for that long. Maybe ten years or so? Due South was probably the first fandom I interacted with, as well as my first OTP. Those experiences were spaced out by quite a bit, though. I remember watching the show when it was airing and thinking Fraser and RayK had something going on. Whether it was intentional or not, I had no idea (later, reading interviews with Paul Gross about Callum Keith Rennie joining the show, I believe it was intentional). It was such a surprise and a delight to find out, years later, that others saw what I saw and even wrote stories about it!

I very much wish I'd found fandom earlier, but better late than never. I'm certainly grateful to be in it, now.

Comments

[moodsong]

I'm surprised. I thought you wrote for Due South first.

[clevermanka]

I made fanart for it, so maybe that's what you were remembering?

[trobadora]

Wait, what? Guardian was the first?! Wow! I really thought you'd written before.

Yay for Guardian getting you to write!

[clevermanka]

I wrote a lot of personal essay stuff, but nope, no fiction (fic or original). Yay Guardian, indeed!

[khellekson]

So many of my favorite people entered fandom through dS! I didn't watch the show when it actually aired, and I feel like I missed a Fandom Landmark for someone my age.

Congrats on your writing, and KEEP DOING IT.

[desireearmfeldt]

I didn't watch the show when it actually aired, and I feel like I missed a Fandom Landmark for someone my age.

Me too, and yet I entered fandom through it anyway, nearly 15 years after the show ended. :)

[clevermanka]

Always better late than never!

[desireearmfeldt]

:)

[clevermanka]

I wish so much I had known about fandom then! It's especially weird because, like, I was on USENET News in the late 80s. It's not like I didn't have access. I just didn't even know such a thing was out there!

[naye]

I'm so, SO glad you found fandom - and this fandom! And started writing! Your words, Manka. They make me melt and break my heart and put it together again. ♥

[clevermanka]

I'm thrilled to be here and it is a genuine pleasure to share beautiful words with you, bb. 😙

[solo]

I'm so happy you found fandom! And re DS, yes, they totally intended it, there's a very revealing hump session in the blooper reel!

[clevermanka]

LOL oh my gosh that blooper reel. I never saw it until I'd been on Tumblr for a while and I felt I'd been given A GIFT.

[mekare]

APPLAUSE! I feel so gleeful (is that a word?) for taking you somewhere you felt inspired to write.

[clevermanka]

Gleeful is a word and a very appropriate word! I'm so amazingly grateful to you. Thank you thank you thank you.

[goss]

Wow, you've only been writing fic for a year now? That's amazing!

I am truly in awe of writers in fandom. You all are like...magic. *__*

[clevermanka]

Yep! I'll have been writing fic for only two years this June!

I love how fandom is a mutual admiration society of us all appreciating everyone else's contributions, from creators to consumers and around and around and around in a lovely circle.

[yantantether]

Awww yay, Due South! I fell into the fandom in 1999 or so thanks to a fic about the buddy breathing scene which I've just gone searching for and I'm pretty sure was this one. ❤

Unusually for the time, I had actually watched the show before getting into the fandom (not that many of the US shows which had big fandoms made it to free-to-air British TV in the 90s 😂 so my knowledge of things like Highlander, the Sentinel and that prison show there was a lot of fic for at the time still come pretty much 100% from fandom!)

[clevermanka]

The first thing I think I read fic for before I watched the show was Merlin (just as well since I tragically couldn't get into the show). I experienced The Eagle and Inception in that order as well. 😄

And one of my favorite fics of all time is for War Horse, a movie I have never seen and plan to keep it that way.

[brandywine28]

Omg, similar boat! I spent years just kinda hanging around, bopping from fandom to fandom, reading *everything*, but to this day, I've still only ever written for one of them. (It's popslash, just for the record. As in, NSYNC rpf -- and I ain't done yet. I haven't completed anything in a while, but I'm sitting on hella WIPs over here, and -- please, you are more than welcome to laugh at me. Go ahead. I'm well past the point of shame.)

I'm so glad you discovered Guardian fandom! I'm so glad you discovered fandom as a whole! There's no such thing as too late!

[clevermanka]

Are you kidding? No shame here, bb! Write whatever makes you happy!
🍆💦🎉

[brandywine28]

<3

[tinny]

the first fandom I ever wrote for was Guardian! It's a little surreal to me that I wrote my first fic in May/June of 2019. It seems like forever ago

<3<3<3<3 It DOES seem like forever ago. But the good thing about fandom is that it doesn't matter at which age it finds you. <3

[clevermanka]

Never too late for new things!