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[personal profile] logans_girl2001
It's Snowflake Challenge time again!

Every year it always starts with an introduction post. And every year, mine is slightly different from the year before.;-P Here's hoping I can remember to include everything I want to say.

My name is Melissa. I go by logans_girl2001 online, I will explain why later. I recently found out that I am considered a fandom old because I have been active in fandom since 2000. It is hard to believe that it has been twenty-one years already! So much has happened.

My very first fandom was X-men. My brother, who is three years older, would occasionally get the comics, and once finished with them, he'd give them to me. My faves were/are Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, and Angel.

From there, I moved on to tv shows. Specifically, Airwolf. I would make up stories in my head where I was Stringfellow's love interest. Don't judge me. It was a weird period in my life.

I then moved on to my own version of bandom. I fell in love with the Norwegian pop band a-ha. The stories changed to one of two types.
1) I was the lead singer's adopted sister
2) I was his love interest
Again, it was a weird period in my life. I had been kinda, maybe, popular, and then puberty hit, and I got fat and lost a bunch of friends when we moved to middle school/high school.

From a-ha, there was a time when I was the adopted daughter of Adam Ant or Billy Idol. And how they came to be my dad was always the same: they found me as an orphan living on the streets while on tour in America.

There was also a period where I was a member of a girl group who was married to the actor Sasha Mitchell.

AGAIN, IT WAS A VERY WEIRD PERIOD IN MY LIFE.

I tried to write a novel, but when I showed it to my English teacher, she tore it to shreds, and my confidence with it.

When the X-men movie came out, I wasn't sure I'd be able to watch it because they changed the uniforms and cast 6'3 Hugh Jackman to play 5'3 Wolverine. But I went to see it when it was at the discounted movies and actually liked it. Enough to try writing again.

The story that came out of my fingers is the only one that will never be posted anywhere. I did have it posted for a while but took it down when I realized just how bad it actually is. I might rewrite it someday, but not now.

At this same time, I was watching Farscape on Sci-Fi channel. But it wasn't until The Invisible Man premiered that I became involved in fandom for the first time.

I was reading fanfiction and interacting with other fans on the bboards. When I first joined the bboards, I had misspelled the name I wanted, and when I went to fix it, I discovered it was already taken. So I decided to show my first love: Logan. I chose logans_girl, but that was already taken, and one of the suggestions was logans_girl2001 (I made the account in 2001). And that's how I got my username!

I started watching CSI: Miami, and while I liked it, I didn't feel the need to read fic or participate in fandom.

Until the show killed off Tim Speedle.

I hadn't really paid any attention to him until I read a 'Tim's not dead' fic written by Bev 'BJ' Jones. She had developed this world where Vampires exist, and Tim is one. I was one of the first people to join her yahoo group.

And then I had an idea for a story. But at this point in my life, I was still convinced that I had no business attempting to write, despite getting positive feedback from the yahoo group I had posted my X-men story to.

No one took my idea and then in 2005, while in the bathroom at work, I heard Tim telling me about this story, with the original version here.

From there, I branched out to other fandoms. There are some I refuse to ever write in (SPN) and some I'm surprised I'm writing in (TW).

According to AO3, I have written sixty-five stories. Although, I guess I should actually say that I have posted sixty-five stories to my AO3 account.

So, that's my fandom history. I look forward to the challenges this year. I'm actually feeling a bit more optimistic, so I'm planning on doing them all. But we all know what they say about plans, right? Right.

For the people who have done this challenge before, welcome back! For those who are doing it for the first time, welcome, glad you could join us!

Date: 2021-01-01 03:12 pm (UTC)
seleneheart: (Default)
From: [personal profile] seleneheart
I'd like to go back in time and smack your English teacher!! Congrats on not letting that stop you!!

I'm glad you did right by Tim. :)

Date: 2021-01-01 06:05 pm (UTC)
wenchpixie: (Default)
From: [personal profile] wenchpixie
Hello from the fandom old side of the house, it's lovely here, we have cushions and know where all the toilets are (and, more importantly, have a better filter for what's important to us :))

Date: 2021-01-01 08:40 pm (UTC)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
From: [personal profile] spikedluv
Hi! I will always think of Dark Blue when I see your name. *g*

AGAIN, IT WAS A VERY WEIRD PERIOD IN MY LIFE.

LOL that made me chuckle every time.

I also want to smack your English teacher.

Thoughts

Date: 2021-01-01 08:59 pm (UTC)
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
From: [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
>>I recently found out that I am considered a fandom old because I have been active in fandom since 2000.<<

*laugh* My mother read me The Hobbit when I was 4.

Re: Thoughts

Date: 2021-01-01 10:34 pm (UTC)
ysabetwordsmith: Cartoon of me in Wordsmith persona (Default)
From: [personal profile] ysabetwordsmith
I am amused by the shifting definition. When I started interacting with fandom as a society, the senior fans were the people who first nagged a network into reviving a show: Star Trek. As some of the Old Guard Fans are still around, that's who I think of.

Re: Thoughts

Date: 2021-01-02 03:52 pm (UTC)
peoriapeoriawhereart: We Built This City above AO3 icon (built this city)
From: [personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart
I think Fandom Old (tm) has to be considered along Fandom Older. For those of us that are second or third generation geek/nerd (or more, but I've yet to run into someone whose great grand was wearing mourning bands for Sherlock Holmes after ACD tossed him...) we've gone from younger than Peter Parker to, um, Bruce Banner is slightly older? So our time sense is deeper than the 19 year olds.

Not sure if any fen have embraced Fandom Older than Dirt, which was how the Grand Old Men were styling themselves when I was still green. (Occasionally their queens would descend from the heavens but otherwise the Celestial Women of Gaming didn't inhabit the common plane.)

Re: Thoughts

Date: 2021-01-02 08:14 pm (UTC)
jedi_of_urth: (writing)
From: [personal profile] jedi_of_urth
I still weirds me out that people don't put disclaimers on fic anymore. Sure, maybe I was a little over-zealous about it at times, but not taking a moment to acknowledge the people who actually own the property feels wrong.

Date: 2021-01-02 04:53 am (UTC)
popkin16: (john surprised)
From: [personal profile] popkin16
It's so good to hear from you :D

AGAIN, IT WAS A VERY WEIRD PERIOD IN MY LIFE.
This made me laugh out loud!!

Date: 2021-01-02 08:11 pm (UTC)
jedi_of_urth: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jedi_of_urth
I think somewhere along the line, those of us who remember angelfire sites and mailing lists had to be classified as fandom olds. Though I hadn't thought about it recently...yeah I've been in fandom since at least 2001 when I started college, and was on the very fringes of it even before that.

Also, you kind of make me wish I'd used my Snowflake post to tell more of my fandom history, instead of focusing on the last couple years of activity.

Date: 2021-01-03 09:58 pm (UTC)
eller: iron ball (Default)
From: [personal profile] eller
Snowflake Challenge brought me here - Happy New Year!

Date: 2021-01-04 11:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] greerwatson
"Fandom Old" seems to be ever shifting, doesn't it? Fandom Ever-Youngers come along, and astonish those only a few years older by labelling them; and then there are people who were active in fandom when I was in junior high. Which was definitely the day before the day before yesterday.

Somewhere in there we overlap, you and I.

Date: 2021-01-05 11:34 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] littlelostcat
<3 Love your icon!!

And shame on that teacher for crushing your work and creativity ,

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