Fangirl, Me?

[lady_windermere]

So stargazer60 did a post about her experiences of being a fangirl, and thought I would do one as well..or lack there off!


The first programmes I watched every week, and bought what I could find for was "The Man From Uncle" and "Batman". That was about 1965 or so. "Batman" got me into comics, which I bought and read from the age of 6 to 8, when my father threw them all out as not suitable for a girl. At that time I never bought any others, didn't see the point, and we moved away from the area where the comic shop was.

My father and I watched "Star Trek" every week, and my father would entertain me by role playing the characters and telling stories.

I was late getting into Doctor Who, but started watching it during Jon Pertwee's time, and continued, until I got caught up in RL, friends and meeting guys in my late teens.

After that, when I was at secondary school it was music and hanging out with friends, I hardly watched any TV at all, except Top of the Pops.

The next time I got interested in a programme was Starsky and Hutch, and then The Professionals. After that, I was busy with friends, working and meeting people, then getting married.

When I went to University as a mature student, I liked Quantium Leap, and watched it, discussing it with my friend Jon the next day.

Then of course there was "Star Trek: The Next Generation", which the guy I met and his step-father watched every week, and all the spin-offs. I got bored with it pretty soon, and didn't want to spend that much time in front of the TV.

At this point I never really got into a fandom in anyway. Never really felt the need to write anything, read anything by other fans, and content talking about the programmes with others who watched in RL. Of course this was before the internet.

Then BtVS ended. I had always been more interested in Ats myself, but just has to get more Spike. So I entered messageboards, where I lurked for quite a while. I soon found out that Spike was, at least in the Messageboards I lurked in, not popular. Next step was fanfiction, which I embraced, but felt not need to write. I found a summary to a Spike/Angel story, which I wanted to read, but couldn't see the relationship working. It was AU, and eventually I gave it a try. I loved it, and started seeking out Spike/Angel Slash, going round archives.

I then joined Yahoo Groups and eventually LJ, where I was amazed at how much was on offer. I even started writing myself. I was able to stay away from a lot of fanwank, but some did creep up on me, but I've tried to let it slide.

Then there was Supernatual, which I follow on LJ, but never join any messageboards, and avoid the fanwank there mostly. Doctor Who came back on our screens, so I started watching that, then Torchwood. At present I'm interested in Leverage, but not in a fandom type of way.

I've never been to a convention to meet an actor, I like to keep my fantisies and the real people apart. I have been to a writers convention and met people from LJ, but no actors. This suits me fine.

My fandom activity now is resticted to LJ, and, to a certain extent, my friends on LJ.

Fangirl, I would've said I was, but when I see how worked up some fans get about the shows and characters, I'm not sure I'm all that much of a fangirl to be honest.


Oh well, that is me and fandom. A long, but spatarodic time!

Comments

[jaded-jamie.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! You've been a fangiorl since you were a wee young 'un! How amazingly cool.

I was only a fanboy for Who all my life to my mid twenties. I loathed all other sci fi with a passion. Then in 1996 I was ill and in bed a lot and Star Trek was running daily on cable TV. I was hooked within weeks and now, since then, I have loved most any sci fi that I watch :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Oh yes, with "Man from Uncle" and "Batman", I did start kind of young.

*hugs*

[gillo]

I think

Dr Who, Thunderbirds

and

The Man From Uncle

were my earliest TV passions. I didn't write fic, because it never occurred to me, but as a very nearly teenager I lived my fantasies, talking to characters inside my head when I was alone (walking to and from school was particularly good for that) and developing a serious obsession with Ilya Kuriakin. I bought the

Lady Penelope

comic/magazine for a couple of years too.

Then I fell for Jon Finch in a short-lived TV show called

Counterstrike

. He was so gorgeous - and my homework diary had a picture of him, nicked from the Radio Times on the front.

Then I got involved in drama and went to university and didn't really have a TV for six or seven years. I loved

Blake's Seven

(especially Avon) but was never fannish in the same way. It wasn't really until

Buffy

that I got that hooked again.

ETA: This inspired me to make a post of my own too. Hope you don't mind!

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Yes, much the same time as me. My Dad did buy me Lady Penelope's car when I was young, but my half sister broke it when I passed it on.

With Buffy, it was Spike that got me hooked on fandom, bless his unbeating heart!

ETA Oh please do!

[kudagirl.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the other day about how early in life I fell in love with Science Fiction. There was a black and white show called Rocky Jones, Space Ranger on tv. I am sure it was in rerun when I saw it. It originally was shown in 1954-1956. My older brother watched it and I got sucked in. I loved Superman and Batman comics which my mom hated. I would beg her to read them to me and she couldn't stand them.

I watched Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Science Fiction Theater, The Twilight Zone, The Avengers, Batman, Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Invaders, Lost In Space, The Outer Limits, Time Tunnel, but Star Trek was the best. Loved it and watched all the following incarnations of it. I was a geek before the word existed.

Like many others, Spike was the character who grabbed me and is my fav. Never read fan fic till I read one about Spike. Oddly it was a story about Spike and Andrew. Read everything on allaboutspike. Then found fanfiction.net. Started talking to mabel_marsters. She led me to Live Journal. Then I started writing a few drabbles. Then I went to Dragon*Con. I babbled when I met James Marsters. None of the other actors I met there effected the way he did. Normally I don't shut up. James sent me into fangirl shock. LOL.

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Yes, I remember many of the shows from the 60's you mentioned, but I only bought books for "The Man From Uncle" and we played in the streets as children pretending to be Batman, so I guess they were the first I was really into as fanish.

Spike captured so many people!

[babycin.livejournal.com]

Ohh Starsky & Hutch! I loved that show!

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

It was a good show!

[inkingwords.livejournal.com]

I thought that BtVS was my first fandom but I guess I was a part of fandom without realizing what fandom was back then when I watched x-files. That was probably the first fandom I was a part of without being a part of it. Does that make sense?