Snowflake Challenge - Day 1

Challenge #1

Update your fandom information. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


Here is my updated sticky note.

Snowflake Challenge - Day 2

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

I feel like I might have answered this one a hundred times, thouigh I'm not sure any answer was exactly the same.

I have always been a reader and a lover of sci-fi and fantasy, though mostly sci-fi. Dune and The Foundation Trilogy were my favorites. In media, I was hooked at 6 when my dad and i watched Star Trek in it's original run. I discovered Tolkien in my teens and actually read The Silmarillion when it was first published.

Then there was Star Wars. OMG! That one changed my life. I felt like I'd come home sitting in a dark theater watching that star destroyer go over my head in 1977, when I was 17.

Fandom came, though, with the internet. Until we got a computer and I got online in the late 90s, I had no idea that fandom even existed. I live in a rather backward rural area and had no idea that cons and zines existed, let alone fanfiction. My daughter and I watched CATS on PBS and we were hooked. I went looking online and found chatrooms. A CATS friend introduced me to Babylon 5 by sending me homemade VHS copies of the series. Again, I went hunting and found a lot of B5 fandom stuff and fanfiction. I got involved in modding a chat and message board.

The Lord of the Rings came out in the theater and I began to write fanfiction. I grew tired of the infighting in the Yahoo groups I was in and started my own, making it inclusive of all types of LOTR fanfiction. It eventually became Of Elves and Men, which is archived with nearly 4000 stories at Ao3.

I have since branched out into other fandoms and have written over 3000 stories myself. I met my best friends through fandom and survived the first presidency of the orange dunce and am hoping it will get me through the next 4 years. Fandom has been a lifesaver for me.