Wow, this was a very interesting thought exercise and trip down memory lane … blast from the past!
1: When did you arrive in the fandom, and who was already here? (Was it all mainly still fields?)
I showed up right after episode 4 … I mainlined the first four eps in a day and then jiggled my leg impatiently waiting for the next two … Not sure what you mean about still fields? It was a small fandom, but very enthusiastic.
I think the first fic I read/liked was by @puppy-love-club, before I made this MMFD tumblr. Other folks I remember from the early days are @howlinchickhowl @adaftmyriad @nicrememiralleggro @greenangelheart @slothpaws @sassy-curmudgeon @ch1darkcy @hohumi @old-lady-at-heart @damecatoe @i-love-mmfd @girlsofargone @veganmarshmallows @bflute06 @ucancallmeal @princessofpoldark @blobwithagob @rebelfell @fwnsias @fantasticab @rae-nelson @raefinnxo @aggressively-lamps @backofthehand @acciohilarity – I KNOW I’m missing people out, but those are people I remember being active and interacting with almost from the start. I think we converged right around the time the last couple of episodes were airing and just after.
I think the very first people were all like, “Can you believe they ACTUALLY MADE THIS SHOW? And that it’s SO FUCKING GOOD???” It was so much just squeeing and sighing and writing fics to smoosh their faces together.
2: Did the fans have a group name for themselves prior to ‘I’m an Emu’ popping up in s2 ep1? (And how exciting was it when you realised that Tom had remembered and used a fan’s jokey suggestion?!)
I don’t remember a name … am I blacking out? I know lots of people were very into Tom giving us something to christen ourselves with. :D However, I have to admit I like Nico’s malapropism of fan-dem, and I like to use that more. Emus is cute, tho! I’m proud to be a fan of MMFD, whatever our name! xoxo
3. At what point did you lot start writing fanfiction, making gifsets and videos, and producing artwork?
The fanfiction came pretty much immediately. It was what drew me in, and how I interacted at the beginning. I do remember most of us were too shy to comment at first. It took me a couple weeks to even feel like I could reblog people’s fics, because I wasn’t sure how this thing worked. Gifs came soon after. And there were amazing manips in those first few months, courtesy of @ch1darkcy and @nicrememiralleggro, in particular. :D
@jongparksin’s (@onionring88) fan art came pretty quick and @fseventh made amazing gifs … awesome parallels. Those are the first gifsets I remember, but they started coming fast and furious after a bit. My early archive is heavily text based, tho.
There was so much to fill in that first series! How did we get from Episode 4 to Episode 5 where he’s scribbling all over her? We had no idea that Finn’s mum wasn’t in the picture until Tom tweeted that she’d left to live abroad with her partner. *shrug* Sure, why not? Such rich fodder for fic and speculation!!!
4.How long did you have to wait for a second series to be confirmed? (Was it as intense as the wait after S2?)
It was announced at the end of the last episode of S1 that there would be a second series, and we had an excrutiating wait … over six months before they even started filming and then they kept messing us about with the S2 release date. It was like ten days out and they still hadn’t confirmed when the first episode would air! That was a crazy time. A year of build-up, basically!
5. Were there EVER any male emus? I can think of one lovely recent arrival, but prior to that, none. I hoped there’d be boys with crushes on Sharon. I’m gobsmacked that there aren’t boys crushing on Nico with us!
I hope we’re not scaring off any boys who want to squee! I feel like there was one who commented on a few things, but either lost interest or … ? Anyhow, it’s primarily been a ladies’ fandom, for better or worse.
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