(random ask to get to know you better)
what would you say were your top 3 memorable/formative fandoms? like, which ones hold the most personal significance to you and why?
Oh that’s a brilliant question okay.
So the first two I remember being absolutely obsessed with, were doctor who and (sadly) Harry Potter. (I was a child in the 2000s and it was everywhere in the UK and of course I liked it)
But I’m picking doctor who, as I remember engaging in fandom culture more with that - I read potter fic but with doctor who i read the theories, the meta, it was my first exposure to a lot of fandom culture. (And ew, the author of those books.)
The second - well. Glee. It hit at the perfect time, I was the right age to be obsessed, it showed me queer relationships which I’d only seen on Torchwood, and lbr, at its best it was brilliant. That’s when I started writing fic, role playing, made random friends, and that era of fandom in the early 2010s, god, glee bled into EVERYTHING. It influenced my choices, my sexuality and gender I found from it, I made friends and hooked up with someone around that time from that fandom… it was a lot.
The third… I’m not sure. You know what, I’m gonna go with two maybe answers: Star Wars, because the end of the 2010s it felt so fun, so full of creativity and shared adoration whether it was for the classics, the clone wars, the sequels, etc. Or X-Men- more the comics than the films (though I’ve enjoyed them too) as that bubbled under since I was a kid, and there’s been times I’ve been obsessed. The Krakoa era was so fun to be online, unironically.
These aren’t all my biggest fandoms - doctor who is one, and glee, but I haven’t mentioned pitch perfect (which I’ve made great friends from and enjoy the fandom of massively) or the MCU (which I haven’t engaged with the fandom a lot but adore, esp a lot of the theorycrafting) but those three I’d say influenced how I engage with fandom and how I feel about it a lot, the good and the bad.
