Independence1776

In your own space, talk about your fannish history.

I started reading fanfic in 2002 at the very latest. I can date that year because I found a fic I printed out with the date on it; I could have started reading in 2001 for all I can't remember. I started writing fic in 2003.

A chronological list of my fic-writing fandoms: Mutant X, X-Men movies, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars Prequels and Original Trilogy, Silmarillion, Merlin, Young Wizards, Babylon 5 (a one-off), Doctor Who (Eleventh Doctor), MCU, Star Wars Rebels and Prequels.

A couple of that list are perpetual fandoms; I tend to call myself bifandom because it's always Tolkien + another fandom. Tolkien is obviously the main one of these, but Young Wizards is always there even if I don't create things for it. Star Wars I bounce in and out of, but it's also been my longest fandom love; I first saw the OT in 1994.

I participated in fic fandom on fanfiction.net and I know I was aware of some of the Tolkien-centric archives in the mid 2000s. My original home for Star Wars fic was theforce.net's fanfic forums and it still bothers me that the change in the forum software made so many of my favorite fics unreadable. When I dropped into the Silmarillion fandom, I discovered the Silmarillion Writers' Guild (which remains my fandom home) and that people used LJ for fic purposes. So Merlin and Doctor Who were largely LJ-based, though the latter also has Teaspoon (though I never posted there). Young Wizards was/is LJ -> Tumblr and AO3 -> Slack as the fandom migrated. MCU was entirely AO3-based for me, along with following a few people on Tumblr. Rebels and Prequels I read on AO3, but the fandom is so wanky that I only follow two or three SW Tumblrs and just stepped my toes into a Rebels-centric Discord.

I'm not sure what else to say here, so ask me questions if you're curious about anything.