It's FanChat Friday! This week's prompt is: What was your first fandom? Where was it based (e.g. mailing lists, livejournal, twitter)?
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@FandomChats The first thing I had what I'd call fannish feelings for was The New Mutants and then X-Men.
The first thing I was fannish about with people and wrote fanfic for, several years before the internet arrived for my family, was ElfQuest.
My first online fandom (reading/writing fanfic, active online discussion, sharing the experience with people) was the first Sailor Moon anime, and for me the experience was primarily based on Usenet and some mailing lists.
@umadoshi @FandomChats all excellent! My first fannish contact was via an independent web forum for young writers—the scene was mostly original fiction but there were just enough people writing/talking about fanfic for me to be like “huh”
