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Fannish questions
Something very strange has happened with my ISP yesterday. I can no longer get to LJ from my PC, or ping it. "But you're here," I hear you say. Well, Greg has given me a remote login to his work's computer, bless. It's slow and I have to use IE, but at least I'm not isolated. Unless the connection goes down. Sigh.
[Edit:] I have LJ back. I hope it stays.
Anyway, here are some interesting fannish questions from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
spacefall.
How did you get hooked? When did your series/film/game/book/whatever reach out and mug you in a dark corner of your brain? When did you realise you'd become that most terrifying of creatures, a fan?
How did you get hooked?
In Blake's 7? It was by watching reruns in 2001. I'd seen the series years ago when they showed it here in the late 80s, I think, and I remembered little of it except for being so upset about the ending, I'd rewritten it over and over in my head. I didn't want to see it again, but someone sent me a link to some B7 quotes. They were so witty, I decided what the hell, I'd watch.
When did your series reach out and mug you in a dark corner of your brain?
It was on six nights a week and by S4, I was already trying to make Vila's world a bit better by writing his e-mails, home to his mum and to the crew. I thought maybe a handful might read them: Greg and a couple of people I knew from being a re-enactor. However, when I finally got to the last ep, I was so desperate for more, and a little hope for my friends, that I started googling. For a few weeks, I spent hours each evening reading B7 stories, and was persuaded by Judith Proctor, whom I'd submitted an essay to, to join the Lysator B7 mailing list and put the e-mails on Hermit. It was all an easy slide downhill from there: I met lots of new friends and some of them invited me here, and I'm very grateful.
Yes, B7 did change my life. :-)
When did you realise you'd become that most terrifying of creatures, a fan?
I suppose I was already one, with a personalised number plate (LIBR8R) and a web site, but I think it was when someone at a work conference noticed my car and started talking about B7 and ended up backing away when I mentioned fan fiction, the whites of his eyes showing. Well, that covers the 'terrifying' part anyway. :-P Oh, and I flew to the UK to go to Star One 2004 which was wonderful because I didn't just meet actors, but a lot of the people I know on-line. :-D
However I've always been what spacefall calls a proto-fan. All my life I've made up stories based on books or series I liked. It just took Vila's plight to force me into writing some of them.
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That's a nice story about how you got involved. So it's partly Judith's fault, then? :-)
I guess I was always a proto-fan, too, never writing anything, but imagining stories, and what would happen if.... I still don't know whether I qualify as a proper fan, but they seem to let me hang around, which is good enough for me.
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What is with that? I just don't get it at all.
But it's lovely that we have the internet now to link us up to people who understand? I'm glad you made it. You've given us some wonderful fic.
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I don't think that reaction to fanfic is at all uncommon. Most people think it's a waste of time and a bit bizarre, yet would happily read a sequel to 'Wuthering Heights'.
Awwww, Vila and Kerril!