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the_dala at 10:32pm on 12/09/2013
the_dala at 10:32pm on 12/09/2013It'll be short tonight because of an unexpected babysitting gig for my friend C. Which was a happy one because 1. yay money and 2. the little one J, who is 5, is getting into Star Wars. So he and his sister A (8) and I watched "The Empire Strikes Back" for the very first time. They both knew about the Skywalker family drama already, and were mostly quiet and attentive viewers (though A kept asking burning questions such as "how can they DO that" re: the Force and jumping to hyperspace, and also proclaimed that Luke looks like Yoda "if you take off his hair," which made me chuckle. Sorry, Mark Hamill.)
Star Wars will always be special to me not just on its own merits but because it was how I discovered fandom. I didn't see the movies as a young child; I was just turning twelve when the twenty-year QAanniversary rerelease happened and I decided I wanted to go because it was covered in my beloved Disney Adventures magazine. That famous opening note struck me in the theater, the crawling text went on into forever, a Star Destroyer filled my entire field of vision and I was a goner. Not long after that I stumbled upon the ol' shavenwookiee and fanfix.net (get your fix!). The next two years of anticipating the release of "The Phantom Menace" were glorious torture (no matter how the actual movie ended up). I was a part of a global phenomenon for the very first time.
It hit me at exactly the right age and gave me something that made me feel like I belonged when I desperately needed it. Without Luke and Leia and Han and Chewie and Artoo and Threepio and the poor Bothans who died to bring us this information, I wouldn't be here blogging at you fine people.
Share your baby fandom stories in the comments if you like!
Star Wars will always be special to me not just on its own merits but because it was how I discovered fandom. I didn't see the movies as a young child; I was just turning twelve when the twenty-year QAanniversary rerelease happened and I decided I wanted to go because it was covered in my beloved Disney Adventures magazine. That famous opening note struck me in the theater, the crawling text went on into forever, a Star Destroyer filled my entire field of vision and I was a goner. Not long after that I stumbled upon the ol' shavenwookiee and fanfix.net (get your fix!). The next two years of anticipating the release of "The Phantom Menace" were glorious torture (no matter how the actual movie ended up). I was a part of a global phenomenon for the very first time.
It hit me at exactly the right age and gave me something that made me feel like I belonged when I desperately needed it. Without Luke and Leia and Han and Chewie and Artoo and Threepio and the poor Bothans who died to bring us this information, I wouldn't be here blogging at you fine people.
Share your baby fandom stories in the comments if you like!
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My baby fandom was the X-Files. I was technically a lurker, but this was around 1996 so the internet was just a baby, really, and I was a teenager and just coming out, so lurking was a good place for me, I'm certain as I look back on it now. I never even tried to write, but my god did I read. And fangirled like a dying person. I recorded new eps on my parents' VCR, you bet I did, and usually had my school friend Emily on the phone with me during so we could squeak at each other, then we'd watch them in the student lounge (I went to a small private all-girls high school) during lunch the next couple of days. I saw the (first) movie ten times in the theater. >.> Krycek/Mulder was my first slash and it shocked me beyond belief, not because of the homo but because (as I know now) I do NOT have a bad boy kink or whathaveyou. I also didn't have slash goggles on -- now when I watch the Krycek eps I'm like HELLO MY NAME IS NICK LEA AND I HAVE CHEMISTRY WITH BRICKS.
lolol /ramble. sorry ^^ once a fan...
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My first fandom was Buffy, with the Bronze and slayerfanficarchive. Message boards, man. Key to my interpersonal development.
(Marian icon because she and Top Gun and Short Circuit were right up there with Star Wars in my small-childhood.)