Fandom roots:
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3. What was your first fandom love(s)? Your first ship(s)?
I started searching for fandom because of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. I needed people to talk to about the severe emotional roller coaster that Joss put me through. Then I realized that people were writing extra stories about my favorite characters? Count me in! I'd been reading above my head for years, so while the sex scenes weren't new, the level of explicit hotness was new, and forbidden, and awesome. I read Buffy/Angel until I found out about slash, and I don't remember ever being put off by it, or thinking it was weird. I enjoyed it and loved it right off the bat. I read Angel/Xander and Angel/Spike, as much as I could find. Then I quickly deleted all the history in the browser with a feverish paranoia.
You know what I miss? Those warnings on personal websites making you swear you were the age of consent in your country. Not that I ever clicked on them before I was 18, because then I would feel very naughty, and the guilt would probably shape my personality in my formative years.
I started searching for fandom because of Buffy: The Vampire Slayer. I needed people to talk to about the severe emotional roller coaster that Joss put me through. Then I realized that people were writing extra stories about my favorite characters? Count me in! I'd been reading above my head for years, so while the sex scenes weren't new, the level of explicit hotness was new, and forbidden, and awesome. I read Buffy/Angel until I found out about slash, and I don't remember ever being put off by it, or thinking it was weird. I enjoyed it and loved it right off the bat. I read Angel/Xander and Angel/Spike, as much as I could find. Then I quickly deleted all the history in the browser with a feverish paranoia.
You know what I miss? Those warnings on personal websites making you swear you were the age of consent in your country. Not that I ever clicked on them before I was 18, because then I would feel very naughty, and the guilt would probably shape my personality in my formative years.