Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must (or rather, if you want to) then update your journal and answer the following questions:
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
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rushlight gave me Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Star Wars
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
I honestly have trouble remembering exactly how I got into the Star Wars fandom. I do know I had previously been in the Gargoyles fandom, which was primarily on its own main site and, in an effort to find more fanfiction, I ended up on fanfiction dot net. There was a wide variety of fandoms and for some reason I found myself reading Star Wars fics. I quickly became involved in the TPM portion of the fandom, joining the Master/Apprentice site and mailing list and becoming friends with people who posted both there and on ff.n, like Rahalia. Rahalia gave me my LJ invite code and the rest is pretty much history.
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I, um, have moved on, more or less. I'll sometimes go back and read a rec or an old favorite or a new drabble a friend has written, but I haven't done anything really serious in that fandom for years.
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
I grew up adoring Return of the Jedi. I didn't grow to like Empire Strikes Back until I was a teenager, and that's my parents' fault, because they didn't realize my brothers and I had never seen the very first Star Wars until we saw a box set with three movies in it a few years before the prequels were set to come out. As my youngest brother put it, "There's three Star Wars movies?" Once I'd seen A New Hope, a lot of the things that confused me (like Leia kissing Luke and why a dead, blue Obi-Wan was talking to Luke) suddenly made a lot more sense. I had mixed feelings about the prequels, but I adored the fight scenes and young Obi-Wan.
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I've always been more of a reader/reviewer/meta/discussant in the majority of fandoms I participate in. I have neither the time, money, (and, sometimes, patience) to do much more. I'm more what Onci once insisted I am - a fandom Big Cat. If I'm in a fandom, I may not necessarily be the most visible or vocal, but most people know I'm there and I can either be playful or come down hard on someone, depending on the circumstances.
That said, I have co-written a comedy story with Franzi that's still up on MA that's the result of her trying and failing to squick me.
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
It's was a fun fandom and the gang that was there was a hell of a lot of fun while I was around. Still are, considering how many of them are on my flist/circle. :D Most of them seem to have moved away from that fandom like I have, however, so I have no clue what the current layout looks like. At the very least, if you have plenty of free time, I'd recommend checking out the MA Archive.
LotR
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
The movies. Definitely the movies, because I read the books well before I ever got involved in fandom. By the time the movies came around, I was already into slash and I think Fellowship of the Ring might be the first movie I ever watched with slasher eyes. Part of this was because I had, as I've said, read the books and I was thus expecting at the very least some easy to see Frodo/Sam. The rest of the cast was a bonus. XD
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I've also moved on from this one although, again, it's also one of the few I go back and occasionally re-read old favorites or recced new fics. It helped for a bit when Splix got on a Boromir kick.
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
I loved the Two Towers movie, and large portions of The Return of the King. Fellowship has to be my least favorite, but I still watch it with glee.
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I actually did very little in this fandom beyond reccing fics and writing two very short ones of my own. Of those two, I can only remember the location of the one with the sex.
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Yes. LotR is one of those fandoms where the source is old enough to have influenced the world several times over. People come and go and make up for things already being done many times over by being oddly creative. Wing!fic comes to mind, although that might have originated in the sister fandom LotRPS, and the Very Secret Diaries.
TMNT
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
A combination of things, including boredom and rumor. I ignored it at first because I have vague memories of my brothers days of being fans and not much caring for the cartoon, although the movies weren't too bad. Then people in the One Piece fandom were pointing out that 4Kids was putting out a surprisingly good new version of TMNT. One Piece fandom hates 4Kids with a passion for the horrible macekre they did on the One Piece dub and thus destroying what is one of Japan's most loved and popular series and its chances at becoming in the West what Naruto currently is, so this fandom reluctantly saying anything that company does is good is a big deal. So I did some digging, rented the first season of the 2003 TMNT cartoon, then went and bought the first 5 seasons and got a roommate addicted along with because holy crap is it good!
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I'll probably eventually move on like I do in all my fandoms, but this one shows signs of being one of those ones I'll fondly go back and read/discuss in.
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
Oh, there are so many that come to mind. Like many fans, I have a love/hate relationship with the episode "Same As It Never Was", aka SAINW, because it's such a fascinating concept but, because the show's aimed at kids, it didn't go as deep as it could have or even should have. How many shows have you seen where a character, in order to save the entire world, has to watch their family die? Okay, so it was an alternate reality, but Donatello didn't know that at the time and, in a later episode, he makes the same damn decision and it's only sheer luck and good timing that prevents anyone from actually dying. It really should disturb people that Donnie's proven more than once that he's capable of killing himself and everyone he loves if he thinks he has a good enough reason, but it only seems to show up in fanfiction. Thank God for fanfiction.
The other episode I absolutely love and have to share is the first season three-parter "Return to New York" when the turtles and Splinter invade the Shredder's high rise fortress. The way they get in is ingenious, the fights are awesomely choreographed, and watching Leo behead the Shredder is just... wow. But the best moment has to be, after the good guys have left, watching the Shredder's headless body get up, casually pick up his head, and disappear inside the burning building. It's the moment you realize that, despite their homages to the original comic, the 2003 cartoon isn't going to let their Shredder be beaten that easily.
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I've written two pieces of fanfiction thus far and have plans for a third to finish eventually. Unfortunately, I've been distracted by another shiny new fandom, so I'm down to reading the stories that cross my flist/circle at the moment. I actually tied for fourth place for AFFA awards on one of them. *bounces* Unfortunately, until I get my lazy butt moving and copy my fiction over to my DW, the only place you can read my fanfics for this fandom are the LJ TMNT slash communities and, because of the high number of kids doing searches for this show on the internet, all highly rated stuff, like my fics, are community-locked so kids can't randomly come across it and get the community in trouble for essentially distributing porn to minors, even though they're not the target audience of said fanfics.
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Oh, yes. There are enough versions out there that you're bound to find one you like. I do recommend at the least watching the first four or five* seasons of the 2003 cartoon if you like action/adventure and SF at all.
*Season 5 is known as the Lost Season because it wasn't properly aired thanks to corporate meddling. Most people are kind of iffy on it, even though it does build on elements present from the beginning like the rest of the show, because it has a rather mystical slant.
Because of that same corporate meddling, most people really disliked Season 6 aka Fast Forward (that's what it was officially called, and that's what most people wished it would do) and judgment is still out on Season 7.
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
rushlight gave me Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Star Wars
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
I honestly have trouble remembering exactly how I got into the Star Wars fandom. I do know I had previously been in the Gargoyles fandom, which was primarily on its own main site and, in an effort to find more fanfiction, I ended up on fanfiction dot net. There was a wide variety of fandoms and for some reason I found myself reading Star Wars fics. I quickly became involved in the TPM portion of the fandom, joining the Master/Apprentice site and mailing list and becoming friends with people who posted both there and on ff.n, like Rahalia. Rahalia gave me my LJ invite code and the rest is pretty much history.
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I, um, have moved on, more or less. I'll sometimes go back and read a rec or an old favorite or a new drabble a friend has written, but I haven't done anything really serious in that fandom for years.
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
I grew up adoring Return of the Jedi. I didn't grow to like Empire Strikes Back until I was a teenager, and that's my parents' fault, because they didn't realize my brothers and I had never seen the very first Star Wars until we saw a box set with three movies in it a few years before the prequels were set to come out. As my youngest brother put it, "There's three Star Wars movies?" Once I'd seen A New Hope, a lot of the things that confused me (like Leia kissing Luke and why a dead, blue Obi-Wan was talking to Luke) suddenly made a lot more sense. I had mixed feelings about the prequels, but I adored the fight scenes and young Obi-Wan.
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I've always been more of a reader/reviewer/meta/discussant in the majority of fandoms I participate in. I have neither the time, money, (and, sometimes, patience) to do much more. I'm more what Onci once insisted I am - a fandom Big Cat. If I'm in a fandom, I may not necessarily be the most visible or vocal, but most people know I'm there and I can either be playful or come down hard on someone, depending on the circumstances.
That said, I have co-written a comedy story with Franzi that's still up on MA that's the result of her trying and failing to squick me.
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
It's was a fun fandom and the gang that was there was a hell of a lot of fun while I was around. Still are, considering how many of them are on my flist/circle. :D Most of them seem to have moved away from that fandom like I have, however, so I have no clue what the current layout looks like. At the very least, if you have plenty of free time, I'd recommend checking out the MA Archive.
LotR
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
The movies. Definitely the movies, because I read the books well before I ever got involved in fandom. By the time the movies came around, I was already into slash and I think Fellowship of the Ring might be the first movie I ever watched with slasher eyes. Part of this was because I had, as I've said, read the books and I was thus expecting at the very least some easy to see Frodo/Sam. The rest of the cast was a bonus. XD
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I've also moved on from this one although, again, it's also one of the few I go back and occasionally re-read old favorites or recced new fics. It helped for a bit when Splix got on a Boromir kick.
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
I loved the Two Towers movie, and large portions of The Return of the King. Fellowship has to be my least favorite, but I still watch it with glee.
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I actually did very little in this fandom beyond reccing fics and writing two very short ones of my own. Of those two, I can only remember the location of the one with the sex.
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Yes. LotR is one of those fandoms where the source is old enough to have influenced the world several times over. People come and go and make up for things already being done many times over by being oddly creative. Wing!fic comes to mind, although that might have originated in the sister fandom LotRPS, and the Very Secret Diaries.
TMNT
1: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
A combination of things, including boredom and rumor. I ignored it at first because I have vague memories of my brothers days of being fans and not much caring for the cartoon, although the movies weren't too bad. Then people in the One Piece fandom were pointing out that 4Kids was putting out a surprisingly good new version of TMNT. One Piece fandom hates 4Kids with a passion for the horrible macekre they did on the One Piece dub and thus destroying what is one of Japan's most loved and popular series and its chances at becoming in the West what Naruto currently is, so this fandom reluctantly saying anything that company does is good is a big deal. So I did some digging, rented the first season of the 2003 TMNT cartoon, then went and bought the first 5 seasons and got a roommate addicted along with because holy crap is it good!
2: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
I'll probably eventually move on like I do in all my fandoms, but this one shows signs of being one of those ones I'll fondly go back and read/discuss in.
3: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
Oh, there are so many that come to mind. Like many fans, I have a love/hate relationship with the episode "Same As It Never Was", aka SAINW, because it's such a fascinating concept but, because the show's aimed at kids, it didn't go as deep as it could have or even should have. How many shows have you seen where a character, in order to save the entire world, has to watch their family die? Okay, so it was an alternate reality, but Donatello didn't know that at the time and, in a later episode, he makes the same damn decision and it's only sheer luck and good timing that prevents anyone from actually dying. It really should disturb people that Donnie's proven more than once that he's capable of killing himself and everyone he loves if he thinks he has a good enough reason, but it only seems to show up in fanfiction. Thank God for fanfiction.
The other episode I absolutely love and have to share is the first season three-parter "Return to New York" when the turtles and Splinter invade the Shredder's high rise fortress. The way they get in is ingenious, the fights are awesomely choreographed, and watching Leo behead the Shredder is just... wow. But the best moment has to be, after the good guys have left, watching the Shredder's headless body get up, casually pick up his head, and disappear inside the burning building. It's the moment you realize that, despite their homages to the original comic, the 2003 cartoon isn't going to let their Shredder be beaten that easily.
4: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
I've written two pieces of fanfiction thus far and have plans for a third to finish eventually. Unfortunately, I've been distracted by another shiny new fandom, so I'm down to reading the stories that cross my flist/circle at the moment. I actually tied for fourth place for AFFA awards on one of them. *bounces* Unfortunately, until I get my lazy butt moving and copy my fiction over to my DW, the only place you can read my fanfics for this fandom are the LJ TMNT slash communities and, because of the high number of kids doing searches for this show on the internet, all highly rated stuff, like my fics, are community-locked so kids can't randomly come across it and get the community in trouble for essentially distributing porn to minors, even though they're not the target audience of said fanfics.
5: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?
Oh, yes. There are enough versions out there that you're bound to find one you like. I do recommend at the least watching the first four or five* seasons of the 2003 cartoon if you like action/adventure and SF at all.
*Season 5 is known as the Lost Season because it wasn't properly aired thanks to corporate meddling. Most people are kind of iffy on it, even though it does build on elements present from the beginning like the rest of the show, because it has a rather mystical slant.
Because of that same corporate meddling, most people really disliked Season 6 aka Fast Forward (that's what it was officially called, and that's what most people wished it would do) and judgment is still out on Season 7.
