(Also 14 going on 15 years old at the time, 15 must be a good age for blogging haha.)
Ha, evidently so!
My first big fandom was Pokémon! I first discovered fanfiction on someone's personal Pokémon website, and it absolutely blew my mind. A free story? Just sitting here on the Internet? For me to read? About Mew, one of my favourite Pokémon??? I dragged my younger brother to the computer and made him read it as well; I don't think he entirely understood why I was so excited.
My first real presence on the Internet, if you don't count all the petulant messages I left on the guestbooks of 'anti-Pokémon' websites, was on a messageboard for fans of a series of Pokémon/Animorphs crossover fics. My first attempt at writing fanfiction myself was inspired by zarla's fics on Neglected Pokémon Lovers Unite!, which, to my delight, she still keeps online all these years later; it's an incredible relic of the Internet around the turn of the millennium, and it meant a lot to me when I was a kid.
I actually revisited and annotated my first fic, Rachel's Pokémon Journey, a few years ago. It's under the tag 'old fanfiction book club' if you have an inexplicable craving for terrible self-insert Pokémon journey fanfiction written by a twelve-year-old.
I'd be interested to know your first fandom in return!
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(Also 14 going on 15 years old at the time, 15 must be a good age for blogging haha.)
Ha, evidently so!
My first big fandom was Pokémon! I first discovered fanfiction on someone's personal Pokémon website, and it absolutely blew my mind. A free story? Just sitting here on the Internet? For me to read? About Mew, one of my favourite Pokémon??? I dragged my younger brother to the computer and made him read it as well; I don't think he entirely understood why I was so excited.
My first real presence on the Internet, if you don't count all the petulant messages I left on the guestbooks of 'anti-Pokémon' websites, was on a messageboard for fans of a series of Pokémon/Animorphs crossover fics. My first attempt at writing fanfiction myself was inspired by
I actually revisited and annotated my first fic, Rachel's Pokémon Journey, a few years ago. It's under the tag 'old fanfiction book club' if you have an inexplicable craving for terrible self-insert Pokémon journey fanfiction written by a twelve-year-old.
I'd be interested to know your first fandom in return!