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The discussion on [livejournal.com profile] eleanor_lavish's cranky old fangirl post (friends locked; sorry) made me wonder just how long people have been in fandom. So let's have a poll! Feel free to pepper the comments with anecdotes about your entry into fandom. Also, due to LJ restrictions on the number of options, I've had to chunk things out a little. Luckily, this data is only going to be used to satisfy my curiosity and not to make any sort of point where good data matters.

[Poll #1641213]

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Date: 2010-11-06 02:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com
This poll made me realize we have been friends for ten years! :-D

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Date: 2010-11-06 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dine.livejournal.com
wow, I feel ancient when I realize how long I've been doing this! though I'm eversohappy to have had those years

I first stumbled into online fandom in 1998, when my workplace first got internet - I was seeking info on Homicide: LotS which lead me to a fic site, which quickly lead me to slash stories, and I had found my people, I was home!

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Date: 2010-11-06 02:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] allyndra.livejournal.com
I'd been fannish pretty much all my life, but I didn't find online fandom until the build up to Serenity. The official Universal fan forums were an awesome, active place, and they introduced me to a whole bunch of aspects of online fans and fandom. My first fic fandom was Buffy. I was curious, so I Googled 'Buffy fan fiction' and found an angsty, human AU Spike/Buffy fic. I was like, "People read this for fun???" But I kept looking, and came across an epic Spike/Xander fic that just blew me away. I never looked back.

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Date: 2010-11-06 03:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sleepherealone.livejournal.com
8-9 for online fandom, I'll always remember stumbling into Final Fantasy VII fandom when I was 12 years old and being scared off from ever participating in anything past lurking until I got my LJ in 2004. Prior to online fandom, I do remember making up sequels to the Lion King movies with my best friend when we were between 8-10 and I still have some documents of wannabe movie scripts on my family's oldest computer.
Edited Date: 2010-11-06 03:30 am (UTC)

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Date: 2010-11-06 04:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] idahophoenix.livejournal.com
It's a long time since I've been this "young" in anything. It's true that I've also always been fannish--all the way back to playing Lost In Space with my sister, writing alternative chapters of Little Women, having a huge crush on Danny Partridge ( the 'wrong' Partridge boy to be crushed out on) and, I suppose, having a Narnia themed commitment ceremony complete with an appearance by Aslan. Still, I'm a baby in on-line fandom. It's a relief to realize this as lately I've been freaking out about how much I don't get about all the lingo and how people make friends and how to get a beta and how not to be a complete idiot. Knowing that I'm not even a toddler yet, helps me to give myself a bit of a break around all that.

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Date: 2010-11-06 07:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] megyal
I'm still a baaaaaby at 4 years!

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Date: 2010-11-08 06:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] idahophoenix.livejournal.com
Thanks. Actually, people have been mostly great. Of course I shouldn't read things like "cranky old fangirl" postings in my babyhood because I'm too young to be cynical--except for one thing, it made me laugh really hard. I guess I'm a newbie just waiting for the day that I've been around enough to be jaded :)

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