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Post by Dramaphile on Oct 16, 2017 11:42:44 GMT -6
My first fandom was the Myst series of video games. I got the original Myst game back when a restaurant (I think TGIFridays?) was giving out Broderbund games for some reason. I fell in love with it, went online to search if there were any more games, and found the online fan community. Played through Riven and the other sequels, read the novels, and (I guess I can say it now...was under NDA at the time, lol) was an alpha tester for their MMO (that sadly never saw formal release). I made my own fan site on Geocities :-P (I wonder if it still exists...) and even attended an annual fan meetup/convention when it was close to me. After the Myst MMO died, I got into EverQuest, then WoW, and still play EverQuest 2. I got into HP in high school because we had to do a bunch of book reports on British literature. Someone in the class asked if Harry Potter counted and the teacher conceded doing a report on one HP book was OK. I figured it would be a quick/easy read, never expecting to then fall in love with the books, lol. Friends in college got me into anime, and now I help run an anime convention :-P Oh man, Geocities! I totally had a Geocities page which was mostly x files photos and some terrible fanfic. They got bought by Yahoo, so it doesn't really exist any more. |
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