Fandom Snowflake 2025 Challenge #2

[scrubjayspeaks]

Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Some fandom firsts~

First fan creation: after I saw a live production of Cats for the first time as a small child, I wrote a script for various OCs having a dramatic adventure

First encounter with fannish community: met my eighth grade best friend, who showed me anime and fanfic and emulated games and doujinshi scanlations

First convention: Anime Expo Los Angeles, 2003--didn't cosplay, but did make iron-on transfer t-shirts with art from Yu Yu Hakusho

Comments

[gingicat]

There's so much going on in the Cats world to expand on, what a great introduction to making your own stuff.

Hurray for finding fandom through friends.

Do you still go to cons and/or make t-shirts?

Thank you for participating!

[scrubjayspeaks]

I haven't been to a con in the last decade, sadly. I moved such that Los Angeles in no longer easily accessible like it had been. I do still think of AX as my "home" con, so it would be lovely if I could go again some year.

I am thinking, vaguely, of getting into screen printing at home. Because what I really need is another crafting project and the associated equipment to cram into my tiny house. ಥ_ಥ

[musyc]

First fan creation: after I saw a live production of Cats for the first time as a small child, I wrote a script for various OCs having a dramatic adventure

This sounds like a marvelous thing for a child to invent. XD

[scrubjayspeaks]

I took to storytelling early. I like to joke that I was writing stories before I knew how to write. I got a tiny notepad as a prize at an arcade and proceeded to fill it with scribblings. I was attempting to write down the story I was telling myself aloud, but my spoken vocabulary far outstripped my written, so I was actually just making cursive-like wavy lines. XD