Thank you very much! I'm just as intrigued by your fannish experience, because I've never really known what that's like. Which site did you start out on? How did you get into fandom? Do you keep in touch with the same people from site to site?
One of the reasons that it's hard for me to (retrospectively) fit my own experience into a "Fannish Home" narrative is that I never thought about my internet experience in terms of fandom. I think it's only since discovering the OTW and its associated projects (especially Fanlore) that I really started thinking about my own fandom experience, and thinking of it *as* a fandom experience, and comparing it to other people's. So maybe I'm just behind in that respect.
Of course, now that I am, I also don't know what I'm looking for in a fannish community/website because I've never really had one that did everything... On the plus side, it means my options are open, so I'm trying a few things on for size :)
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One of the reasons that it's hard for me to (retrospectively) fit my own experience into a "Fannish Home" narrative is that I never thought about my internet experience in terms of fandom. I think it's only since discovering the OTW and its associated projects (especially Fanlore) that I really started thinking about my own fandom experience, and thinking of it *as* a fandom experience, and comparing it to other people's. So maybe I'm just behind in that respect.
Of course, now that I am, I also don't know what I'm looking for in a fannish community/website because I've never really had one that did everything... On the plus side, it means my options are open, so I'm trying a few things on for size :)