Thinky Thoughts
Jun. 9th, 2011 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonlettuceAh, new fandoms. My desktop wallpaper is no longer Dean/Cas, but now Charles/Erik.
It's weird, because I'm thinking of X-Men: FC as a new fandom but, technically, X-Men is my oldest fandom. I read my first X-Men comic when I was seven (and then got said comic signed by Chris Claremont last October when he appeared at London Expo). I've pretty much been collecting since then.
I read X-Men fic, I'm on some comms and I've had at least one X-Men icon in the mix during my entire life on LJ. Hell, the first fanfic I wrote was an X-Men/Highlander crossover (complete with required Mary Sue ::grin::), but there are so many times I don't think of it as one of my fandoms. Which is daft. I mean, I have the comics, I have the figurines, the artwork, the absolute utter and total desire to stab Ben Raab in the face with a spork for what he did with Excalibur when he was writing it.
When you look at it, X-Men's been a part of my life since I first picked up a comic and read about Ororo being seduced by Dracula. My two oldest OTPs are Logan/Ororo and Charles/Erik.
So, new fandom? Old fandom? Maybe I should just call it an absolute certainty and be done with it ::grin::
It's weird, because I'm thinking of X-Men: FC as a new fandom but, technically, X-Men is my oldest fandom. I read my first X-Men comic when I was seven (and then got said comic signed by Chris Claremont last October when he appeared at London Expo). I've pretty much been collecting since then.
I read X-Men fic, I'm on some comms and I've had at least one X-Men icon in the mix during my entire life on LJ. Hell, the first fanfic I wrote was an X-Men/Highlander crossover (complete with required Mary Sue ::grin::), but there are so many times I don't think of it as one of my fandoms. Which is daft. I mean, I have the comics, I have the figurines, the artwork, the absolute utter and total desire to stab Ben Raab in the face with a spork for what he did with Excalibur when he was writing it.
When you look at it, X-Men's been a part of my life since I first picked up a comic and read about Ororo being seduced by Dracula. My two oldest OTPs are Logan/Ororo and Charles/Erik.
So, new fandom? Old fandom? Maybe I should just call it an absolute certainty and be done with it ::grin::
