It's weird what grabs me to that point of fannish obsession, and what doesn't. I usually can predict whether I'm going to like a show or not, but that level of engagement that comes when I truly fall in love with one is not so predictable.
There's been a number of fandoms I've loved, starting when I was ten and I saw TESB, but it wasn't until I got online in my midtwenties that being a fan became a social thing instead of just how I related to the show.
But considering how long I've been active in fandom and how much longer I've been inclined to be fannish, there's only been a very few that I consider my fandoms. Star Wars. The Sentinel. Buffy/Angel. Supernatural.
There's others that have come close -- ie, X-Files, Babylon 5, Doctor Who, Nightrunner, LotR -- but for one reason or another I didn't go fully kersploosh into them.
I'm always surprised when I find that level of intensity with a new fandom -- because it isn't something I can predict and I do tend to be leery at giving my heart totally to a show because of how much it hurts when bad stuff happen to it. (Which probably explains that, aside from SPN, all my fandoms were ones I got into after they'd had at least one season or one movie under their belts. And why SPN took me completely by surprise in having me reach those levels by halfway through season one.)
The Buffy verse is amazing and I don't feel like I left it or anything. Just that I've added more to the family. (And I am so going to one day write that SPN/BtVS xover au that involves John finding Faith before she makes it to Sunnydale in S3 and ending up training her alongside the boys. Really.)
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There's been a number of fandoms I've loved, starting when I was ten and I saw TESB, but it wasn't until I got online in my midtwenties that being a fan became a social thing instead of just how I related to the show.
But considering how long I've been active in fandom and how much longer I've been inclined to be fannish, there's only been a very few that I consider my fandoms. Star Wars. The Sentinel. Buffy/Angel. Supernatural.
There's others that have come close -- ie, X-Files, Babylon 5, Doctor Who, Nightrunner, LotR -- but for one reason or another I didn't go fully kersploosh into them.
I'm always surprised when I find that level of intensity with a new fandom -- because it isn't something I can predict and I do tend to be leery at giving my heart totally to a show because of how much it hurts when bad stuff happen to it. (Which probably explains that, aside from SPN, all my fandoms were ones I got into after they'd had at least one season or one movie under their belts. And why SPN took me completely by surprise in having me reach those levels by halfway through season one.)
The Buffy verse is amazing and I don't feel like I left it or anything. Just that I've added more to the family. (And I am so going to one day write that SPN/BtVS xover au that involves John finding Faith before she makes it to Sunnydale in S3 and ending up training her alongside the boys. Really.)