i think so, yeah! when i joined fandom it was mostly on national (danish) message boards (this was around 2003 lol) and i didn't write fic as i was still writing original stories at the time, i did fanart and graphics and discussions and off-topic discussions, etc. (i didn't start writing fic until 2006 when i was...18? math is hard). shortly before i joined fandom at large i'd finished writing my first ever novel. it was terrible for many reasons but i was unhappy with it for one reason exactly: it was a love triangle because i didn't know at the time that one could be poly and that not having to choose was allowed. you can have both! so i felt i had to kill off the girl so the two boys could be together, when what i REALLY wanted was for the main character to have BOTH. but it wasn't allowed! etc. i struggled with that a lot. (i ended up deleting the novel off my harddrive a year later because i couldn't stand knowing it existed. :'D) at the time i was also a closeted trans gay boy and struggling with it because at the time i also didn't know that gender could be fluid + i was dealing with a lot of the 'compulsory heterosexuality' that comes with being socialised as a woman etc etc.
joining fandom at that age meant i suddenly had access to all kinds of queer stories, made friends (all of whom turned out to be queer), unlearned a lot of toxic bullshit (not all at once, mind), and also, over time, managed to slot the pieces of my identity together in a way that made sense, and that i'm comfortable with. so yeah, i'm about to turn 30 so i have spent half my life as an active participant in fandom at this point, and i honestly wouldn't trade it for the world. it's given me SO much.
puremuslin sounds like something a dedicated housewife whose favourite novels are jane austen might choose as a username :'D they wear a lot of muslin dresses in those novels, is my impression :'''D i like your meaning for it! though my brain still can't let go of the impossibility of a plumage of ruins... XD
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Date: 2017-11-26 10:34 am (UTC)joining fandom at that age meant i suddenly had access to all kinds of queer stories, made friends (all of whom turned out to be queer), unlearned a lot of toxic bullshit (not all at once, mind), and also, over time, managed to slot the pieces of my identity together in a way that made sense, and that i'm comfortable with. so yeah, i'm about to turn 30 so i have spent half my life as an active participant in fandom at this point, and i honestly wouldn't trade it for the world. it's given me SO much.
puremuslin sounds like something a dedicated housewife whose favourite novels are jane austen might choose as a username :'D they wear a lot of muslin dresses in those novels, is my impression :'''D i like your meaning for it! though my brain still can't let go of the impossibility of a plumage of ruins... XD