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[icedark_elf]

*is a curious one*

Just because I'm wondering, how many of you were into slash before you found fandom? Or was it the other way for you? You found fandom, and then slash?

I'm the former, and it seems the more I talk to people, the more I seem to do it backwards from them. I liked the guys in shows together long before I realized there even was a thing called fandom, and been writing fanfic for as long.

I know I can't be the only one. But I am curious now.

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[karanguni.insanejournal.com]

I was, like, um, 10 went I got into fandom. I don't think I even thought about sex or sexuality back then. Slash kinda found me, and not the other way around.

[guiltyred.insanejournal.com]

Good question, there!

I'm like you -- I was into slash before I knew there was a name for it. Spock/Kirk was probably my first OTP... I even slashed two main characters in "Spinal Tap," much to my partner's consternation!

Imagine my surprise and delight to discover a whole genre of this stuff! Oh, wait -- preachin' to the choir. :3

[rubyfruit_pixie.insanejournal.com]

Does femmeslash count, too?

I swear I was into it before I knew what fandom was (then again, I've been in fandom since I was eleven).

[manxsama.insanejournal.com]

I've always been in fandom.... I think I was 5 when I saw my first anime and I never stopped

I've been into slash for about 9/10 years.
I had Internet for two years when a friend of mine introduced me to weiss kreuz... that opened me a whole new world *.*

[dracontia.insanejournal.com]

I was 10? 11 maybe? when I got into fandom. The first time I ran across fanfiction I didn't realize that it was fiction until I got to the end and went: wait, that didn't actually happen, did it? Then I found ff.net and got into slash a few weeks later.

[purple_alicorn.insanejournal.com]

I think I was the former - well I read Mercedes Lackey well before I discovered fanfic!

[ferdelance.insanejournal.com]

Fandom, then slash, definitely!

I started off in an anime-based fandom, one that was particularly prone to "yaoi" ... it squicked me, actually. Then I, out of desperation or something, dipped a toe in, and managed to read the fluffy, nonexplicit ones, but sex scenes still squicked me. Then, umm, eventually they didn't. Now my brain is tuned to All Slash, All The Time! :D

[ferdelance.insanejournal.com]

Well, when I say, "I started off in fandom", I'm excluding the fanfic I wrote in first grade based on Black Beauty, and similar such stuff. I was referring to internet fandom/fan interactions. So I've kind of been a fan forever, but that's not quite the same, to me, as being in fandom.

[wolfstarblade]

I'm the former. Stumbled across slash on yahoo groups, posted some fics, switched over to reading on websites and stumbled over AFF. I think I was 12/13. I distinctly remember thinking 'But who'd want to read DBZ slash?'. (I'm so not into het its not funny : p)
Then a friend showed me Advent Children last year and I dived into FF7. I branched out into others (Naruto/ Bleach/Gundam Wing/Inuyasha) but unfortunately I seem to pick the least represented pairings first and then get into the main ones once I've exhausted those.

[shini_tenshi.insanejournal.com]

Hmm... I have to say I'm part of the second group, because I was fairly young when I first started reading fanfic, and at the time I wasn't interested in characters pairing off with anyone, male or female. I only got into slash after I fully left the Sailor Moon fandom and moved into reading all Gundam Wing fic; this would have been... I guess in 2000, after I turned 14.

*remembers she needs to stop lurking*

[shingumisaturn.insanejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure I started out in fandom before getting into yaoi. Then again I got into fandom back when I didn't care about romance and couples and all that good stuff yet.

[arin_rowan.insanejournal.com]

Tricky to answer- I got into fandom, then got into slash outside of fandom, then discovered slash in fandom. I was into Slayers and Dragonball Z fandom, but didn't slash anyone at that time; I was more the type who liked unusual hetero pairings, such as Lina/Zel or Lina/Xellos or Bulma/Raditz. I didn't realize I was into slash until my second year of high school when someone loaned me a copy of Yami no Matsuei, and I found myself slightly more absorbed (cough) at certain scenes than I thought I should be. I started to explore slash in fandoms after that, but I did not discover slash through fandom, I found it through anime.

[kiraya.insanejournal.com]

I got into slash after I got into fandom -- completely by accident, no less. I was looking for interaction fics for my favorite two guys (Seto and Yami from Yuugiou, heh) and discovering that, um, some people liked them interacting a little bit more than I'd thought about before.

bard_linn, who is sitting here doing math problems, says she got into slash by reading Mercedes Lackey, before she got into fandom.

[aikonamika.insanejournal.com]

It's...difficult to pin that down. Actually, I'm fairly sure I was into fandom before I was into slash. Specifically, the GW fandom, because I remember going to summer camp the year I was getting into the fandom and meeting up with someone who was a die-hard 1x2 fan, who enlightened me to the world of slash.

The reason it's kind of hard for me to pin down in because, for the longest time, I didn't connect the concept of yaoi/slash with homosexual relationships in books. As far as that goes - Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, where fully half of the fighting force has no problem waking up to a bed-partner with stubble (to paraphrase a friend); also Mercedes Lackey, with Vanyel and Tylendel/Stefen most notably. That's stretched back to elementary school. ^^;;

...speaking of Anne McCaffrey, I am currently desperately trying not to turn Sephiroth into a military brainship with Zack and Cloud as his brawns. *buries her head in her hands*

[wolfstarblade]

I am currently desperately trying not to turn Sephiroth into a military brainship with Zack and Cloud as his brawns...

*Paws at the shiny* Please do!!! It sounds very intriguing

[youko_rayah.insanejournal.com]

slash then fandom for me

[armina.insanejournal.com]

Er, for me it was kinda both at the same time?

I thought that Trowa and Quatre were adorable together, but fandom got me slashing in other series as well, so..? Mostly fandom got me into slash, rather than viceversa.

[mathematagi.insanejournal.com]

Sadly, I was also in the latter.

I went into fandom and actively avoided slash before seeing the light.