snowflake challenge #10

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Challenge #10:
In your own space, talk about one of your fandom firsts. This could be your first fandom, your first fandom friend, the first fanwork you created, the first fanwork you interacted with... The options are endless!

I checked my AO3 and I realized that it has been two years since I posted a Smallville fic, the fandom that got me to actively participate in fandom and the one that somehow still brought me back so I'm going to talk about that. I had read fic for other fandoms before - Sailor Moon was my first - and I'm pretty sure Harry/Draco was my first slash ship (something about their interactions in the Half Blood Prince made me go "huh"). I only vaguely remember the fansite I found that introduced me to fic and I have absolutely no idea what the first fanfic was, even for Smallville, though I'm assuming it was a Clex one on the Smallville Slash Archive. I got into the show late (surprise surprise) and into fandom even later (middle of season 6, after half the ship I was into had already left - I was lucky enough that the actor came back two seasons later as a regular).

I created an LJ for Smallville (I've said it before but that is what the SV in my username stands for). I vaguely remember who my first friends were, and while the very first few are people I don't talk to anymore, there are still people I was friends with in my earlier LJ days that I've know here (hi bradygirl_12 ♥) and on Tumblr too, which makes me happy. I was definitely awkward back then and like a lot of people, said/did some embarrassing things, but being in a large fandom, even though I got there for a rare pair (I looked and apparently I've written 1/3 of the fics in the Clark/Oliver tag on AO3!) was an experience, with good and bad aspects.

Yes, there was drama and I joke that I stay on the edge of fandom nowadays for a reason, but I also learned how to start communities, be apart of a newsletter team briefly with the sv_ledger, and I even ran a Smallville exchange during their last season (I'm always embarrassed that I kinda failed at the end - should've had a co-mod but what can you do now). And I got to interact with a ton of lovely people! Someone even made the icon for me on this post and sent it to me 'just because', from one of those cute generators that were popular back then. It's a little funny that the Smallville season 11 comics had a very similar scene years later:



Of course comics Oliver looks understandably more distressed than my cartoon one lol But like I said, even though I would've done certain things differently, I'm happy to have been apart of it. Since I was so monofandom back in the day (with writing/participating, not reading), I did drift off a year after the show ended when I got distracted with other things. Yet, when I felt the urge to write again in 2020, it was Smallville that I wanted to write for. It's Smallville I did write for. And I still have a soft spot (and a ton of ideas) for it so maybe in 2025, I will end up finding the inspiration to go back to my original love. Here's hoping! :D

Comments

[muccamukk]

I remember the SV Herald. I was over in SGA fandom, and the two seemed to cross paths often enough that I feel like I got to know some of the SV people. It was a really fun time!

Hope the inspiration strikes 😍

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Oh yeah, I remember there were a lot of overlap between Smallville and certain other fandoms. A lot of people I knew were into Supernatural but I definitely saw some SGA and Torchwood too (and later on, Merlin and the MCU). It was definitely fun! :D

Thank you! I hope so too! :D

[barbaratp]

A inspiração virá, quando você menos esperar. A musa é muito amiga, mas também traiçoeira, ela aparece quando menos esperamos *risos*

Achei lindinho esse ícone e claro a imagem oficial que se seguiu depois e se assemelha muito. Queria eu saber em qual site fizeram essa arte do icon porque eu adorei u.y

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It's true! And definitely doesn't always inspire the way you want it to - when you're supposed to be working on one thing , that is when you will suddenly be motivated to do another and only that lol :D

Unfortunately, it was made over 15 years ago and I am fairly certain that website is dead. I tried to find it but I didn't trust where the links were leading so I stopped.

[barbaratp]

Eu pesquisei e realmente o site foi excluído depois de ser incorporado a outro. No entanto achei alguns sites de criação de dolls em pixels e posteriormente devo fazer uma entrada inteira sobre isso. Adoro esses antigos recursos, pena que muitos desapareceram para sempre.

E realmente não se preocupe com a musa, quando for pra ser ela irá aparecer u.u

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For sure. I know some of those sites are probably not sustainable but it is sad to see them gone anyway. And it's nice you found others like it.

That's good advice, thanks! I will keep that in mind.

[barbaratp]

Não é nem questão de ser sustentáveis, é que muitos ficam abandonados mesmo por questão de outras coisas se tornarem mais famosas nas redes e eles se tornarem um pouco obseletos o que é triste. Eu adoro pixel dolls sempre achei fofinho. Sou da época do msn e orkut impossível não querer *g*

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True, people do move on fast and since these kind of things don't have the staying power, the people who have to run, pay, and maintain these sites don't have the incentive to keep them going either. And they are cute so who can blame you?

[barbaratp]

Sim muito. Achei esses dias algumas dolls que fiz para mim nesses sites e fiquei toda apaixonada u.u

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That's good! Glad you are enjoying it. :)

[bradygirl_12]

*waves hello* 💖

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*waves back* ♥♥♥

[impala_chick]

It's so neat that you still have Smallville fic ideas :) Our first fandoms really do stick with us.

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They do! I go months without thinking about it once and then it'll be in my head for a week straight lol Admittedly, most of my ideas are ones I've already had that just pop back up but sometimes I get inspired with something new. :D