I did find this little history interesting. For my own part, I was drawing comics in grade school and writing stories in high school (after, I fear, my interest in "storytelling" outstripped my ability to draw, or my willingness to practice and improve my drawing anyway), but it never quite occurred to me to see if anyone around me was interested in them (so that I can now look back and see just how... impenetrable they would have been to anyone else). In my last year or so at high school, I picked up on how there were discussions on this accelerating thing called the Internet, but the first ISP didn't start up in my area until the summer in between high school and university. Back then, "fandom" meant Usenet newsgroups and sometimes mailing lists, but I can suppose I was always more likely to just read than to contribute a lot of comments, as I've always been sort of slow to get my thoughts together.
The most sustained effort I made to create "fanworks" for the purpose of showing them others was writing MSTings, and I stuck it out there until that subset of the "Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom" had pretty much dried up. I suppose Saga Journal itself sort of ground to a halt before I'd quite run out of ideas for essays to write, but I miss it too. There are discussions on different things I continue to follow to this day, but I'm still inclined to not say too much to anyone else. Of course, I also wish I was getting comments on my journal (here or on Dreamwidth...)
Just as a comment, do you keep track of the "Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society?" It might be a little slice of fandom you could find interest in.
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Date: 2016-01-23 11:21 pm (UTC)The most sustained effort I made to create "fanworks" for the purpose of showing them others was writing MSTings, and I stuck it out there until that subset of the "Mystery Science Theater 3000 fandom" had pretty much dried up. I suppose Saga Journal itself sort of ground to a halt before I'd quite run out of ideas for essays to write, but I miss it too. There are discussions on different things I continue to follow to this day, but I'm still inclined to not say too much to anyone else. Of course, I also wish I was getting comments on my journal (here or on Dreamwidth...)
Just as a comment, do you keep track of the "Star Wars Prequel Appreciation Society?" It might be a little slice of fandom you could find interest in.