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How Did You Discover Fan Fic?
marina:
--- Quote from: balance on March 08, 2011, 07:29:41 PM ---My first meeting with fan fiction was totally accidental. I was doing some internet research on incest for a psychology class, and one of the searches had a link featuring the Backstreet Boys. Of course I was curious. This was back in '99 or 2000, and I had been "introduced" to the Backstreet Boys by my students. The story, "Get You Back," was slash; and I think I read the whole thing with my mouth open! But, I was hooked almost to the point of obsession. I read every slash story I could find, whether good or bad.....I just couldn't get enough. It was like I had gone to a foreign country, and wanted to "visit" every area. The first non-slash story I read was "Living In a Nightmare." I don't remember who the author was but the plot pulled me into the story. I'm not even sure what site the story was on, but I followed a link which lead me to "Ground Zero." It was incomplete at the time, however, that story inspired me to send feedback. Chaos was the first author I sent feedback to.
Ahhh.....the good old days.....I'm feeling so nostalgic.
I've gone on to read other fandoms; but, BSB fanfiction always feels like coming home!
Pammy Whammy
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I just remembered how I 'discovered' slash (I'm not a slash reader, I really don't like it). After my experience finding great authors in this fandom I tried to find good stories in other fandoms I liked too, so I remember going to fanficnet and looking for Highlander fiction and every other story had the word 'slash' in the summary and for some reason (remember that English is not my first language) I thought it was a character hehe After a while I was 'okay who this Slash guy is and why is in so many stories?' so I clicked one of them and couldn't believe what I was reading ??? ??? LOL I think it was Mac/Methos hehe
RokofAges75:
Pammy, that is hilarious that you discovered Bsb fanfic by researching incest LMFAO.
I don't remember when I figured out what slash meant; none of the websites I went to in my early days even had slash, so that was later.
I do remember reading my first visual, though. It was that first year I discovered fanfic, when I was 14. We had still dial-up internet at home, of course, and it was so slow, and my mom limited my time online because it tied up the phone line. Luckily, she's a computer teacher, so she would let me come with her when she went to work in the computer lab at school, and I could get on the computers there and surf. So I would sit there and read fanfics while she worked.
One day, I came across a website full of visuals, but I had no idea what that term meant. I started reading this one Brian story, and I'm sure my eyes just got wider and wider as I realized what I was reading... in the same room as my mother, no less... and on a school computer (guess their online filters weren't that great back then?)... but I couldn't stop at that point, so I finished the thing and read a couple others on the same site just for kicks LOL. They weren't that dirty of visuals, thankfully; they were graphic, but pretty teenybopper still.
Carter-Orange:
I had to laugh at you thinking Slash was a character! I had a similar experience. I thought Slash was horror. So I was reading this story and thinking "when are the murders going to happen?". I didn't dislike the story, but slash is not for me :)
marina:
I don't have a problem with the Slash genre per se, it's just that I wouldn't read BSB slash because that's not the way I see the guys and although fanfiction is 'fiction' at the end of the day, I think in my case in particular I enjoy the fic of some fandoms because they give me stories about real people (or even about characters created by others) and either if the image I have about these people is just that, 'an image', it's the way I've learnt to known them and that's part of what I like about these stories. Maybe there's a great Slash story about let's say NSync outhere (I don't know too much about them) that I would enjoy because for me it would be easier to picture them in a relationship since I really don't know what kind of relationships they have in real life (who's who's best friend, who can't stand the other, etc)
And to stay on topic, I think I have some of Cecilia's stories saved in a CD somewhere cause I remembered downloading them to my hard disc (several computers ago lol) It has to be fun to go back and read those stories to see if I still like them as much now.
Carter-Orange:
I don't have anything against slash either, but it's just not something I usually read.
I'm quite tempted to go and read the first fanfic I ever read. Even though it wasn't a long time ago, I wonder if I'd enjoy it as much now that I've read quite a few.
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