september's coming soon

G: What was your first fandom?

The Pokémon anime, and specifically the Team Rocket-centered parts of it, at ca. 2000-2002. I eventually played the games and got a bit into the Adventures manga, but my main interest was was always the anime and the anime-adjacent manga (the one where Rocketshipping was canon, obviously). I eventually got more and more into the "twerps", and it was the home of the very first pairing that by all accounts was crack but which I found myself taking very seriously because it would be very adorable (ref. adrichat) - thirdwheelshipping AKA nevermetshipping AKA Brock/Tracey.

Yes, I had websites (yes, plural). And I'm old enough to be the original Eevee on both FFN and AO3 - but not DW. But sure enough, the username I ended up with was still very much oldskool Pokémon

D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

Rocketshipping fanfic. Like, I specifically remember one just coming to me and my going out and either buying a notebook or bringing one along for some outing because i had to write it down right this moment. It was an utterly OOC dumb romance, but to my defence, it was at least somewhat original in the take that James somehow wasn't in it at all.

I can't remember if it ever was posted anywhere, but I did contribute some fic to a TR-centred archive (TRHQ2), where I also spent some very formative time hanging around the forums.

I suppose it speaks for itself that I later found the fic posted there so embarassing that I asked for it to be taken down *g*