heavily biased “what fandom was the first fanfic you read for” but for my specific fandom generation instead of people who are currently teenagers
power leveling shonen juggernauts (g1 naruto, bleach, dragon ball, etc)
weeaboo crew (anything that made you more of a weeb than watching dragon ball)
harry potter
superwholock
cult classic live action american tv (buffy, xfiles, star trek, etc)
homestuck
boy band rpf (anything in the span from backstreet boys to one direction)
emo bandom (mcr, fob, p!atd, of course, along with anything else in that realm)
twilight (books or movies)
lord of the rings (books or movies or extended universe)
star wars (books or movies or extended universe)
other (put it in the TAGS i am a fandom HISTORIAN i need to KNOW)
See Resultsaddendums: cult classic tv overlaps with early supernatural seasons somewhat, i am aware, just choose based on the cultural context in which you read your first fic.
for weeaboo crew i was thinking of examples like hetalia, black butler, soul eater, etc–popular anime absolutely included but the distinction is that people who were into dragon ball weren’t necessarily going to anime club every week and making deviantart stamps about yaoi, but people into ouran high school host club ABSOLUTELY were.
homestuck is in its own category because homestuck changed fandom forever at a critical time which just happened to be when i was growing up in fandom. harry potter, lotr, star wars, and twilight are in their own categories because they were such multimedia juggernauts they had entire archives dedicated solely and only to their fic that spanned multiple franchise reboots (books -> movies -> extended universes). (i acknowledge star trek technically would fit under this but at the time culturally it had more overlap with other cult classic tv fandoms.)
honorable mentions that didn’t make it to the list because i had to pick-and-choose with the 12 answer limit: the final fantasy franchise (axed because i am not familiar enough with the fic scene to know if it was as iconic of a gateway drug as, like, naruto or twilight or star wars fic), a general YA lit category (YA lit outside of twilight only went mainstream slightly after this time period), the MCU (i have a hate boner for the MCU), a broader “american superhero comics” category (this would be valid as an option but i don’t have the space)
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//edit- added a final image to the post!
a late sendoff but thanks for the good times avengers academy… gonna miss ya kids but u will all live on in our art & fics…. ಥ_ಥ
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Show a little love at ko-fi @ artinggrace! :D
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Human half this, Vulcan half that. Spock actually takes after both of his parents by being unhinged (Amanda) and a bitch (Sarek)
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a girl who is a noir detective man and a guy who is a femme fatale
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putting this in a separate post + even more silly battinson/corensupes stuff based off this post (and op’s tags)
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let time pass.
Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc etc etc
save me fem presenting loki… fem presenting loki save me….
bonus:
sometimes…. things that are fascinating…. are worse
star trek heritage post (August 15th, 2017)
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#the “my husband has been stuck in space for an indefinite amount of time and i just got him back” sprint
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