just to clarify, X-Files was my *first* big internet fandom (mailing lists, trolling websites for fic). But prior to LJ I had also been through TPM and the first six months or so of the popslash explosion, which was all mailing-list-based as well as on AIM.
I also have mostly lurked in the three major fandoms (Smallville, Harry Potter, and SGA) that I claim to have "participated in" above. My friends write stories in them, I read more and less widely in them, I've been known to have long AIM conversations about them, but I virtually never actually post about them, and I've never written for them.
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Date: 2006-09-01 02:01 am (UTC)I also have mostly lurked in the three major fandoms (Smallville, Harry Potter, and SGA) that I claim to have "participated in" above. My friends write stories in them, I read more and less widely in them, I've been known to have long AIM conversations about them, but I virtually never actually post about them, and I've never written for them.