time. What time is it?

[auronlu]

I was joking in some thread about procrastinating from school papers by writing Doctor Who fanfiction, and then I thought... Wow. I was DOING that back in junior high. Writing Jon Pertwee and Jo Grant in the Atlantis episode which I loved with great love.

That was the Third Doctor. True, in UK, they were on the fourth by then, but still.

There are junior high schoolers TODAY who are procrastinating writing Doctor Who fanfic. Only now it's what, the eleventh Doctor?

The same holds for Trek, really, although not quite so much since Trek output is in a bit of a lull right now. But after the next movie it will again be true.

Fandom is oooooooold. It's just that now it's a lot more communal than it used to be, when it was often practiced in solitary or shared with a friend or two.

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[sarasa_cat]

Your icon!!!!! Best trek icon ever. :D

For the longest time I thought I was the odd one out for never ever writing any fanfic until I was definitely an adult (who owned a house, had a career, and managed accounts with adult-levels of responsibility) but then I remembered that when I was five and six I wrote screen plays for my favorite TV shows and I even staged them in my bedroom. (which is a moment of WOW because later, as an adult, I ended up accidentally backing into being the lead writer for a few video games even though I was not originally hired as a writer).

I procrastinated from school work in junior high through university by playing tabletop RPG games and doing online RP. That's close enough to the fanfic community, eh?

[auronlu]

Absolutely!

I spent a lot more time playing tabletop and online RP (text-based) up until I stumbled into online fandom in my thirties; before that it was just something I shared with a few friends. It's interesting to see when in life we come to various kinds of fan activities.