Exactly. I stumbled into the Buffy fandom through someone I met at a party who linked me up with "spoilerslayer" who got so sick of me emailing him about the show. (I desperately wanted to discuss it). That he sent me to the Buffy Cross and Stake Board, which in turn sent me to the All Things Philosophical About Buffy and Angel Board, which was a much better fit. I was a meta writer who wanted to analyze and discuss every single facet of the series with like-minded folks.
But prior to that? It was hard. And prior to the internet? Impossible. My best friend as a kid also loved The Monkeeys and Batman & Robin, so we were fannish together. And in college, I had friends who were fannish about the X-men and Star Trek, so we hung out. But that's as far as it went. I'm not a gamer and I despise dressing up in costume and doing improve, so I never got involved with RPG crowd or the D&D or the cosplay crowds. Give me a script, a character, direction, and blocking, and I can do that. But improve? No. And ugh, conventions are my idea of hell, regardless of what they are about. I did the American Library Association Conventions twice in the 1990s, along with the Electronic Database Expo in NYC. The first was San Francisco, the second in DC, and I hated them. And that's apparently tame in comparison to Comic Con. LOL!
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Date: 2018-08-18 12:58 am (UTC)But prior to that? It was hard. And prior to the internet? Impossible. My best friend as a kid also loved The Monkeeys and Batman & Robin, so we were fannish together. And in college, I had friends who were fannish about the X-men and Star Trek, so we hung out. But that's as far as it went. I'm not a gamer and I despise dressing up in costume and doing improve, so I never got involved with RPG crowd or the D&D or the cosplay crowds. Give me a script, a character, direction, and blocking, and I can do that. But improve? No. And ugh, conventions are my idea of hell, regardless of what they are about. I did the American Library Association Conventions twice in the 1990s, along with the Electronic Database Expo in NYC. The first was San Francisco, the second in DC, and I hated them. And that's apparently tame in comparison to Comic Con. LOL!