Hello everybody.
Just like it says in the title: what other fandoms have you been a part of over the years and how has your relation to them changed over the years, if at all? For example, my earliest discovery and love of Star Wars began at the age of five and has continued on and off over the years until the present, and I'll most likely keep on enjoying the old EU and its lore unless some sort of traumatic brain injury takes it all away in the future.
Other fandoms I've been a part of over the years are the Star Trek fandom since the late nineties, various forms of TTRPG gaming, both sci-fi and fantasy, and they were extremely helpful for learning how the processes of lore and worldbuilding worked and how to approach such topics (healthy pseudoscience, in essence, barely rooted in real-world science). I'd be very, very content as a Science Officer in Star Trek, if I ever had the chance to jump into that particular future. A smattering of many and varied TTRPG-oriented, sword-and-sorcery and sci-fi anthologies has also proven fundamental to my moral development, my love of philosophy and science and has most certainly carried on to this day.
Lastly, I got involved with the Furry fandom in my teen years - enough said about that. Let me say that all of the negative press is completely, 100% true - parents, keep your kids away from that. I still like anthropomorphicism and the the ability to use it in fiction, but the fandom that has hijacked and perverted it has done a very, very good job of dumbing down its subject matter, at the same time. In short, you'll be hard-pressed to find more then a few furries who have any interest in animal science.
What sorts of other hobbies do you guys enjoy? Have your interests changed over the years?
Just like it says in the title: what other fandoms have you been a part of over the years and how has your relation to them changed over the years, if at all? For example, my earliest discovery and love of Star Wars began at the age of five and has continued on and off over the years until the present, and I'll most likely keep on enjoying the old EU and its lore unless some sort of traumatic brain injury takes it all away in the future.
Other fandoms I've been a part of over the years are the Star Trek fandom since the late nineties, various forms of TTRPG gaming, both sci-fi and fantasy, and they were extremely helpful for learning how the processes of lore and worldbuilding worked and how to approach such topics (healthy pseudoscience, in essence, barely rooted in real-world science). I'd be very, very content as a Science Officer in Star Trek, if I ever had the chance to jump into that particular future. A smattering of many and varied TTRPG-oriented, sword-and-sorcery and sci-fi anthologies has also proven fundamental to my moral development, my love of philosophy and science and has most certainly carried on to this day.
Lastly, I got involved with the Furry fandom in my teen years - enough said about that. Let me say that all of the negative press is completely, 100% true - parents, keep your kids away from that. I still like anthropomorphicism and the the ability to use it in fiction, but the fandom that has hijacked and perverted it has done a very, very good job of dumbing down its subject matter, at the same time. In short, you'll be hard-pressed to find more then a few furries who have any interest in animal science.
What sorts of other hobbies do you guys enjoy? Have your interests changed over the years?