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Challenge #2

In your own space, talk about your fannish history. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

This is my fifth Snowflake, so instead of repeating things I’ve already said, you will find links to older posts on my fannish history, as well as adding some new stuff.

My first steps wobbly steps towards fandom when I was five and saw the 1952 version of Ivanhoe More on that here.

At eight when I fell in love with Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. More on that here.

When I was eleven I saw In Search of Dracula with Christopher Lee as narrator and playing dual roles as the real Vlade Tepes and the fictional Dracula. The whole documentary can be seen on Youtube.



Shortly after Swedish television aired some of Lee’s Dracula-movies, as well as a string of classic horror movies introducing Bela Lugosi’s Dracula, Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein’s monster and The Mummy as well as Lon Chaney Jr’s Wolfman. I also saw and loved, at the time luckily unencumbered of the knowledge of Sharon Tate’s murder and Roman Polanki’s ickiness, Dance of the Vampires.

The result was an abiding love for old horror movies, as well as modern homages like The Mummy series and Penny Dreadful. And vampires in general. Back then, eleven-year-old me had a hard time finding much. It was the early 80’s, and for a long time I had to make do what was aired on Tv, Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Suzy McKee Charnas’ The Vampire Tapestry. I also read and re-read Radu Florescu & Raymond T. McNally’s In Search of Dracula . Vampires simply weren’t “in”, back then.

Nowadays, of course, vampires are everywhere. Personally, I don’t care much for the vampire as a romantic brooding and tortured hero,. I liked Buffy, but didn’t care much for Angel, I lost interest in Lestat after the first two novels, and never managed to stomach the Twilight-books. But I absolutely loved Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian, and it remains one of my all-time favorite books. And yes, I quite liked the most recent Dracula adaptation. Well, ¾ of it at least. With that I mean I liked the two first episodes, but didn’t much care for the last, but enjoyed the characters of Dracula and sister Agatha throughout.

Around 2003 when I saw this picture of Jason Isaacs as Captain Hook, which catapulted me into writing fanfic. Obviously Peter Pan-fic to begin with, but I soon found myself writing fic from any fandom which took my fancy.



I watched most of the Classic Doctor Who a few years before the new series came, and then I watched that too, enjoying it all a lot. But it wasn’t until 2012 when I started a rewatch with every episode ever, that I suddenly fell head over heels fannishly in love. More on that here.

Date: 2020-01-07 06:20 pm (UTC)
greghousesgf: (Bertie Smile)
From: [personal profile] greghousesgf
I always liked Christopher Lee, my favorites of his movies are the LOTR movies and the ORIGINAL Wicker Man.

Date: 2020-01-07 10:54 pm (UTC)
seleneheart: (don't look back)
From: [personal profile] seleneheart
Every Doctor Who episode ever? That's . . . a lot!

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