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So today I have been ruining my life reading Yuletide fic and the OT3 tag on Pinboard, and that mixed up with other discussions and the nonfiction book I'm reading, and I started thinking about my ur-fandoms.

Not the fandoms I was in before I was in fandom, but the things I was fannish about before my memory starts. (And my first dateable memory, I was two-and-a-half, so---)

Wee!me, basically, was fannish about: Sesame Street, Snoopy the WWI Flying Ace, and the Grinch.

Which is basically: muppets and people in furry costumes, many of whom don't speak English; dashing fighter pilots; and last-minute conversions to the side of good.

That is to say, goddammit, Star Wars.

....also why aren't there more fighter pilot AUs in fandoms I read, I even wrote one, I did my due duty
and why hasn't anyone written a fic about Sesame Street: Coruscant where Big Bird gets a lightsaber
ok I was also fannish about Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser but I'm not sure how that fits into the pattern

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just imagine: we could have watched star wars like a whole DECADE earlier if parents hadn't neglected our education.

also don't forget about mathnet.

Edited 2016-01-18 01:18 (UTC)

Mathnet was later, it didn't even go on the air until I was four. :P (Although admittedly realizing that my Monday/Frankly feels predate the existence of Scully gives me.. funny feelings.)

And tbf I could have watched Star Wars considerably earlier if I didn't go run and hide in your closet every time there were spaceships on the TV.

Edited 2016-01-18 01:35 (UTC)

All I have to say is, please keep a list of any really good OT3 stories you find. :)

So ftr, the OT3 tag on Pinboard is mostly Leverage right now, with admittedly a fair amount of Star Wars and a smattering of other stuff, but I went there looking for Check Please! OT3 because I am apparently Kent Parson trash now. So you would not necessarily get the OT3s you expect if you ask me for recs. :P

Laughing so hard because I was also as a child enthusiastic about all of these except the Grinch. Including Louis Rukeyser, which was arguably Herself's first fandom.

Bookverse Grinch, obviously, if the live-action movie ha been out I probably would have hated it. And good to know I am not alone in my Rukeyser nostalgia!

"Wall STreet Week with Louis Rukeyser" had a definite appeal!

I'm not sure what it was about Rukeyser, it certainly wasn't because I was interested in the stock market. Maybe because he tried so hard to make it friendly and welcoming and not-scary that he overshot and ended up in Fred Rogers territory?