And, of course, I find myself counter-arguing, On the other hand …
Maybe Buffy caught me at precisely the right moment, and nothing else ever took hold in the same way because that hold was already there. Maybe I would have become an impassioned Smallville fanatic if I’d just never thought to follow some little cult show on a network that no longer exists.
It’s entirely possible. Not even unlikely. But that’s a what-if, and what happened instead is an IS. I am where I am, and I’ve stayed there since 1999. (Following Buffy since the first episode, of course, but never knew how much a fan I had become till I discovered fanfic — and online fandom — themselves.)
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Maybe Buffy caught me at precisely the right moment, and nothing else ever took hold in the same way because that hold was already there. Maybe I would have become an impassioned Smallville fanatic if I’d just never thought to follow some little cult show on a network that no longer exists.
It’s entirely possible. Not even unlikely. But that’s a what-if, and what happened instead is an IS. I am where I am, and I’ve stayed there since 1999. (Following Buffy since the first episode, of course, but never knew how much a fan I had become till I discovered fanfic — and online fandom — themselves.)