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Fandom Snowflake #11: life changers!
Jan. 12th, 2018 03:58 pmDay 11 - Share a book/song/movie/tv show/fanwork/etc that changed your life.
As a lifelong fannish person, I feel like my life has been changed by books, songs, movies, tv shows, and fanworks so many times in life!!!!! My whole life is like a chronology of being swept away by the most amazing creations of art, music and literature.
Maybe a simple timeline this time: :D
1968: born. Didn't see Star Trek until many years later though. Subliminal memories of Dark Shadows.
1972 - 1975 Kolchak the Night Stalker. Learned many valuable techniques to foil zombies, vampires, and runaway homunculi. A few years ago I did a really fun cosplay as Kolchak, complete with hat, seersucker suit, camera and tape recorder!
1972 - 1975 Kung Fu. Learned many valuable Zen precepts; also knew I needed to play the flute.
1973 - 1978 The Six Million Dollar Man. My first cyborg boyfriend. :)
During this time period watched many key ABC made for television movies including Isn't It Shocking (1973), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973), Killdozer (1974), Planet Earth (1974), The Stranger Within (1974), A Cry in the Wilderness (1974). All three of my above favorite shows started out with Made for TV movies as pilots. I lived in a rural area where we only got one tv channel (ABC) and didn't have a movie theatre except for the drive-in in the summertime. :) There were also movies about the Bermuda Triangle and Killer Bees.... don't exactly remember them, but those were certainly big topics in my childhood brain.
I started reading comics at this time, and I still have the outside cover of my copy of Killdozer! the comic book adaptation of the made for tv movie based on the Theodore Sturgeon short story. :P My favorite comics as a child were Swamp Thing (1972-76), Dr. Strange, Starfire (8 issues 1976), Son of Satan, and anything that looked scary. "Vault of Evil"? Lemme at it!!
1977 Star Wars -- I actually saw this in the movie theatre, walked in just as C3PO was staggering across the desert. wow!!! It didn't transform me in a huge Star Wars fan but I did read all the novelizations, and my favorite was Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) by Alan Dean Foster. :P
Top Favorite SF books as a kid: A Wrinkle in Time and lots more by Madeleine L'Engle; The X Factor and tons more by Andre Norton... The Tombs of Atuan is my favorite Ursula LeGuin book.... and I loved animal stories like The Rats of NIMH and Watership Down... but my husband reminded me to add The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, one of my favorite books of all time. Lee wrote slash and was to my mind a pioneer in gender fluid characters... so good! Sometime during the 80s I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I freaking memorized. :D Another favorite was the parody Doon by the National Lampoon. so funny!
In the 80s I read Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and thought it was pretty cool he chose My Favorite Comic to rebuild comics in from the ground up. :D Also collected a complete run of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, and John Constantine Hellblazer as they came out. Constantine was a Moore creation who first appeared in Saga of the Swamp Thing #25 (1984) when I was a sophomore in high school.
My favorite sf movies to come out in the 80s
Dune (1984) dir. David Lynch, starring Kyle McLachlan, Brad Dourif, Jose Ferrer, Patrick Stewart, and Sting
Buckaroo Banzai (1984) starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Clancy Brown, Christopher LLoyd
Starman (1984) starring Jeff Bridges
Altered States (1980) dir. Ken Russell, starring William Hurt
1986 Graduated from high school
1987 - 1994 -- Star Trek the Next Generation. I still remember where I was (the TV common room at my college) when I first heard Patrick Stewart say "to boldly go where no ONE has gone before!!"
1990 - 91. Twin Peaks. I was already a huge David Lynch fan, so I was ready for it, but wow, what an amazing show!!
1993~ the year I got married, the XFiles started. It was everything I always wanted in a show.
Mulder/Krycek was not my first slash pairing though, because I could always sense the slashiness between Kirk and Spock, regardless that I had never heard of slash. I knew what t'hyla meant from Gene Roddenberry's own footnote (in the Star Trek Motion Picture novel i think, 1979).
Probably around 1994 when the internet was born, I first found slash and fandom. This undoubtedly changed my life. :P The X Files was perfectly positioned as a show fascinated by all the 1970s SF I was steeped in as a kid (even going so far as to acknowledge their debt to Kolchak the Nightstalker) but also, it was one of the first Vancouver shows (which gave birth to my beloved Supernatural through the influence of directors like Kim Manners).
My favorite movies are mostly comedy, like Peter Sellers and Mel Brooks, but one of my top favorites is Desperado (1995), dir. Robert Rodriguez, starring Antonio Banderas, Selma Hayek, and Steve Buscemi. I remember so well seeing this in the theatres and laughing at the over the top violence while everyone else was expecting a romantic comedy!!
The Sentinel (1996-1999), another Vancouver show, introduced me to subtle cosplay, as I went about dressed as Jim for several years (you can tell us apart because I am 5'1").
In the 90s there was also Buffy of course (1997-2003) and Angel (1999-2004), and my favorite Whedon product, Firefly (2002-3). I love me some Jayne Cobb.
In 2002 I finally completed my dissertation on Mary Shelley and feminist utopias. :)
One of my favorite writers is Ben Edlund, who wrote for Angel and Firefly, and went on to write for Supernatural. He started out in comics with "The Tick" (14 issues ~1991), the Tick animated series (1994), The Tick live action with Patrick Warburton (2001), and now, there is a current Tick show on Amazon. He also worked with Christopher McCullough, who with Doc Hammer makes the Venture Bros (2004~), one of the most biting parodies of fannish concern ever made. :)
In 2005 Supernatural went on the air, combining my love of tormented warriors, legendary monsters, rock music, and muscle cars. In 2007 I started watching it and soon started up on LJ after about 15 years of lurking behind the scenes, and starting writing fic of my own.
April 4, 2014: The Winter Soldier -- YES. Give me all the Buckys!!
2017 - ten years on LJ
2018 -- I will turn 50, my marriage will be 25 years, and my son will turn 18!
As a lifelong fannish person, I feel like my life has been changed by books, songs, movies, tv shows, and fanworks so many times in life!!!!! My whole life is like a chronology of being swept away by the most amazing creations of art, music and literature.
Maybe a simple timeline this time: :D
1968: born. Didn't see Star Trek until many years later though. Subliminal memories of Dark Shadows.
1972 - 1975 Kolchak the Night Stalker. Learned many valuable techniques to foil zombies, vampires, and runaway homunculi. A few years ago I did a really fun cosplay as Kolchak, complete with hat, seersucker suit, camera and tape recorder!
1972 - 1975 Kung Fu. Learned many valuable Zen precepts; also knew I needed to play the flute.
1973 - 1978 The Six Million Dollar Man. My first cyborg boyfriend. :)
During this time period watched many key ABC made for television movies including Isn't It Shocking (1973), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973), Killdozer (1974), Planet Earth (1974), The Stranger Within (1974), A Cry in the Wilderness (1974). All three of my above favorite shows started out with Made for TV movies as pilots. I lived in a rural area where we only got one tv channel (ABC) and didn't have a movie theatre except for the drive-in in the summertime. :) There were also movies about the Bermuda Triangle and Killer Bees.... don't exactly remember them, but those were certainly big topics in my childhood brain.
I started reading comics at this time, and I still have the outside cover of my copy of Killdozer! the comic book adaptation of the made for tv movie based on the Theodore Sturgeon short story. :P My favorite comics as a child were Swamp Thing (1972-76), Dr. Strange, Starfire (8 issues 1976), Son of Satan, and anything that looked scary. "Vault of Evil"? Lemme at it!!
1977 Star Wars -- I actually saw this in the movie theatre, walked in just as C3PO was staggering across the desert. wow!!! It didn't transform me in a huge Star Wars fan but I did read all the novelizations, and my favorite was Splinter of the Mind's Eye (1978) by Alan Dean Foster. :P
Top Favorite SF books as a kid: A Wrinkle in Time and lots more by Madeleine L'Engle; The X Factor and tons more by Andre Norton... The Tombs of Atuan is my favorite Ursula LeGuin book.... and I loved animal stories like The Rats of NIMH and Watership Down... but my husband reminded me to add The Silver Metal Lover by Tanith Lee, one of my favorite books of all time. Lee wrote slash and was to my mind a pioneer in gender fluid characters... so good! Sometime during the 80s I read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which I freaking memorized. :D Another favorite was the parody Doon by the National Lampoon. so funny!
In the 80s I read Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore and thought it was pretty cool he chose My Favorite Comic to rebuild comics in from the ground up. :D Also collected a complete run of The Sandman by Neil Gaiman, and John Constantine Hellblazer as they came out. Constantine was a Moore creation who first appeared in Saga of the Swamp Thing #25 (1984) when I was a sophomore in high school.
My favorite sf movies to come out in the 80s
Dune (1984) dir. David Lynch, starring Kyle McLachlan, Brad Dourif, Jose Ferrer, Patrick Stewart, and Sting
Buckaroo Banzai (1984) starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Clancy Brown, Christopher LLoyd
Starman (1984) starring Jeff Bridges
Altered States (1980) dir. Ken Russell, starring William Hurt
1986 Graduated from high school
1987 - 1994 -- Star Trek the Next Generation. I still remember where I was (the TV common room at my college) when I first heard Patrick Stewart say "to boldly go where no ONE has gone before!!"
1990 - 91. Twin Peaks. I was already a huge David Lynch fan, so I was ready for it, but wow, what an amazing show!!
1993~ the year I got married, the XFiles started. It was everything I always wanted in a show.
Mulder/Krycek was not my first slash pairing though, because I could always sense the slashiness between Kirk and Spock, regardless that I had never heard of slash. I knew what t'hyla meant from Gene Roddenberry's own footnote (in the Star Trek Motion Picture novel i think, 1979).
Probably around 1994 when the internet was born, I first found slash and fandom. This undoubtedly changed my life. :P The X Files was perfectly positioned as a show fascinated by all the 1970s SF I was steeped in as a kid (even going so far as to acknowledge their debt to Kolchak the Nightstalker) but also, it was one of the first Vancouver shows (which gave birth to my beloved Supernatural through the influence of directors like Kim Manners).
My favorite movies are mostly comedy, like Peter Sellers and Mel Brooks, but one of my top favorites is Desperado (1995), dir. Robert Rodriguez, starring Antonio Banderas, Selma Hayek, and Steve Buscemi. I remember so well seeing this in the theatres and laughing at the over the top violence while everyone else was expecting a romantic comedy!!
The Sentinel (1996-1999), another Vancouver show, introduced me to subtle cosplay, as I went about dressed as Jim for several years (you can tell us apart because I am 5'1").
In the 90s there was also Buffy of course (1997-2003) and Angel (1999-2004), and my favorite Whedon product, Firefly (2002-3). I love me some Jayne Cobb.
In 2002 I finally completed my dissertation on Mary Shelley and feminist utopias. :)
One of my favorite writers is Ben Edlund, who wrote for Angel and Firefly, and went on to write for Supernatural. He started out in comics with "The Tick" (14 issues ~1991), the Tick animated series (1994), The Tick live action with Patrick Warburton (2001), and now, there is a current Tick show on Amazon. He also worked with Christopher McCullough, who with Doc Hammer makes the Venture Bros (2004~), one of the most biting parodies of fannish concern ever made. :)
In 2005 Supernatural went on the air, combining my love of tormented warriors, legendary monsters, rock music, and muscle cars. In 2007 I started watching it and soon started up on LJ after about 15 years of lurking behind the scenes, and starting writing fic of my own.
April 4, 2014: The Winter Soldier -- YES. Give me all the Buckys!!
2017 - ten years on LJ
2018 -- I will turn 50, my marriage will be 25 years, and my son will turn 18!
