posting meme: canon that I've been fannish about for longest

[ratcreature]

lilacsigil prompted: canon that you've been fannish about for longest.

If this means the canon that was my first clearly delineated fandom that I still feel fannish about to some extent now, it's Carl Barks' version of Duckburgh. I've talked about it in more detail for a "first fandom" meme many years ago here, but I joined a club, bought zines, went to conventions etc. for that subset of Duckburgh comics. I was into comics, and also a Disney fan before I recognized Carl Barks take on the Ducks as a specific canon, but the neither comics as medium nor Disney have a "canon" as such. But I eventually mostly stopped engaging with that fandom (it is quite male dominated, and I also got more into fanfic, which that fandom doesn't do). I still like the canon a lot though.

If it means the canon for which I had the longest stretch of continuous and really active engagement online and still like to read fanfic for every now and then even now, it's probably The Sentinel still, i.e. my first online fanfic fandom. Maybe if you count the MCU as one thing, and focus mostly on the length of it being really prominent in my fanfic reading, that counts as longer by now. If you see "Marvel" as one canon, that's definitely true, because I liked some Marvel comics before the MCU.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)

Comments

[lilacsigil]

Ooh, that's a really interesting first fandom to be in - there's so much you had to conceptualise about contradictory canons and subsets of canon, and how the audience interacts with it - a good setup for understanding wider comics canons in general!

Some people see Marvel and MCU as different canons but I count them as the same because to me the MCU is just one subset of the multiple "Marvel" worlds. And now you've got me thinking how long ago the Iron Man movie was...

[ratcreature]

Yeah, somehow thinking about how old the Ironman movie is now makes me feel more ancient than thinking about 90s tv shows.

The main conceit of the Donaldist fandom is to remain strictly Watsonian in communication about the canon, and to consider the comics as reports from which you work out why the anthropomorphic ducks there eat turkey (actually in the German translation which the German fandom considers the canon, because it is really very good, they eat goose) and how it works biologically that they sometimes show teeth in their beaks or how the economy functions with all the oddities we see. There are decades of fanzine writing along those lines together with meticulous indices that cross reference all sorts of stuff, like appearances of minor details. It is a great fandom if you enjoy word building and creating and discussing head canons that make sense of things that clearly have a Doylist reason (ducks with teeth look funny and/or communicate emotions more clearly in caricature).