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.)