Self-Documentaries
Welcome to the Christina Spills All Her Shit section of this project.
In academic-y terms, I’m documenting here my own fandom experiences via autoethnographic accounts: what fandoms I was a part of, how and when I interacted and participated, what I gained through these experiences, etc. All that fun stuff packed into five (5) darling little episodes.
Here you go:
Don't be fooled. I'm in a lot more fandoms than just those depicted here. Considering that I have a limited timeframe, that I am a single human, and that I have systematically jumped around to about 15+ fandoms over the years, I will not be able to cover every aspect of my experiences right here right now.
The ones I will be going into more thoroughly for the time being are Nancy Drew, YouTube, Anime, and K-Pop—all staples of my growth as a fan, a person, and a scholar. These are just... some big ones. I'd like to, in the future, get to more. Talk about the influence and impact of more. And I will. Someday.
But in the meantime, allow me to show you what you’ll be missing. Here's a list of all the fandoms (that I can remember) I've been in by some varying degree, stolen from a rough section of my early notes for this project. Fun fact: Click to nyoom to more info!
{ Ranging from: elementary school 🠊 middle school 🠊 high school 🠊 undergrad 🠊 grad (present) }
Fandoms/Interests in Rough Chronological Order
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Early Anime Before I Knew What
Anime Was (Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu Yu Hakusho,
Pokémon, etc.) -
Books (Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket,
Twilight Saga, Alchemyst, etc.) -
Med/Cop Dramas (House MD, Law &
Order: SVU, NCIS) -
Free online games (Poptropica,
Nitrome, Miniclip) -
Anime (... a lot)
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Fanfics (chill) + first deliberate fandom
participation (fan art + fanfics + cosplay)
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Legend of Zelda + Other video games (Portal, horror games, indie games, RPG Maker games, Minecraft, visual novels)
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The Walking Dead (show and Telltale game series that Just Ended) + My Little Pony Era
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Vloggers (JennaMarbles, Julien Solomita, etc.)
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Fanfics (mature)
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Finding Balance + things coming full circle + revisiting old fandoms + nostalgia
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Tumblr - whEW the account still lives - Homestuck, Undertale, ML era
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FanFiction(dot)net - ha ha no i’m not linking that (1 anime crossover fic, 1 unfinished UA anime fic)
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Archive of Our Own (AO3) - same here (that same UA anime fic, 1 game fic, 1 irl fic)
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Twitter - k-pop centric, fan art, fanfiction
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Instagram - k-pop, artists, tattoos, food, aesthetic stuff, pins
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Group chats - joined through k-pop, then discovered other connections way back to nancy drew era
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Going outside again! aka more IRL stuff - concerts, conventions, meet-ups, etc.
Sites Frequented in Rough Chronological Order
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GaiaOnline - the site still lives. here's the
history of its rise and fall -
HeR Interactive - old forums down :(
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YouTube - i found my old account
pls end me it’s so bad -
DeviantArt - i found my old one
good bye world -
Facebook - old cosplay pics
and fan art (yikes) -
Anime Sites - RIP free sites to watch
anime without 3242 ads and viruses
(RIP “death note ep 11 part 1/3") -
IRL meetups and conventions - AnimeNext,
AnimeNYC, Tower Con (Kean), Castle Point -
Game Info Sites - walkthroughs + lore
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YouTube again - no account, just consume