Being A Fan - Part I

[51stcenturyfox]

This is something I was thinking about yesterday. I've always been a fan of various stuff so I thought I'd look back.

It started in the 1970s, with The Hardy Boys. (Now immortalized, but stupidly, on South Park. "OMG I'M GETTING A CLUE!"  - Trey Parker and Matt Stone are my age, so they totally remember this show.)

When I was little - six, The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (the television program) was my first fandom. :D   If I was playing outside (my mom would holler for me) or doing something else, the second I realized it was TIME FOR HARDY BOYS, my parents had betta recognize I had to be in front of the big fucking television console staring at the screen, and nobody better try to talk to me or even breathe too loud.  I had a crush on Shaun Cassidy, the Justin Bieber of the 70's, and my mom favored Parker Stevenson.  (SHE WOULD.)  Shaun Cassidy is the half-brother of Partridge Family star David Cassidy, but he was too old and my cousins liked him, so... EW.

(Whereas of course Shaun somehow magically wasn't too old for me even though I was six.)

I had a Shaun face t-shirt and an IRON ON PILLOWCASE.  Maybe I kissed it goodnight. AHAHAHAHA.

Look at these GQMF crime-solving brothers!  If there was Hincest, I don't want to know. Please don't break my childhood.  


 

I also wanted to be Nancy Drew, for the record. If this show debuted now, I'd be all Joe/Frank/Nancy OT3 (Screw you, Ned Nickerson.)

OMG get the hell out. There are fanvids!

LOL SHAUN. YOU ARE SO MUCH BETTER THAN JUSTIN BIEBER BECAUSE YOU HAD TESTOSTERONE, BUT YOU'RE NOT A GREAT SINGER, SORRY.

And that is the first fangirling I remember. 

Comments

[remuslives23.livejournal.com]

I never saw the series (although young Parker Stevenson – YUM!), but as a preteen and teen, I loved the books. I never realised until recently that I'd started fanficcing (and slashing) in my head so young.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I liked the books too, but in some cases they're kind of dated. I think I read most of them from the library and my cousins' stacks.

George and Bess kind of sucked/were backgrounded in the TV series but were awesome in the Nancy Drew books.

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

OMG you are me!!! I had a life-size Shaun Cassidy poster on the back of my bedroom door! *shifty eyes* I may or may not have kissed it.

And I'm totally with you...I wanted to be Nancy Drew and yeah, my OT3 would have been Joe/Frank/Nancy...Ned GTFO!!!

I LOVED the show...LOVED LOVED LOVED the show...and yup, read the books too.

*happy memories*

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

YAY!

*bonds*

Did you have Shaun's RECORDS?

OMG he aged! http://www.facebook.com/ShaunCassidy Illusions. Shattered!

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

I did have his records!!! Da Doo Ron Ron OMG I had that *facepalm* And the one after that too I think.

OMG you are so right...he did age *sigh* Oh well, don't we all?

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

NO I AM STILL SIX! Inside.

:D

[thrace-adams.livejournal.com]

*giggles* well I might be twelve ;p

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

We should have a slumber party! :D

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Man, I massively loved the Hardy Boys, but I only ever read the books. Mostly the Case Files, too, which were written in the 80s/90s, I think? Lulzy anti-terrorism stuff and THIS HAS AN OPTICAL DISK DRIVE WOOOOO HACKING. Ah, memories.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I did not know they'd modernised! The old ones were "lift fingerprints off the stair rail with carbon from a pencil and some cellotape". :D

Hilarity!

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

The modern ones have ANGST and CLENCHED JAWS, they are amazing.

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

Oh do you remember when Shaun Cassidy did Like Normal People? I still remember his (in my opinion) brilliant portrayal of a mentally-challenged would-be father.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I don't! I kind of lost track of Shaun after I moved on to other obsessions. Which I'll detail to laugh at my younger self. Maybe it should be a Friday special!

[dremiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, you! I was a Parker/David Cassidy girl all the way. And, as discussed at length on twitter last night, Randy Mantooth from EMERGENCY! Yum.

But you're right: No VCR, NO DVR; one TV in our house - You wanted to watch something you got your butt home in time and hoped your sibs would agree/could be bribed or blackmailed.

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

I can at least see their appeal! You know who I didn't get? Leif Garrett. Every time I'd get Teen Beat: LEIF.

I never thought he was hot.

[coneyislandbaby]

He was never hot to me either. I just can't see what was so gorgeous about him.

Mind you, I think he gave a great performance in the movie of The Outsiders.

I liked Shaun, Parker and David, but then I'm easy ;)

Parker aged really well, I thought, though I haven't seen him recently.

Also Shaun and I share a birthday (September 27).

[51stcenturyfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, birthday twins! :D

Parker did age well. It's quite funny how much Shaun has always looked like his mom.

I never knew what Leif was IN. He just suddenly appeared in magazines and I had no clue what show he was in, or that he sang or whatever. Plus, I thought his hair was disturbing.

Picky, picky pre-teen. :D

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

AHHHH!!!! I HAD THAT PILLOWCASE TOO!

My biggest disappointment in LIFE at age 10 was not being able to find someone to take me and my BFF to the Shaun Cassidy concert. CAN YOU IMAGINE.