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. 

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[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.