Being A Fan - Part I
Aug. 6th, 2010 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
51stcenturyfoxThis 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.
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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Date: 2010-08-06 06:02 pm (UTC)I never thought he was hot.
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Date: 2010-08-07 08:18 am (UTC)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).
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Date: 2010-08-07 01:06 pm (UTC)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