Lois & Clark Forums Forums Fan Fiction Fanfic Related What was the first fanfic you ever read?

I was looking back through the archives of this folder for something else, when I spotted an old thread begun by Kathy Brown which asked the header question.

I'm curious to know what other FoLCs who didn't answer first time around will post.

LabRat

Season 5 - Back To The Future

And the first fic that explored outside the realm of S5 and S6 was Hubris.

Edit:
I know it's five years late and you no longer write and it was dead then and so on, but still:
And it's your fault for digging up this old thread and everything in the first place anyway.

Michael

Yikes! I don't think I can remember the exact story, but the author was Kathy Brown. I met her in another fandom and she pimped LnC to me. I'm going to guess that my first LnC fanfic was probably Camping with Clark , but I can't be sure.

After that, I read the rest of Kathy's stories, moved on to Jeff Brogden, Pam Jernigan, Yvonne Connell, CC Aiken and then into the Kerths. I was in heaven with the lcfanfic archive - it is so organized and easy to use! I think I'd probably read a hundred fanfics and knew what WaFF/WHAM meant before I ever saw an episode.

After seeing so many episode rewrites and AUs, it was fun to see what *really* happened on the show.

Brenda

lol I remember my first fic was:

Have A Little Faith In Me by Nicole Sullivan

I remember cause when I was choosing where to start, I just decided to just choose one at random from the title name and not read the description and just read it. I never forgot it obviously :p

The first L&C fic I ever read was Rest and Reproduction by Meredith Knight.

(But the very first fic I ever read was in a whole nother fandom, though)

I don't remember which fanfic was my first, but it probably was in another fandom too.

My first one here I think was A Conscious Choice by Wendy Richards. If I'm not messing yet another title (apologies if I am).

alcyone

I don't remember the first fic I read but I know it came from the theme section of the archives. I read all the stories under the themes and then I ventured into the archives.

LOL - maybe I should have read the old thread before linking to it.

Well, never say never. I still toy with the idea of hauling it into shape - if I got the writing bug again in the future and the Muse got interested it would probably be the first WIP I'd complete - but at the moment I'm so thoroughly uninterested in writing that it's never more than a fleeting impulse. Triggered more, it has to be said, by a longing to be back in the thick of that reader/author/posting fun than any real desire to complete the darn thing.

LabRat

Well, the first fanfic I read was years ago, also in another fandom.

But for LNC, I believe it was about a year ago, "Superman vs. the In - Laws." I had started with theme links, and the "IN Love and Loving It" section, because I knew season 3 and 4 were my favorite seasons.

It actually took me quite a while to realize that there were other stories that were not included in one of the "theme" catogories.

Well this can be a powerful impulse, you just have to go with it
http://www.lcfanfic.com/stories/2000/ultidrug.txt



Oh, and it would be one more submission to the archives

Michael (Trying never hurts, right?)

Labrat said: /me whispers 'viiiiiiiiiiggggnnneeeeeettttttte'

Sue (who cannot remember which fanfic was first)

Yeah, unfortunately, the Muse hasn't been interested in stringing a drabble together, let alone a vignette, in years.

Having said that, I did finally have a epiphany a few months back when I was trawling through my WIP folder. When I realised that some stories which I'd always intended to be the starting point to fairly long stories would work just as well as vignettes and that not all stories need to be epics.

I might even admit here to having had the vague notion over the past couple of weeks that maybe it's time to try that.

Michael <g> - I guess I'm just lucky that there's no rule that those who run the Archive have to contribute to it.

LabRat (who thinks this thread may have veered very slightly off topic... )

Okay then, in an effort to put this back on topic, how about this statement?

The first fic I read in August 2008 was LabRat's (untitled) vignette?

The very first was S5- Episode 1: Back to the Future. The first non-continuation fic was “Meet Me in Kansas City”. That was so WOW! I have been hooked ever since.

Bob

I really can't remember. Probably something in the Buffy fandom, but no idea what, and no idea at all what I first read in L&C except it was probably a Buffy crossover.

I have mentioned before that I am a long-time lurker. When I saw this thread and starting thinking about the first story I read, I realized how long I've been in the shadows.

The first Lois and Clark story that I ever read was Debby Stark's Dawning. I believe that this was in late 1994.

Obviously, this is well before these boards were established. I didn't have my own computer back then, so I would use my work computer. I searched the internet with my CompuServe account (do they even exist any longer?) on a 2400 baud dial-up connection, looking for anything Lois and Clark or X-Files related. This was more interesting than the work that I should have been doing. I stumbled across this story and I have been reading ever since. I remember constantly checking her ftp site for any updates.

Thank God for my T-3 connection now! I still check for new postings at work, but at least now, I don't have the modem screech giving me away.

Geez, no pressure, huh?

LabRat

So grab one of those 'first lines' [there's some good ones ] and set your timer for an hour...

And then you'll have something to submit to yourself!

See how that works?!

Carol

OK, I had to go back and look because I have read entirely too many stories since finding the archive in 2003.

The first story I ever read was Barbara's "Back to the Future," the first "episode" of Season 5. I was SO excited that there were stories that continued the show.

The most memorable of the stories I read in those first few months was "My Heart Will Go On," by Juliana Nozue. I was reading it here at the paper, during my internship, and I was just bawling, and trying to be subtle so no one would notice and think I was a basket case and not want to hire me. Now they're used to it.

Labrat said: Oh, man. You have *got* to teach me how to do that. I sat down to try the 1-hour challenge and had to admit defeat. After an hour, I barely have an outline of a premise, let alone a complete vignette.