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fan-DOM - The group of activities around a particular interest and, more importantly, the group of fans carrying out the activities, such as watching their preferred movie or show, joining a mailing list, visiting websites, talking with other fans in a chatroom, reading fic, going to cons, being completely obsessed. The term fandom is also used more rarely to refer to all the fans of every movie and TV show as one big uber group.

Star Trek
Yes, I was a Trek-head. I never really liked the original series (Kirk was a tool), but The Next Generation was always my favorite. Deep Space Nine became too much of a space opera in the latter seasons, but I stuck around to the very bitter end. Voyager was... tragic, but there were rare gems and no matter what anyone else says, 7 of 9 was an asset. I refuse to watch the current ridiculousness that is Enterprise.

Xena: Warrior Princess
One of my first fandoms. I joined chatrooms, mailing lists, listservs, and made lots of friends. I still talk to Phil often. I stopped watching the show after about the 4th season, but the fun was still there.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
This was fandom to the extreme. I started watching the show in 1997 and in 1998, I finally got the hang of the internet (after some experimenting) and made a simple webpage. I frequented the Bronze posting board back when it was still fun and Joss and other actors, writers, and crew would stop by and chat. I'm still vaguely involved in this fandom and have rediscovered some "famous" people now populating other areas (Saff, Av, Darcy, and Soul', to name a few).

X-Men
I've followed the comics on and off since the late 90's, but didn't get fully involved until the movie came out in 2000. I stumbled upon some Wolverine/Rogue fanfiction and was immediately sucked in to the list and the websites. I found some fabulous people and even my brain-twin (*mwah!*). Now I'm back into the comics and following the 5 or so spin-off titles.

Lord of the Rings
Hm. I have never read any of the books - though I'm working on correcting this - but the movie was fantastic! Friends from the WR and Buffy fandom have been slowly converting me over, including LOTR_RPS, slash, and hi-parody. I'm currently trying to teach myself Quenya and Tiw.

Alias
Tuned in on a whim and was immediately impressed with the writing - a great action series featuring characters with depth. Every episode of this sharp series ends with a cliffhanger that leaves you screaming for more. Hard to believe that something this inventive and fantastic came out of ABC. I'm a die-hard Sydney/Vaughn 'shipper and am slowly getting sucked into the fandom. I will agree that Syd needs to get caught more often, a la Nikita.