December posting: revisiting an old fandom

umadoshi asked about "an experience revisiting an old fandom/beloved story, good or bad":

I think my very favorite experience revisiting an old fandom was, surprisingly, Gundam Wing. It was the first anime I ever watched and the first anime/manga fandom I ever got into (haha, do people still use "lime" and "lemon" for rating?), and omg, I made a fansite for it with one of my high school friends and obsessed over it and wrote down events to plot out a timeline and then constructed an alternate earth history that would eventually get to the After Colony timeline (I had great detail re: the Opium War and the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and then I left out everything from the 1900s until... SPACE ELEVATORS!). So... fond memories. But after reading more manga and watching more anime, I think I was always a little afraid to revisit, especially since I'm much more of a shoujo person at heart.

But then, rachelmanija was holding an angst off contest, and I ended up submitting several GWing characters out of nostalgia and describing their (sad, dead-puppy-holding) angst, which got Rachel and rilina to start watching and obsessing! I cackled the entire way through, particularly at all the incomprehensible political backstabbing and the factions popping up like rabbits, and it was also awesome because I still had a ton of Gundam Wing merchandise and got to share it! I also racked up the hugest phone bill ever watching some episodes over the phone with Rachel, BUT IT WAS TOTALLY WORTH IT.

Given how often My First Fandom ends up being disappointing in retrospect (still never finishing X-Files....), or how the Suck Fairy comes to visit, it was AWESOME to not only find that the stuff I had found appealing way back when was STILL appealing, but that it was still appealing enough to suck in friends, most of whom I would never have pegged as mech people!

(Also, I'm not sure how many slots I have left, but I really like having to post every day on a topic and not just daily happiness, so if anyone else has a question or topic they want me to write about, please let me know!)