Ha, yeah, I've been getting obsessively fannish about things ever since I can remember. My sister and I used to draw Star Trek comics and make up our own stories about Kirk and Spock and McCoy (and other characters on other shows) at an incredibly young age; we shared a room so we'd stay up late at night putting ourselves to sleep by making up what we used to call "funny stories" (although there was frankly at least as much pain as "funny" in them!).

(Funniest part of the X-files craze? I just found out that rhymer23 was one of my favorite writers of the time, back with a different name. Fandom's a small world!)

It is a small Internet, isn't it? I keep occasionally running across people I met years ago in other fandoms, too -- especially with LJ and ff.net bringing me into contact with more fandoms than the ones I'm specifically active in.