Can I Walk You Through a Hypothetical?

Snowflake Challenge #2: In your own space, talk about your fannish origin story. 

The original X-Men trilogy is my fandom origin story. I shipped Rogue and Pyro hard after watching X2, then read some fanfic online. After, I kind of fell away from fandom in general. Years later the MCU started, though I barely kept up with it. I watched The Avengers because everyone was watching it at the time and because I liked Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and that was it.

Then—Elizabeth Olsen was cast as Wanda Maximoff and suddenly I had to see Avengers: Age of Ultron just because, which, as I'm typing this, makes me think my fandom days started when I was barely in grade school and addicted to Full House and the Olsen twins. This is starting to sound like Six Degrees of Fandom Separation, which makes me laugh, but it is what it is. Plus I like witchy fandom things.

So, okay, Wanda Maximoff the character is the reason I watch Captain America: Civil War. At this point in time, I have yet to see Captain America: Winter Soldier (yes, my viewing timeline was all over the place), so Civil War becomes my introduction to the character Bucky Barnes. And that short little scene, barely seconds, that took place within the airport battle, where Wanda saves Bucky from T'Challa...Okay. That was my second fandom awakening. I got crumbs—crumbs!—from the MCU, then went on AO3 and found that it was a rare pair. After devouring what was available, I started writing stuff too. And here we are. 

IRL, after Civil War came Avengers: Infinity War, which really cemented me as an MCU fan. That film was an experience. I backtracked and watched everything that came before it, and I'm still here watching everything that's come out since. I like seeing where the characters currently are in their universe. I like that there are gaps between appearances where you can let your imagination play out.