What was your high school experience?

[yourlibrarian]

As part of my effort to clear stuff out of the house, I came across my old yearbooks. (BTW, if anyone has any recommendations of places that will buy or take yearbooks, please let me know. I just want them anywhere not here without having to pay for postage). As I hadn't looked at them in quite some time, I browsed through them to see what condition they were in and ended up reading a bunch of messages across different years. I noticed a lot of people referenced the fact that I was writing stories in class.

These were mostly fanfic although I did draft an original novel at the time too as well as various short stories. (These efforts were almost uniformly terrible). The point being that while people did in fact know I was fannish about different things (which was mentioned by a few) they didn't know about fanworks or about it being part of the fan experience. If they remembered anything about me, it would be that I was going to write for a living (even though I never said any such thing to anyone).

I'm curious what experience other people had and whether they'd likely be remembered as a fan by classmates and why?

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[batsybeth]

I'm pretty certain that if I'm not remembered for constantly drawing/doodling on everything - being a emo/goth into various comics, anime and 'geeky' things is definitely more likely.

In school from 2003 and onwards - I was always carrying around a comic or manga borrowed from the local library and would talk way too much about the things I was interested in if someone was unfortunate to ask.
That being said, I drew the line at talking about fanworks like fanfiction or the fact that I posted up my own fan arts on sites like livejournal and deviantart. It felt too personal to talk about - plus I was really getting into m/m or f/f ship fics because they were the closest things to queer literature that closeted gay me could get her hands on at the time. One of the main reason I didn't talk about fanworks was mostly fears about outing myself.

Although, in the latter years of secondary school I did managed to make friends with someone because she over heard me geeking out over an anime movie and we became convention buddies after we were done with school.

[yourlibrarian]

I was always carrying around a comic or manga borrowed from the local library and would talk way too much about the things I was interested in if someone was unfortunate to ask.

Haha, I suspect that latter fact is a common one :D