if i'd had a baby when i got into "organized" fandom --

[fox]

merryish has caused a number of us to speculate.

mine, as i say over there, would be five this october. OMG KINDERGARTEN. and he'd be on the young end of the spectrum for his class, so he'd probably be smaller than those six-year-old kindergarteners, red-shirt kids whose parents want them to grow up to be varsity football players. but that's okay, because my baby would already be able to read and write, and he'd cut those jocks down with his devastating verbal dexterity.

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[darthrami.livejournal.com]

My 6 year old kindergartener would beat up your kid. 'Cause he'd be a punk like that.

[sneezer222.livejournal.com]

I actually had a child at the time I got into my fandom. He's six now, and looking forward to first grade.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

heh. Mine would be five in December. How did we both not get into it in college, then get into fandom at the same time, and not know it for like, four years? :)

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

of course, if i count from when L and i were writing that star wars novel, my older child would be [counts on fingers] eight this, what, winter? and therefore probably in second grade.

beating up darthrami's six-year-old kindergartener for beating up the little brother. :-)

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Heh. I wondered about how you were counting, cause I remembered you guys writing that!--were you guys not involved in fandom, just writing it on your own? Weird!

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

we were our own little mini-fandom. i didn't know All Those People were out there, at the time. (i suppose i did in a sort of way a little bit later, because L had all those Box People and used to write buffy fic -- no, really! -- when she lived with M. but it didn't occur to me at all that we were Those People.)

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Mine wouldn't even be 4 until November 18. (Yes, I do know the exact date of my fanniversary. Shut up.) I am a n00b! Comparatively.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

Oh, and her name would probably be Winifred (that or Thorkatla), and she would pretty bouncy and ebullient most of the time, but have strange fears and deep insecurities just under the surface-- she'd be one of those kids who has to stand over on the side and just watch the other kids playing for a long time before she can go over and start playing with them, and even then she tends to do her own thing over to the side half the time. And she'd have a rather frighteningly large vocabulary for a child her size and she'd be reading already, but she wouldn't know how to tell time or tie her shoes.

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh? :-)

and why aren't you chatting with me? [pout]

[merrycontrary.livejournal.com]

Mine would be the baby of the bunch at just barely 2 years old. Little Tallulah would be old enough to refuse to wear the frilly dresses and ribbons in which I'd want to dress her. At least, that was about the age I told my jeans-and-tee-shirts mother I would not be wearing pants, only dresses that twirled.