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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[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.)