14. Did you have a gateway fandom? Still in it? Why or why not? Is there a community for it on DW?
OK. I'm sure this has been discussed to death elsewhere, but since it's the first time I have thought about it, I will discuss it to death here too, behind this here cut.

I looked up gateway fandom at http://fanlore.org/wiki and it said:

The term "gateway fandom" can have different meanings depending on the context.

1. In a personal sense, it refers to the fandom that brought an individual fan into the wider world of fandom. For example, "The Sentinel was my gateway fandom."
2. In a broader sense, it refers to a fandom where a significant proportion of the fandom consists of new fans. For example, "Harry Potter is a gateway fandom." Sometimes called a threshold fandom.

I assume sense 1 applies to this question.

I am not sure what this means: "brought an individual fan into the wider world of fandom." Here are some of the things it could mean:

1. The first work an individual fan felt fannish about.
   
2. The first work an individual fan felt urges to create their own stories in.
   
3. The first work an individual fan discussed with other fans.
   
4. The first work that made an individual fan aware there was a community of other fans.
   
5. The first work that made an individual fan aware there was a community of other fans creating their own stories around this work.
   
6. The first work that caused an individual to begin to interact with an existing community of other fans.

Answering each of those ideas individually:
1. Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek: TOS, when I was around 8-9, 1969-70
2. Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek: TOS, 2001: A Space Odyssey, same timeframe
3. Sherlock Holmes, same timeframe. Because I had the annotated edition, and it talked about all sorts of research that the Baker Street Irregulars fans/scholars did.
4. Star Trek: TOS. I think I found out about K/S when I was in my teens (mid-70s).
5. This one is where it gets complicated for me. The first fan writings I did, back in the 70s, were about a band called Sweet. But I wasn't aware of other fans of the band, never mind other fans who were writing about them, and definitely never mind other fans writing about other bands. I infected my girlfriends with writing about the band. So we sort of formed a micro-fandom of our own. We didn't have any particular connections with any kind of fandom at the time.

The first community of fandom I got into was science fiction fandom rather than media fandom, and I didn't get into it because of any particular work, but because I knew people who were fans and liked them and decided to check it out. This was in the early 90s.

Around the same time, I also had a friend who was in media fandom, and I liked listening to her talk about media fandom and I read her stories, which happened to be Blake's 7 stories, but I wasn't a strong Blake's 7 fan myself, and I didn't interact with any other media fans.

In the late 90s, I got seriously into Babylon 5 fandom, but not the part of the fandom that wrote stories. I was on the Babylon 5 Usenet newsgroup, where JMS, the creator of B5, also hung out. There was an explicit prohibition against stories or story ideas because he was still writing it and if the fans mentioned story ideas he was worried he would get sued for stealing their ideas.

As far as actively investigating/interacting with media fandom is concerned, Star Trek: Reboot is mostly what did it.

TL;DR: Very late bloomer.

15. What's your current obsession? What about it captures your imagination?
I don't have a positive current obsession right now, and that's a problem. I'm happier when I have one. I expect one will eventually come along; I'm open to it.

16. What are you glad you did but haven't really had a chance to post about?
I'm glad I've done various things, none of which I intend to post about.

17. How many people on your reading list do you know IRL have you met face to face?
About 80.

18. What don't you talk about here, either because it's too personal or because you don't have the energy?

I mostly don't talk about my existing relationships because it's too personal. I mostly don't talk about problems that I'm in the midst of, because it's too personal. (I sometimes talk about them after I'm mostly over them.) Although if you are on my access list and go back through my journal of the past two years you'll see a fair bit of both, because I made an exception for talking about my mom's illness.

I express fewer political opinions than I have, because I don't have the energy to write down all of my opinions, especially because I like to be very precise and careful with my language when I write about political stuff. Also because I either agree with things other people said, or don't agree in subtle ways that would be very hard to express clearly and might be derailing or otherwise damaging if I attempted to express them.

19. Any questions from the audience?
You can ask me anything any time. If you want to ask anonymously, you can do so by commenting on a public post in my journal. Anonymous comments are screened and I'll get a notification. (I might put up a sticky post to this effect, I suppose.)

20. Yes, but what are your thoughts on yaoi?
I feel vaguely benevolent toward yaoi and I know very little about it.

21. What's your favorite thing about Dreamwidth?
It's full of smart people talking about fascinating things.

Part 1, questions 1-9
Part 2, questions 10-13