November 2014

11/27/2014 9:29:47 PM ¶ ●

http://fanculturesfancreativity.tumblr.com/post/103687357917/findyourspine-transformativeworks

transformativeworks:

rectumofglory:

andromedalogic:

direcartographies:

a moment of silence for all the fanfiction lost to the ravages of time, unsalvageable even by the wayback machine, condemned to its final resting place in the deactivated archives of…

11/18/2014 8:14:58 AM ¶ ●

What is this called?

Does fandom have a word or a phrase for people (fans, journalists…) deliberately asking about fanworks/showing fanworks to the actors and other TPTB. Examples: making the actors read fanfic out-loud, showing them fanart in public and observing their reactions, asking actors in front of an audience about slash, sending/giving actors/TPTB fanworks privately, putting actors/TPTB into positions where they are forced to make a statement about fanworks…

This is not necessarily outing, because it is not always tied to a specific fanwork. Ex: someone asking an actor about slash or mpreg or RPF fiction without naming specific fanworks.

11/11/2014 9:07:51 PM ¶ ●

http://cicaklah.tumblr.com/post/97991866265/let-me-tell-you-a-story-about-fandom-while-i

cicaklah:

Let me tell you a story about fandom.

While I started off in x-files fandom, my current unending tide of fannishness comes from when my good friend got me into trigun, and from there, trigun fic. See, I lived in Indonesia at the time, and there was a strange sticking point in the counterfeit vcds…

Our history of fandom is so fragile, at whims of memory and odd fragments of the old internet that still remain. How will this change with tumblr, which eats fics with static links and terrible search? With unindexed fic on the AO3. With robots.txt files and government agencies and that creeping paranoia that lies in the back of adult fangirls minds? How will all of this be remembered, when we don’t want anything remembering?

This last part broke me …a little. Until I remembered Fanlore. And the Open Doors project. And the Media Fandom Oral History project. And the Sandy Hereld Memorial Digtized Fanzine Collection. Just a drop in the bucket of fandom history, but it would be great to see more fans help out on these projects. Even better, it would be great to see more fans speaking up about not allowing ourselves to be marched into oblivion.

11/11/2014 8:57:07 PM ¶ ●

moonyinthesky:

adventures in packing: just found the giant 2-inch thick binder completely full of printed-off pages of every single chapter of the shoebox project that i did like six years ago :D

i have another binder full of old printed-off supernatural and harry potter fics from livejournal XD

aahhhhh, the days of fandom before ao3 and their download function, when everything had to be copied into word just in case the author ever deleted their journal or had their shit deleted by livejournal or ff.net

this is legit fandom history right here XD

Ha! I have the same binder!