27. Astrophysicist, writer, artist. Michigan. Business inquiries: kaijunobiz@gmail.com
The Sacrifice is a short 5 part original sci-fi romance comic written by @audieoddity for the Webtoons Short Story competition.
The story features young astrophysicist Moira Cattaneo, chosen to be a representative of humanity when a mysterious 27,000ft tall monolith appears outside of a small village.
Moira is teleported to a dimension beyond belief, where she meets a being like no other. The story touches on the timelessness of life, death, and love.
Read Time: ~10 minutes
Rating: Teen
Content Warnings: Death, mentions of sex
If you like the story, make sure to like and comment on it! I personally thought the story was very sweet and I loved the unique character design.
what were fandoms like back in the 70s
what even was fanfic back then before the internet?
like there were fanzines right? what were those like
were there like local clubs or whatever that met up and traded fanart or smth??
fandom elders i must know the answers
what were fandoms like back in the 70s
what even was fanfic back then before the internet?
like there were fanzines right? what were those like
were there like local clubs or whatever that met up and traded fanart or smth??
fandom elders i must know the answers
So I’ve been researching this and there was this thing called the Fan Club Directory
The Fan Club Directory. Published between 1979 and 2002, the Directory was a two-staple, roughly 75-page booklet, produced annually by the National Association of Fan Clubs (NAFC). It listed alphabetically every fan club that elected, for free, to become a member of the NAFC, giving readers the U.S. mail address of the current president and/or contact person. The NAFC was an organization dedicated to representing “all fan clubs in all fields of entertainment,” and so the listings in the Directory were unintentionally jarring: announcement of The Amazing Pudding, the fanzine for Pink Floyd, sat right across from the Annette Funicello fan club (both are listed alphabetically under “F”); “The Celestial Affiliation of Time Lords: A Time Travel Fan Organization” was next to the “Charlie Daniels Band Volunteers;” Elton John and Al Jolson were side by side. It read like a fantasy middle-school classroom before everybody went off to become famous in their various pockets of the world.
Oh my god look at this this is amazing
Some of the clubs were focused on stars or shows that I don’t recognize anymore–Becky Hobbs, Secret Oktober, etc. But full-page breakouts were allotted for entertainment stars with more than one club, including Englebert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Barry Manilow, and Elvis Presley. There seemed to be a mixture of both “official” fan clubs, run by an artist’s management, and “unofficial,” run by fans out of their homes. Of equal historical interest were the details in the Directory’s ads. You could learn, for example, that The Flying Nun Fan Club “has been looking for the original hat and dress from ‘The Flying Nun’ for the 25th Anniversary.” (One can only wonder: did they find it? What did they do with the artifacts?). Or that there was a new Keith Carradine Club in Gronau, Germany, “searching for new members who are interested in international contact with other Carradine fans all over Europe.” Or that a group called “Operation Tribbles” helped to coordinate Star Trek clubs to donate stuffed “tribble” toys to people in rest homes, hospitals, and hospices around the world. In all, the Directory offered a heterogeneous slice of late 20th century popular culture in the English-speaking world.
There were also fanzines and one commenter says:
There was a fabulous fan print publication back in the day for the original Star Trek fandom. I don’t remember the name of it but it was analogous to an online bulletin board. Readers would send in comments which the publisher would print. Then readers would respond to those comments which would be published in the next issue, and on and on ad infinitum. If you kept your copies you could follow a “thread” from beginning to end. Sometimes new threads would split off the original and the publisher would separate those and the conversation would continue. It was quite ingenious for a print publication.
Then I looked up 1970′s Star Wars fanzines (because it just seemed like it’d be easy to find info on) and here’s this from fanlore.org:
Star Wars zines began to appear in 1977, not long after the first movie was released. The zines were often focused on one or two characters, with Han Solo-specific zines, Luke Skywalker-specific fanzines, etc. Some focused specifically on Leia Organa, Darth Vader, other Sith Lords, Imperials, or Jedi. Original characters were fairly common, especially early in the movie series when the number of canon characters was still limited.
A few Star Wars stories were initially published as part of Star Trek fanzines but there was some resistance from Star Trek fans. At the start start of 1977, the Star Trek Welcommittee’s Directory listed 431 Star Trek zines. By the end of the year, however, many fans were planning Star Wars and other “media” fanzines.
Boldly Writing describes fandom’s initial reaction to Star Wars in 1977. The fanzine “Spectrum 34…had Luke Skywalker on the cover. Inside, the editor, Jeff Johnston writes, "Behold! the fandom of Star Wars. Even as you read this a new fandom for Star Wars is developing, and growing. A fandom some people see as just a fluke, and that others see as the replacement for Star Trek fandom…”
Not all of Star Trek fandom reacted favorably to Star Wars, however. Two extremes have already formed, one saying that 'Trek is doomed’ (a new slogan) citing Star Wars as its killer, and the other faction maintaining a grin-and-bear-it attitude, assuming that the enthusiasm will wane eventually leaving ST fandom intact and Star Wars as 'just another…movie.’
This is so exciting look at this: Hyper Space #1, June 1977 Artist: Kevin Baxter. Hyper Space ties with The Force as the first Star Wars zine, coming out in June 1977
Look here for a bunch of old fanzine covers: http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2013/12/the_20_coolest_illustrations_from_star_wars_fanzin.php
AND THEN there’s the beginning of published fanfic:
The modern phenomenon of fan fiction as an expression of fandom and fan interaction was popularized and defined via Star Trek fandom and their fanzines published in the 1960s. The first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia (1967), contained the first fanfiction in the modern sense of the term. (Wikipedia)
Unlike other aspects of fandom, women dominated fan fiction authoring; 83% of Star Trek fan fiction authors were female by 1970, and 90% by 1973. (Wikipedia)
the first slash published in a zine was A Fragment Out of Time by Diane Marchant in 1974. (Fanlore.org)
This is so exciting I live for learning about things like this
what were fandoms like back in the 70s
what even was fanfic back then before the internet?
like there were fanzines right? what were those like
were there like local clubs or whatever that met up and traded fanart or smth??
fandom elders i must know the answers
So I’ve been researching this and there was this thing called the Fan Club Directory
The Fan Club Directory. Published between 1979 and 2002, the Directory was a two-staple, roughly 75-page booklet, produced annually by the National Association of Fan Clubs (NAFC). It listed alphabetically every fan club that elected, for free, to become a member of the NAFC, giving readers the U.S. mail address of the current president and/or contact person. The NAFC was an organization dedicated to representing “all fan clubs in all fields of entertainment,” and so the listings in the Directory were unintentionally jarring: announcement of The Amazing Pudding, the fanzine for Pink Floyd, sat right across from the Annette Funicello fan club (both are listed alphabetically under “F”); “The Celestial Affiliation of Time Lords: A Time Travel Fan Organization” was next to the “Charlie Daniels Band Volunteers;” Elton John and Al Jolson were side by side. It read like a fantasy middle-school classroom before everybody went off to become famous in their various pockets of the world.
Oh my god look at this this is amazing
Some of the clubs were focused on stars or shows that I don’t recognize anymore–Becky Hobbs, Secret Oktober, etc. But full-page breakouts were allotted for entertainment stars with more than one club, including Englebert Humperdinck, Tom Jones, Barry Manilow, and Elvis Presley. There seemed to be a mixture of both “official” fan clubs, run by an artist’s management, and “unofficial,” run by fans out of their homes. Of equal historical interest were the details in the Directory’s ads. You could learn, for example, that The Flying Nun Fan Club “has been looking for the original hat and dress from ‘The Flying Nun’ for the 25th Anniversary.” (One can only wonder: did they find it? What did they do with the artifacts?). Or that there was a new Keith Carradine Club in Gronau, Germany, “searching for new members who are interested in international contact with other Carradine fans all over Europe.” Or that a group called “Operation Tribbles” helped to coordinate Star Trek clubs to donate stuffed “tribble” toys to people in rest homes, hospitals, and hospices around the world. In all, the Directory offered a heterogeneous slice of late 20th century popular culture in the English-speaking world.
There were also fanzines and one commenter says:
There was a fabulous fan print publication back in the day for the original Star Trek fandom. I don’t remember the name of it but it was analogous to an online bulletin board. Readers would send in comments which the publisher would print. Then readers would respond to those comments which would be published in the next issue, and on and on ad infinitum. If you kept your copies you could follow a “thread” from beginning to end. Sometimes new threads would split off the original and the publisher would separate those and the conversation would continue. It was quite ingenious for a print publication.
Then I looked up 1970′s Star Wars fanzines (because it just seemed like it’d be easy to find info on) and here’s this from fanlore.org:
Star Wars zines began to appear in 1977, not long after the first movie was released. The zines were often focused on one or two characters, with Han Solo-specific zines, Luke Skywalker-specific fanzines, etc. Some focused specifically on Leia Organa, Darth Vader, other Sith Lords, Imperials, or Jedi. Original characters were fairly common, especially early in the movie series when the number of canon characters was still limited.
A few Star Wars stories were initially published as part of Star Trek fanzines but there was some resistance from Star Trek fans. At the start start of 1977, the Star Trek Welcommittee’s Directory listed 431 Star Trek zines. By the end of the year, however, many fans were planning Star Wars and other “media” fanzines.
Boldly Writing describes fandom’s initial reaction to Star Wars in 1977. The fanzine “Spectrum 34…had Luke Skywalker on the cover. Inside, the editor, Jeff Johnston writes, "Behold! the fandom of Star Wars. Even as you read this a new fandom for Star Wars is developing, and growing. A fandom some people see as just a fluke, and that others see as the replacement for Star Trek fandom…”
Not all of Star Trek fandom reacted favorably to Star Wars, however. Two extremes have already formed, one saying that 'Trek is doomed’ (a new slogan) citing Star Wars as its killer, and the other faction maintaining a grin-and-bear-it attitude, assuming that the enthusiasm will wane eventually leaving ST fandom intact and Star Wars as 'just another…movie.’
This is so exciting look at this: Hyper Space #1, June 1977 Artist: Kevin Baxter. Hyper Space ties with The Force as the first Star Wars zine, coming out in June 1977
Look here for a bunch of old fanzine covers: http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2013/12/the_20_coolest_illustrations_from_star_wars_fanzin.php
AND THEN there’s the beginning of published fanfic:
The modern phenomenon of fan fiction as an expression of fandom and fan interaction was popularized and defined via Star Trek fandom and their fanzines published in the 1960s. The first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia (1967), contained the first fanfiction in the modern sense of the term. (Wikipedia)
Unlike other aspects of fandom, women dominated fan fiction authoring; 83% of Star Trek fan fiction authors were female by 1970, and 90% by 1973. (Wikipedia)
the first slash published in a zine was A Fragment Out of Time by Diane Marchant in 1974. (Fanlore.org)
This is so exciting I live for learning about things like this
I love that the fandom has two different types of minecraft lp fanart.
The really cute and creative one.
AND THEN THE ANGSTY KING MEDIEVAL ONE
Two dragonsona cards for our board game, Dragon Royale, have been sold! We have Pirate on the left, and Vampirism on the right. Want your dragonsona to appear in our board game? It’s only $100 and there are 8 slots left! Let us know :)
This is from the company I’ve been working with the past couple months!! Not on this specific project but you should totally check it out if you like tabletop board and card games!
The game features 12 dragons you can choose to play with, all with their own stats and unique ability, villages and castles to raid for cards, a shop to buy cards from, coin tokens, life tokens, dragon figurines and much more.
Their kickstarter launches in November and you can get more info at gnarlygames.gg
Anonymous asked:
I’m not changing it bc too lazy for digital art
As you know, art and artists make Tumblr what it is. We want everyone on Tumblr to be able to fully express themselves while also having control over what they encounter on their dashboards. That’s why we’re introducing Community Labels, an extension to your “Content you see” settings. Our ultimate goal is to create a more open Tumblr, and this is our first step in that direction.
As a poster and reblogger, Community Labels are your way to help your followers avoid anything they’d rather not come across on their dashboards.
As a follower, setting your content preferences is a way to adjust your feed to your own comfort levels.
How does it work?
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When content is labeled, it will either be hidden, blurred, or displayed normally, based on each user’s preferences.
In your “Content you see” settings, you can now choose to show, blur, or hide content that depicts the following topics:
Some examples of content that would require a community label:
This doesn’t change our content policies: spam, hate content, and porn bots are still not welcome in the community. It’s also still important that we abide by app store rules, which means we need to make sure that mature content is only accessible to people who are old enough and have opted in to view that type of content. More information about Community Labels is available in the Help Center.
This is an opportunity to work towards a richer, more nuanced Tumblr experience while making sure everyone who enjoys using Tumblr can do so safely. That future we mentioned above? We’re already moving towards it.
Ok, didn’t everyone want “females presenting nipples” back on Tumblr? Here you are. This is it.
@jv So to be clear, is erotic fanart now allowed back on Tumblr so long as you classify the post appropriately?
Yup. That’s the idea.
I think there may be some limitations (not being able to blaze it and stuff like that and don’t ask me for clarification because I’m out of the water on this 😁), but yeah, it’s allowed as soon as it’s labelled!
NO FUCKING WAY
