Has this been done yet?
livejournal, fanfiction.net and ao3
which one were you?
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the three generations of fanfic:
I HAVE LITERALLY LIVED THROUGH ALL OF THEM WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT SAY ABOUT ME
Oh bb there is so much more to it than that.
First there were zines, lovingly mimeographed and stapled by our fandom foreparents, and those who remain to us from the Zine Age are powerful and wise.
Then there was Usenet, where formatting went to die. You know not the strength it takes to read 60k fics entirely in Courier New, or the pleasure of a really artistic looking section break marker composed of ASCII characters.
Then there was the Great Schism, as fandoms spread far and wide across the Web, and basic HTML was the whole of the law. Many of us lied our way into private “18+” listservs, and roamed the webrings, lamps aloft, in search of one virtuous author (or at least somebody else who shipped the thing).
From this dark age rose FF.net, that pit of voles from whose bourn many a hungry reader has returned, starved for citrus and heartsick from the cutesy author notes.
And FF.net begat Livejournal, which allowed easy archiving, threaded comments, flocked posts and invite-only communities. And it was Livejournal, in its death throes, that begat AO3, which once seemed like only a utopian vision and now bestrides the world like a Colossus.
OH MY GOD, REMEMBER WEBRINGS?
BBC Sherlock is the best adaption of Sherlock Holmes because it succeeded in making me despise the character of Sherlock Holmes for the rest of my life (and eternity) and made me never want to touch the stories ever again and that’s what Arthur Conan Doyle would have truly wanted.
listen. it’s 2018. it’s time to admit, finally, that bbc sherlock is, in fact, bad, and was only good because we watched it when we were 15 and didn’t know how to dismantle scripts that SOUND clever but are really just gold-flake covered shit
one of my fav youtubers literlally made an hour and 49 minute tirade on the show: definitely worth watching if you agree with this lmao
“sherlock 1800s au”
[narrows eyes]
There’s a fantastic fic writer who’s quite prolific in this area. Sixty stories already! I don’t know if they’re doing any more. Their username is ‘Arthur_Conan_Doyle’ but you have to google their stuff. They don’t put it on ff.net or AO3 or anything like that. Real awesome period piece type stuff too. They get all the little details right. It’s amazing.
he hasn’t updated in like 86 years i think these fics got abandoned =(
This is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever seen and I saw the Sherlock fandom come up with the Johnlock Conspriacy after season 4.
i'll be honest whenever I see an elon musk poll I automatically choose whatever option he doesn't want people to choose
For reference, this is what she’s talking about :
In conclusion: Fanfic is important, there’s nothing wrong with writing or enjoying it and the cast and crew of Good Omens are a gift.
This is such a big thing for people in the fanfiction community. Years and years of being told that fanfiction isn’t real writing and that it’s wrong or disgusting. The message that Neil, Michael, and David send is so important for the kids in fanfic that feel ashamed or guilty about writing or reading fanfiction.
Do you READ or WRITE fanfiction?
Then I need your help for my grad dissertation!
Who I am: Emily Faulkner, MSc student at Robert Gordon University
I’m studying: The information-seeking behaviours of fanfiction communities and their applicability to libraries
Where: https://robertgordonuniversity.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/fanfiction-questionnaire
How long: About 30 mins depending on your fanfic sites
Closes: August 2nd, 2021 noon EST
Open to: adults who read and/or write fanfiction content (fan comics and podfics included)
So I read a fic a while back where Roxy and Eggsy are in training still, and they’re given truth serum and put in a room (to learn how to evade questions without lying, to build an immunity, whatever). I wanna take that and run with it because imagine this:
Merlin is monitoring them from the other side of a one way mirror and Roxy and Eggsy are just chillin on the floor or whatever when Roxy starts asking about Eggsy’s past and it maybe slips out that he was a rentboy? Or maybe he’s asexual. Or my personal favorite, that he’s genderfluid, and that he won’t dare admit it to Harry or Merlin because he’s sure he’d get kicked out immediately. He admits to Roxy that he’s too afraid to wear more ‘feminine’ clothing or to ask anybody to use different pronouns and he hates it. Roxy doesn’t care, she had an idea that maybe Eggsy wasn’t as ‘Alpha Male’ as he projected.
Once it’s just down to him and Roxy, he gets more comfortable with it. Especially after V-Day now that he’s been made a knight. Meanwhile, Merlin’s kept all this quiet. Eggsy isn’t sure if Merlin knows or not, but he wasn’t kicked out, so he assumes not.
What if Eggsy starts wearing ‘softer’ things. An ornate watch. A pink dress shirt. A gentle heel to his shoes. And every time he does this, Merlin makes sure to complement Eggsy on it. “That color looks good on you, lad.” and “That’s a very nice watch you’ve got.” Merlin is always making sure to quietly encourage Eggsy whenever he dresses like that. Maybe Merlin starts making an effort to use they/them pronouns with Eggsy. It’s subtle enough that the others don’t pick up on it, but Eggsy does, and he knows that Merlin knows.
What if one day Eggsy comes in with nail polish on. A very translucent, almost unnoticeable color. Some others comment on it, and maybe Eggsy tries to brush it off “Oh, Daisy did that! I was looking after her last night” which isn’t technically a lie, although he was the one painting both his own and Daisy’s nails.
Merlin sees it though. “Your nails look very nice, Eggsy” he says with no malice, no hint of a joke. Merlin just genuinely thinks Eggsy looks nice like that. And of course, Eggsy gets all blushy under Merlin’s complements, as always. And Eggsy knows he can trust Merlin, because he can tell Merlin is being genuine and that Merlin really cares for him.
I bind fanfic and other underground writing into real books. I am a Guerilla publisher.
In a nutshell, the reasons why:
- A demonstrative statement on the validity of “fic” in general (and fanfic within that specifically) as a newborn genre of literature that has really only come into its own in the last 15-20 years.
- Disrupting preconceptions about what is valuable and worthy of being in print, much less published in a fine edition.
- An act of anti-capitalist resistance. Participation in the traditional gift economy of fandom. Most of my projects are volunteer and gifts.
- Preservation of fandom history and works for future generations. These books cannot blip out of existence by puritanical updates to a socmed terms of service. These books are acid-free, archive ready, made to survive for another century.
- Demonstration against censorship of fiction. Most of the books contain subject matter some people may find objectionable on various grounds.
- In summary, it’s a big Fuck You to power structures that silence people. Also it makes my friends so happy that they cry, so that’s nice too.
My book design is deliberately conservative because I am challenging ideas of what should be inside the book. The more a book looks like something a “real” publishing house would put out, the stronger and more subversive the statement it makes.
I am also doing a lot of research working on replicating the style of books from centuries past, and publishing historical fic set in whatever period, in an embodiment that matches. Colors, typography, even form factor as much as possible. I have done Victorian, Edwardian, Renaissance eras.
Here are some various process pics. Books pictured:
WAR, CHILDREN by Nonymos (Captain America: Stucky)
AND THEN THERE WERE TWO by NymeriaKing (Star Wars / Kylux)
BLUTRUNST by IncurableNecromantic (Over the Garden Wall)
CHOSEN MAN by Sineala (Eagle of the Ninth)
I am going to add some links here, too, for anyone whose introduction to gift economy and fannish preservation practices was this post and want to learn more. You can also search our bibliography at Zoter by keywords for any of these topics. Fandom and/as labor, guest edited by Mel Stanfill and Megan Condis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/16 “Fan Works and Fan Communities in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” special history issue of TWC guest edited by Nancy Reagin, Pace University, and Anne Rubenstein, York University: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/7 Zotero bibliography: https://www.zotero.org/groups/11806/fan_studies_bibliography/items