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Update: April 15, 2013: The bulk of the fanzine information has been moved to Fanlore, the fan run wiki. You can access Fanlore's home page here.
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If you're looking for a list of fanzines by fandom, this is what I have so far:

Place of Honor: Starsky & Hutch. Pepper has compiled the most amazing and complete fanzine listing. Mahvelous. Go here

1. Alphabetical listing
A-Team - list here (last updated in 1997) and here
Beauty & the Beast here and here
Buffy and Angel
Blake's 7 - Judith has an extensive list here
Dr Who - partial lists available here and here and here
Due South -Ray Vecchio Fanzines and Ray Kowalski Fanzines
Inspector Morse here
The Magnificent 7 here
The Man From U.N.C.L.E - slash fanzines here, gen and slash fanzines here
The Professionals -The Hatstand and Palely Loitering (with their own LJ here)
Quantum Leap - old list, needs updating
Rat Patrol - Excel spreadsheet here
Real Ghostbusters - here (defunct, last updated 2002). A more current list is here
Robin of Sherwood here
Seaquest here and here
The Sentinel - Loft Library -Slash Zines and Gen Zines
Smallville here
Shadow Chasers here (old archive)
Sherlock Holmes here
Stargate SG1 - old list here
Starsky & Hutch - Pepper's Amazing List With Every Possible Combination Except Pepperoni
Star Trek - K/S Slash Zines and Star Trek Zinedex (gen/het/slash). An index of stories published in fanzines by title and author can be downloaded from the KirkSpockCentral mailing list (membership required).
Star Wars - Star Wars Collector's Bible (older list archived here)
Supernatural - here
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea here
Xena/Hercules - partial list here

2. Multi-Fandom Lists

Ming's Fanzine Archives (Star Trek, Star Wars & other Fandoms - click on the pdfs for the list)
Fandom Wikis - FanLore and Fan History

3. What To Do With That Aging Fanzine Collection? If you don't want to sell your fanzines on eBay or at a convention, the Fan Culture Preservation Project will help fans find homes for their fanzine collections - either at the University of Iowa or via fellow fans. More here and here .

What I like about the Fan Culture Project is that the University will pay for shipping and loading of the zines. I have several friends whose health has declined, don't want to sell their collection, but want to find their fanzines a good home.

Other places to buy/sell your fanzines: the Zinelist Announcements List, its sister discussion mailing list Zinelist or the SlashSwap mailing list. You can offer your fanzines on LJ at Fandom Swap. Jim and Melody Rondeau will also agent your fanzines online and at conventions for a small commission. As a last resort head over to eBay but beware you may be charged 2-3x more than you would buying from fannish sources.

For new zines/in print zines only: The Zine listing communities - one here on Dreamwidth and the mirror here on LJ. Melody Clark has started MediaFen, a fanzine listing blog. The RSS feed for LJ users is here. The direct blog link is here.

If you're trying to track down a fanzine producer whose website has moved or gone away, try using the Wayback Machine. Ex: The Zine Zone (last updated in 2003) is archived here.

4. Any other lists? Drop a note. And feel free to link here, as I'll update it.

Looking for Fanzine lists:
~~Star Trek - gen/het~~
Buffy/Angel - some zines listed on Fanlore
Highlander - some zines listed on Fanlore
Farscape
Firefly
~~Supernatur~~al
X-Files - some zines listed on Fanlore

5. Wanna Know How Your Ancestors Produced Their Fan Fiction?
Read "Fandom Before Computers"

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It is important to reach out to your State and Federal elected officials to let them know how unhappy you might be over some of the decisions they are making (or actions they are not taking). Here are simple tools that can make this process easier

1. Find out who represents you

Federal Level
https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member

For your state representatives, head over to your state legislature website. But see number #5 below, there is a easy to use service called Resistbot that will set you up for both federal and state legislature texting and emailing . You can also contact your governor through Resistbot and in some larger areas even your mayor. And yes you can also use it to reach out to the White House. Resistbot Is the Swiss army knife for poking your elected officials

https://www.facebook.com/resistbot?mibextid=ZbWKwL or https://resist.bot/
Text RESIST to 50409 to contact your federal, state, or local elected officials; create movements; and more. Over 30,000,000 letters deliver
Resistbot

2. If you can't get through your representative or senator offices, try calling after hours. If their voicemail boxes are full, you might have better luck at their state offices which is usually listed on their federal website

3. No matter their political party, your elected officials need to hear from you. Even if you know they will never ever budge or change their positions, they need to know what we want from them. We pay their salaries. We are their employers. Let's not make it easy for them to ignore us.

4. If you're unsure what to say, there are scripts available at 5Calls.org

5. If you don't want to make phone calls, join a texting service that will text or email your representatives from your phone. I recommend Resistbot which you can use easily from Facebook Messenger, Instagram or Telegram. There is a text option for your phone but they limit your text to 150 characters and that is a pain. Head over to Resistbot, send them a message through Facebook Messenger and they will walk you through how to set yourself up.

Resistbot https://resist.bot/
Text RESIST to 50409 to contact your federal, state, or local elected officials; create movements; and more. Over 30,000,000 letters deliver
Resistbot

6. Finally, some find 5calls.org to be a bit too fast paced and stressful. I recommend the Americans of Conscience Checklist. Every 2 weeks they release a list of 4 -5 issues to discuss with elected officials along with a list of people to thank which is a positive action. They also provide scripts and a way of tracking your progress.

https://americansofconscience.com/

Please promote - help preserve educational filmstrips that no one else in the world is archiving. Link to video about the project. If you cannot donate, please share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8SYb-GHii8

Link to the GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-me-save-an-almostlost-film-format

I am not affiliated with this fandom history group, but they do great work. Their focus is mainly literary sci-fi fandom which took off in the 1930s.

FANAC Fan History Zoom publicity release

"We have less than a week until the next FANAC Fan History Zoom program. We have some very knowledgeable fans on this program and it promises to be an enlightening subject in an often overlooked area of our field. This is the last FANAC Fan History Zoom for this season. Join us!.

Please get the word out to all your friends.

The Women Fen Don't See

Claire Brialey, Kate Heffner, and Leah Zeldes Smith

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Time: 3PM EDT, 2PM CDT, Noon PDT, 7PM London (GMT), and Mar 17 at 6AM AEDT in Melbourne

To attend, send a note to fanac@fanac.org

This is an actual conversation I had this morning. Note: the programs described are not actually for broken legs - I just simplified. Our state - which is more generous than most states - offers fragmented and complicated programs for seniors on low income. If you sign up for one, you are locked out of all the rest. Yes you can switch, but you go back to the end of the line. For some the wait list is 2 years.

Me: Hello, I understand there's a program that will help my mom if she breaks her leg again. Can you tell me more about it?

Social Worker: Oh you mean the program for people who break their ankles?

Me: No, the one for people who break their legs and need intensive care because they can't get in and out of bed

Social Worker: Oh that program, well does she have a broken leg now?

Me: No. She had one last year and it was a nightmare and she almost died because of it. We just want to find out what the program is all about so that we can plan ahead because she has fragile bones and is likely to fracture her leg again

Social Worker: Well that's handled by a different department and I don't know much about it. I'll refer you to Case Management Program A instead.

Me: I know the Case Management Program A. I reached out to them last week and they told me that they only handle cases where someone breaks their left leg.

Social Worker: Correct. For right legs we'd send your mom somewhere else when the time comes.

Me: Can you direct me to basic information about both the right and left broken leg programs. Are they the same? Are there any qualifying criteria? Does she have to be over 65 or have a certain income level? We just want to know what help we can expect when she breaks her leg again

Social Worker:. Well qualifying is complicated, and it takes a lot of work for us to figure out whether or not she belongs in the right broken leg or the left broken leg program and frankly whether she even qualifies for any broken leg program. So you just have to wait and find out. In the meantime, l can refer you to Case Management Program A to help guide you to the various options

Me: Will they be able to give me an overview about both broken leg programs?

Social Worker:. Are you only interested in the broken leg programs?

Me: I'd like to know about all the programs that my mom might be eligible for. Broken ankles, broken legs, broken arms, broken wrist, broken heads. Who can give me this overview?

Social Worker: Well it depends on what you're looking for

Me: (thinking: Help with broken things???) Okaaaaay... I'll talk to the Case Management Program A again. I think I spoke to a different case management program last year. They were called Case Management Program B and they had a 4-month waiting list

Social Worker: Oh yes that's Case Management Program B. They have a 4-month waiting list. I'll be sending you to Case Management Program A.

Me: Does Case Management A have a waiting list?

Social Worker: I don't know. You'll have to ask them

Me: What's the difference between the two case management programs?

Social Worker: Well they both offer case management services

Me: Yes? Do they offer any different types of case management services?

Social Worker: Case Management Program B can provide respite services and can get your Mom into adult day care programs. Case Management Program A can only tell you about the programs. They don't have any funding to get you into those programs

Me: So why would I want to go to Case Management Program A if they can't actually get my mom into these programs?

Social Worker: Well Case Management Program B has stricter criteria as to who they let in.

Me: . I guess that's why they have a 4 month waiting list. So once I start with one of the case management programs, can I switch? Could I start with Case Management Program A because they don't have a waiting list and then switch over to Case Management Program B once I get in?

Social Worker: You can switch but you can only pick one to apply to at a time

Me: So I either apply to one with a 4-month waiting list, wait for 4 months to find out if Mom qualifies. Or apply to one right away that is easier to get into but that doesn't provide that many services. But I cannot apply to both at the same time?

Social Worker: Yes.

Me: Who do I go to to switch? Do I contact you?

Social Worker: Well if you wanted to switch to Case Management Program A, then yes you would have to go through me first. But I think you can switch to Case Management Program B without going to me first. You'll have to ask them.

Supernatural fans, if you collect fanfic and podfic, a large personal collection assembled by multiple fans will be going offline in 2 months. Details here and here

First up - my numbers are pulled from memory and are most likely off. By a lot.

My friend MPH and I spent last year helping an East Coast fan process the 1700+ zine collection that she had inherited from 3 older fans. This is still ongoing.

We identified every zine that needed scanning (a lot more than we thought there would be), then worked with the universities who are still accepting zines (so few now, see below) to find homes. Un-scanned zines were shipped to my friend MPH for scanning (around 700), then onwards to their destinations. We even recruited another University (Michigan State) to take a few unwanted zines. The collection owner is still in the process of shipping and MPH is still scanning. After all is done, the fan may have 400 zines that no university wants but will offer up to fans.

I also received a surprise donation (door to door delivery) of 180 zines over the summer. Those were also sent to MPH for scanning, then onwards to Texas A&M University.

In the midst of this I realized I had waited too long to donate my remaining zine collection - Iowa will not allow me to add any new items - even non duplicates or items they do not have. Texas A&M University would only take non-duplicated items and they already have the zines in my remaining collection. I shipped a small amount of zines to the UK K/S Project. I smile every time I think of my zines - with my name lightly penciled on the inside covers like a dog-eared copy of a favorite novel - wandering the world.

And finally, the

escapade Fanzine Library was handed over to

franzeska for safekeeping. I scanned a few of those zines myself but I could not scan the Velobound ones since I lack the machine to put them back together. She plans to keep the Library intact as a collection. I will most likely send my remaining fanzine collection over to her as well.

So there we have it - there are (or were) 4-5 universities in the US who collect fanzines.

Current Status

Iowa - will not take anything. Or maybe they will? My collection is sadly closed to me.
TAMU - only if not already in their collection
UC Riverside - only sci-fi and fantasy (sorry other TV and movie fandoms) and only if not duplicated
Bowling Green (Ohio) - ????Have not spoken to them in a while, need to check
Michigan State - only well known, recent fandoms (Buffy, Harry Potter, Z-Files) and they can only accept a few each year

There are other places listed on the Open Doors website

This is not to discourage fans from reaching out to any of the places listed on the Open Door's website to find homes for their zines. In fact, your collection may fit into gaps that a university needs to fill or they might have some other special interest.

Also, if you have Star Trek fanzines, KS Fanzine Library is still active. In the US they are rebuilding the library, the EU is still up and running. And if you have Beauty and the Beast fanzines they have a lending library. Blake's 7 fans have their own Discord server and trade fanzines. There is a small 300 person Facebook group for fanfiction fanzines (buy and sell). Dr Who fanzines were historically light on fanfiction, trending more towards essays and newsletters, but there is an active 1000 person Dr Who fanzine collector Facebook group.

And no matter what - we'd love to hear about your collection - there are thousands of zines that have never been scanned and you might just have the missing issues. Or you might have a better copy or one with the missing pages. We are always looking for newsletters, letterzines, APAs, flyers and convention program guides - the bits and bobs that show how we connected with one another before online communities

What happens to the scans?
They are used to support 3 projects:
1. The Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Fanzine Collection at Texas A&M University (mainly limited onsite access, deposited with publisher permission)
2. Open Door's Fanzine Scan Hosting Project
3. The Fanfiction Fanzine Collection on the Internet Archive (zines uploaded with publisher permission).

Can I Help?
Yes, you can! If you have zines, email us a list of the titles (we need Fandom and Titles). If you want to find homes for them, we ask that you allow us to scan ones that we do not already have. If you want to hold onto them, we still would love to see the list and borrow some for non-destructive scanning (we pay for the shipping).

What is our most urgent need?
We need project managers to help us inventory and add meta data about the zines we have scanned. We cannot recruit any volunteers until we have at least 2 fans willing to give a 1 year commitment to getting the inventory started. Right now our team is small (3 people) and we're all hands on deck scanning and preserving. Save first, count later.

Come record your fandom memories. The Media Fandom Oral History project is now open to anyone who wants to participate.

Details here

Audio recordings
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Rated_T_For_Trans

Season 1

14 August 2011 - Slash Cast

21 August 2011 - Comic books with The Hoyden

28 August 2011 - Hurricane Safari with Merelyn and Twentysomething

4 September 2011 - Anon Kink Memes and Writing with Leupagus

18 September 2011 - Rookie Seasons

25 September 2011 - Hawaii Five-0 with Leupagus

27 September 2011 - Emergency Delicious Broadcast

Link that bypasses paywall
https://archive.ph/2023.10.25-144955/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/style/bottoms-fan-edits.html

My friend Kathy Resch has been publishing fanzines since 1975. Many of her zine masters were lost in a house fire and we're looking for people with copies of the following willing to loan them to us for scanning for her

Please send me a message at my gmail address MorganDawn if interested.

Beauty and the Beast Mask: Tales from the Underground #2, 5, 7

Blake's 7 -A Delicate Balance (gen)

Blake's 7 -Checkers: (adult Het)

Blake's 7 -Fire and Ice #5, 8

Dark Shadows -Beginnings: the Island of Ghosts

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1840

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1897

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1968

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1970

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance 1991

Dark Shadows -Dark Shadows Concordance Leviathan (2003)

Dark Shadows -DAVID HOFSTEDE'S DARK SHADOWS VIDEO REVIEWS

Dark Shadows -FROM THE SHADOWS – VIRGINIA WALDRON (DARK SHADOWS)

Dark Shadows -From the Shadows...Marcy Robin

Dark Shadows -If Tomorrow Never Comes

Dark Shadows -Jessica

Dark Shadows -My Boy Willie

Dark Shadows -Never and Again

Dark Shadows -Passion in the Shadows

Dark Shadows -Rebirth of the Undead

Dark Shadows -Secrets in the Shadows

Dark Shadows -Shadowed Beginnings

Dark Shadows -SHADOWS IN THE 90s

Dark Shadows -Summer’s Son

Dark Shadows -Tales from the Shadows # 1:

Dark Shadows -The Winds of Eternity

Dark Shadows -The Year the Fire Came

Dark Shadows -What If the Night Never Ended and the Day Never Came?

Horatio Hornblower -Adventure and Adversity # 1

Multiple Fandoms -No Holds Barred #5, 17

Star Trek -Kaleidoscope # 3-6

V “V” - Martin - a Novel of Reconciliation - V

From

snickfic 's post

Yesterday morning I woke up to two emails from Livejournal informing me of posts of mine that were determined to contain "pornographic materials involving minors." They told me access to these posts were now suspended, and if I tried to repost this content, they would close my account.

1. If you think I actually have that content on my blog, would you not fucking ALREADY CLOSE MY ACCOUNT.

2. The posts in question were the AO3 header info for two Gamora/Nebula stories. Not even the text of the fics! Just the headers, with links to AO3! Definitely no actual pornography of any kind involving real people.

4 free Covid tests are now available again from the US government Covid info website: https://www.covid.gov/tests

vivdunstan posted: Twitter/X to Bluesky

Fellow migrants to Bluesky from Twitter/X who still have accounts there may want to check out the Sky Follower Bridge add on for Firefox or Chrome. This lets you find more people you follow on the Bird site who are on Bluesky.

squidgestatus posted: Give Back To Squidge Fundraiser

Squidge.org could use your help!

While Squidge.org is much smaller than other fandom organizations, it still costs a couple thousand dollars a year to run and maintain. And that's where you come in. We're running a "Back to School? Give Back To Squidge!" fundraising campaign, and hope to raise money to keep us going. Any little bit helps.

There are two ways to give:

Through our fundraising platform Aplos by clicking this link

Through PayPal by clicking this link

bethcarielle posted: Fanvids?

"Where do fanvids live now days? YouTube? I see a few on AO3 but just wondering if there's an archive devoted to vids. "

elf posted: OTW Elections 2023 - First set of Q&A

There are currently six candidates for the OTW board. The first set of Q&As (there will be three more) are posted at the OTW Elections site - but not the main news feed or AO3. (Maybe there'll be a post later?)

Questions: Candidates were allowed 300 words each to answer; some questions contain sections sent in by multiple users.

I've been combining my vid show playlists (thank you to every convention that has ever offered their playlists to their convention attendees in any format ...and an even huger thank you to those using Google Sheets or Excel or some format that can be converted).

The Two Big Vidding Conventions

Vividcon (2002-2018), a fan run vidding convention showed approximately 4,737 vids.

VidUKon (2008-present), a similar vidding convention based in the UK has shown approximately 2,248 fanvids

You can find Vividcon's fanvid database here

VidUKon has combined its database with other conventions that run on the Conline.Club platform. You cannot search by convention year, but the dataset allows you to search by Fandom, Vidder and Title

Other Conventions
Below is the list of conventions where I am trying to gather the lists of fanvids that were shown - it ranges from 1979 through the present

Bascon
BistoCon
Cabrillo Con
Calicon
Con.txt
Confabulation
Connexions
Constrict
Convergence
DC SlashCon
Eastern Media Con
Eclecticon
Equinox Spring (a challenge, not a convention)
Equinox Fall (a challenge, not a convention)
Escapade
FanWorksCon
FemmeslashCon (TGIF/F)
FanStudies (an academic convention)
Festivids (a challenge, not a convention)
Friscon
Geek Media Expo
Hypericon
IDICon
Kiscon
Kismet
MediaWest
Nine Worlds
PacificCon/ Bitchin' Party
Revelcon
Slashcon (Australia)
Sharecon (SH10x)
Sherlock (Seattle)
Sirens Conference
Slashcon (AUS)
Slayage
Swancon (AUS)
Southern Media Con (VidCon until 2010)
VidUKon
Virgule
Vividcon
VegaSH Con
Wincon
Wiscon
WorldCon
ZebraCon

I have $4 Kindle rewards that expire in 2 weeks. Rec me your favorite author - I prefer fantasy or sci-fi that focuses on characters/relationships but am not averse to world building/larger themes. Nothing grim or dystopia. OK if it is part of a series and if it is a few dollars more than $4 (up to $12). Plus if it supports a minority or LGBTQ author (or themes).

Something near and dear to my heart, digital archival preservation. Here's a link to the GoFundMe. Note this is non-fandom specific, but this individual is the only person currently archiving educational film strips

"I am an independent media archivist saving obscure and lost media on vinyl, cassette, VHS, and especially sound filmstrip, an old educational slideshow-like format on 35mm film. I have more than a thousand items uploaded to the Internet Archive, with several thousand left to digitize. However, I am not connected to a university like most archivists and therefore don't have an unlimited budget.

Backups are super important to a project like this, and recently one of my backup destinations, Google Drive, set up a storage limit that is way too low for my needs. They did this suddenly and without warning. "

https://gofund.me/685d7218

If donating is not feasible, consider volunteering by helping him identify lost media either through the twice a week live Twitch streams

https://twitter.com/uncommnephemera

or by checking out the Uncommon Ephemera Haystack Media collection on the Internet Archive. This audio collection will be up for two more weeks while we work to identify unidentified off-air radio recordings or vinyl album recordings

https://archive.org/details/uncommon-ephemera-lost-media-haystack?tab=about&s=09

And if you just want to see something truly special check out this 1955 #Christian #filmstrip. It is from a series called "Parables From Nature," but it's about a fairy who eats the wrong mushroom and demands all mushrooms be destroyed.

https://archive.org/embed/uncommon-ephemera-filmstrip-pn-252b-the-fairy-ring-cathedral-films-1955

OK time for stats on my #VHS #VideoTape #digitiztion project

1. I have 291 mainly #VHS videotapes of #fanvids (or #songtapes / #songvids

2. I received most of them back in the 2010s - my progress is glacial

3. I still have 178 more videotapes to convert. Some of these are duplicates but given the poor tape quality, the plan is to convert all of them

4. My lossless conversion setup no longer works (capture cards have grown worse over the years and the ones I had only worked with OS that no longer runs aka Win XP). So I am relying on DVD-Recorder to digitize what I can.

What is a songtape or a songvid?

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Songtape_Collection

#archiving #FandomHistory #vidding

squidgestatus posted: Jinjurly Archive - Phase II

If folks aren't aware, the Jinjurly Audiofic Archive - a spot for podfics - is hosted here on Squidge.org. We (and I mean we, several volunteers) have restored what we could out of the missing podfics that were located. We crowdsourced the spreadsheet and recovered more than 4,300 of the 5078 missing files. But that means we still have almost 800 files outstanding.

Can you help?

The spreadsheet of missing files has been updated, and is located here. If you've grabbed the odd podfic over the years and think you might have some of these, please update the spreadsheet with what you have, and where we might be able to download it from. Then we can finish complete restoration of the files.

The archive thanks you!

Returns July 30

https://www.cowboysindians.com/2023/05/dark-winds-returning-july-30-for-season-2/

My backup learnings

1. I have been diligent backing up all files from one external drive to another. But the backup software settings (FBackup) for the vid files were set to 'default" which means when they backed up the DVD video files they overlooked the .info and .bup files that are necessary to make the DVDs playable. There are also some older non-std video files that they failed to backup. So pay attention to the backup software settings. I use WinMerge, a free Windows software to do file by file bit (byte??) comparisons of the first initial backup to validate will check once a month

2. Off-site backup is key. Luckily for the video files and fanzines I already did a manual backup of these files to the cloud (incrementally adding new files along the way). This turned out to be important because around 10% of the video files on the external drives were corrupted . And because the backup software failed to capture some of the older files/non-std files, the uploaded versions were key to restoring the files.

3. For my personal files I am testing a 2 TB upload to Backblaze- I am hoping it will take less than the 1 month the upload calculators are saying it. Once uploaded it will go faster because it will be incremental. Backblaze seems affordable and they also offer an option to mail you an external drive with all your files should you have a complete hard drive failure (ca $200). I am using a description key-phrase to encrypt the files

4. And finally - invest in an image restore program. This saved me when the hard drive failed. I have so many custom software programs, profiles and plugins re-installing them all would be crippling. I used a software called Macrium Reflect and it was amazing. It is no longer free but there are other image programs. But once I had a new SSD hard drive installed, loaded with Windows I was able to conect an external drive to the computer, change the boot order and launch Macrium Restore and it did the rest. I now plan to do a weekly image file backup to a portable external drive. (I had been doing monthly)

I am still recovering from my hard drive crash.

I have 25 TB of data - fanvids, fanzine PDF cans and older mailing list plus all my personal files.

I decided this would be a good time to consolidate the fandom files from 3 separate external portable drives to one large external drive - and since the computer hard drive replacement was relatively affordable. I started the lengthy migration process. Over USB cables - yes it takes a loooong time.

Made even longer by the fact that several of the convention vid show folders had corrupted files. So once I complete the migration I will use file comparison software and go folder by folder - if the folders/files mismatch I will pull the DVDs (most of the convention vid show I have are either digitized from VCR VHS footage or were released by the conventions themselves on DVD).

The last thing I learned is that my backup software was set to the default - and so only basked up recognizable file formats (word, pdf, mpg). It ignored the "system files" that are necessary to create a playable DVD.

So it is a good thing I am migrating because I can

1. Find and replace corrupted files and
2. Redo my backups so they will include all files.

I think it will take another 4 days for the consolidation of the fandom files - then maybe another week?? 2 weeks for the initial backup to a second external drive to run and complete

Then I can start on my personal files.....

squidgestatus posted: You Can Now Support Squidge.org With an Online Donation!

Squidge.org has been supporting fandom activities for decades - working to save podfic, allowing image hosting.

This is an journal for and by adults dealing with sexual and political as well as personal issues. If you are under the age of 18, please get the appropriate consent before proceeding.

Fan:
I am a multi-media fan, love sci-fi and fantasy and have been involved in reading and writing fan fiction for the past 12 years. I am in my 40s (to give you a rough age and experience range). My fan fiction can be found here. Fiction with adult ratings or adult subject matter will be labeled and cut-tagged. Please read responsibly. My fan vids can be found in streaming format here

Person:
My other interest is a rare genetic condition called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) that I have been diagnosed with. I also ask that you take time to read this before posting or commenting about EDS. Please note that comments on typos, grammar and formatting will be deleted. LJ formatting problems may or may not be able to be fixed - do not feel offended if I am unable to respond to your request. Hopefully after reading about EDS, you will understand why it is difficult to type and participate online.

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In the year 2525
If man is still alive
If woman can survive
They may find.....

Are we there yet? And where are the flying cars?
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Thank you all for the help (especially James).

Took the computer to a local computer shop and they replaced the SSD drive. They did a clean install of Windows 11 (which I reverted back down to 10 for now) and I used my 1x a month image file (Macrium Reflect) of my C drive (which includes programs and settings) to restore the installed programs. I still have a lot of data to chase down, all of the external drives, camera and printer to physically connect. It will be at least another week.

I also need to change all the passwords on our banks accounts and credit cards as the computer was out of my hands.

In the process I learned that several of my external drives where I store my video files need to be replaced so I will need to fund this and redo the weekly backups.

Finally, I'd like to find a way to get my monthly (soon to be weekly) image file (2.7 TB!!) stored automatically online. I am looking at Backblaze personal.

~~Need #computer advice.~~

~~The #SSD drive which runs my Windows desktop died & I can no longer #boot (no bios found & it fails SMART).~~

~~2nd #HDD hard drive passes #SMART. Need to pay someone to install new SSD drive and Windows. (Tech claims that) OEM Windows license means $ for another license.~~

I have a #MacriumReflect image of all the partitions, but it is an image, not a clone. I don't think I can reinstall Windows that way. Would also like to recover any SSD data not backed up to the image which is 1 month old

Above all, I want nothing to impact the 2nd HDD drive which is where the bulk of my data is stored. I have these files backed up through Thursday. Really really don't want to have to reinstall apps, browser extensions but seems inevitable

~~Question: What do I need to tell the computer tech specifically to do, and to avoid doing~~

Tonight join dedicated fans as they do a historical rewatch of Star Trek The Original Series as if it was 1968.

Broadcast will be on Discord (link below) at 5:00 p.m. Pacific / 8:00 p.m. Central and again at 8:00 p.m. Pacific / 11:00 p.m. Central

Tonight is the last episode of season 2 and a reading from a 1968 Star Trek newsletter

Program description
"Hello, gang! It's the last episode of the second season, so you definitely want to make tonight's show. And hey, I'll watch Robert Lansing read the phone book.

After this week, we will rerun the entire season before third season begins (now that we've been promised a third season--thanks to all of you who wrote into NBC and told those fugheads to keep our favorite show on the air!)

Broadcast details:

KGJ will begin broadcasting at 8:00 pm Eastern (5:00 pm Pacific)--I don't have Tarzan tonight so you really have nothing to enjoy but my dulcet tones until 8:30. But this time, I promise I'm reading from The Crewman's Log.

Trek is at 8:30 pm (5:30 Pacific). I don't have Hollywood Squares this time either.

Then we'll do it all again at 8:00 pm Pacific (11:00 pm Eastern)! Feel free to pick the broadcast that is best suited for you.

Here is the broadcast link. You are welcome and encouraged to spread it."

For the past two years, fans have been gathering on discord every week to watch original Star Trek episodes, with selected television ads from the era and chat about the show as if we were watching it all for the first time in the 1960s.

Since we have reached the year of 1968, Star Trek fanzines have been appearing and tonight's event consists of Gideon Marcus reading from some of these early newsletters. If you'd like to join, there is a Discord invite below. I encourage people to also sign up to the mailing list because each week you're informed is to what will be read or watched

When: Thursday, March 24th at 6:30 p.m. Pacific/9:30 p.m. Eastern

https://discord.com/invite/j33R2Cxxaa

"We will be back to our usual schedule next week when we watch the last episode of Season 2, followed by the reruns of the entire season"

Best I can understand is that her printer is refusing to fix an error. This is a straight Go Fund Me - you will not be getting a copy of the zine, I think she is trying to provide hard copies to the contributors and then will sell digital copies.

The original plan was for 50 hard copies to be sold + the contributor copies + digital

https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-for-legends-10

More info about Alayne Gelfand

Click on the link to see the album. Explicit art requires that you have a free Flickr account and have turned off Safe Search, Most are originals, some are prints.

Fandoms: Pirates of the Caribbean, The Sentinel, Due South, Young Guns, Renegades., Actor Rutger Hauer, LOTR, Highlander

Adding this amazing limited print by Suzan Lovett (to see it in the album, you will need to create a free account, log in and turn off Safe Search

Universities don't like to pay for shipping and storing duplicate zines and other fannish memorabilia if they already have them on hand. By the time we turn our attention to donating our collections, we're often working with limited time or energy/health and creating that all important list may seem beyond reach

You can create a bare bones index using a very fast and easy method - read out loud the title and a friend on the other end of the phone, zoom etc. writes or types it down. Instant index and it can be very fun for both of you as you look back on your time in fandom. You can process a collection quickly that way. And the university are more likely to accept your collection if they know what is in it. And frankly, even if you just want to give way your zines - other fans are more likely to be interested if they know what you have.

*If you have 45 boxes of zines you might need to do this over several days or weekends. So a little planning will go a long way.

I attended last year and it was great fun.

Today's announcement

"Don't forget to register for DC-Slash Con 2023! Registration prices increase starting on the 16th of March.

Not sure if you've registered? You can check at: https://www.dcslash.org/dc-slash-con/registration

Convention calendar for fan-run conventions that have online programming. Most are multi-fandom, a few are single fandom. Special emphasis on panel and vid show deadlines.

multifandom.com/calendar/

If you are still on Twitter, there is a fandom convention List you can follow: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1629330683138125826

Thanks to

vidderkidder for creating both of these.

Moonhaven - we sent generations to a base on the moon to develop technology to save our planet. They created the tech but in order to do so, they reprogrammed their society to undo our destructive social conditioning. But has it really worked? And can we live with the result? Excellent worldbuilding, with clunky story-telling, Short series on AMC+, one of their most watched series. Was renewed and then, like other shows, suddenly canceled last month. Amazon Prime viewers get a free 7 day trial of AMC+

Dark Winds AMC+ - remake of Tony Hillerman's first 2 novels. Excellently cast with a strong Native American representation both in front of and behind the camera.

Interview With a Vampire. What makes this version work is that it is told through Louis POV - the unreliable narrator - with the aging human journalist as the skeptical and cynical reader who feels that so much of Anne Rice's (ahem, Louis and Lestat) stories are full of bullshit. On AMC+ as well

Poker Face - the actress from Russian Doll meets Columbo. She can always tell when you lie. Now she's on the run, trying to solve murders and crimes along the way. Has been renewed for a second season. Peacock

Beforeigner (Foreigner from Before)- In Norway, a wormhole has opened, sending Norwegians from the past into the present. Vikings, 18th Century on the cusp of technological and societal revolutions and the Cro-Magnons - a mix of refugees that struggle to assimilate to the modern world. Follows the first Viking police officer as she's paired with a failing older detective. Fascinating exploration of time travel, refugees and being a time displaced alien in your own country. Season 1 is $15 on Amazon Prime and they just started offering Season 2 https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0B6CJV2JV/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s1

Our Flag Means Death - what a surprise. Based on historical characters - unbearably naïve and clueless gentlemen pirate hires an incompetent crew and proves to be horrifying bad at pirating. With his crew on the verge of mutiny, enters his hero Blackbeard (played by Taika Waititi) who seemingly takes him under his wing. For the most part silly and goofy - but the gay pirate moments were very sweet. On HBO Max, season 2 just wrapped up. This this review gives a brief overview of the show

Warrior Nun - on Netflix we have only watched Season 1. Reluctant heroine chosen to save the world etc. But what if she really isn't the chosen one? We liked the slow place they used to express her doubt, her questioning of good and evil, what binds us together and the eventual reveal at the end set up season 2 as something interesting. Sadly another series Netflix canceled after 2 seasons.

Three Pines - based on the murder mystery series by Louise Penny, a surprisingly compassionate and ethical Inspector Gamache of the Candia Surete visits the small village of Three Pines to solve a murder. Like the novels he becomes enmeshed in the lives of the villagers as he battles internal corruption in the police force. I thought the casting for Inspector Gamache was excellent but was disappointed with the superficial attention paid to the core characters of the novels - the eclectic villagers and the village of Three Pines itself. The choice to make them both seem more sinister than welcoming was frustrating. I loved the expansion of Inspector Lacoste - her character was very compelling. I felt Gamache's second in command Jean-Guy Beauvoir was weakly written. But the cranky poet Ruth with her swearing duck was perfect. On Amazon Prime, free to Amazon Prime members.

Long time Pros fan Snow White (Kathy Snow) passed away on January 31. I started Kathy's bio/memorial page on Fanlore. If you want your comments to be included reply to this thread or email them to morgandawn@gmail.com Please let me know what name you'd like to be quoted under https://fanlore.org/wiki/Snow_White_(fan)

Say a fond farewell to a loyal partner in our fandom history preservation. I bought this Scansnap scanner in 2010 and have used to to scan fanzines, letters and other fandom ephemera (songvid playlists from VCR-era video cassettes) - over 700,000 pages. If you have visited Fanlore, the fan run wiki, many of the fanzine covers came from a scanner like this. And some of the scanned zines are archived at Texas A&M University’s Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Fanzine Collection.

The scanner never had a name - but it will be held in a place of honor.

Salutamus te!

    Screencap of fanzine covers from Fanlore’s Novel Zines Category

flamingo needs help proofing mimeograph era fanfiction written by two popular Starsky and Hutch fan writers: Terri Becket and Chris Powers. The Vas and Dex universe was an early example of fandom inspired original m/m fanfic.
Beckett and Power were enamored of "Starsky and Hutch" when it was airing, but they were "fans in isolation"--not knowing that fandom existed. They decided to write their own stories, which they based on Starsky and Hutch. The two authors kept writing Vas & Dex even after they discovered Starsky & Hutch fandom. At that point, the two original characters had taken on a life of their own.  

Since the originals were printed on mimeo paper, the OCR conversion is iffy in spots (example below). You can work at your own pace. DM or email me: morgandawn@gmail.com  

Original

Text:  
Th® hall echoed with the voices of all nSao hundred odd recruit® taking the® oath of service as PaitJolaen on probation with the Los Angeles Police Department, 

 Two hours later, with • now uniform, a badge, a gun, end a room* number apiece, they wore turned loose to get themselves stscdshtaaed out, find their way around, and get to know those detailed to Join the same classes and share the snail, tain-bunked rooms,

Vastarnyi, Angeleno born and bred, figured he already knew his surroundings, and he had things to pick up from his room above the hardware store before moving into the room that would be home for the next thirteen weeks. He headed for the parking lot and his motor¬cycle. It was a Harley Davidson, or had been) by now the manufacturers might have had difficulty recognising their bastardised child. The machine had been stripped down and tuned up so many times by a succes¬sion of enthusiastic owners, each with his own idea of what the bike should look like, that it now bore little resemblance to the original model

A group of spacefaring Roman Catholic nuns, traveling in a living ship, performing charity work across the galaxy; eventually, they discover a conspiracy that will test their faith

"A quiet, character-focused story about faith, growth, and the nature of moral and political authority.

In case anyone in the US needs paxlovid, if they have a smartphone or webcam and $15 they can use the Dr B Telehealth service. Family member used it and it was processed and ready at the pharmacy in 6 hours. Filled out online questionnaire and since they did not have any contra indicated medications no need for a video consult. They needed to take 2 photos - one of the Covid+ test with your ID next to it and another of the ID alone and then used their phone camera for the facial recognition confirmation.

They are licensed Telehealth in 41 states

https://hidrb.com/covid/paxlovid

I don't know how fast/easy it is if you have medications - there was one qualifying question to see if you had standard annual bloodwork for your liver and kidney in the past year - which my family member had. DO NOT LIE ON THE ISSUES OF BLOOD TESTS OR MEDICATIONS.

killabeez posted: K/S Archive news—Please share!

Big news today from the AO3 Open Doors team: they are finished with the Kirk/Spock Archive import! The link to the collection is here.

twistedchick posted: (no subject)

Due South, all of it, remastered, available for free on YouTube.

Survey about AO3 deleting and suspending users for posting meta essays
https://marchmetamatterschallenge.dreamwidth.org/10028.html

yahoogroups posted: Yahoo Groups GMD stats

Between the ArchiveTeam volunteers and the Yahoo Groups Fandom Rescue Project, we saved 960,233 unique groups through Yahoo's GetMyData method (not counting what was saved through the Python script and PGOffline). Wow! And hopefully some more is yet to come as there are a few people who have promised to send us their GMDs but haven't yet. We will always accept it, even if it's just as a "please don't share this but hold onto it for safekeeping" measure, so if you know anyone who never got around to sending data to us (no matter what method they saved with), we'll still be happy to get a copy!

How much of that is fandom? At this point, all I can estimate is "somewhere around 300,000?" It is really impossible to know yet. I finished working on the metadata and will be uploading it soon, and sometime next spring (I hope!) we might begin on the more finely-detailed analysis that would let us identify individual fandoms and all of that.

A new Yahoo Groups Dreamwidth community has been started where you can keep up with the progress of the Yahoo Gedden Rescue Team as they process and add metadata to the (gulp) million groups saved

yahoogroups

A small amount of fanzines published in the 1980s-2000s are being sold by the publishers family* to raise funds for charity. Cost is $5 plus shipping. They cover multiple fandoms, a few Stars Wars, Star Trek, X-Files and some Miami Vice.

The for sale list is here

The zine listed as OFT is "Our Favorite Things" a multiple fandom zine. You can read more about this zine on Fanlore: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Our_Favorite_Things

Vice Verse is a Miami Vice zine
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Vice_Verse_(Miami_Vice_zine)

And you can learn more about the other zines on Fanlore as well. https://fanlore.org

Email me at morgandawn @ gmail.com I will forward your email to the family who is selling the zines (they are based in the US).

Publishers were Anne Batterby and Elaine Batterby, two sisters who have since passed away.

Another fanfiction #fanzine rescue. A fan wants to donate 2 boxes of fanzines. She is looking for a volunteer to box & transport to the post office in the Triangle/Triad region of / Northern Carolina. Shipping costs are covered. #fandomhistory. Timeline within next 2 weeks.

Have any fanvids or AMVs ever been shown at any of the Worldcons. Perhaps in a fandom panel?

squidgestatus posted: SquidgeWorld Is Looking For An Archivist

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