The Here And Now

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.

vid_bingo

• How're your vids going? 
• What was your vidding gateway?  
• I'd love to hear people's thoughts on how they use bridges/instrumental sections in songs.  

calvinahobbes

You see, I am going to VIDUKON for the first time with kabal42 and Heidi this year!!! I am so excite!!! I honestly am looking so much forward to meeting all these people from inside my computer/phone (mostly phone these days) and geeking out with them <3

And just because we don't know how to do stuff halfway, Heidi and I took a spur of the moment decision and volunteered to VJ a show. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now we aren't sure how to fill up 45 minutes (I know, incredible, right?) and so we hope you all can help us???

We are looking for vids about behind the scenes stories. Like, specifically vids that focus on how the media source is made or what the cast and crew get up to behind the camera. We want to try to keep the emphasis on TPBT creation rather than fan creation, if that makes sense. So, more Long Live than Pressure.

dorinda

Connexions, a little every-other-year slash con held just outside Washington D.C., is seeking vids made between August 2018 and August 2019 for its vidshow.

The call for vids says they're looking for vids "that are a) slash and b) multimedia"--I assume they mean both at once maybe? But if you want to ask for any clarification, it looks like the person to contact is Ker at dcmf.office@gmail.com .

For more details on the con, see their website at http://www.connexions-south.com/. The page on their site that focuses on the vidshow specifically is here.

torrentfreak_feed

On March 17, 2019, TorrentFreak published an article about Reddit’s /r/piracy discussion forum.

It was actually prepared six days earlier, a point of importance that will become clear later on.

We noted how some in the thriving community of around 350,000 subscribers were concerned that it could be shut down for talking about piracy. In general, we highlighted what should be apparent – discussing piracy is a whole different animal than actually engaging in it.

Perhaps even more importantly, we reported on statements issued earlier this month by a key moderator of /r/piracy. The person in question, ‘dysgraphical’, reported that the section effectively has a zero-tolerance stance against infringement.

Not only do posters of any offending links to allegedly infringing content face an immediate suspension, but also anyone who even asks for them. This, quite clearly, goes way beyond the requirements of the DMCA.

Furthermore, /r/piracy – just like any other service provider – lists rules (effectively Terms of Service) that expressly forbid any kind of copyright infringement. Any posts breaking these rules are deleted, either with automated tools or manual intervention.

It’s a classic situation of technology and humans policing a platform as the law requires, but exceeding its requirements. Indeed, anyone looking for actual links to pirated content will find /r/piracy one of the least useful resources on the Internet, thanks to the work of the mods and the 99.9% of users who respect the rules.

"Reddit itself executed 26,234 content removals in 2018 due to copyright but no one is suggesting that Reddit’s host should ban Reddit."

vidukon_cardiff

There are just about three months left before VidUKon 2019, so if you're thinking of joining us in Cardiff on June 14-16, here's a taste of what's on the schedule for the weekend:

 

We've got vidshows aplenty. From regulars like Vidder's Choice, Best of CreaSpace and highlights from Festivids 2018 to themed shows, with topics including monsters, a 2009 retrospective, stories, be gay do crimes, found footage films, masculinities and behind the scenes.

 

On Saturday night, check out the big event, the annual Premieres show, showcasing brand new vids from all kinds of fandoms.

 

Plus there will be panels, including Anatomy of a Vid, the Year in Vidding discussion and a look at some exciting tech developments.

 

For the third year running, you can take part in the (in)famous group vidding workshop - join a team to vid a section of a song in just three hours, then stitch the pieces together! (No vidding experience required, all groups will have at least one confident vidder.)

tor_dot_com_feed

The male duo of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock is famous; not only for being the most enduring on-screen bromance of all time, but also for birthing an entire subgenre of fan fiction. But Kirk…Kirk was not Spock’s first. What about Pike/Spock? How did Spock’s long relationship with Captain Pike prepare him, or guide him, or shape him into being Kirk’s best friend in the original Star Trek?

The second season of Star Trek: Discovery is answering that question right now, and actors Anson Mount (Pike) and Ethan Peck (Spock) both have very specific insights as to how their versions of Pike and Spock are creating the dynamic duo the original series.

Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery, season 2, specifically, episode 8, “If Memory Serves.”

fanhackers_feed

"Courtney!!! Milan 🦖 on Twitter: Sooooo, you may or may not have seen on Twitter that there is currently a case in an Oklahoma court about A/B/O fanfiction. Courtney Milan provides a good summary in the thread above, but the tl;dr is that a romance novel author [Addison Cain] has been claiming that they invented A/B/O (specifically, f/m A/B/O) and sending DMCA takedown notices to authors of other A/B/O works. One of the targets of these takedown notices is now taking them to court [for abusing the DMCA takedown process and trying to kill the other author's book before it was published].

So this seems like a good time to remind everyone of Netweight’s very well researched piece on the origins of A/B/O.

And if you’re interested in what fan studies scholars have to say about the Omegaverse, Fanhackers’ very own elmyra has published a paper on consent in A/B/O. (If you’d like a copy, hit @elmyra up on Twitter, where they’re much more likely to see your message.)"

KiScon 2019  -  “It’s A Go!”  

Hilton Seattle Airport Hotel & Conference Center

Nov 1-3, 2019

The KiScon 2019 website is up and running - kiscon.org - and we invite you to join us in celebrating all things Kirk/Spock, Star Trek, and the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon.

Please join us in Seattle for an “out of this world” weekend filled with inspiration and entertainment, discussion and creativity, fun and games. There will be many great activities: panels, workshops, cosplay, art and zines, vid shows (and vid karaoke!), an exciting art auction, several competitions, and of course: the famous KiScon banquet on Saturday night, featuring a lovely K/S cake (green peens optional). A more detailed program will be published closer to the event. You will have the opportunity to suggest activities and vote on your favorite panels etc. 

Meet old friends and make new friends!

Attending and supporting memberships are now available! Go to kiscon.org to find membership and hotel reservation information.

If you are among our Early Bird members who signed up for KiScon 2019 during the last convention (KiScon 2017 in L.A.), you should have already received an email message with a specific registration form only for our Early Birds. If you have not received this message, please get in touch with us asap.

Spread the word, please! KiScon 2019 is happening and we’d love to have you on board!

Judy and Lari 

Con-chairs

“A University of Iowa Special Collections Online Exhibit of Fanworks is a 2017-2018 photographic description of only a few of the many fanworks held by the University of Iowa Fanzine Archives.

This online exhibit, a fanwork in itself, was created by TheGempath after their own visit in order to celebrate fan creativity, as well as the physical collection at Iowa. 

The Road Trip Leading to This Online Exhibit

I first visited the University of Iowa’s Special Collection in September 2017, having learned of it via Fanlore.

While I expected the array of zines, newsletters and such, I wasn’t expecting the non-printed material. Make no mistake, this is a library collection - printed material is their focus. But they’re also preserving other items that capture and reflect the broader scope of fannish creativity and the history of fandom, anchored in the late 1960’s and what grew from and around Star Trek.

Included in the collection are items by names known from the early days of Trek fandom: the dolls sewn by Devra Langsam, the IDIC stringart by Monica Miller, original zine art by Leslie Fish, Leah Rosenthal’s humorous write up of the 1977 Star Trek America convention (interesting not only because that was my very first convention but also to see how her art has evolved over the years… yep, her trademark eyebrows are there). Plus a freakin’ original set of Spock’s ear tips from way back in the days when the studio gave them out (who the heck would want those pieces of foam, anyway?). Then there was the convention program books and T-shirts, the Man from UNCLE “popping” guns and more. Printed material one expects to find in a library collection. But these items…?

Thus the idea was born for this online exhibit in the form of a Fanlore wiki page, with the intent of making more fans, historians and the just plain curious aware of what the University of Iowa’s Special Collection holds and what may be held in other institutional collections.

The items below were selected across named collections, fandoms and categories to try and illustrate the scope and range of the collection as well as to highlight unique items. A few zine associated items are included, though zines as a whole are not as they are extensively covered elsewhere in Fanlore. This is only a small sampling of the overall collection of fanworks. The items were photographed in April, 2018.”

Other Fan Trips to Iowa

Since the University of Iowa Fanzine Archives Special Collection opened in 2009, many fans have taken road trips (one might even call them pilgrimages) to the Special Collections Fanzine Archives. Three fans, darksnowfalling, Aralias, and Meandthreeandthree have reported on their respective visits. “

Source.

elf

I've been working on the subpages of the Proposed Zines page at Fanlore. These are zines that were advertised as being planned, and never got made; sometimes that was because there was no interest, and sometimes various life details got in the way. (At least one was canceled because the basement that held the submissions got flooded.) I've done A-L and a few later ones, bolding the names of the zines and adding lots of internal links.

A lot of them deal with fandoms that are almost nonexistent online - the show ended, and most of the fandom didn't keep writing fics. (Earth 2. Wiseguy.) Some are for large fandoms that still have a following, and these zines just didn't happen. (Professionals. Starsky & Hutch.) Some are for original fic - vampire stories, paranormal mysteries, general sci-fi.

The number that specify "no slash" is jarring. I wasn't active in zine fandom before the internet got big, and my connection to it was slash-friendly. I vaguely knew it was "controversial," but seeing the descriptions today is fascinating. Lots of "X-rated is okay, but no slash please" notes. There's no hint of awareness that slash might not mean explicit sex.

A lot of them are interesting ideas for zines, and if I were social and organized, I'd consider having a fic fest, or a fic-and-art fest, based on one or more of the zine ideas.

franzeska

I start by going to the youtube copy of everything, assuming it has one. I put all of those URLs into 4K Video Downloader. This is a free program, and it is hands-down the best of the easy options. That got me roughly 80% of the final list. Next, I tried it on the non-youtube URLs, which it mostly choked on. For bilibili, I tried different website interfaces until I found one that is working this year. I'll probably have to do that again next year. My spreadsheet tab on download methods shows that I used https://www.videofk.com this time. A few youtube vids just wouldn't download via 4K Video Downloader. These I grabbed with https://qdownloader.net/. My biggest problem this year was actually Vimeo!

Dear vidders whom I know and love and who are part of the community that cares about cons: please stop turning off the damn download feature on Vimeo! Your separate download links invariably go dead! I'm going to get your video from Vimeo eventually anyway! The only thing you are gaining is my irritation.

The issue with Vimeo is that most of the download options can't handle a video with password protection, while some of the great browser add-ons I used a few years ago now put hideous watermarks on everything unless you buy an expensive subscription. Vimeo is great. It also has a great download option that you can easily leave on. I'm just saying.

I see that Morgan Dawn actually posted to DW about a Chrome extension that can grab [password protected]* Vimeo videos. I wish I'd read my flist! The method I actually used involves looking at a couple of layers of page source. (There's a tutorial here, though I had to modify it a little bit.)"

*How To Download Vimeo Password Protected Vids (Chrome Users) by meeedeee (Jan 2019) https://meeedeee.tumblr.com/post/182379393661/how-to-download-vimeo-password-protected-vids

vidrecs

Vid Title: Live Through This: A Supernatural Vid Album
Vidder: sisabet and sweetestdrain
Fandom: Supernatural
Summary: "fuck you, make me real" Twelve vids about the women of Supernatural.
Reccer's Comments: This is an awesome vid album that is a follow-up/ continuation of sisabet and luminosity's vid Women's Work. It's angry and incisive and extremely well put together.

fanworks

We're having a dance party and we'd love to show your vids! Sign-ups are now open for vidders who wish to make premiering vids for the Sparkle Motion dance party at this year's FanWorks convention.

Sign-ups allow us to make sure we don't have two vids to the same song and also allow us to check the song to see if it's danceable. It's not likely that we'll reject your song choice but it's best to know now that we don't think it will work on the dancefloor than to find out after you made the vid.

The deadline for submitting Sparkle Motion vids is:

Sunday, June 2nd at midnight EST!!

eff_feed

Three years ago, we warned of a string of dangerous new policy proposals on the horizon. Under these proposals, platforms would be forced to implement copyright bots that sniffed all of the media that users uploaded to them, deleting your uploads with no human review.

It’s happening.

The European Parliament is weeks away from a vote on Article 13, which would force most platforms, services, and communities that host user uploads to install filters to block uploads that seem to match materials in a database of copyrighted works. If the filter detected enough similarity between your video and something from the list of copyrighted works, your video would be banned. Hollywood lobbyists have proposed similar measures here in the U.S.

franzeska

The dance party has grown to be one of my favorite parts of Escapade. At the party this year, I was joking that people never send me requests, so I just play what I want. Someone I'd been talking to was like: "You're not being fair to yourself! You just told me how much time you spend!" They had a point. Self-deprecating humor aside, the way I make the dance party playlist is actually kind of complicated. And you know what that means: It's time for a tl;dr post!

viddingnews

Welcome to the first Monthly Vid Round-Up. This is a special newsletter containing only links to individual vid announcement posts that have been posted in the previous month.

viddingnews

Since there was a bunch of interest, I will also be posting a special monthly newsletter that contains links to individual vids that have been posted that month.

This will be posted on the 1st of every month, and if you would like to be included, please use the link below to submit:

How to submit a vid

przed

In two days, my website will be no more.

So, if you haven't yet downloaded any of my vids, they're all up here: http://przed.com/vids/vidfiles/

But that's not totally the end for my vids.

The lovely morgandawn kindly took it upon herself to help me create an account at the Internet Archive, and then went an uploaded nine of my vids. You can find them at https://archive.org/details/@przed.

The vids there are both streamable and downloadable, so that's awesome. And I'll be uploading the rest as I have time.