I Want To Remember
Mar. 4th, 2013 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morgandawnAs I was looking at the list of deceased fans this week, I realized that, in some way, the zine pages on Fanlore are like communal memorial pages, allowing us to remember the writers, artists and publishers who came together to create something special and fannish, all at a time when communicating and writing and drawing were technologically much more difficult than today. I think this is why having pages for each zine - and having the covers and tables of contents and sample art - is less like a catalog (or an archive) and more like a memorial website, like the ones we put up when our loved ones have passed. But because the zines are still here physically and because we can remember them online, the fandom (and the fans and their creations) will not be forgotten.
And that somehow makes is easier for me to say: Yes, there should be a page for each zine ever created on Fanlore (if someone wants to add the page). And it should have not only what was in the zine, but also what people had to say about it and what we might still want to say about it. And knowing that I don't have to choose which of my 'friends" I am allowed to remember - and knowing that I will not be told *how* I can remember them, is comforting. We've never had an open communal space to remember who we were or talk about who we are or who we hope to become. One that cuts across all fandoms and all genres before, one that does not require a secret handshake or a nudge nudge wink wink to join.
And that somehow makes is easier for me to say: Yes, there should be a page for each zine ever created on Fanlore (if someone wants to add the page). And it should have not only what was in the zine, but also what people had to say about it and what we might still want to say about it. And knowing that I don't have to choose which of my 'friends" I am allowed to remember - and knowing that I will not be told *how* I can remember them, is comforting. We've never had an open communal space to remember who we were or talk about who we are or who we hope to become. One that cuts across all fandoms and all genres before, one that does not require a secret handshake or a nudge nudge wink wink to join.