Of course all this is secondary to the other observation that fanzine fic was/is invisible in recs. Kinda meta, eh?
I wonder if that's a function of expecting the rec'd stories to be available in the same medium as the recs? If you're rec'ing stories online, you link to them, and if they're not available online you merely mention the name of the story, because things from a different medium are secondary? If that makes sense. It's less about the fanzines themselves than about the medium you're currently interacting via?
Of course, I started out as an online fan in the mid 1990s and only ended up reading zines incidentally, when I fell into fandoms (Pros, in particular) that still existed primarily in zines, so my perspective is going to be different than that of someone who started out in zine-based fandom.
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Date: 2014-02-22 01:32 am (UTC)I wonder if that's a function of expecting the rec'd stories to be available in the same medium as the recs? If you're rec'ing stories online, you link to them, and if they're not available online you merely mention the name of the story, because things from a different medium are secondary? If that makes sense. It's less about the fanzines themselves than about the medium you're currently interacting via?
Of course, I started out as an online fan in the mid 1990s and only ended up reading zines incidentally, when I fell into fandoms (Pros, in particular) that still existed primarily in zines, so my perspective is going to be different than that of someone who started out in zine-based fandom.