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I am still swamped with family stuff. But below are the basic step by step instructions I send to fans who want to learn how to edit Fanlore. Most of the video tutorials are for other wikis so they do not match Fanlore page by page, policy by policy, but they are helpful for us visual learners.

Feel free to link to this post and use/edit and modify the info in this post. If you have better videos to add, drop a note below

Step 1: Create an account
http://fanlore.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup

Step 2: Create a user page (optional)
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Tutorial/Edit_Userpage

Step 3: Use Sandbox to practice editing/Fanlore Specific Tutorials
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Tutorial
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:Sandbox

Step 4: Editing an existing page - best way to start (Video links go to Generic Wiki Videos – use full screen option to see tutorials)

First you need to find the page you want to edit by using the Search box. Note: Clicking “Go” looks for the specific page. Clicking “Search” looks for all pages that may have the word. If you get a blank page, it may mean there is no page and you will have to create one. Use Search to double check.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGsa2wyre14 (8 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_DhnJ8W8qA (8 min)

Step 5: Create a new page (Generic Wiki Videos)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RANQkKNWGs (4 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBGga1NpbxY (3 min)

Templates – what to add when starting a new page. Templates contain the basic wiki text that you copy and paste at the start of the new page
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Fanlore_Templates - list of templates
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Template_Guidelines – long discussion of templates

Step 6: Editing Specifics (Generic Wiki Videos)

Finding your way around the wiki
http://youtu.be/spPmGyZBJ0o - Editing Pages (5 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whoN1qYJZXE – Editing pages (3 min)
http://youtu.be/jd59VuR7MV8 - Talk pages (4min)

Bold/Italics/Formatting
http://youtu.be/jkLGFT1oY7E (9 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld5LDHrvhRQ (3 min)

Internal links (linking to another page on the wiki): http://youtu.be/rZzgxkN9D1Y (4 min)
External links (linking to an external website): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhFdXTIiYFI (8 min)

Uploading and Adding images
http://youtu.be/FntFce-n5Qs (5 min)
http://youtu.be/0lqSlCDeHFg (6 min)
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Fanlore:Image_Policy

Step 7

Pulling It All Together
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gbMNhnl1SU (4 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8irbbwNo2E (15 min)

Final thoughts: you don't need to know most of this info in order to participate on the wiki. Just find the page you want to edit and start typing . Worry about formatting and templates and images later. If you make mistakes it is easy to fix or restore a page. There is a lot more to be said about collaborative wiki editing and how hard it is (at first) to understand Plural Point of View, but keep in mind that most editorsare trying to help and yes, your edits will be edited just as you are editing other people's edits as you edit. You might find it helpful to read the "Assume Good Faith" essay that attempts to answer the imponderable "Why are they changing my page WTF?!"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1358936.html

This essay about the history of media fandom showcases the efforts of many volunteers over the last 6 years. The essay relies heavily on Fanlore articles about fanzines and fandom events from the 1970s-1990s. Fanlore, in turn benefited from the scans made by dozens of fanzine and letterzine owners and publishers across the world as part of the Sandy Hereld Memorial Collection. And as soon as we finish transcribing the oral histories recorded at various US conventions, there will be more first hand records of our history.

Without these first hand records, our community and history could not only vanish, but it could also run the risk of being twisted and misrepresented. One of the more powerfully subversive acts is to record your own history, in your own words, in your own voice.

Or as Spock would say: "Dif-tor heh smusma."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1357437.html

I struggled to decide which icon to use for this post: "Fanlore" or "Fair Use." I went with Fanlore.

A tumblr post that uses Fanlore content to make a point for tumblr fans. It's Fanlore in action! Flying the goddamned Bat-Jet!!
"Since a lot of tumblr users may not be old enough to remember, I’d like to remind fandom that the ability to write what you want about whatever characters you want was something that we fought for, not something that was ours by default. It was stigmatized, threatened with legal action, and mostly carried out in secret. You are living in a golden age of fandom, of AO3 and fanfiction.net and tumblr. Fanworks are actually entering mainstream awareness and becoming more culturally accepted. But let me give you a blast from the past, a look at what fandom looked like when the content owners decided what kinds of content they would and wouldn’t tolerate. From Fanlore, on the subject of Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonriders of Pern series..."

You can read the entire tumblr post here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1355705.html

Reposting from

digitalwave

"L.A. Adolf is an amazing fan artist and writer who has been active in fandom for a long time.

In recent years health problems have made her unable to work. She's applied for disability but has been turned down twice. Now she's in very real danger of losing her home though she's trying her best to save it and get back up on her feet. To learn more, please check out her GoFundMe page:

http://www.gofundme.com/6g96g0

She can also take PayPal directly at laadolf@aol.com.

She's done some truly beautiful Sherlock stories the last few years. If you'd like to see some of her work, you can find out more about her fannish side here:

http://fanlore.org/wiki/L.A._Adolf

Thanks, guys!"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1355426.html

Fanzines are not dead (yet). They're just resting (as can be seen in the photomanip cover below). This Supernatural slash novella by J.M.Griffin, "Requirements" was published in 2008 by GriffinSong Press. The zine is 143 pages long and digest sized. The photomanip artwork on the cover is by JKay.

(some links go to Fanlore, the fan run wiki about media fandom).

(Earlier I blogged about a tumblr user who was showcasing zines that are being sold on eBay. The image above is from the original ebay seller ad and here is the link to the original tumblr post. The artist was not credited in either posting).

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1355091.html

On eBay fantasy author Pat Rothfuss is auctioning off his first piece of filk printed on a dot matrix printer. In the listing Pat apologizes to Terry Pratchett (Terry's books were the inspiration for the filk). The lyrics are titled: "A Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End". Proceeds go to Worldbuilder charity.

From the eBay listing: "The photo is for illustrative purposes only. Shamefaced fantasy author not included, but you do get the sheet of paper he's holding."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1355004.html

A more "recent" fanzine published in 1997 (or possibly 2000). Out of the Dark is an XFiles slash fanzine featuring one of the main slash pairings: Mulder/Skinner.

The story is online here at the Annex. Cover art by K9.

Looking for more Mulder/Skinner zine fic? Try Bene Dictum #4 featuring stories by MFae Glasgow (Fanlore links to the publisher's website where you can download a PDF of the zine)

(some links go to Fanlore, the fan run wiki about media fandom).
(Earlier I blogged about a tumblr user who was showcasing zines that are being sold on eBay. The image above is from the original ebay seller ad and here is the link to the original tumblr post. The artist was not credited in either posting).

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1354594.html

While Spockanalia did not bill itself as an erotic or adult zine, it contains the earliest known lay stories. An excerpt from issue #3's story The Alternate (1968) is an example of some fairly racy prose for the time: "He has shifted his position slightly and is inquiring if I am uncomfortable. Strange... he is capable of insisting that I do almost anything that occurs to him if his curiosity demands fulfillment, but he will then be quite gentle and, as long as he is satisfied with the results, take pains to insure that I am not hurt or made to suffer acute discomfort. The point is, after all, not cruelty but satisfaction. For him, the two do not necessarily go together. I pretend not to hear or understand his question, and with a small half-groan-half-growl dig my fingernails into his ribs. He is obviously satisfied that I am not in distress and says no more. His lips wander up from my ear, across my cheek, brush my lips, the gentle movements of his lips and hands punctuated steadily, rhythmically by more virile caresses... you bearded virile bastard, it is I who will penetrate to the center of you and learn your secrets, learn if you are truly a lord to be feared, a black-maned lion who roars and rules, or one of us, with fears and weaknesses..."

The editor responds in issue #4 to reactions to "The Alternate" as well as in anticipation of the story Time Enough in 1969:

We've been told that a couple of the items in Spockanalia #3 are embarrassing, dirty, or downright trashy. If we've embarrassed you, we are sincerely sorry. The recurrence of the theme of sex isn't surprising. Sex is a recurrent theme of life. The recurrence of the theme of sex involving Spock is also unsurprising. We Star Trek femmefans find him attractive and highly masculine. Some of us are articulate, and the result is predictable (and even logical.)
If anyone is seriously concerned.,.psychiatrists regard such feelings as perfectly normal (if they are non-obsessive) and artistic endeavour as a healthy outlet.
Perhaps some of our readers are too accustomed to the tradition, in popular literature, of the male protagonist being aroused by the presence of attractive women. When they find that women write it the other way around, they find it strange. We, the editors of Spockanalia, try our best to print only material which we consider well-written, interesting to us, and written within our format. We do not choose to limit ourselves by eliminating one effective segment of our submissions."

Source: Sexually Explicit Fanworks on Fanlore

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1351741.html

I found this on tumblr today:

The text above and below reads:
"SOMEONE WENT TO A STAR TREK CONVENTION IN THE 1980’S AS SPOCK AND KIRK’S PENISES I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP

THEY PERFORMED SPIRK THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE."

I remember making this screencap for the Fanlore page. Wonderful to see it being re-discovered again and again.

And speaking of memories….Memories (or the lack of them) is one of the many reasons for Fanlore to exist. I watched the skit on videotape with my friend Sandy in the 1990s…I know this because she wrote a post to Virgule, the slash mailing list describing our glee and joy and hysteria. An email which I found 20+ years later tucked away in a folder. But in 2011, when someone asked me about the Dancing Penii, I had no memory of the skit. Or ever having watched it. The image must have been too powerful to hold in my memory. So I began researching in order to add more history to the Fanlore page. And that's how the screencap and Kandy's description of the skit found its way there.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1351211.html

The LNAF was a fan club for the Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy. They published fanzines and newsletters and every year would put out a Yearbook collecting fanfic, news, articles and essays. The year is 1978 and for most fan, the computers of Star Trek are decades away. Except for one fan whose husband discovered that his computer was not all that impressed by his gaming strategy.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1350986.html

IRC chat rooms. Another thing I had to abandon because of the increasing difficulty sitting and typing. But I found some old chat logs as I sort through CD-RW disks and this snippet caught my eye (the persons whom I am quoting anonymously are on my reading list so I will be amused if they recognize their 10+year old text.)

[08:19] <XXXX> Old Fen: "We're better because we don't do this new awful thing that's
[08:19] <XXXX> going to ruin fandom."
[08:19] <XXXX> New Fen: "*We're* better because we embrace change, and anyway, our way of
[08:19] <XXXX> doing the same fucking thing is more virtuous."
[08:19] <XXXX> Propellerheads: "It's all just a little bit of history repeating."

around this time, a new fangled thing called "blogs" was taking off and mailing lists were waning, prompting this IRC discussion

[08:26] <ZZZZ> here is the blog
[08:26] <XXXX> okey!
[08:26] <ZZZZ> you should read
[08:27] <ZZZZ> it has some discsusion of the vids too
[08:27] <YYYY> thanks!
[08:27] <ZZZZ> and you can wander onto other blobs on the left sidebar
[08:27] <ZZZZ> just be warned -- blogs -- and people are weird
[08:27] <ZZZZ> that should be sig line
[08:27] <YYYY> IMGLO, blogs are contributing to the comatose state of lists.

[08:43] <XXXX> YYYY- I agree re: blogs keeping the lists quiet
[08:44] <XXXX> and yet I can see that in a sense, blogging will become inevitable.
[08:44] <XXXX> and perhaps positive rather than negative - in that you don't have to *delete* stuff from idiots; just don't visit their blogs.
[08:44] <XXXX> and clicking from blog to blog is no different, really, from clicking from email to email.
[08:44] <YYYY> I think so, too. I have 29 full, handwritten journals. I guess I'm out of that phase.
[08:45] <XXXX> In a way, it allows you to create your own, specific email list
[08:45] <XXXX> with *just* the people you want to hear from.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1350504.html

The Bowler Desert, a Laurel and Hardy fanzine ended publication in 2013. Other Laurel and Hardy fanzines include Pratfall and Sons of the Desert. So you see, there is indeed a fanzine for every fan. Sadly I can find very little info about the zines beyond the ebay images below.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1348955.html

This arrived in my inbox over the weekend. What can I say...I have the best friends.

"Because sometimes life is like this, and all you can do is contemplate The Duck."

Drawing is from the Kirk/Spock fanzine Beyond Dreams #5. "Child's Play" art by Ingela

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1348424.html

Again, a gift from one of my trusted ~~minions~~ ~~un-indicted co-conspirators~~ fellow Peripatetic Historians:

"I Feel a Smile Coming On," filk by Mary Frey, illo by Kathy Carlson from the zine IDIC #4.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1346797.html

Fandom could have used more Buffy fanzines. According to Fanlore: "Whoever Rules Rome was published in 1999, is 79 pages long and is a digest-sized fanzine. It is a crossover novel written by K. Nickell with Xena, Buffy, Sailor Moon, Beauty and the Beast, Real Ghostbusters, Night Court and possibly others.

I'd love to know more about the zine. Like "does it really crossover all those fandoms" and "who is the cover artist?"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1346092.html

There has been much talk about the breaking of the 4th Wall and the involvement of TPTB in fandom. And for decades fandom has been saying that fanzine publishers, while tolerated by TPTB, had little interaction with them for fear of being shut down.

The fact is that this is not true. Spockanalia, the first Star Trek fanzine was sent to Gene Roddenberry and his letters back to the editor were published. Interstat, a long running Star Trek letterzine, had Harve Bennett, a Star Trek producer as a frequent contributor (a fact that irritated some fans who wanted to vent about the Star Trek movies in peace),

But in 1998 and 1999 when the editor of Orion Press complained on Usenet that his zines were not selling and that free Internet fanfiction was ruining fanzine publication, the editor of Pocketbooks (the professionally published Star Trek tie in novels) appeared* to offer his thoughts on the matter. Here are some samples of their interaction:

"If your sales are down - and from what I've read in this thread, they seem to be - then you aren't providing your target audience with what they want to read to an extent that they are willing to continue to pay for it. The fault is -never- with the -readers-, it is -always- with the publisher. Have you considered that what -you- consider a good story might not match up with what your readers think is a good Trek story?

I work to produce the kind of novel our readers will like, not to please myself. That kind of approach drives up unit sales, which reduces unit costs, which keeps you from having to raise prices… etc. Oh, and sales on the pro books continue to rise sharply, despite free fan-fic on the Internet"

and
"My sales are strong and growing, especially TNG, while yours are dropping off to the point where you say TNG is dying.:) I must be doing something right - and, frankly, you must be doing something wrong, or your sales would be growing (when sales slump, it's -always- the publisher's fault). Or it could be the webbies are right, and the day of printed fan-fiction is passing.

Orion Press' response: "I have no explanation for this difference. Perhaps, though, the fact is that you've so flooded the market with books...that readers no longer have any need for fanzines."

Read more on Fanlore at Fanzines and the Internet or "Whither Thou Goest, Orion Press? and in Fanfiction: web or zine?

*"Appeared" is a bit misleading as Pocket Books had been mentioned earlier in the thread as a publication company that was supposedly suffering from the negative effects of the Internet. The editor had participated in several other Usenet threads at alt.startrek.creative before.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1345948.html

Many zines appear for sale on eBay without key details - like publisher or publication date or a complete list of table of contents or artist credits. This fanzine was most likely published in the early 2000s, a time when fanzine fandom was being replaced by online fandom and fanzines began their long march to even more obscure publications.

The zine is Walk on the Wild Side. It is a slash fanzine and it is a Multi-media zine (or in today's terminology "Multi-Fandom) as it has stories from many fandoms such as Buffy, Roswell, and X-Men. Through much effort Fanlore was able to identify the cover artist as Norma Rockswell but additional details about the zine are welcomed (publication date? editor? review? full table of contents?)

(some links go to Fanlore, the fan run wiki about media fandom).
(Earlier I blogged about a tumblr user who was showcasing zines that are being sold on eBay. The image above is from the original ebay seller ad and here is the link to the original tumblr post. The artist was not credited in either posting).

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1345607.html

To show there are zines (a) for everyone and (b) published after 2000, here is the cover of the Stargate SG1/Real Ghostbusters crossover fanzine: Keymaster. The fanzine won the 2002 FanQ (Fan Quality) Award.

The cover art is by Sandy Schreiber who wrote: ""Sheila Paulson liked to have me do the art for her novellas. this was a Stargate: SG1/Ghostbusters crossover. It's the second of two novellas. I tried to draw the real-life actors as well as I could...they're harder than the stylised art of the Ghostbusters. Watercolor on board." Source

Earlier I blogged about a tumblr user who was showcasing zines that are being sold on eBay. The image above is from the original ebay seller ad and this is the direct link to the original tumblr post.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1345312.html

Rounding out my fanzine searches on twitter and tumblr is a fan who really really loves this zine. In fact, this zine was, for many, the first zine we ever bought. The tumblr entry contains lots of of this zine's art.

What is this zine?

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1345050.html

Today is the Doctor Who Christmas Special. And yesterday, the Atlantic magazine wrote the following article about Doctor Who fanzines (on a side note, Fanlore was briefly mentioned in the fanzine cover credits)

"How Fanzines Helped Put Doctor Who Fans in Charge of Doctor Who

"When the BBC announced Scottish actor Peter Capaldi would play the 12th Doctor in its beloved sci-fi series Doctor Who, superfans quickly dug up a crucial fact about the actor: He’s a superfan, too. Capaldi, who takes over Doctor duties from Matt Smith in a Christmas Day special, has an enthusiasm for the show that dates back to the 1970s, when he authored stories for Doctor Who fanzines—small-circulation publications made and distributed by fans. See, for example, this 1976 article about the show’s title sequences.

“Watching the abstracted light forms & patterns which appear in the opening sequence of Dr. Who has become a familiar ritual for all of us,” 18-year-old Capaldi wrote. “The wonder of the opening is that it manages to capture in only a very few moments of screen time the atmosphere of Dr. Who.”

Capaldi isn’t the only amateur Who geek to go professional. Because of the program’s unusual history—it ran from 1963 to 1989 and then returned in 2005—many of its original fans are now its writers and producers. Showrunner Steven Moffat told The Guardian this year that he was "the original angry Doctor Who fan,” and his earliest Internet postings about possible story ideas are still online today (and those ideas occasionally find their way into the show). Writers like Paul Cornell and Matt Jones graduated from zines to official Doctor Who novelizations and, eventually, episodes of the reboot itself."

Read more.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1344660.html

Finding fanzine posts on tumblr is hard. Imagine trying to find media fanzine references on twitter. Impossible. I did find one fan selling her copy of The Trekker Cookbook here.

First up: Enterprise Eggnog (click for larger version)

Pages from Star Trek The Trekker Cookbook REBUILT

"Captain, I do not object to the diverse
ingredients included in the
liquid solution known as eggnog...
though I find many of them frivolous
rather than nutritional ...."
~Mr Spock in "Survivor" written by Alan Dean Foster

Eggnog, according to the Cookbook is the perfect drink for the Enterprise holiday parties.

"It’s Christmas!
The Captain’s bluff worked (again)!
The planet really was inhabitable (and uninhabited)
They found the vaccine!
This star-mapping gets boring; let’s throw a party
LET’S CELEBRATE!"
~The Trekker Cookbook

Next: The Pon Farr Cocktail followed by some leftover Vulcan Thanksgiving pie (click for larger version)

Pages from Star Trek The Trekker Cookbook REBUILT-3

Art by Amy Harlib

And finally, don't forget to try the Vulcan's Delight.

Pages from Star Trek The Trekker Cookbook REBUILT-2

Art by Gayle F.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1344244.html

Today I depart from the world of print zines to focus on e-zines (or online zines). While there are only a few, most ezines are free.

To start with, the only two Teen Wolf ezines that I know of:
*The Sterek Book (this was also produced in printed format in a limited print run)
*Eternal - viewable online here

Then we have Harry Potter ezines: Chocolate and Asphodel (two issues)

How about some new Trek? Universal Constant (two issues)

Lord of the Rings
*The Noble Steward Chronicles (many issues)
*Brothers of Gondor (two issues)

Lost: The Shepards - naughty? You decide.

and to conclude - The Beatles (RPF): Rooftop Sessions (6 issues)

Sterek Book. Source: Sinyhale tumblr

Brothers of Gondor. Source: Fanlore.org. Artist: Enednoviel

The Shepards. Source: Fanlore.org. Artist: Crickets

Universal Constant. Source: Fanlore.org. Artist: Jou

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1343644.html

Today's trip through tumblr in search of fanzines is being highlighted not for the fanzine cover, but for the accompanying text:
"From the good old days when the internet didn’t exist and you got your printed share of feels in the actual mail." Tumblr source.

More info about Naked Times, the fanzine.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1343011.html

Today our tour of tumblr fans celebrating their fanzines continues. This new owner wonders why Spock is petting a panther. I am not sure either, but the drawing is by Marilyn Cole and you can see more of her artwork on Fanlore here.

Zines
Top row, left to right: Naked Times - To Catch A Unicorn
Middle Row, left to right: Mirrors of Mind and Flesh - Unholy Alliances - Out of Bounds (the zine that was banned in Tulsa!)
Bottom Row: Naked Times - Thyla - Daring Attempt

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1342768.html

Today on tumblr, someone who really really really loves fanzines. Really.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1342538.html

The art of fanzines is not dead. As in, fanzines about art are not dead....Below is a new zine featuring fan artists. Details under this tag.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1342247.html

Today I went to tumblr and found this fan puzzling over some old Star Trek books she found.

"I went to the antique store today with my mom. And I found these things, I assume they’re old fanfiction for Kirk/Spock because of the disclaimers inside the books and the sheer awesomeness of it all. Yes, I said books! Apparently, they’re part of a series, because I have a five of six and a number two of these things.
More than likely I’ll read them, but I can’t help but share them with everyone. I know a few Kirk/Spock shippers that’ll read this, so… enjoy. :-)

Anyone who can shed some extra light on what I have, I would greatly appreciate it. What ya got for me?"

Luckily fans were able to direct her to Fanlore where she learned that "these things" were called zines in the olden days. More pictures of the zines here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1341784.html

From the University of Iowa's Fanzine Archives tumblr blog this summer:

Text:

(Okay okay, I tested making sparkles.)

RAWR RAWR! Can you hear the tauntaun roar?

Star Wars Millennium 1 edited by Tracy Christensen from 1980. This fanzine came to us through the Organization for Transformative Works. See the Collection Guide. My interpretation of the info in the table of contents is that Tracy Christensen did this amazing artwork as well. Stop by to check out the REALLY fantastic Han and Leia artwork inside.

"This maiden issue of Millennium is dedicated to Mr. George Lucas who made all our dreams come true."

And a link to their tumblr

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1341533.html

From xkcd’s “Undocumented Feature”. See the full panel here (and stick around for the punchline)

This reminds me of something she once said about women in fandom. It inspired me to work on fandom history. That and

xlorp reminding me of the history photographs and newspaper articles that only identified women as "Mrs John Smith."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1341377.html

Today, while wandering the TumblrLand Wastes, I came across a fan sharing bits of Star Trek fanzine history. She even posted a few photos of one of her beloved zines. More here

"As promised, here are some photos of my old Kirk/Spock slash fanzines. These are, in all seriousness, some of my most prized possessions. They sit wrapped in plastic and I hardly ever take them out because they’ve already seen a lot of wear and tear. I wonder where these writers and artists are now…"

And some of the reblog comments:
"I might have to start collecting these."
"HISTORY! *flails hands with glee*"
".... a chance to commune with our forebears in the faith. Seriously, I LOVE this, that there are Kirk/Spock fanworks older than I am."
"This is history."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1340936.html

Escapade is the longest running slash convention in the US. They have an art gallery and an art auction and they are looking for fan art. They accept any and all media fandoms along with slash, het, gen - all is welcome. Crafts, notebooks, Kindle covers and other fan art creations may also be submitted, This year they are also hoping to do a digital display -- something that may be of interest to digital artists. A "County Fair" with quilts, baked goods and preserves is under consideration. And last they are hoping to reserve a special gallery section for premiering art.

More details here

(please feel free to forward or post to other groups here on LJ, tumblr, deviantart or wherever fan artists can be found)

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1340173.html

In the days before Instagram and reverse selfies….A cartoon about Dark Shadow fans attending the fan run convention, Shadowcon. Published in the fanzine, The World of Dark Shadows. Artist is Shari Metcalf and the image is used with the publisher’s permission on Fanlore, the fan run wiki.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1340086.html

A fantastic Star Wars-themed parody of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody by the fine folks taking part of the University of Advancing Technology’s Digital Video Program.

Press CC in the player for the lyrics

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1339193.html

“I blame the archive,” said Mary grimly. “It attracts fans and then….” She waved a hand expressively at the groups below. “This stuff happens.” ~Mina de Malfois

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1338556.html

(repost from a few years ago. I do not know if Lorraine is still selling art prints, but it cannot hurt to ask)

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I was able to buy two original Lorraine Brevig oil paintings. Now that the originals have been sold Lorraine is offering a limited set of art prints of the series. You can go to her journal artconserv to contact her for more info (for non LJ users she has an email address listed on her first journal entry). Adult art is friendslocked (but again, she also offers the adult art on a password protected website for non-LJ users).

Anyhow here are my two recent acquisitions that are being offered as limited art prints.

Waiting To Be Unshackled

Leashed by Lorraine Brevig Unshackled by Lorraine Brevig

Lorriane does sell her original oil paintings and she also has other art prints to offer. Fandoms include: Lord of the Rings, Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek (original series), Star Trek Reboot, Sherlock Holmes (the movie), Stargate Atlantis, and The Sentinel. Also she has a few Torchwood, House and Pirates of the Caribbean paintings. (Remember: adult artwork is friendslocked or password protected).

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1337368.html

For those who have left us...and those who, one day, will leave us. For Lewis Collins and for our 40 year old neighbor who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. For an old fan friend who is fighting cancer...again.

working link

BLESSED ARE...
(Words and Music by Joan Baez)

Blessed are the one way ticket holders
on a one way street.
Blessed are the midnight riders
for in the shadow of God they sleep.

Blessed are the huddled hikers
staring out at falling rain,
wondering at the retribution
in their personal acquaintance with pain.

Blessed are the blood relations
of the young ones who have died,
who had not the time or patience
to carry on this earthly ride.

Rain will come and winds will blow,
wild deer die in the mountain snow.
Birds will beat at heaven's wall,
what comes to one must come to us all.

For you and I are one way ticket holders
on a one way street.
which lies across a golden valley
where the waters of joy and hope run deep.

So if you pass the parents weeping
of the young ones who have died,
take them to your warmth and keeping
for blessed are the tears they cried
and many were the years they tried.
Take them to that valley wide
and let their souls be pacified.

© 1970, 1971 Chandos Music (ASCAP)

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1337189.html

Art by Kathy Bushman

I've been scanning the old mimeograph versions of the first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia for the publisher who is participating in a fanzine preservation project. The first illo, by DEA, is the back cover of issue #2. As you can see, the paper has started disintegrating. Someone had tried to tape it back into place, but the page began to dissolve around the edges of the tape. The paper is very similar to the rough, heavy construction paper you may have used for school arts and crafts. It has yellowed significantly over the past 40+ years. Entropy.....

The second image I am including because I like the composition of Spock and Mirror Spock with the IDIC symbol between them. The artist is Kathy Bushman. Most early fan art had to be minimalistic ink drawings because that is all fans could reproduce on mimeograph machines.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1336859.html

[The panel] was a bunch of writers who had mostly gotten their start in 1970s K/S and had mostly transitioned to being profic writers. When they were sharing fandom stories from back in the day, the panel was great. When they were talking about their approach to fanfic and its relationship to canon, TPTB, profic, and tie-ins, they were so far on the other side of a cultural and to some degree generational divide from me that it wasn't even worth the time and effort to argue with them. They believed that the reason they could write Trekfic was because Paramount let them/turned a blind eye, and they believed that when Paramount started recruiting fic writers to write tie-in novels, that amounted to Paramount finally paying attention to the fandom. I don't think they could have possibly understood the relationship I have with TPTB in my fandoms, that I don't care whether or not they want me to be writing the fic, that I often write fic that would be read as deliberately confrontational toward TPTB, except that I don't give a shit whether they read it because I'm writing in conversation with other fans, not in conversation with the creators. They can't comprehend how I approach contemporary copyright law as a thing to ignore when one is not politically inspired and to campaign against when one is."

More here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1336421.html

By taking a stroll through their zine collection. Dr Who is under represented in the many fanzine archives across the US - considering how large the fandom base was in the 1980s and 1990s. So if you know of any Doctor Who fans are looking for a permanent home for their Dr Who fan collections....well here is the info.

Working link

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1335943.html

In the grand filk tradition, take a peek at this recruitment video for first time DashCon attendees. Lyrics and singing by Mallory.

"meeting all my friends for the first time,
am I gonna fit in?....

So hard without a laptop in front of me
it's definitely not an online party
'cause all I see are real people
I wonder how this is gonna go?...

I'll be back online tonight....."

"" (Watch on YouTube)

Working Youtube link

edited: I am having such a lovely "Star Trek in the early days convention" flashback. Teenagers persuading their parents to let them take the bus across country to meet total strangers. And if not, getting their parents to take them. Fans caravaning to the event. Organizing 3,000+ conventions from the very start. Reminding one another that even though they need more wood to build the booths, to not carry the wood back home on the city buses.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1335536.html

DashCon/Tumblr-Con (July 2014, Chicago). They are expecting between 3,000-7,000 attendees. Minimum age to attend is 14.

"" (Watch on YouTube)

Watch on Youtube (working link)

Tumblr fan groups are forming committees, raising funds to attend the event and have panels on their fandoms. Ex Star Trek fans and Supernatural fans. List here

I wonder if the OTW can get a panel/booth/party?

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1335145.html

This vid was shown at the 1980s Uk Blake's 7 conventions Space City (I blogged about the Space City conventions here).

The vid, in all its VHS wavy-vision glory, can be seen here.

"" (Watch on YouTube)

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1334764.html

There are 2 Youtube vidding documentaries underway.

1. ~~xxKillerxGirlxx, a Youtube vidder is looking for vidders to submit brief video snippets talking about vidding to include in their vidding documentary. Details are~~ ~~here~~ ~~(click on "About"). Deadline for footage is June 2014.~~

Edited: the project has been canceled and the creator is leaving Youtube.

Please feel free to share this with other vidders

"" (Watch on YouTube)

2. Also, a second group of Youtube vidders wants to do a vidding documentary as well (this is a different group ~~it looks like this is a different group - hard to tell~~). They have a Youtube page here and their Facebook page is here. For this one you can record yourself answering questions, send footage from one of your vids or a quote. Deadline is December 15 2013.

xposted to

vidding

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1332391.html

From time to time, I come across fans arguing that preservation is "unnatural" - that everything - including websites - "dies a natural death" and that we should not be trying to preserve "it" without permission.*

In 1997, Sara Conklin, a Beauty and the Beast fan and Star Trek fan died - there was an outpouring of memories on mailing lists and a few tribute websites set up. One website was on Geocities.com and is thankfully preserved by the Internet Archive.

This memory caught my eye: "Sara was buried in her Star Trek uniform, complete with working communicator button. Jackie said that when they were leaving Sara's house for the last time, Sara made Jackie go back and get it. After Sara died, when Jackie when to the funeral director, he asked for the clothes to bury Sara in. She gave him the uniform and he smiled and said "we only get coffins here, we don't have any photon torpedoes!" Can you imagine decades from now, archaeologists digging up the MILITARY commentary and finding everyone else in their military uniforms and Sara in her Star Trek outfit!!!!!!"

Websites (and their contents) are not living things - but neither are they just static words and empty spaces. They neither live nor die natural or unnatural deaths. That they once existed cannot be denied - even if some wished it were not so. No one deserves to be forgotten - it will happen in spite of our efforts, as time and entropy and vast distances overwrite everything eventually. But we should not be rushing to erase each other or our memories. We will get there soon enough.

"Put a little light out in the tunnel for me -- it doesn't have to chase away the darkness - it only has to guide me." ~ Sara Conklin

*Broadly paraphrased from here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1332174.html

Dear Due South veterans of the Ray Wars...you got nothing on the Beauty and the Beast Classic Wars.

This from a season 1 & 2 fan: "I can't even look at 3S artwork, not at all. I had to have a friend lead me through the artroom at the LA con and tell me where not to go and what not to look at to avoid any pictures of Diana."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1331397.html

Earlier in the year I blogged about how the filk community needed an institutional preservation effort - much like the one for fanzines at the University of Iowa Fanzine Archives that the OTW helped set up (aka the Open Doors project)

Well, Texas A&M University is looking to start a filk collection to supplement its current science fiction/fantasy/media fandom collections. They would love to hear from the filk community. Contact Archivist Jeremy Brett (jwbrett @ library.tamu.edu) for more details.

They’re working on the press release but the short version is they will accept all filk content – tapes, records, books, photos and digital recordings/conversions.

OK to repost, link to this post or forward.

PS. Here, have some more filk.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1331004.html

In 1995, a fan decided to set up a Beauty and the Beast website. But first he had to explain the concept to people who had never seen a "page".

"I guess I will talk a bit about what my concept behind this page is, so perhaps you all can tell me what I can do better if I've missed the mark:

What I'm trying to do with this page is to combine the static nature of an archive with the dynamic nature of a zine or newsletter. That is, there is "archive" material there now, such as back issues of OLAH and HNG, as well as certain images. These things will probably be there as long as the page itself is up.

Then there are also things at the page that you might find in a "zine," such as poetry and fiction (and someday, art). The collection of poetry and fiction that you may find at the page at any given time will rotate, meaning as I run out of room at the page, I'll begin to delete the older material. I don't think this is a bad thing. In fact, I think it makes the page more like a periodical publication. Two visits to the page, spaced apart by six months or a year or whatever, could yield completely different collections of fiction and poetry, just like two different issues of a zine would have different things in them.

Lastly, I hope the page will remain up-to-date with regard to current events. This is where I hope the page acts like a newsletter. For example, the page currently has in it registration info for the '96 con, an order form for the ADS video, info on the SciFi Channel's story on ADS, and Robert Sigman's address, in case you want to write him regarding your opinions on a possible new film. This is all info that will change (sometimes weekly!) as all of you send me updates and corrections. I hope that the page will become the defacto "place to look" for the latest on-line info about BATB and its fandom.

There's info on the show there too, but honestly, there's not much. Our episode guide is rudimentary at best, and we have no faq. But, I don't really see this page as being dedicated to just the tv show, as so many other tv show pages are. Few shows have such an elaborate and creative fandom built up around them. I want this page to serve *all* of BATB: the show, but more importantly (in my mind), the fandom. This page is for you guys, all of you.

I know that not everyone can browse the Web yet, but the ability is getting more and more common. AOL even offers a Web browser to their customers, which I think is fabulous! For those of you who can browse, I really do hope you like the page. To my knowledge, it's the only page for this show in the world, so help me to make it the page you want it to be: give me your feedback, updates and changes."

You can see the 1998 version of the website as it evolved here.

Edited to add: A month later the website owner wrote: ''From August 1 to August 30, the page was hit **2,979 times**, with a total thruput of 69,857,296 bytes! YOWZA!!"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1330881.html

There was the Beauty and the Beast Video Campaign. Not as successful, but it shows you how much has changed in 23 years.

BTW, if anyone has a moment to spare to add more info about the Veronica Mars Kickstarter project to Fanlore, the Veronica Mars page is here And the blank , ready to edit Kickstarter page is here

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1330437.html

Within a year the flow of stories to the new newsgroup slowed significantly and some fans suggested that the moderation be removed to encourage fans to post their family friendly fiction. The moderators insisted however that the newsgroup was not dead, it was just "resting".

Read about Alt.startrek.creative Slash Wars.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1329917.html

Earlier in the year I guesstimated that we had roughly 8000-9000 pages about fanzines on Fanlore. Many of those zine pages list multiple issues, so the actual number of zines published is harder to pin down (and remember: me.bad.math. so the 8000-9000 figure is a best guess).

Back in 2000, another fan took a guess at how many fan stories were archived in fiction archives online. Their estimate: 200,000.

I am including her calculations below

Gossamer Fan Fic Archive (X-Files het & gen, mostly, some slash): 40,000
Fanfiction.net: 17,000
ASC/EM: between 4,000 & 8,000, depending on which archivist you talk to
Sentinel slash: almost 3000
Sentinel gen: almost 2000
Master/Apprentice (Phantom Menace slash): 2000
Due South, Highlander, Xena -- probably 2000 or more each

100,000 archived stories in major fandoms, and then you get into the enormous numbers of unarchived stories and minor fandoms. Ex: La Femme Nikita fandom guesses 2000 stories in that fandom, spread among several archives and numerous webpages.

200,000 overall is a conservative, low estimate. Proportion slash? less than 50% overall, more than 20%, but much variation by fandom.

I wonder what the numbers look like today? Grains of sand...grains of sand....

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1329185.html

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