June fandom meme
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chelseagirlDay 7: What's the longest time you've been in a fandom. Not necessarily your oldest fandom, but a fandom that you started and still continue to read/write/create content for in some way.
That would be Alias Smith and Jones. I didn't watch it when it first aired, when I was 9 or 10. I discovered it via a friend and fannish VHS tape samizdat, in the mid-90s. My friend and I had great fun putting together a humorous guide to the series on the still-young Internet, and I wrote what turned out to be reams of fanfic. My last stories came out in 2001. Then in 2017, I found an old zine, realized the stories had held up really well, and decided to revise them and post them to AO3. I made friends with people who'd discovered the stories (via an old-school single fandom web archive) between the time I'd walked away and the time I started reposting, and that meant so much. In addition to re-editing the old stories, I started writing new ones. While it's slowed down -- I'm more focused on my non-fanfic fiction writing -- it's still ongoing. In fact a picture a friend posted ended up sparking a 500 word ficlet this morning.
Day 8: Crack!fic - We all know it. What's your opinion of it, and if you want, show us an example.
I like funny stories, but they should have some connection to what's important about the original.
That would be Alias Smith and Jones. I didn't watch it when it first aired, when I was 9 or 10. I discovered it via a friend and fannish VHS tape samizdat, in the mid-90s. My friend and I had great fun putting together a humorous guide to the series on the still-young Internet, and I wrote what turned out to be reams of fanfic. My last stories came out in 2001. Then in 2017, I found an old zine, realized the stories had held up really well, and decided to revise them and post them to AO3. I made friends with people who'd discovered the stories (via an old-school single fandom web archive) between the time I'd walked away and the time I started reposting, and that meant so much. In addition to re-editing the old stories, I started writing new ones. While it's slowed down -- I'm more focused on my non-fanfic fiction writing -- it's still ongoing. In fact a picture a friend posted ended up sparking a 500 word ficlet this morning.
Day 8: Crack!fic - We all know it. What's your opinion of it, and if you want, show us an example.
I like funny stories, but they should have some connection to what's important about the original.
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