Kind of like Grandma's featherbed -
Sep. 23rd, 2004 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgOld school fan fiction. REALLY old school fan fiction.
Star Trek fan fiction I read when I was in high school. Like, 1972. (I got my hands on it when I was 15, about 1976....)
Jackie is looking really old these days. What the heck is it with women that they lose their ability to discern flattering from downright frumpy as they add years? I don't mind the aging process - but come on, I think I'd be happier if she had retained her long hair and simply pulled it back.
Oh, and made some changes in eyewear choices.
But all the names are there. I grew up with these women. It's frightening to find them again, in a way.
Joan Winston is a first-class nutball. If she's still writing, I wanna read -
Jean Lorrah once wrote me a 7 page letter giving me advice on what I should do when deciding to go to college after high school. I might find it packed away someday - I hope it's survived the trip. I took the advice. It was good advice!
The website suffers from non-update-itis and there are a lot of broken links, but it's wonderful to find so much in one place.
The first time I read Kraith, it was a photocopy of a reduced - MUCH reduced - mimeograph photo-stenciled fanzine. Computers were something that used punchcards. You heard about modems, but they were the things that the phoneset cradled in. Go back and watch Wargames again. 300 baud, and you were doing well.
Like a land very far away, not visited in a long time. No men. Go ahead, find one. I dare you. It'll be a son or a husband. Not a contributor. For the longest time, I didn't know a single male that wrote fan fiction. I come across anime fandom, and whammo. What a difference!
Kind of like going home to visit with the aunties.
Star Trek fan fiction I read when I was in high school. Like, 1972. (I got my hands on it when I was 15, about 1976....)
Jackie is looking really old these days. What the heck is it with women that they lose their ability to discern flattering from downright frumpy as they add years? I don't mind the aging process - but come on, I think I'd be happier if she had retained her long hair and simply pulled it back.
Oh, and made some changes in eyewear choices.
But all the names are there. I grew up with these women. It's frightening to find them again, in a way.
Joan Winston is a first-class nutball. If she's still writing, I wanna read -
Jean Lorrah once wrote me a 7 page letter giving me advice on what I should do when deciding to go to college after high school. I might find it packed away someday - I hope it's survived the trip. I took the advice. It was good advice!
The website suffers from non-update-itis and there are a lot of broken links, but it's wonderful to find so much in one place.
The first time I read Kraith, it was a photocopy of a reduced - MUCH reduced - mimeograph photo-stenciled fanzine. Computers were something that used punchcards. You heard about modems, but they were the things that the phoneset cradled in. Go back and watch Wargames again. 300 baud, and you were doing well.
Like a land very far away, not visited in a long time. No men. Go ahead, find one. I dare you. It'll be a son or a husband. Not a contributor. For the longest time, I didn't know a single male that wrote fan fiction. I come across anime fandom, and whammo. What a difference!
Kind of like going home to visit with the aunties.
