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dame-of-dames:
copperbadge:
mangy-mongrel:
concerningwolves:
concerningwolves:
I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones
Trekkster Gods
No internet
fledgeling fandom
women run everything
seriously where the fuck did we go wrong
fandom wouldn’t exist as we know it without these women
conventions, badges, quite a lot of taboo but also lots of fun
closely-knit communities
mostly discussions in magazines
hogging the phone so you can chat with your friends
(while trying to pretend the rest of your family doesn’t exist)
basement meetings
fanart what??
Dawn of Networking
tin-bucket sites and forums
the badly assembled DIY IKEA kits of the internet
these were strange places
i’m too young to know firsthand but I’ve heard the stories
they were like,, inhabited by eldrich beings
who would sell souls in exchange for fanfics
early RPs
nobody was quite sure what they were doing
but!! You could connect with more fans quickly!!!
made obsessing less lonely
yay
“I was there Gandalf”
Live Journal
small internet communities
the name “Ann Rice” strikes fear into your heart
also hatred, lots of hatred
adding every warning and rating under the sun, hiding behind NSFW filters even if it isn’t necessary, praying you don’t get reported or deleted
you get reported
your friends get reported
nobody is safe
fuck.
Citrus Cheesecake
DeviantArt and ff.net
bright shiny eyes
children everywhere
“more of a lime than a lemon >//< but also kind of just a lemon with fluff?”
where did all the adults go? Where were they hiding??
pls don’t flame
A/N *dances away from your flames because idgaf*
omggg such a nosebleed!!!! XD lol
characters and authors having conversations in the author’s notes
Archive of Our Saviours
ooo we found the adults
mass migration by younger fans to Tumblr, Ao3 etc
looking at fandom’s earlier stages like “I have no memory of this place”
ratings that had nothing to do with fruit
(thank gods)
fandom grows up
we are all grateful
we have proper websites to call home
wanderers can finally settle down
many fans are Tired
We’re here again, Gandalf
your elbows are explicit
cats are explicit
there are legends of a paradise of pillows
but none of us wants to leave hell
blue blue blue
a well-respected petblr is flagged as explicit
will we be here in January?
who will survive?
those with sense watch the chaos from Ao3, sipping mocktails
but we’re not really scared
nothing can kill fandom
not even god.
@copperbadge sam are you tagged?
Oh in so many of them. I was just old enough to hear stories from my direct elders of the Trekkster Gods; I was born onto the internet in the Dawn of Networking.
In my own experience, FFN and DevArt came slightly before LJ, and that was the generation I essentially missed (I was in college but if you want to pretend I was the king under the mountain like some kind of depraved fandom Charlemagne, I won’t argue), so I’d swap Citrus Cheesecake and I Was There, Gandalf, but in and of themselves they are all very accurate.
And it is true that fandom cannot be killed. Many have tried, but our parade will go ever onwards. Our porny, porny parade.
@kyburg
I was there for all of it. ALL. Of it. I remember when we used pseudonyms not for copyright issues but because we feared the Postal Inspector for using the US Mail for porn…and that wasn’t allowed. We’re talking Night of The Twin Moons, here. Fanzines that took two years to produce 7 stories. (Yuletide just turned in *thousands* of new stories in less than six months, you need a database search to find a way through it all.) Art of any kind was horribly difficult to propagate, you had to freehand on mimeograph stencils, ditto masters after doing in on paper with whatever you could co-opt. Rapidograph pens were pricey AF, you used Bic ball points. If someone was willing to use offset or the very new, VERY expensive Xerox process. (Seriously, $.05 a page when min wage was $1.35 an hour.) Color? Well, if you wanted to the silkscreen route, four-color style. Today? Sheer delight. At its worst, there is so little in the way of making some amazing art. You can make terrible crap fast enough, with a large enough audience that someone is going to love it, no matter what. Because it wasn’t crap to begin with, and there’s a whole community ready to tell you so. All of this. Gen X, leading edge. Believe it.
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copperbadge:
mangy-mongrel:
concerningwolves:
concerningwolves:
I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated. Like,, you either live through so many they blur together into one hellish mess or you join in on one generation and remain blissfully unaware of the previous ones
Trekkster Gods
No internet
fledgeling fandom
women run everything
seriously where the fuck did we go wrong
fandom wouldn’t exist as we know it without these women
conventions, badges, quite a lot of taboo but also lots of fun
closely-knit communities
mostly discussions in magazines
hogging the phone so you can chat with your friends
(while trying to pretend the rest of your family doesn’t exist)
basement meetings
fanart what??
Dawn of Networking
tin-bucket sites and forums
the badly assembled DIY IKEA kits of the internet
these were strange places
i’m too young to know firsthand but I’ve heard the stories
they were like,, inhabited by eldrich beings
who would sell souls in exchange for fanfics
early RPs
nobody was quite sure what they were doing
but!! You could connect with more fans quickly!!!
made obsessing less lonely
yay
“I was there Gandalf”
Live Journal
small internet communities
the name “Ann Rice” strikes fear into your heart
also hatred, lots of hatred
adding every warning and rating under the sun, hiding behind NSFW filters even if it isn’t necessary, praying you don’t get reported or deleted
you get reported
your friends get reported
nobody is safe
fuck.
Citrus Cheesecake
DeviantArt and ff.net
bright shiny eyes
children everywhere
“more of a lime than a lemon >//< but also kind of just a lemon with fluff?”
where did all the adults go? Where were they hiding??
pls don’t flame
A/N *dances away from your flames because idgaf*
omggg such a nosebleed!!!! XD lol
characters and authors having conversations in the author’s notes
Archive of Our Saviours
ooo we found the adults
mass migration by younger fans to Tumblr, Ao3 etc
looking at fandom’s earlier stages like “I have no memory of this place”
ratings that had nothing to do with fruit
(thank gods)
fandom grows up
we are all grateful
we have proper websites to call home
wanderers can finally settle down
many fans are Tired
We’re here again, Gandalf
your elbows are explicit
cats are explicit
there are legends of a paradise of pillows
but none of us wants to leave hell
blue blue blue
a well-respected petblr is flagged as explicit
will we be here in January?
who will survive?
those with sense watch the chaos from Ao3, sipping mocktails
but we’re not really scared
nothing can kill fandom
not even god.
@copperbadge sam are you tagged?
Oh in so many of them. I was just old enough to hear stories from my direct elders of the Trekkster Gods; I was born onto the internet in the Dawn of Networking.
In my own experience, FFN and DevArt came slightly before LJ, and that was the generation I essentially missed (I was in college but if you want to pretend I was the king under the mountain like some kind of depraved fandom Charlemagne, I won’t argue), so I’d swap Citrus Cheesecake and I Was There, Gandalf, but in and of themselves they are all very accurate.
And it is true that fandom cannot be killed. Many have tried, but our parade will go ever onwards. Our porny, porny parade.
@kyburg
I was there for all of it. ALL. Of it. I remember when we used pseudonyms not for copyright issues but because we feared the Postal Inspector for using the US Mail for porn…and that wasn’t allowed. We’re talking Night of The Twin Moons, here. Fanzines that took two years to produce 7 stories. (Yuletide just turned in *thousands* of new stories in less than six months, you need a database search to find a way through it all.) Art of any kind was horribly difficult to propagate, you had to freehand on mimeograph stencils, ditto masters after doing in on paper with whatever you could co-opt. Rapidograph pens were pricey AF, you used Bic ball points. If someone was willing to use offset or the very new, VERY expensive Xerox process. (Seriously, $.05 a page when min wage was $1.35 an hour.) Color? Well, if you wanted to the silkscreen route, four-color style. Today? Sheer delight. At its worst, there is so little in the way of making some amazing art. You can make terrible crap fast enough, with a large enough audience that someone is going to love it, no matter what. Because it wasn’t crap to begin with, and there’s a whole community ready to tell you so. All of this. Gen X, leading edge. Believe it.
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