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Fandom First Friday!
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Welcome to Fandom First Friday! What is #FFF? The first Friday of every month, the OTW celebrates one aspect of fandom. This month’s theme is shapeshifting!
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Welcome to Fandom First Friday! What is #FFF? The first Friday of every month, the OTW celebrates one aspect of fandom. This month’s theme is shapeshifting!
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Fandom First Friday!
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Welcome to Fandom First Friday! What is #FFF? The first Friday of every month, the OTW celebrates one aspect of fandom. This month’s theme is shapeshifting!
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I ran across an interesting discussion for consideration: When is it acceptable to have your characters say the unacceptable?
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I ran across an interesting discussion for consideration: When is it acceptable to have your characters say the unacceptable?
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Are there songs and books you'll associate with this summer? Are you looking forward to what the change in season will bring in terms of new movies, shows, and things to read?
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Are there songs and books you'll associate with this summer? Are you looking forward to what the change in season will bring in terms of new movies, shows, and things to read?
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Is there a perfect platform?
Sep. 12th, 2015 03:23 pmotw_staff
I’ve worked with a lot of different online sharing platforms over time: From locally hosted BBS sites way-the-heck-back-when (pre-AOL) to, well, AOL and on to Yahoo!, LiveJournal, FF.net, AO3, Facebook and Tumblr. They all have their good points and their bad.
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Did you know fanzines are nearly a century old? Find out more about key events in fannish history as we celebrate Fandom First Friday!
From legal victories to sweeping social changes, fandom has helped shape our world. Some examples where fans spoke and things changed:
- The first science fiction ’zine, The Comet, was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago. The term “fanzine” was coined by Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his fanzine Detours. “Fanzines” were distinguished from “prozines,” (a term Chauvenet also invented): that is, all professional magazines.
- Fans mounted one of the first letter writing campaigns to save a TV show. It worked! Star Trek was saved from a fate worse than a warp core breach, i.e. cancellation. It returned for one more year, and of course later spawned a whole new era of Trek goodness that likely never would have been without fandom. It also led to a plethora of other ‘save our show’ efforts worldwide!
- In the early 1990s, fandom went online with everyone else. The “Forever Knight” fandom (1992-1996) is credited with having the first online mailing list for fans. Quantum Leap, Highlander, The X-Files and Due South became some of the first series to garner their own fan fiction writers and followers.
- At the turn of the 21st Century, fandom has gone participatory in whole new ways: easy posting of images and video has brought conventions and pictures from movie and TV sets to millions more fans than would have had access to it only a decade ago. From (which are also far older than you may realize!) to shared, online theorizing – everything about being a fan is more immediate these days.
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Did you know fanzines are nearly a century old? Find out more about key events in fannish history as we celebrate Fandom First Friday!
From legal victories to sweeping social changes, fandom has helped shape our world. Some examples where fans spoke and things changed:
- The first science fiction ’zine, The Comet, was published in 1930 by the Science Correspondence Club in Chicago. The term “fanzine” was coined by Russ Chauvenet in the October 1940 edition of his fanzine Detours. “Fanzines” were distinguished from “prozines,” (a term Chauvenet also invented): that is, all professional magazines.
- Fans mounted one of the first letter writing campaigns to save a TV show. It worked! Star Trek was saved from a fate worse than a warp core breach, i.e. cancellation. It returned for one more year, and of course later spawned a whole new era of Trek goodness that likely never would have been without fandom. It also led to a plethora of other ‘save our show’ efforts worldwide!
- In the early 1990s, fandom went online with everyone else. The “Forever Knight” fandom (1992-1996) is credited with having the first online mailing list for fans. Quantum Leap, Highlander, The X-Files and Due South became some of the first series to garner their own fan fiction writers and followers.
- At the turn of the 21st Century, fandom has gone participatory in whole new ways: easy posting of images and video has brought conventions and pictures from movie and TV sets to millions more fans than would have had access to it only a decade ago. From (which are also far older than you may realize!) to shared, online theorizing – everything about being a fan is more immediate these days.
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How very out of character of you...
Aug. 30th, 2015 11:04 amotw_staff
I'm sure we've all had this experience: You're reading a work of fan fiction and enjoying the heck out of it. Then.... boom; a sudden loss of characterization.
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