I seached my name at Fanlore this week. With the exception of a Star Trek Voyager filk to the tune of the theme from Gilligan’s Island having won an annual alt.startrek.creative award during the heyday of Usenet, I seem to have disappeared with the print fanzine era. That’s what comes of hosting your work yourself to the exclusion of FF.net and AO3, I guess. Of course if it really mattered to me I would have looked before now.
If you appeared in media fandom print fanzines, there may be info about you….that’s where Fanlore is strongest. They don’t have a list of every media fandom fanzine published, so perhaps you can add the info?
My particular slice of the Highlander fandom isn’t there at all. It’s like the first 3 years of the fandom just didn’t exist.
History is written by the victors.
History is written by the people who show up and write it. The only reason Fanlore has info on 8000 fanzines is because a few crazed fans spent 5 years every day adding the info. And scoured eBay sales for info about zines. And badgered friends to send them info about zines. And pretty much are obsessed with everything fanzines.
In fact every damn thing on Fanlore was added by a fan who rolled out of bed one morning, looked at Fanlore and sputtered: “Hey, that’s not right” and then sat down and started writing about their crazy love.
So head over to Fanlore and claim your victory spoils and start adding those missing 3 years. http://www.fanlore.org
HISTORY IS WRITTEN BY THE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP AND WRITE IT
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