[ SECRET POST #2693 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2693 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ], [ 1 - blank image ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

Re: Fandom history

[ex_mek82]

Eh, Fanlore is only really good for if you want to look up the histories of fandoms pre-2008, barring some current day megalith fandoms (though their article for MLP: FIM is shockingly sparse). Not much in the way of Western animation, anime, and video game fandoms from what I can tell; as most of the fandom articles for those are pretty bare bones.

It is fascinating reading the history of zines and hearsay of old fandom drama, though. Also interesting to see the overlap between Star Trek and Starsky and Hutch fandoms, but that's probably just me. =V

Re: Fandom history

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oh yeah, fore sure. fanlore is fanLORE, all semi-old stuff, very little current.

For current stuff, I'm not sure there is any good source though, because there's so much stuff and it all changes so fast.

(god, the Starsky and Hutch and Star Trek fandoms histories are just so fascinating aren't they? Not just for fandom, but for history in general. Seeing the technology people had access to, their social awareness, attitudes towards certain ideas, theories about fandom, etc. You can literally see the history of the hurt/comfort genre take shape in the zine discussions. And you see stuff like seeing people commenting about how VCR's are such a boon because you can rewatch key scenes over and over instead of waiting for the re-run to come around and how much that changes how people write fanfic -- because now you don't have to come up with totally new stories, you can write tags or missing scenes to individual episodes because you can rewatch them to fact-check.

I once literally spent an entire afternoon just reading through the fanlore pages cataloguing the contents of a couple of S&H letterzines like: http://fanlore.org)/wiki/S_and_H_%28Starsky_and_Hutch_letterzine%29/Issues_01-05 and http://fanlore.org/wiki/Between_Friends_%28Starsky_and_Hutch_zine%29 and seeing so many ideas about fandom in general that I never thought people back in the early '80s would have thought of.)

Re: Fandom history

[ex_mek82]

In retrospect, I do think most current day fandom history (from 2008 onward) is still fairly accessible, provided one knows where to look. Like, lots of old LiveJournal communities are still around and even a few DeviantArt galleries here and there. Plus, trying to find information from places like Tumblr is a little difficult, simply because of how things are set up.

Ah! I know, right? I'm ashamed to admit I didn't even think Starsky and Hutch ever had a fandom to the extent it had. Star Trek I had a vague inkling of for the longest time, but seeing it be the progenitor of most things we know today in fandom -be it genres or forms of fanwork- is, to me, mindblowing. (Also, I loved reading some of the recollections of the fans who lived and were active during that time frame)

And then there's the zine culture, oh man. ngl, it was kinda sad to read about the slow decline of the genre in general once the concept of archives for both art and writing really started to take off with the rise of the internet. Not to mention early fandom-related con culture, too; or the early days of fan vids.

Re: Fandom history

[intrigueing]

OMG you have NO IDEA how much time I've wasted going through the records of old zines on fanlore! Especially those Starsky & Hutch zines some helpful editor found the time to excerpt and post for posterity -- together with Star Trek, it's basically the foundation of current fandom, the Plato and Aristotle, if you wanna be super-dorky about it ;) You can actually *see* how a good 90% of all the fully-fleshed out and branched-out ideas and tropes and conventions and genres in fandom nowadays grew out of Star Trek TOS and Starsky & Hutch. It's just *so fascinating* I never spend any money on fandom, but I swear that when I get my own place I'm going to waste a lot of money on collecting really old letterzines to get the history of early fandom, 'cause I'm a nerd like that.

Re: Fandom history

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds completely fascinating! *files for future procrastination*