Many of us lied our way into private “18+” listservs, and roamed the webrings, lamps aloft, in search of one virtuous author (or at least somebody else who shipped the thing).įrom this dark age rose FF.net, that pit of voles from whose bourn many a hungry reader has returned, starved for citrus and heartsick from the cutesy author notes.Īnd FF.net begat Livejournal, which allowed easy archiving, threaded comments, flocked posts and invite-only communities. Then there was the Great Schism, as fandoms spread far and wide across the Web, and basic HTML was the whole of the law. You know not the strength it takes to read 60k fics entirely in Courier New, or the pleasure of a really artistic looking section break marker composed of ASCII characters. Then there was Usenet, where formatting went to die. Oh bb there is so much more to it than that.įirst there were zines, lovingly mimeographed and stapled by our fandom foreparents, and those who remain to us from the Zine Age are powerful and wise. Some posts directly critiqued the original post. Historical trends in fanfiction? (2019).I feel like fandom generations are both very specific and easily conflated.Was Fanfic Any Different in the Olden Days? (2015).A brief history of fandom, for the teenagers on here who somehow think tumblr invented fandom (2014).The good old days before google were dark and involved horses (2010).The fact that the original post gets the order of and Livejournal backwards.Entry points/platforms outside of this history.The history of zines, Usenet, Yahoo Groups, and Geocities that led to the community on LJ and then AO3.The most common threads of discussion covered: The post sparked numerous responses, largely because people disagreed with it. #im laughing #i joined the hp fandom at the end of the era imo #bless #hp #me #fic #mine The three generations of fanfic is a Tumblr post by user heymarauders about eras of fandom.
11.1 Historical Perspective: From a Fan in 2018.3.3.9 University Listservs & Early Major Lists.
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