This amounts to a labor of love, I think.
Yeah, nobody ever made it rich selling fanfic zines.
Wesley: Illyria can be...difficult. Testing her might be hard without getting someone seriously hurt. Angel: We'll make Spike do it. Wesley: Good.
'Underneath'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
DavidS - Mar 29, 2004 8:57:58 am PST #1946 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
deborah grabien - Mar 29, 2004 9:18:02 am PST #1947 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Feel like I need a shower now (and not in a good way).
Exactly, and how sad is that? The book was meant to be porn. It's too crappy to be porn.
erikaj - Mar 29, 2004 9:24:49 am PST #1948 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
It makes me feel quite gifted.
Dana - Mar 29, 2004 9:31:50 am PST #1949 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
sumi, zines are still alive and flourishing. Last con I went to, there were two or three dealer tables with zines.
Consuela - Mar 29, 2004 9:33:28 am PST #1950 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
nobody ever made it rich selling fanfic zines
true dat.
In an interesting aside, the rise of the internet has made fanfic writing actually safer for fans, since no money is changing hands at all. Any exchange of cash for unauthorized derivative works (like dvds of fan vids, or zines) is more likely to get the attention of lawyers than distribution of such works for free. The fact that they're sold at cost may not be enough to defend the producers.
And yeah, I have a collection of Trek zines that I need to auction off. Gotta figure out how to do that. I look at it as a sociological curiosity more than anything else, since the collection goes all the way back to the first ever Trek zine, produced in 1969. 35 years of fannish history, all in one box; pretty damned cool.
Dana - Mar 29, 2004 9:34:34 am PST #1951 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
If any of it is slash, you could donate it to the Foresmutters Project.
Consuela - Mar 29, 2004 9:35:40 am PST #1952 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
None of it is, which I find interesting in its own way. 35 years of Trek fic, and not a slashy story in it. Seems statistically unlikely, doesn't it?
Betsy HP - Mar 29, 2004 9:36:17 am PST #1953 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I look at it as a sociological curiosity more than anything else, since the collection goes all the way back to the first ever Trek zine, produced in 1969. 35 years of fannish history, all in one box; pretty damned cool.
Whoa. I have nooooo fancred. t genuflects
Foresmutters Project
Snerk!
deborah grabien - Mar 29, 2004 9:37:56 am PST #1954 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Foresmutters Project
(charmed)
Is that real? A real thing?
Dana - Mar 29, 2004 9:39:12 am PST #1955 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
35 years of Trek fic, and not a slashy story in it. Seems statistically unlikely, doesn't it?
Just a little.
There still might be a place to donate it (and I'm totally not chasing after you, yelling, "preserve the history of fandom!" By all means, auction it off if you like). If you want me to poke around, I can ask Killa.