The Here And Now

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• Iowa - will not take anything. Or maybe they will? My collection is sadly closed to me.
• TAMU - only if not already in their collection
• UC Riverside - only sci-fi and fantasy (sorry other TV and movie fandoms) and only if not duplicated
• Bowling Green (Ohio) - ????Have not spoken to them in a while, need to check
• Michigan State - only well known, recent fandoms (Buffy, Harry Potter, Z-Files) and they can only accept a few each year

Say a fond farewell to a loyal partner in our fandom history preservation. I bought this Scansnap scanner in 2010 and have used to to scan fanzines, letters and other fandom ephemera (

 Salutamus te!

“The Online Exhibit

This online exhibit is organized based on type of work, such as art, needlework, other crafts, or publications. Given with each item’s photograph(s) is the 4-digit University of Iowa Special Collection number (MsC xxxx) that refers to the named collection in which the item located.

Original Art Work Housed in the Special Collections

Kwa Heri, Hadiya: Original art by Leslie Fish for Trinette Kern’s story “Kwa Heri, Hadiya” in The Other Side of Paradise #2 along with scans of the published story’s title page and the page with illo.(MsC …) 

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Here is my personal story about the fanart. I came across the mounted pencil drawing at a fan event. It was left on the charity swap table ( table where fans recycle fan-related material. You then place cash in the charity donation paper cup.). It was near the end of the event and the art clearly had not found a home. We had no idea about the origins of the art, what story it was related to…or even if it had ever been used in a fanzine.

Fast forward to a few years later when I received a copy of the fanzine “The Other Side of Paradise #2” and was idly leafing through the pages and found the story and the art. What fascinated me was how they had transferred the art to the zine in an era (1977) when photocopying was not cheap or easy. The image transfer had also been reduced to fit the zine page. Before the area of word processing or computers, fanzines were typed up manually on typewriters and the art was then copied, cut and glued onto the pages. Then each page with art was copied and then those pages were copied to make the zine. No wonder zines had limited print runs. 400 copies of “The Other Side of Paradise” #2 were published and two weeks after it was published, it was out-of-print.

Here is a review from  The Halkan Council #24 in April 1977

“Unquestionably, we have entered the era of value of money in Trekzines. TOSOP #2 may be the best bargain available at this particular moment, for quantity of high-quality work. It looks good and reads well, and it offers a variety of types of stories, articles, artwork and poetry; moreover, it provides the unexpected in the form of an unabashedly romantic vignette by Paula Smith and a Star Trek story by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Bradley further proves her versatility by providing, with the help of Walter Breen, an eminently logical ‘Vulcan Valentine.’… 

There are two quibbles to be made about the construction of this zine. The reduction on most of the type is 1/3, which is still readable to me when I’m wearing my glasses instead of contacts. On pages with illustrations, however, the type has been further reduced, until is it too small for comfortable reading by those of us not blessed with 20/20 vision. The other problem is that this is the third zine in which Leslie Fish’s filksongs have appeared. Too many of us have already seen them, delightful as they are. The table of contents lists twenty-three separate items; rarely does even so large a zine provide that kind of variety. Those looking for fantasy (this is a combined fantasy/Trek zine) may be disappointed to find that the fantasy is confined almost entirely to the artwork; all the major stories and poems are ST. Most of them range from good to excellent, and there is simply not space to comment on all of them. 

There is a plethora of fine style here; not a single story suffers from awkwardness. Genius Loci’ by Connie Faddis is the KIND of story that made the best Trek episodes, yet it finds a new and acceptable twist for putting the terrific trio through their paces. The Bradley story mentioned above shows us Kirk’s first few days aboard the Enterprise, when Spock and McCoy were strangers. There are two stories by Mandi Schultz and Cheryl Rice from their Diamonds and Rustseries, interesting, but suffering from rather obviously setting the readers up for information to be revealed in future stories. By the end of the second story, one is a bit peeved to still not know for whom Chantal IS working. Trinette Kern’s story has her hallmarks: one of the most readable styles in fandom, and pain. This time it is Spock and Uhura she’s getting. Unfortunately, to set up the circumstances for 'Kwa Heri, Hadiya.’ she completely distorts the character of Uhura – not to mention Spock! The most moving story in the collection is ’T'Uriamne’s Victory,’ one of Eileen Roy’s alternate-Kraith stories. As the title suggests, it is a parallel to 'Spock’s Argument,’ only this time there is not a tie –T'Uriamne wins. Amanda, and all the other offworlders must leave Vulcan. What an Amanda we have here, strong, proud, independent, competent, intelligent! Roy twists us with wondering what Sarek will do, at the same time she is poking delightful fun at Kraith Vulcans – imagine a drunken Vulcan named Slieez! Indeed, there is much more, in this story, and in the zine as a whole. Buy it.  “

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I've been working on the subpages of the Proposed Zines page at Fanlore. These are zines that were advertised as being planned, and never got made; sometimes that was because there was no interest, and sometimes various life details got in the way. (At least one was canceled because the basement that held the submissions got flooded.) I've done A-L and a few later ones, bolding the names of the zines and adding lots of internal links.

A lot of them deal with fandoms that are almost nonexistent online - the show ended, and most of the fandom didn't keep writing fics. (Earth 2. Wiseguy.) Some are for large fandoms that still have a following, and these zines just didn't happen. (Professionals. Starsky & Hutch.) Some are for original fic - vampire stories, paranormal mysteries, general sci-fi.

The number that specify "no slash" is jarring. I wasn't active in zine fandom before the internet got big, and my connection to it was slash-friendly. I vaguely knew it was "controversial," but seeing the descriptions today is fascinating. Lots of "X-rated is okay, but no slash please" notes. There's no hint of awareness that slash might not mean explicit sex.

A lot of them are interesting ideas for zines, and if I were social and organized, I'd consider having a fic fest, or a fic-and-art fest, based on one or more of the zine ideas.

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A couple of weeks ago, the RAW Fanthology team spent a weekend in the woods planning our @kickstarter launch.  There was blood (fake), chicken escapes (real), Mizumono cosplay (a questionable choice) and homemade donuts (100% unquestionable).  

We also spent a lot of time making Aimee sit on rocks and talking at a camera about why fandom and fandom publishing is so important to her (and the rest of us).  

I’ve cut together some of my favorite quotes from that discussion so you can meet Aimee and learn more about what inspired the RAW Fanthology project and why we want to create published fanworks that exist as tangible objects. 

We’ll be sharing more with you next week!   And, as always, we hope you’ll consider contributing to RAW.

–Tea ( @teaberryblue ), RAW Co-Editor and blood splatter afficionado

Does anyone have time to transcribe this interview? It is less than 2 minutes long and I’d like to share it with a hearing impaired friend.

edited: we found someone. There are two  more videos - also short, so ping  me if you want to help.

Some context: A new Hannibal slash art/fanbook has just raised over $50,000 as part of its Kickstarter. The group did an earlier Captain America art book called Brooklyn: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Brooklyn

One of the editors gives an interview about 'why produce a fanbook" and the history of fanzines.  
http://fanlore.org/wiki/RAW_(fanzine)

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temperancethrace:

Look what I found on my door step!

Why look! Fans printing their fic  and selling hard copies for charity. The circle is complete.

http://ift.tt/1OPPneD

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Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (deleted scene)

Seriously though, this scene. WHY DID THEY DELETE THIS SCENE?

And as they went away with Luke letting Han’s hand trail out of his, I thought, “…as though millions of Han/Luke shipper voices suddenly cried out and were silenced.”

In all my days I’ve never shipped this till…

Welp, if I didn’t ship it before…

True story from ancient fandom corner: people did ship it, and that shit was stomped on harder than any slash has ever been stomped on. There were lawsuits. SW slash went WAY underground–even in the days when all slash was underground. There were ‘zines, but they were precious as carbuncles and basically if you had one or wrote in one you were like a fucking badass slash bandit.

As far as we know, no one was sued  for publishing a Star wars slash zine or fiction. The reason that Star Wars slash zine fandom went dark, had to do with two het stories published in 1981: the Swedish zine The Dark Lord and then later Slow Boat To Bespin. This led to Lucasfilm issuing a series of protocols requiring the publication of family friendly material.  These protocols  put a damper on Star Wars zine publishing overall because they were subjective and arbitrary.

Of course given the homophobia of the times that classified any gay material, even G rated, as adult, this meant that published slash in Star Wars fandom pretty much dried up until the late 1990s, when brave slash fans resumed publishing Han/Luke slash. Interestingly, even at the height of the Lucas anti-sexuality crusade, two slash writers were able to obtain permission to publish a slash story using original characters.  It took some effort to get permission, including a letter of protest written directly to Lucasfilm.

One good thing that came out of the Star Wars fanzine crackdown - before the crackdown, Lucas had demanded that fans submit a copy of their zines to his offices. Eventually he grew tired of them and the collection was given to Ming Wathne, who added thousands of other fanzines from other fandoms and ran the Fanzine Archives, a fanzine lending library. In 2008, she donated the collection to the University of Iowa and is open to the public.

You can still read some of the late 1990s Han/Luke fic online. 

(cover of Elusive Lover 1, artwork by Zyene)

Housed in the UC Riverside Libraries' Special Collections and Archives in the Tomás Rivera Library, the Eaton Collection is touted as the largest publicly accessible collection of science fiction, fantasy, horror and utopian literature in the world. But a professor who works with the collection claims new management might tear it all apart.

Science fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a professor at UC Riverside, has posted a public plea claiming that new library management plans to drastically slash the size of the collection, and those decisions have already led to several resignations and problems among the staff."

More here

To be honest, this entire report boggles my mind, knowing how large and well established the UC Riverside collection is.  UC Riverside is one of the satellite sites where fans have sent their media fanzines in the past.   Based on this article, I would recommend that fans continue using Texas A&M University, University of Iowa or Bowling Green's Popular Culture Collection (Ohio) for the fanzine and other sci-fi/fantasy donations.

And if anyone is interested in helping save the collection, contact the author Nalo Hopkinson via the article above.

To learn more about the Eaton Collection read the 2011 Transformative Works and Cultures journal article about the Eaton Collection: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/271/199 (also the source of the photo above).