Count_ZeroOrMay 17, 2025

Abolish Horny Jail!

https://countzeroor.com/2025/05/17/abolish-horny-jail/

#Miscellanous #editorial #FanCulture #fanart #fandom #FandomHistory #fanfic
#bot

Abolish Horny Jail! - Breaking it all Down

I recently saw a video posted on Tumblr by Dimension20 to promote their tabletop streams. In that video, Brendan Lee Mulligan and (I believe) Ally Beardsley joke about not having any inter-character romance, because that would take away opportunities for Tumblr posters to come up with thirsty queer fanart. That got me thinking – Tumblr […]

Breaking it all Down
Count_ZeroOrDec 8, 2024

Book Review: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground

https://countzeroor.com/2024/12/08/book-review-monsters-aliens-and-holes-in-the-ground/

#Books #RolePlayingGames #2020sInBooks #BookReview #FandomHistory #nonfiction #TabletopRPGs #TRPGHistory
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Book Review: Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground - Breaking it all Down

If you know anything about me at all, I have a passion for the history of tabletop roleplaying. One of the books that helped stoke my interest was the book Heroic Worlds, which I read when I was in middle school. That book was a high level overview of the roleplaying game books that were […]

Breaking it all Down
morgandawnNov 23, 2023

A few months back, I  participated in an interview about the media fandom oral history project by the OTW journal, Fanhackers. It was released today

https://fanhackers.transformativeworks.org/2023/11/22/an-interview-with-the-media-fandom-oral-history-project/

#FandomHistory
#OralHistory
#Archives
#Preservation
#OrganizationForTransformativeWorks
#OTW
#FanHackers

An Interview With The Media Fandom Oral History Project – Fanhackers

morgandawnAug 25, 2023

I was not directly interviewed for this article, but it's great to see the #fanfiction #fanzine #digitization
project and my friend Sandy Hereld mentioned

https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/science-fiction-and-fantasy-research-collection-at-texas-am-university-archives-deep-dive

#archives #libraries #preservation #FandomHistory

Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Texas A&M University | Archives Deep Dive

While many library collections and archives start with a gift of materials from a donor, sometimes a collection originates with a forward-thinking librarian and curator. Thanks to Hal W. Hall, special formats librarian at Texas A&M University (TAMU) Library from 1970 to 2010, TAMU is now home to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Collection at Cushing Library.

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morgandawnJun 19, 2023

#FanVid or #Vidding Stats

I've been combining my convention #fanvid show playlists (thank you to every convention that has ever offered their playlists to their convention attendees in any format ...and an even bigger thank you to those using Google Sheets or Excel or some format that can be converted).

The Two Big Vidding Conventions

#Vividcon - USA (2002-2018), a fan run vidding convention showed approximately 4,737 vids.

#VidUKon - UK (2008-present), a similar vidding convention based in the UK has shown approximately 2,248 fanvids

You can find Vividcon's fanvid database here: https://www.vividcon.info/

VidUKon has combined its database with other conventions that run on the Conline.Club platform. You cannot search by convention year, but their dataset allows you to search by Fandom, Vidder and Title
https://vidukon.conline.club/database/

#FandomHistory #FandomLove #archiving #preservation #Fanlore

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morgandawnMay 20, 2023

#Fandom #DIY zines 10 years old meant to be freely shared

Announcement https://diyfanzines.dreamwidth.org/3752.html

Links to downloadable versions here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4zirv2f6b2gq2xb,1c4ptb52rglxsb0,ogng6j81158zfnu,eyvl6vdfkbrs5q6,fb1c15h37845h1a/shared

#Zines with #LGBTQ mentions are
* #DoctorWho
*The Turtle Moves (#Discworld)
*Fandom - How I Found Fandom (it was love at first sight)

#fanzines #FandomHistory #LesMis #PushingDaisies

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Show threadmorgandawnMay 20, 2023

OK time for stats on my #VHS #VideoTape #digitiztion project

1. I have 291 mainly #VHS videotapes of #fanvids (or #songtapes / #songvids

2. I received most of them back in the 2010s - my progress is glacial

3. I still have 178 more videotapes to convert. Some of these are duplicates but given the poor tape quality, the plan is to convert all of them

4. My lossless conversion setup no longer works (capture cards have grown worse over the years and the ones I had only worked with OS that no longer runs aka Win XP). So I am relying on DVD-Recorder to digitize what I can.

What is a songtape or a songvid?

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Songtape_Collection

#archiving #FandomHistory #vidding

Songtape Collection - Fanlore

lazaefairApr 9, 2023
"Despite, or perhaps because of, being a worldwide phenomenon, Hanson's fans suffered a fate similar to so many teen girl-heavy fandoms: being pathologized and maligned, not celebrated for their ingenuity and passion." New episode of This Week In #Fandom History! #fandomhistory #podcast #fandompodcast https://www.tumblr.com/thisweekinfandomhistory/714163561196355584/this-week-in-fandom-history-is-a-fandom-centric
This Week In Fandom History is a fandom-centric podcast that tells you… what happened this week in fandom history!

This Week In Fandom History - April 15, 1997: "MMMBop" Changes The World Forever Bop bop doowop! This week, V and Emily travel back to a seminal moment in popslash and bubblegum history with the rel…

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Show threadmorgandawnMar 29, 2023

Part 3 of my #FanArt collection that will be donated to Texas A&M University aka #TAMU

A drawing by the artist The Southern Cross. It appeared in the Star Trek #fanfiction novel The Price of Freedom
https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Freedom_(Star_Trek_zine)

Year 1986 or earlier

Sadly, this is not an original, but a a photo print.

#FandomHistory

The Price of Freedom (Star Trek zine) - Fanlore

Show threadmorgandawnMar 28, 2023

Part 2: Next in my #FanArt collection that will be donated to Texas A&M University aka #TAMU

More artwork by Shelly Butler, #StarTrek, entitled "La Pieta". Year 1997

Pencil drawing of Mr Spock cradling a partially naked Captain Kirk in a classic religious pose. La Pieta means “Pity” or “Compassion,” and represents Mary sorrowfully contemplating the dead body of her son which she holds on her lap.

#FandomHistory