It is such a big thrill to meet another person who is also interested in fan history of this kind!
likewise! that's why i friended you - hope it's ok.
i bought a few things from agent with style, which is really interesting because the zines they are selling there are /new/ in general. so you suddenly find you're in a world where zines are still being published. but you miss out on the history element, like you finding bits of the ink has flaked off etc (although clearly this is not that good if you want to read the fic)(i'm still not sure, btw, how i feel about reading fic in zines as opposed to reading on AO3. i really like the physical object, and clearly i am really into the zine as an idea and an artform, but i think ultimately i prefer reading for reading's sake in the sterile atmosphere of AO3. where the pages aren't falling awkwardly open so you can't read stuff, or the font isn't too small or too big etc. but... there's something so exciting about turning the pages and reading fic that is sort of being re-discovered. even as i urge zine-writers to put their work on ao3, because i think it's important for other fans, i also find it a bit disappointing...)
i see you were already directed towards jim&melody above, but that website (and ebay's drbeth) are my top zine-buying places. the prices are so ridiculously reasonable. and they have a lot of stuff. also - i can recommend iowa's zine library, which is in another country to me but fortunately in the city where my girlfriend when to university so we had an excuse to visit it.
the S&H in red thing was indeed for that reason, yes. apparently a lot of people were very upset about slash at the time and were threatening to send it to the PtB, but (fanlore tells me) by the time the red zine (no it's actual name) came out... about 3 other slash zines had also been published. but never mind - it's still a great idea. B7 has it's own massive slash blowout, which is extensively (and rather upsettingly, becuase it's always sad to read about people behaving so badly)(though interesting too) documented on fanlore. it makes me very happy to be in this modern age where it's just so accepted and i never have to risk going to go a con (not that i would) and seeing paul darrow tell me how terrible slash is.
that said, apparently there are massive blow-outs about slash and adult material at this very moment in sherlock and steven universe - so, how far have we really come? new fandoms, eh?
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likewise! that's why i friended you - hope it's ok.
i bought a few things from agent with style, which is really interesting because the zines they are selling there are /new/ in general. so you suddenly find you're in a world where zines are still being published. but you miss out on the history element, like you finding bits of the ink has flaked off etc (although clearly this is not that good if you want to read the fic)(i'm still not sure, btw, how i feel about reading fic in zines as opposed to reading on AO3. i really like the physical object, and clearly i am really into the zine as an idea and an artform, but i think ultimately i prefer reading for reading's sake in the sterile atmosphere of AO3. where the pages aren't falling awkwardly open so you can't read stuff, or the font isn't too small or too big etc. but... there's something so exciting about turning the pages and reading fic that is sort of being re-discovered. even as i urge zine-writers to put their work on ao3, because i think it's important for other fans, i also find it a bit disappointing...)
i see you were already directed towards jim&melody above, but that website (and ebay's drbeth) are my top zine-buying places. the prices are so ridiculously reasonable. and they have a lot of stuff. also - i can recommend iowa's zine library, which is in another country to me but fortunately in the city where my girlfriend when to university so we had an excuse to visit it.
the S&H in red thing was indeed for that reason, yes. apparently a lot of people were very upset about slash at the time and were threatening to send it to the PtB, but (fanlore tells me) by the time the red zine (no it's actual name) came out... about 3 other slash zines had also been published. but never mind - it's still a great idea. B7 has it's own massive slash blowout, which is extensively (and rather upsettingly, becuase it's always sad to read about people behaving so badly)(though interesting too) documented on fanlore. it makes me very happy to be in this modern age where it's just so accepted and i never have to risk going to go a con (not that i would) and seeing paul darrow tell me how terrible slash is.
that said, apparently there are massive blow-outs about slash and adult material at this very moment in sherlock and steven universe - so, how far have we really come? new fandoms, eh?