Holy shit, you guise

[intrigueing]

Remember that Starsky & Hutch zine review I posted a couple of weeks ago? The one where I referenced and linked fanlore.org a bunch of times? Well, I just discovered that some fanlore editor person apparently read that review and posted excepts of it to the fanlore pages for Zebra Three and hurt/comfort. Fanception! (...Do people still even make references like that or is that so 2011?)

I now feel a weird combo of super-self-conscious and ridiculously flattered. I mean, it was a lot of wordy emotional flailing, and if I ever realize that I got something that's now quoted there massively wrong due to the fact I was just shooting my mouth off for the whole review, I'm gonna be so embarrassed. But seriously, whoever you are mystery person who linked and quoted it -- thanks a hell of a lot. ♥

(It also occurs to me I have no idea whatsoever what the fanlore editing policy is. Which is probably good or I might not be able to resist wasting loads of my time info-dumping on the West Wing page...)

Comments

[lunabee34]

That is freaking awesome!

And also reminds me that I didn't read your post; I bookmarked it but shortly after that laptop died, and we still have not revived it. Must remedy both soon.

Kudos for you!

[intrigueing]

Thank yew!

Sorry about your laptop! Hope you didn't lose anything too important. I paranoid-ly export and back up all my stuff in usb's and dropbox every week out of fear some freak calamity will strike my laptop, haha :D

[lunabee34]

Nothing is lost fortunately; we'll be able to transfer everything over to a new one. It needs a new motherboard, and it would just be easier to buy a new cheap laptop than to try to replace the motherboard and potentially lose data. :)

[morgandawn]

I thought your zine review was remarkable - I wish we could travel you back in time to give the feedback to the fans then - they would have loved such a detailed and in depth review (some things never change - even back in the 1970s, fans were lamenting in letterzines about the lack of feedback and how it was discouraging young writers.).

As for dumping on the West Wing page - how about a simple start: your top 10 favorite stories or vids. Something to help give a start to the fanworks

[intrigueing]

Aw, that's sad. Feedback is everything to me when I write, and it's a shame people feel awkward reviewing stories that are even a few years old! They leave little apologies like "Sorry, I know this fic was written a while ago but I just wanted to..." as if they think the authors don't want any more comments.

I kinda wish I could find and tell these authors how much I admired their stories. I managed to email the authors of a few other classic fics from older fandoms directly and got a couple of extremely pleased responses, but those were ones who made their current emails available.

Now I guess the only way to contact most S&H people is to send paper letters via Flamingo, if she still does that? I wonder if these authors ever still think about or google their fanfic from back then.

[morgandawn]

Some of the older fans are still online and a surprising number are on Facebook. So you can still send feedback, although Flamingo is a good place to start. And if there is someone specific you're looking for, I can also see if I can help.

Many of them, when they do find out that fans are still reading and enjoying their work are flattered and bit flustered.

[intrigueing]

That's good to hear. :) Obviously, the specific ones I'd like right now are Connie Faddis and Jan Lindner, though I don't know if they're still contactable.

[morgandawn]

Connie is one of the few that is still snail mail. I can see if Jan Lindner is online.

[intrigueing]

Wow, thanks so much!