wickedwords

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I have 50 more words to write tonight to make my goal for MiniNano, but now that they have started announcing things, I fear I will be sucked into the updates. I'm behind on rec stuff too, but tomorrow I can make those up. I did work a little on the Fanlore Duncan/Methos page, but wow, is that going to need some help.

Hiya!

As many of you know, I am helping with Fanlore, and one of the things we talked about at our last meeting was how we wanted to bring in more fandom-related history. And personally, I can't think of anything more 'fandom' related than the history of Hurt/comfort fandom.

Unfortunately, since it's a panfandom metafandom that has existed since the dawn of time (i.e., back when media fandom first broke off from science fiction fandom), it's way the heck too much for any single person to do. Seriously, if I were the type of person to work on a phd in media studies? This could be my dissertation.

So I'd like to get some people to work on the History of Hurt/comfort fandom. Things I'd like to know would be: What were the big Hurt/comfort stories in your fandom? Did any of them have huge impact? Can someone talk about 'brain damage' stories, and 'illness hurt/comfort'. The Teddy Bear stories in Highlander, "Gentle on my Mind" in Sentinel and it's follow-up by a different author. What was Hurt/hurt called back in the early days? Was it really 'get 'em'?

All I have is oral history, man. And y'all know my memory is crap.

I did many things, very little of which I can remember. I did create the vidding subcategory, though, and added it to everything I recognized as belonging to it from the video category. (If it wasn't in video, I may not have seen it, so I don't think I got everything.)

I also went through my old video tapes and found an ancient copy of MC Tape 2 that still had its liner notes with it, so I am adding that to the Media Cannibals Tape 2 subpage. It's a real gem in that we listed what equipment we were using and how much it cost, how we did our titles back then, and the liner notes themselves reference 'Escapade 7' and 'Virgule 3' (That was the slash con held in Seattle, back in the day. I'd forgotten there were 3 of them.)

I think the Led Zeppelin vids on it are the first RPS vids shown--it would have been around 1994/1995, at an Escapade, so that was cool. And Sandy noted when we first did the change POV in the middle of the song thing, which was cool as well. I feel like I'm transcribing some nifty little historical document, even though I doubt many people will be that interested. I think it's just neat to have found it.