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...is that they regularly run out of space. I visited the one at

legomymalfoy's this morning and I could not believe that I was not able to register my high opinion of

manraviel (one of the first fans I ever met who came across as a full-scale human being), the classy and thoughtful

carlanime,

ani_bester (one of the few people for whom the expression "nobility of soul" comes effortlessly),

ac1d6urn (for the Crookshanks fics),

angua9 (writes essays like I would like to think I would do if I were intelligent>,

kennahijja (I think all her opinions are screwed up and near to criminal, but I'll fight anyone who does not admit that she is a writer of genius),

caladan_dd (talent in human form). That, of course, is only about those who actually turned up on

legomymalfoy's meme. The rest of you, look at my f-page's name: "Thank God for the following people."

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From:

fpb.livejournal.com

Well, I have been involved in comics for quite a while, but my views have no more authority than those of any other one of hundreds of thousands of fans. I mean, I never thought of doing a

charlottelennox and investigating and describing anything. But Hey, yes, I was there - since 1980. So I'll have a look and see if I can help with anything. And thanks for your confidence.

From:

partly-bouncy.livejournal.com

I'm not looking for big time exposition. (Though heh. I've been playing with the general topic since 1999 or so. And I'm planning to do a dissertation on this topic.) I'm mostly kind of fishing for details that can give an idea as to what was happening and where. There are things that get mentioned, like Mary Sue, and people seem to think it is shiny and new... and it isn't that new. The name was coined in 1973. It's been present a long time in stories. Definitions have changed over time but looking at parts of it, not much in the percentage. The kerfluffles have happened repeatedly. There was the Star Wars stuff, the Star Trek stuff, the Blake's 7 stuff. A lot of the Msscribe thing I think came out of the lack of knowledge about these other fannish events because they didn't have the cross over impact and people didn't always talk about them.

So any sort of information to fill in any blanks would be much obliged, from biographis of major fen (http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=Cassandra_Claire) to minor fans (http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=Judith_Low), from bookfic kerfluffles (http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=Anne_Rice_%28Fandom%29) to moviefic kerfluffles (http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=Star_Wars_fanzine_kerfluffle). :) And well, pretty much anything in between (http://www.fanhistory.com/index.php?title=July).

So yeah, anything would be helpful. :)