Kielle

Kielle was born October 22, 1972 and passed away on September 22nd, 2005 of cancer.The world is darker than it has ever been Kielle's Livejournal, September 22, 2005 She leaves behind her an enduring legacy among her fandoms, not the least of which is her ability to turn a group of random internet geeks into close-knit communities whose bonds still exist today. 
Kielle was a high-profile X-Men and Lord of the Rings fan, best known in the former for creating the hubsite CFAN which served as a central gathering point for the comics fan-fiction community, creating Subreality and the Common People Warehouse and for creating the CBFFAs. She was also known in the LOTR fandom for founding metaquotes and for writing Nine Men and a Little Lady, a parody of the Tenth Walker variety of Mary Sue fic. She was both a prolific writer and a builder of fannish infrastructure; at the time of her death she was moderating fourteen communities, and assisting in the administration of several more."Here at the end of all things," accessed 04 November 2008 [Wayback Dec 15/22] In Memory Shared (Sep 22, 2006) accessed September 28, 2018 She was dearly loved in all her communities.
Older fen, who remember her from the Alt.comics.fanfiction days, knew her as the creator and maintainer of CFAN (Comic-Book FanFic Author's Network), the maintainer of the subreality.com hubsite which housed CFAN, The Common People Warehouse, The Mary Sue Appreciation Society, Subreality Central, Blood in the Gutter and The Comic Book Fan Fic Awards, among others.
She was an active member of X-Men fandom, with a particular interest in villains the Marauders."Spotlight on Kielle with special guest Laersyn" accessed 10 October 2009 In the words of her fellow fanficcers:
 
In 1998, she was interviewed for an Entertainment Weekly article on fanfiction fandom, sharing her thoughts on community:
In 2003 Kielle shifted out of comics fandom, closing CFAN to updates and establishing herself in the The Lord of the Rings fandom. As she had in comics fandom, she became known for building communities, creating a number of LiveJournal communities including metaquotes, as well as the Middle Earth Sock Puppet Theatre roleplaying community. 
==Comments By Other Fans==
After her death, many reflected on her contribution to fandom:
Even almost two decades after her death, Kielle is still remembered:
===Tribute Links===
*Comic Fanfiction Authors Archive (https://www.cfaarchive.org/about) - launched in 2024 in tribute to the Comic Fan-Fiction Authors' Network, created by SLWalker.
*I Love Kielle Livejournal community
==Notable Works==
*"The Date" (a short X-Factor tale...) - Kielle's first fic posted to ACFFThe Date (a Short X-Factor Tale) - ACFF googlegroup, March 21, 1996
*"Vertigo: No Way Up" (X-Men)
*"X-MST3k" - MSTing of "X", a self-insert fanfic
*"88 Lines For 44 Mutants" (Filk) (Note: This version is about the X-Women; Dex Farkin wrote a companion version about the X-Men)
*"Nine Men and a Little Lady" (Lord of the Rings)
==Awards==
===CBFFAs===
====1998====
*"X-MST3k" (X-Men/MST3K Crossover) - best humorous fic
*Subreality Café - best subgenre
*Writer Hall of Fame
====1999====
*Subreality Café - best subgenre
*Fanfic Hall of Fame - "Vertigo: No Way Up"
===X-Day Awards===
====1999====
*"Vertigo: No Way Up" - first place, best fic (tied with Valerie Jones' Betrayal)
*Comic Fan-Fiction Authors' Network - second place, best fansite
===Maggie Awards===
====1999====
*"Resolutions" and "Denouement" - Ultraviolet Award
===Mithril Awards===
====2003====
*"Chasing the Moon" - finalist, Story Focusing on Men
*"Nine Men and a Little Lady" - finalist, Humour or Parody
*"Chasing the Moon" - runner up (tie), Best Gen (Voted)
===Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards===
====2004====
*"Nine Men and a Little Lady" - 3rd place - Best Parody (aka The Barliman Butterbur Award)
====2005====
*Author Winners
**Drama
***2nd place - General (aka The Frodo Baggins Award)
**Humour
***1st place - General (aka The Tom Bombadil Award)
**Races Category
***Gondor - 1st place - General (aka The Minas Tirith Award)
***Rohan - Honourable Mention
*Story Winners
**Drama
***"Grey and Pale Gold" - 1st place - General (aka The Turin Turambar Award)
***"High Places" - 2nd place - Elves (aka The Frodo Baggins Award)
**Humour
***"Blood and Warm Blankets" - 1st place - Metafic (aka The Tom Bombadil Award)
**Gondor
***"Refraction" - 1st place - Denethor and Finduilas (aka The Minas Tirith Award)
***"Cat's Cradle' - 1st place - Historical (aka The Minas Tirith Award)
***"Inheritance" - 2nd place - Historical (aka The Osgiliath Award)
***"Wereguild" - 3rd place - Historical (aka The Dol Amroth Award)
***"Green Seas" - 3rd place - Vignette (aka The Dol Amroth Award)
**Rohan
***"Rekindled" - 1st place - Vignette (aka The Edoras Award)
**Times
***"Wreath of Steel and Silver" - 1st place - Fëanor and Sons (The Ainulindale Award)
===Pro Awards (Website Design)CFAN Awards page===
*Luckman Interactive Website 4 Star Award
*Majon International's Web Select Award
*Links2Go Key Resource Award
*5-Star Rating by The Zone
*AWebpage.Com Award of Excellence
*Fortune City Golden Globe, Asian, Vietnamese, Elegance, Excellence & Golden Flower AwardsFortune City November Winners, 1998 (November 1998)
*Team Creations Star Site, Bronze
*Ancient Warriors' Top Site Dragon Award
*Award Net Wow Award
==Interviews==
*The Author's Spotlight - "Spotlight on Kielle and Laersyn!"
*Out Of Character: Online Fan Fiction Lets Devotees of Movies and TV Shows Boldly Go where Hollywood Fears to Tread by Elissa Klotz and Zack Stentz, Entertainment Weekly (1998)
==Reviews and Recommendations==
*IMHO #2 - Reader's Rave #2 - Hearts And Diamonds
*IMHO #3 - Reader's Rave #3 - Behind The Mirror
*Alara.net/Crossroads X/Darkest Heart - August 2000 Feature Fanfic - "Vertigo: No Way Up"
*Outside The Lines/Monthly Features 
**February 1999 - "Faces of Hate" Challenge: Degrees of Wrong
**October 1999 - "The Subrealicon Challenge": "In The House That Robert Built"
*Middle-Earth Fanfiction Awards - 2005 Author Reviews for Kielle (Wayback Nov 29/24)
==Archives/Zines/Collections==
===Archives Created/Moderated by Kielle===
*.-=Me=-. - Kielle's personal biography page.
====Meta Fandom====
*Subreality.com
*Subreality Central
*The Mary Sue Avatar Society
*The Fanfic Yellow Ribbon
*Banned from Argo, The Page!
*Qui Elle? - introducing Kielle's very own Mary Sue.
*The Fanfiction Glossary
====Comics Fandom====
*CFAN
*Camelot (author page)
*X-Men Movieverse Fan Fiction
*Blood in the Gutter
*The Common People Warehouse
*The Great Comic MSTing Site - created by Quintas and maintained by Kielle from December 1999
*The Wayside
*The Wildways
*ROXMM - webring for X-Men Movieverse archives
====Lord of the Rings====
*Meduseld
*HorseLord: The Eomer WebRing
*Kinslayer
*Twelfth Ring
*Middle-Earth Sock Puppet Theater
*WinAmp Skins - Tolkien and MESPT-related WinAmp skins created by Kielle
*Generate Your Random Tolkien Elven Name!
====Multifandom====
*Evil.Net
*From the Ashes
===Archived At===
*Lori's X-Men Archive
*The itty bitty cyke and logan archive
*The Itty Bitty Archives
*X-Archive
*Alara's Spiffy Magneto Page
*Alara.net/Mirror Dark-Mirror Light
*Alara.net/Crossroads X/Chuck Amuck! - "So You Wanna Read More About... Charles Xavier"
*Alara.net/Crossroads X/Darkest Heart
*Ro's Treasury of Fanfiction
*Separate Waters
*Shifting Sands (X-Men archive)/Subreality Cafe Stories
*Subreality Central
*Stories of Arda
*Henneth Annûn Story Archive
===Zines===
*The Noble Steward's Chronicles 
**Issue 3 - "Refraction" (2006)
===Mailing Lists===
(as owner)
*Riddermark (mailing list)
===Livejournal Communities===
(founded by Kielle - not full list)
* mathoms
* braintrauma
* medusld
* bansquad
* drabbles
* livequotes
* mespt_quotes
* metaquotes
* rpgquotes
* oh_brothers
* shardsofarda
* silmfics
* suequotes
* stickies
* iconaddicts
* marysues
* mespt_daycare
* minas_tirith
* ontheset
* trollbans
* twotwelve
* moodmakers
==References==
Category:Fans
Category:Community Moderators
Category:Fanwriters
Category:Filkers
Category:2005 Deaths
Category:Deceased