Sandy Herrold

Sandy Herrold was a big name in the 1990s. 
She contributed to Fanlore as user:sherrold and was one of the first people who gave blanket permission to be quoted on Fanlore from all sources. 
She passed away on July 19, 2011. 
In November 2013, two years after her death, family and friends, working together with Texas A&M University, launched the Sandy Hereld Memorial Digitized Media Fanzine Collection, the world's first digital media fanzine collection.
From a fan, shortly before Sandy died: 
==Some Things Sandy Did==
* founded the Virgule Mailing List
* co-founded the Media Cannibals
* set up the Escapade vid show review, and initiated the comments form for vid feedback at the con vid show
* compiled the Big List of Fanfic Peeves with the help of The Bitkahs
* ran the Slashfic Hall of Shame as Joanne 
* maintained a recs page on her site, All Jewels Have Flaws (long out of date) 
* created the Issues of Consent Rec page, which defined and illustrated the noncon genre.wayback machine view of Issues of Consent
* hosted guest meta on her site, such as Slash Fiction is Like a Banquet by Arduinna and You Big Bully! by Rachael Sabotini
* was "Tuckerized" in Lois Bujold's Vorkosigan series as "Trooper/Lieutenant Sandy Hereld." Who has been Tuckerized in Bujold's writings?, accessed August 15, 2010; confirmed by Sandy in 1993: "I love the series (and occasionally am a character — Trouper, and later Lieutenant Sandy Hereld...scary eh?)" -- Sandy said in Strange Bedfellows #2 
* kept a bookmark list at Delicious which has over 2,000 links, mostly to fic and other fannish treasures.
* made the first media fanzine donation (Hereld Collection) to the University of Iowa's Fanzine Special Collection in 2008. In 2009, the OTW would build on her work to create the Fan Culture Preservation Project in connection with the University of Iowa.
* wrote in several fandoms 
* taught a lot of people how to vid
* is known for leading rowdy panels at cons
*once wrote a parody science paper entitled,"The Evolutionary Biology of the Vulcan Double-Ridged Penis." "I once wrote a parody science paper entitled,"The Evolutionary Biology of the Vulcan Double-Ridged Penis." Lot's of fun to do." -- from her comment at Virgule-L, quoted with permission (Sep 14, 1993) 
* every time she is near, birds suddenly appear. Scientists are currently studying the phenomenon, which they have named the Closetoyou Phenomenon.
==How Sandy Found Fandom (or Rather How She Didn't...At First)==
In 1994, the members of Virgule-L were discussing the role that BNFs and online fandom played in their lives when Sandy decided to share her path into fandom. From in meeting fans at conventions to netfans and back to in person fannish relationships, her travels mirrored much of what was happening in fandom at the time, but they always ended with the same result: if there was a fan to be found, if there was a fannish party going on, Sandy would eventually find it. And if there wasn't, she'd create it. It is reposted here with permission:
 
==Sandy and Her Fandom Intensities==
Sandy said in 1992: 
In 1995, Sandy said: 
Some 2008 comments: 
==Works==
===Sample Fiction===
* Stealing Home (The Professionals) (1995)
* In the Air (The Sentinel) (2000)
* Wisdom to tell the difference (Stargate SG-1) (2005)
=== Notable Vids ===
In 2011, Francesca Coppa posted an interview with Sandy and Rache in which they discussed their vidding experiences, first as part of the Media Cannibals vidding collective and then later as the vidding duo Clucking Belles. Both the interview and the transcript are archived here. Coppa, Francesca. 2011. "Interview with Sandy and Rache ('The Clucking Belles')." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 6.
With Media Cannibals:
* Sweetest Perfection (Wiseguy)
* Lives in the Balance (Wiseguy)
* Detachable Penis (The Professionals)
* Walk the Same Line (The Professionals) (This was a sentimental favorite of Sandy's for personal reasons. --Lynn C.)
* A Fire Is Burning (The Professionals)
* Hippie Boy (The Sentinel)
* The Man Song (The Sentinel)
* Same Thing In Reverse (The Sentinel)
* 500 Miles (I'm Gonna Be) (The Professionals) - Sandy loved it enough to remake it (with VCRs) (see Tape 2)
* Hair (Multimedia)
* Us (Highlander)
* Roll To Me (Due South)
* Tender Comrade (The Professionals)
With Clucking Belles:
* Atlantis! (SGA) -- challenge vid, based loosely on Cesperanza and Astolat's SGA vid Rumble. 
* Stress (SGA: Rodney McKay)
* Crush Story (The Tick)
* A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness, aka Hot, Hot, Hot (multi)
* Elevation (Smallville)
* By Way of Sorrow (Stargate: SG-1, Daniel Jackson) (Back when Daniel was dead)
* Sexuality (Smallville)
* Blackbird (Imagine Me & You) (Sandy's last finished vid)
With Lynn C.:
* Someone You Might Have Been (Dead Zone)
* Let Me In (Roswell) with Jill (on JKL vid collection)
With Megan Kent:
* Promises (Led Zeppelin) (an early example of bandom vidding)
===Other Vids===
*In the Air
* Is She Really Going Out With Him? with wickedwords
==Remembrances==
During the last days of Sandy's life, when it became clear that her battle with cancer was going to end soon, many of her friends posted letters to/about Sandy on their journals, some of which were hand carried to her for her to hold, read and hear. Another flood of posts about her materialized as news of her passing spread through her corner(s) of fandom. Below are excerpts from a few of the posts about her. In addition, some fans offered up poems or song lyrics to describe what she meant to them. They are collected here.
Gwyn wrote: 
Cesperanza wrote: 
Kass wrote: 
Morgan Dawn wrote: 
Sandy Justine wrote: 
elynross wrote: 
Laurashapiro wrote: 
DJ Driscoll wrote: 
Heresluck wrote: 
absolutedestiny wrote: 
Terri O. wrote: 
Destina wrote: 
Maygra wrote: 
Rache wrote: 
Greensilver wrote: 
arallara wrote: 
Jan Levine wrote: 
minim_calibre wrote: 
Jaime wrote: 
astolat wrote: 
Mary Alice wrote: 
Sisabet wrote: 
Destina wrote: 
Settiai wrote: 
kormantic wrote: 
mollyamory wrote: 
Dorinda wrote: 
birggitt wrote in the pros_newsletter: 
braver_creature wrote: 
tenaya wrote: 
msmoat wrote: 
facetofcathy wrote: 
sakana17 wrote: 
==Other Memories by Fans==
== References ==
Category:Vidders
Category:Deceased
Category:Fanwriters
Category:Fan Reccers
Category:2011 Deaths