Flamingo

Flamingo is a Starsky & Hutch fan who writes, edits and publishes zines. She is the winner of various awards: Sizzler, Screwz, FanQ and STIFfie.
Flamingo is the main organizer for SHarecon and a tireless contributor to the fandom. She is well known for encouraging new fans and discouraging the use of terms like newbie.
Flamingo has given blanket permission for her comments on mailing lists and elsewhere to be used on Fanlore.
==Online Pioneer==
Flamingo was instrumental in getting some of the very first Starsky and Hutch zine fiction posted online in 1998. From Black Bean Soup: 
This first archive had at least one morph after its inception and is now at the Starsky and Hutch Archive.
==Archive Creator and Moderator==
Flamingo is the creator and moderator of three Starsky & Hutch fiction archives, and is hugely responsible for getting the first fiction in that fandom online.
* The Pits Archive (1999-2007)
* Starsky & Hutch Archive, first archive (created early 2000s, relaunched in 2010, relaunched in 2023)
==Interviews==
* Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Flamingo (2013)
* Meet your Starsky and Hutch fic writers: Flamingo (2016)
==Comments on Fandom==
===1999: Some Thoughts on Writing Fic -- Is It Fun?===
It was posted to The Pits, a Starsky & Hutch mailing list that required membership and is now offline. It is posted here on Fanlore with Flamingo's permission.
===2000===
==== Some Thoughts on Writing Fic "For the Market"====
It was posted to ThePits, a Starsky & Hutch mailing list that required membership and is now offline. It is posted here on Fanlore with Flamingo's permission.
====Some Thoughts on Planning====
===2001: Some Thoughts on Feedback and Critique===
===2013===
====Some Thoughts on Style and Themes====
Flamingo's work, at least in Miami Vice fandom, frequently covers themes of dubious consent and homosexuality and masculinity. She has commented that she is not personally very fond of Hurt/Comfort (though she still writes it very well): 
==== Some Thoughts on Fandom====
==Comments from a Fan in 2015==
==Works==
===Some Vids===
* Escapade Vid Show Retrospective 1992-2001: The Starsky & Hutch vid included the song Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin.
* Discovery Channel
* Big Balls
* I'm a Believer
===Zine Novels by Flamingo===
====Starsky & Hutch====
* If Love is Real: Addiction (1999)
* Total Eclipse of the Heart (2001)
====Miami Vice====
* Along the Road of Dreams (1992)
* Wicked Games (1993)
* Phone Sex (1995)
* The Curse of the Black Opal (1996)
* Beyond the Golden Triangles (1997)
===Zines Edited by Flamingo===
* Dangerous Lives, Dangerous Visions (2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010)
* Dark Night of the Soul (2003)
* My Lover, My Hero (2003)
* Some Other Fantasy (2004)
* Timeless (2003, 2005)
* Hutch and Me Get It On a Whole Lot
* The Perfect Couple (with Keri T)
===Zines with Content by Flamingo===
* Crystal Blue Persuasion
* Back to the Beach
* Cross-Currents
* Dyad Vice
* SHarecon
* Miami Spice
* The Fix
* Indigo Boys
* Nothing to Hide
* Test of Faith
* Cross the Line
* Wild Cards
* Cabrillo Con Zine
* The Indigo Stories of Starsky and Hutch
* Boys in Blue
* Cold Pizza and Butterfly Bones
===Meta by Flamingo===
* The Secret to Handling Criticism (1999)
* It's not like I never read h/c stories or that I hate them all. (1999)
* Letting others use your characters and plot lines (1999)
* Advice for Slash Writers (2000)
* Convoluted Writing Thoughts (2000)
* Mary Sue: 2000 Comments by Flamingo (2000)
* ALL fanfiction violates copyright. (2000)
* ReP Mary Sue's (2000)
* SH Fandom - Restrictions? Or limits? (2000)
* So what is the difference between a gen story and a slash story? (2000)
* Do slash writers think of slash writing as risk-taking? (2000)
* The Art of Fanfic Critique: who and what it is for (2001)
* Changing Fandom Culture (2001)
* Who is Fanfiction Written For, the Reader or the Writer? (2001)
* Novel Ideas vs Short Story Ideas (2002)
* Writers vs Publishers (2002)
* Taking a concept from another fanwriter and writing your own story (2003)
* Writing Profic and Fanfic (2003)
* Mailing List Culture and Critical Discussion of Fanworks (2003)
* Changing People's Attitudes, or, How to Attract New People to Zines (2003)
* SH Fandom Before Computers (unknown date)
==References==
Category:Vidders
Category:Podficcers
Category:Fanwriters
Category:Convention Organizers