Kass

Kass is a fan writer who's been active in fandom since 1999. She writes:
:I've been a part of media fandom since 1999, when Sandy Justine showed me her Sentinel stories alongside my first episodes of the show.... I wrote a few pieces of fanpoetry (Sentinel sonnets) and then took the plunge into writing fanfiction.User:Kass, accessed January 25, 2011
Her first fandom was Sentinel, and she was active on Prospect-L and FCA-L in their early years. Other major fandoms have been Due South, House, and SGA. With Roga, she is a co-moderator of in the beginning; with batdina she co-moderates stilljewish in its new Dreamwidth incarnation.
In October of 2008 she released her first vid, and has since vidded in several fandoms, among them Lost, SGA, Friday Night Lights, and Doctor Who. (Her vids are available for download at her website, and can be streamed at her blip.tv page; they're also on her journal under the vids:mine tag.)
She contributes to Fanlore as User:Kass.
==Interview==
* Team Romance McShep Match Interview with kassrachel (2007)
==On Finding Fandom==
In 2006 Kass wrote about her first experiences in fandom:
In early 2015, for the Snowflake Challenge, she reprised the tale with a bit more backstory:
==Fans Comment==
== Notable Works ==
===Fanfiction===
* Gentleman a Jim/Blair story
* If I Knew You Were Coming, a Stargate Atlantis story (written for the Cake or Death challenge at SGA Flashfiction (2007)
* In the Blue Light
* A Little Cheesecake
* Long Day's Journey into Night
* A Narrow Bridge, an SGA AU set in a yeshiva (2009).
* Parental Guidance
* A Poem Yet
* The Right to Remain Silent, a Jim/Blair story co-written with Justine
* Senses & Sensibility, a The Sentinel story published in the zine Crossroads (2000)
* Si Muovo, an SGA AU co-written with Sihaya Black in which Rodney is a Jewsuit priest and John is a bush pilot (2008)
* Thought About the Army
* Wake-keeping
* What You See, a Sentinel slash fic (2008)
===Vids===
* Golden Retrievals‎, a Hawaii Five-0 Steve/Danny vid set to a poem (2011)
* Instantly, a Welcome to Night Vale vid which premiered at Vividcon 2014 and was one of the vids selected for In-Depth Vid Review that year. Notable because Night Vale is an audio-only fandom, so the visuals are constructed out of a variety of sources.
===Meta===
* On Judaism and fandom, October 2007: "Judaism is a really big tent, and Jewishness takes many forms. There's no "one true way" of being Jewish. The Jewish fannish community is home to a wide range of experiences and opinions, all of which deserve to be taken seriously as expressions of Jewishness." 
* On generous listening, August 2010: " I want us in fandom to relate to one another in good faith. I want us to assume that whatever our disagreements, however we may have misunderstood or hurt one another, we have something in common -- this enterprise of fandom which we all love. I'd like for us to cut each other some slack, to assume the best of one another instead of assuming the worst." 
* On self-care, the OTW elections, and my hopes, November 2011. "I try to regard everyone through positive eyes, and I try to use that perspective to spur me to be kind and to be a seeker of consensus and common ground. When I think about who I want at the helm of the OTW, I look for candidates whose journals and whose communication with others reflect that same basic perspective and that same desire."
* The perpetual-motion joy machine, April 2012. "Fandom is, at its best, a kind of perpetual motion joy machine."
==References==
Category:Vidders
Category:Fanwriters
Category:Community Moderators