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Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Arduinna (September 2012)

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Arduinna was conducted in September 2012 by Lisa Cronin and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries. 
Another interview with Arduinna for this project is Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Arduinna (August 2012). This second interview was conducted because 45 minutes of the first one was lost due to technical problems.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:19:28), and it has a written 32-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* SENAD, and that list's culture
* forming Prospect-L as as reaction to SENAD's rules and culture
* the formation of the Sentinel list Saficdic
* fans' differing views on feedback and criticism of fic
* LiveJournal took away spaces for fans to talk about fiction amongst themselves; LiveJournal was a place where the conversation about fic was directly addressed to the author and that was a loss to fans
* Critical Edge
* VividCon and the 2010 wank about warnings
* trigger warnings
* Social Justice, Social Justice Warriors, dogpiling
* Fail-Fandomanon
* anon memes taking the place of Metafandom
* I Spy
* the horribleness of FanLib
* Archive of Our Own's tagging, Choose Not to Warn
* Tumblr and Tumblr Savior: "You can put in terms that you want it to hide, so it will hide stuff. So, like, I don't like RPF personally, so I hide anything that's RPF. And I don't need to worry about that showing up. Which again, awesome! It's like a little killfile for topics."
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Sentinel Fan Interviews
Category:Vidder Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Azurelunatic

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Azurelunatic was conducted in 2012 by Lisa Cronin and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
 
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:36:51), and it has a written 31-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* documenting the history of Dreamwidth 
* introduction to fan fic in the form of negative fan fiction about destroying Barney (purple dinosaur from the children's show)
* Lois McMaster Bujold and Vorkosigan
* Diane Duane
* fractiousness in the Organization for Transformative Works org
* "my online journal as my primary prosthetic brain"
* wallet names
* The Sith Academy
* the technical difficulty in separating fan life from "real life" online
* very, very lengthy comments regarding Strikethrough, LiveJournal, and Dreamwidth
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 Category:Organization for Transformative Works
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Bookshop

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Bookshop was conducted in 2012 by Andrea Horbinski and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 2:01:32) (part one), and it has a written 66-page (part one) 26-page (part two) transcript. There is no audio for the second part of this interview.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "an Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project" and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* being a Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen fan, not knowing there was a community of fans for these fandoms, getting computer access and discovering listservs
* Republic of Pemberley and Derbyshire Writers Guild
* Kevin Spacey Mailing List, fan clubs, Legacy, and massive wank that included Kevin Spacey himself
* learning about Harry Potter by reading about it in "Time" magazine
* Diagon Alley
* FictionAlley
* Harry Potter for Grownups
* cassie_and_rhysenn
* Paradigm of Uncertainty
* Gryffindor Tower
* Cassandra Claire and The Cassandra Claire Plagiarism Debacle
* MsScribe and The Ms.Scribe Story: An Unauthorized Fandom Biography
* The Inner Circle
* much, much about Harry Potter politics
* the world of young adult books, the close circle of people involved, lots of names named, politics, and machinations—Sarah Rees Brennan, Holly Black, Anna Genoese, Ali, Jaida Bennet
* the fan writer Maya
* "It took many years to actually be able to deal with existing in this world that Cassandra Claire was gradually getting more and more famous in."
* Prince of Tennis (TeniPuri), wank in that fandom
* torrented fan sub
* Hikaru no Go
* Armchair Slash
* The Draco Trilogy
* the fic Irresistible Poison
* JournalFen, Dreamwidth, LiveJournal, Insane Journal
* Burning a T-Shirt
* being banned from communities
* Eros Affair
* wank following her everywhere
* Ascendio
* the formation of the Organization for Transformative Works, Bookshop's part in that
* OTW politics of the time
* Del.icio.us and Pinboard
* much about the Inception fandom
* Tumblr
* Readercon
* LeakyCon
* Comic Con
* DragonCon
* Janoskians
* Big Bang
* the Teen Wolf wank regarding Jeff Davis and comments regarding race on Twitter, Tumblr
* the challenges of meshing being a fan and being someone who is paid to write about fandoms
* Nocturne Alley
* much, much more
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Anime & Manga Fan Interviews
Category:Harry Potter Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Cofax7

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Cofax7 was conducted in 2012 by Andrea Horbinski and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 2:16:55), and it has a written 72-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* alt.tv.x-files.analysis, alt.tv.x-files.creative
* The X-Files
* Robin of Sherwood
* Usenet
* Laura Burchard's site 
* Deja News, eGroups, Yahoo!Groups
* Ephemeral, Gossamer
* X-Anarchy Pen Mailing List
* Scullyfic
* MSR
* The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
* The Snurcher's Guide (the Farscape version of "The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5")
* Babylon 5
* Farscape
* The Glass Onion
* VCRs
* being at the mercy of TPTB and the airing order of shows
* Buffistas
* The Stargate Daniel Wars
* loathing the character Ivanova in Babylon 5
* Stargate Atlantis and the power of the BNFs on making it a power-fandom
* Supernatural and the incest divide
* daily or weekly news communities such as The Daily Prophet and Sunnydale Herald
* the power dynamic in a traditional blog versus the power dynamic on a LiveJournal page, and how this was illustrated during RaceFail
* vidding, vids, and visibility
* Narnia fandom, much about the stories The Queen Susan in Tashbaan and Carpetbaggers
* Tamora Pierce, Andre Norton
* The Narnia Fanfiction Revolution (NFFR)
* Yuletide
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Stargate SG-1 Fan Interviews
Category:Stargate Atlantis Fan Interviews
Category:Babylon 5 Fan Interviews
Category:Farscape
Category:Buffy & Angel Fan Interviews
Category:Supernatural Fan Interviews
Category:Narnia
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Constable Katie

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Constable Katie was conducted in 2012 by Abigail De Kosnik and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
 
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:32:09), and it has a written 24-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "an Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project" and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* being introduced to fan fiction via Star Trek Lives!, and Star Trek: The New Voyages
* the Star Trek Welcommittee
* writing a fic for Dr. McCoy's Medical Log 
* David Duchovny Estrogen Brigade II 
* Alt.startrek.creative
* Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: TOS, The X-Files
* Trekiverse, being an archivist
* Gossamer
* conflicts between X-Files fandom and Star Trek fandom, the attention paid to X-Files
* the anonymity of the internet and how it fostered fighting
* clashes on Usenet between older, more experience fans, and the annual influx of college students
* the Talking Stick stories
* the site PTFever
* getting stuck on one platform and not wanting to move to the next one
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews 
 Category:X-Files Fan Interviews
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TNG
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Deirdre

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Deirdre was conducted in 2012 by Abigail De Kosnik and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:14:20), and it has a written 48-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* their involvement in Gossamer, much much much technical info on coding and creating the site
* standardization of the headings began in the X-Files fandom
* ATXC and ATX
* writing code, hand coding.... stone knives and bear skins...
* Trekiverse
* the year's delay from the creative peak of the show with the fan fiction peak of the show
* the vast popularity of Babylon 5 fic/fandom, and its lost history, and lost fanworks, due to its fiction on little, dispersed archives that are now long gone, and J. Michael Straczynski's presence online and its distinct cooling of fan creativity
* focus on pairings in fandom today as one reason for fandoms feeling fractured
* Babylon 5
* X-Files
* RPF on Gossamer
* the value of archiving fan fiction, the beauty of community
* Archive of Our Own
* the Moonlighting Curse (The relationship being held as the trump card, teasing and then consummating a relationship, only to have ratings and interest fall) -- "The reality is that the showrunners hold on to the relationship until the show is already headed downhill. It's their last trump card. And it's almost always fails, because there are ... the other problems are too big."
* feeling disappointment that some fans ask to have their fic deleting out of embarrassment, or inability to understand and accept their younger selves, to be forgiving of themselves, to see their fic as the gift it was in the time it was offered
* Open Doors, saving archives
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Babylon 5 Fan Interviews
Category:X-Files Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Elfwreck

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Elfwreck was conducted in 2012 by Lisa Cronin and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:52:24 ), and it has a written 54-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Usenet
* Harry Potter
* Snape fanworks, Snarry
* Fail-Fandomanon and Fandom Wank
* Metafandom; its demise, and relationship to Social Justice Warriors and dogpiling
* print zines
* dial-up 
* Fanfiction.net
* fandom and profit
* Tumblr
* Sime~Gen
* much about Orhuen Obbligato, the draft copy contains: "Insert your own slash scene, Sparky; I'm not qualified." 
* Jean Lorrah and The Vulcan Academy Murders and The IDIC Epidemic
* violating the fourth wall, actors and fandom visibility
* RPF
* The Weight, about, and the project of retyping it to post online
* references to Courts of Honor and the wank regarding permission to post online regarding a single, deceased artsit
* Te, Petra
* authors pulling their fic off the net, old print zine authors and their varying enthusiasm for posting their own work online
* Supernatural
* Snarry Games
* Archive of Our Own, Organization for Transformative Works
* DCU, Avengers, Batman
* websites that look good
* zine scanning hardware and challenges
* e-readers and devices/software that downloads fic
* archiving fic, both online and zine fic
* Ponderosa's art and removal
* sexual content and groups on Usenet
* Strikethrough
* platform migration
* dark archives
* Elfquest
* Magic: The Gathering
* gaming
* BayCon
* the @! party
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2012
Category:Harry Potter Fan Interviews
Category:Gaming & Role Playing Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Ellen Fremedon

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Ellen Fremedon was conducted in 2012 by Andrea Horbinski and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:28:09), and it has a written 38-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The thirty-one interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* four main fandoms: Star Trek, Lord of the Rings/Tolkien, Harry Potter, Doctor Who
* secret fandom communities and Fanfic Critics Association
* LiveJournal as a fandom game-changer, and balkanizer of fandom
* Harry Potter as a balkanized fandom
* Nimbus 2003
* Harry Potter Education Fanon
* Harry Potter for Grown-Ups
* academic fandom as compared to non-academic fandom
* skyehawke and Illiterati
* GeoCities
* Fanfiction.net's explicit fiction purge
* Strikethrough
* Archive of Our Own; beginnings and growing pains
* Yuletide
* fandom platform migration
* tagging and search functions on archives and how they can make or break a fandom
* vidding
* Trekiverse
* posting her first fanwork, a filk, to alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated in 1999
* hanging out at alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated-list in 2000
* Delicious
* RaceFail and site blocking
* the Pinboard document created by Maciej Cegłowski, see Fan is a Tool-Using Animal
* the book by Constance Penley called NASA/Trek
* the K/S story Bitter Glass
* fans' reconstruction of so much of the old Doctor Who that was destroyed by the BBC; a tribute to fannish technology and commitment, and enthusiasm
* much, much more
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Harry Potter Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Tolkien Fan Interviews
Category:Doctor Who Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Eruthros

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Eruthros was conducted in 2012 by Andrea Horbinski and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
 
This interview's medium is audio (length: 1:28:48), and it has a written 66-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Due South
*joining the Due South mailing lists at fourteen, and lying about her age
* people combine their sexual thoughts and fanworks along side their mundane ones today, much more so than in the old days, greater visibility and comfort
* the difficulties of all the small, very segregated archives and encampments of fans
* The Ray Wars
* Babylon 5 and the effects of JMS's interactions with fans
* Harry Potter
* closed canons, closed possibilities
* kink_bingo
* their Yuletide vid with 190 fandoms, adding the M*A*S*H kissing scene in after the vid was completed
* Avatar: The Last Airbender, ship-baiting, ship wars
* Legend of Korra
* SurveyFail and bad academia
* Textual Poachers and the mistakes it makes in assuming a fan-hive brain, the OTW doing the same things regarding fans
* that perhaps the "arrogance" and hubris of the OTW founders helped them get the project off the ground
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Due South Fan Interviews
Category:Harry Potter Fan Interviews
Category:Babylon 5 Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Francesca Coppa

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Francesca Coppa was conducted in 2012 by Abigail De Kosnik and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio, much of it is unintelligible; you'd best rely on the 46-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* the Wayback Machine 
* the early 2000s as a more at-risk time for losing fanwork content than the late 1990s
* social media fans are not interested in archiving fanworks 
* early archiving
* archive elves
* the "doers" of fandom
* the Karen Nicholas page: Fan Fiction on the Net
* the garishness and anything-goes design elements of early webpages, Geocities
* sex.wav and embedded sound bites
* bandwidth and how fics are measured in terms of size
* image vs text on platforms
* Crack Van
* fandom and profit
* Six Apart and Strikethrough
* Archive of Our Own and Organization for Transformative Works as a front door, a beacon
* at the time of this interview, Archive of Our Own had 47,000 users and 27,000 on the waiting list
* the history of the OTW
* trying to fulfill everyone's expectations, making choices
* Tumblr, its pros and cons, the lack of archival 
* the Fan Culture Preservation Project 
* animated gifs, the lack of archiving them
* fandom and fanworks becoming mainstream, more visible, and then commodified and being exploited
* fandom as a place to be free, to tell the "smaller" stories
* transformative fandom as "female," "curative fandom" as "male" 
* fans being much younger now, the threshold for participation is much easier
* Spock as a metaphor for woman
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Henry and Cynthia Jenkins

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Henry and Cynthia Jenkins was conducted in 2012 by Abigail De Kosnik and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
 
This interview's medium is audio (length: 2:21:31), and it has a written 66-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* creating stories/acting-out shows as children
* Star Trek Lives!
* the differences between the male experience of fandom, and the female experience of fandom
* Beauty and the Beast
* Blake's 7 and the Blake's 7 Wars
* conventions
* liking Pros fic more than the show
* Twin Peaks
* the experience of being a letterzine and apazine fan
* early online fandom (1989/1990) being more heavily male as it was men that had more access to technology and computers in their workspaces
* the hurdles for gender, class, and race regarding access to technology
* Henry Jenkin's statement that he was more welcome in person at fannish gatherings than he was as a man and academic in online spaces
* the Professionals Circuit
* keeping confidences in early fandom, and how fandom is much more open and in your face
* violating the fourth wall, and how the fourth wall can be your friend
* RPF and RPS
* Terra Nostra Underground and Strange Bedfellows
* Escapade
* pseuds and real names
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews 
Category:Blake's 7 Fan Interviews
Category:Twin Peaks
Category:Beauty and the Beast Fan Interviews
Category:The Professionals Fan Interviews
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Blake's 7 Wars
Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Inkstone

Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Inkstone was conducted in 2012 by Andrea Horbinski and archived at the University of Iowa Libraries.
This interview's medium is audio (length: 01:51:19), and it has a 52-page transcript.
It was part of the series: Fan Fiction Oral History Project also referred to as "a Fiction and Internet Memory Research Project," "the Fiction and Internet Memory Program," and "Fan Fiction and Internet Memory."
The interviews conducted for this project were used for the book by Abigail De Kosnik called Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* anime and manga
* Anime Web Turnpike
* mailing lists
* Rurouni Kenshin
* Shounen Jump
* Weekly Shounen Jump
* Yuletide
* scanlation
* early LiveJournal culture
* being a fan of small and microfandoms
* fan comics
* Pixiv
* co-mingling of anime/manga and Western Media fans on LiveJournal
* vids and AMVs
* vidding
* Avatar: The Last Airbender
* Legend of Korra
* Tumblr fandom
* ship wars
* Pinboard and the Pinboard guy
* reposting fanart
* linking with and without permission
* "Tumblrification" of tags on Archive of Our Own
* trends in writing styles on Fanfiction.Net and Archive of Our Own
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Anime & Manga Fan Interviews