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Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Alayne Gelfand

In 2015, Alayne Gelfand was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Total time: 1:02:56. A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Star Trek: TOS, Miami Vice, Wiseguy, Blake's 7, The Sentinel
* HoustonCon 
* Beauty and the Beast, and the shipping wars there
* IDICon
* print shop adventures
* K/S
* zines, buying and creating them
* fandom politics and tensions
* Vice Line, the Miami Vice letterzine that was shut down with a cease and desist letter
* the zines Hungry Hearts, In Triplicate, Shades of Grey, Legacy, Dyad, Dyad: The Vampire Stories, As I Do Thee, Prisoners of the Night, Holes in the Ozone, The 25th Year
* fanart, photomanipulations
* Moonridge
==Excerpts== 
 
 
Category:2014 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Miami Vice Fan Interviews
Category:Wiseguy
Category:Beauty and the Beast Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Amy D

In 2012, Amy D was interviewed at MediaWest as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
Length: 53:26. A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* her fannish beginnings
* her fannish platform choice
* attending a Highlander con
==Excerpts==
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Ari

In 2012, Ari was interviewed via Skype by Clare McBride as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
Length of the interview: 26:48. A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* Merlin, Inuyasha, Harry Potter, BBC Sherlock, Supernatural, Leviathan, Community
* fanmixing
* The Shoebox Project
* acafandom
* the ease of feedback on Tumblr 
* writing as a team sport
==Excerpts==
[her fannish beginnings]: 
[introduction to slash]: 
[her fanac]: 
[acafandom]: 
[fanmixing]: 
[Tumblr makes it easier to feedback]: 
[on the importance of The Shoebox Project]: 
[on keeping one's "real life" and fan life separate]: 
[fandom becoming more visible]: 
[what I wish fans would keep in mind/what new fans should know]: 
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Harry Potter Fan Interviews‎
Category:Merlin Fan Interviews‎
Category:Sherlock Fan Interviews‎
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Barbara Storey

In 2017, Barbara Storey was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 01:43:28.
The Media Fandom Oral History Project is supported by the Organization for Transformative Works, the organizers of Escapade conventions, and the University of Iowa Libraries. For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer or transcriber, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* becoming a fan by going to see Leonard Nimoy in 1977 in the Broadway play "Equus"
* meeting Toni Cardinal-Price who was the editor of the Star Trek: TOS zine Nexus
* the difficulty of finding fanart and fan artists for zines
* MUCH about Courts of Honor
* Beauty and the Beast (TV) fandom and The Classic vs. Season 3 Split
* personal contact with George R.R. Martin, Harve Bennett, and others
* "working" for Creation Con
* the zine Tunnels and the letterzine Tunnel Talk
==Excerpts==
 
==References==
Category:Beauty and the Beast Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Bren Antrim aka Glacis

In 2012, Bren Antrim aka Glacis was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
This interview was conducted in February 2012 and transcribed in 2013. The interview length is twenty-six minutes (4600 words). A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her first fanfic, Flashback
* watching Man from U.N.C.L.E. with her dad when she was six and thinking, "Well, of course those two are married." 
* her Seeker stories: using a pseud for them, how they were best sellers at Comiket
* her two use of pseuds and why she employed them
* her extreme happiness that Donna Barr (Desert Peach) illustrated one her stories
* Nick Lea's reaction to reading one of her Mulder/Krycek stories
* being surprised by a fan artist's rendition of one of her characters: ""Holy cow! Really? That's how you visualized that? He looks kind of like Robert Plant...Hmmm. Legolas as Eroica. Ok." 
* on how Skinner looks like her dad, so... ahhh, no thanks
* her views on curtainfic
* fannish expectations and the character of Krychek
* collaborating with Cody Nelson
* changes in fannish culture
* combining acafan activities with fan activities
==Excerpts==
[about her first fanfic]: 
[her introduction to zines]: 
[regarding a pseud]: 
[regarding a pseud]: 
[about bulletin boards and her first foray into slash]: 
[how fannish communities have changed]: 
[on bumping up against the fourth wall]: 
[Skinner looks to much like her dad]: 
[on Krycek, collaborating, and fannish expectations]: 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:X-Files Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with CatalenaMara

In 2012, CatalenaMara was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
This interview was transcribed in 2013.
Total time: 1:02:44. A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her fannish roots
* print shop adventures
* a loyalty oath and violation of the fourth wall
* banned in South Africa
* discussion about some very early slash zines
* how media fandom went from Star Trek to many fandoms
* some ins and outs of zine production
* the uniqueness of Beauty and the Beast fandom
* tensions between print fans and online fans
* KiScon and MediaWest
* her ineptness making vids
* some of her art firsts as a zine editor
* her involvement in scanning and preserving old print zines
* third-season anger in the Beauty and the Beast fandom
* how lack of access to anatomical and psychological information made a lot of early slash writing read like heterosexual fantasy 
* the Alexander/Hephaistion trope 
==Excerpts==
[introduction to slash]: 
[slash and other fandoms]: 
[the multiplicity of fandoms when there had been only Star Trek]: 
[regarding printing shop adventures, and a fan tattle-tale]: 
[banned in South Africa]: 
[Beauty and the Beast fandom]: 
[print fans vs online fans, the rise of the internet]: 
[some art firsts as a zine editor]: 
[third-season Beauty and the Beast anger]: 
[fandom in-fighting in Blake's 7]: 
[varied content in old print zines as a necessity]: 
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Beauty and the Beast Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Charlotte Hill

In 2012, Charlotte Hill was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
Length: it is 16:09. A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* her gateway to fandom: watching Star Trek and going to cons with her mom
* the role of The Sensuous Vulcan in her introduction to slash
* Manacles Press: its beginnings and philosophy
* fandom and profit
* the value of organization and staying out of the weeds when planning a con
* Escapade
* her love of vids and relief that Vividcon came into being
==Excerpts==
[her gateway to fandom, and slash]: 
[fan pairs]: 
[Manacles Press]: 
[fandom and profit]: 
[conventions, organization, and hey, we could do that!]: 
[on vidding and Vividcon]: 
[on running Escapade for over two decades, and its complicated relationship with technology]: 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Chi1013

In 2012, Chi1013 was interviewed at Tribal Forces as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
This interview was transcribed in 2013.
Length: 39:47:00. A written transcript is available. 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her fannish beginnings
* online fandom in 1997-98
* her start in Everquest and Early Edition
* meeting a friend online and then visiting her
* the origins of her online name
* her interest and experiences in World of Warcraft
* her fannish reading interests, saving fiction onto disks and hard drives
* pundit fic
* the Magnificent Seven story she and a friend will probably never publish as it would probably get flamed
* smarm
* her vidding
* her opinions on fandom in the open
==Excerpts==
[first getting online]: 
[finding "Cabin X"]: 
[meeting a good friend]: 
[fannish platforms]: 
[gaming fandom]: 
 
[slash goggles and such]: 
[smarm]: 
[her start in slash]: 
[the fic she might never publish]: 
[the show that pushed her over into serious slashdom]: 
[her experiences in vidding]: 
[her thoughts about fandom in the open]: 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Christie Young

In 2014, Christie Young was interviewed at Con*Strict as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Total time: 51:54. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* the difference between fandom and hobby
* ComicCon
* the interactions between Star Trek fans and Star Wars fans
* the differences between George Lucas' and Gene Roddenberry's attitudes towards fans
* FriscoN 
* the effect of the Internet on fandom
* this fan lists her fandoms as: Comic books, Star Trek, Star Wars, Sherlock Holmes slash, Supernatural, The Moody Blues, Chicago the band, classic rock music, nineteen-eighties music, Transformers, costume groups, and redheads
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==References==
 
Category:2014 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Connie Faddis

In 2017, Connie Faddis was interviewed as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
===Fandom Life and Culture===
* Faddis' introduction to fandom
* cramming around teeny TV sets with other fans to watch TV
*eating, living, and breathing Star Trek
*talking herself into going to the first New York convention, Star Trek convention 
*being invited to convention panels before writing fanfic
*being a guest of honor and having your hotel rooms paid for by the convention
*using Star Trek as an escape from real life
* costuming at a time where women were sewing their own bell bottoms and caftans
*winning a costume contest at one of the New York cons in an Romulan Praeter outfit that featured copper sheathing and overlapping feathers
*posing on the full-size mockup of the bridge of the original Enterprise in the Romulan costume having taken over the Enterprise
*becoming a BNF and how it changed her relationship with fandom
*how Star Trek helped ground her with positive values in a creative caldron
===Writing and Drawing===
*writing Drawerfic
*writing her first fan story Sleep Not, Dream Not and then being encouraged by Ruth Berman to change the names of the characters and submit it for publication to "Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine"
*pursuing the desire to write more original fiction, of becoming a creator from the ground up
*how Star Trek culture and ideals continue to live on through her original work
*the secret of illustrating and writing 
*how old fandom was good at developing talent via constructive feedback
*using photo references for her drawings
===Fanzines===
*learning about fanzine trib practices
*teaching herself ink and pen drawing due to mimeograph publication constraints
*the relative cheapness of silk screen vs color printing 
*the complicated silk screening process requiring each color to be run separately and how the living room was covered with drying prints
*collating parties
* the zine Interphase, the zine Energize!, and the stories Mojave Crossing, Sleep Not, Dream Not, and None There Embrace
* Interphase, the calendar
* Jacqueline Lichtenberg and her Kraith series
*The Halkan Council and the need for letterzines in an era without internet and the high cost of long distance phone calls
*her story Remote Control
*her Starsky & Hutch novella Mojave Crossing
===Other===
*slash fiction
*struggling to ground slash fiction within canon and finally writing None There Embrace
* the artist Gayle F
* Starsky & Hutch, Star Trek: TOS
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Category:Starsky & Hutch Fan Interviews
Category:Cosplay & Costuming Fan Interviews
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Creatch and nitebird

In 2012, Creatch and nitebird were interviewed at Tribal Forces as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
This interview was transcribed in 2013.
Length: 1:14:18. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* how they got started in fandom
* meeting at a Highlander con for the first time without knowing what the other one looked like, thinking "she doesn't look too dangerous"
* "Future generations note, Web TV was not very good!"
* vidding: watching them, finding them
* print zines
* inadvertently telling an author that her Due South zine was terrible
* the differences between betas and editors
* the perils of feedback
* their definitions of gen, het, slash, pre-slash
* power relationships, BDSM, RPF
* The Shield Brothers Arc by Maygra
* a Philadelphia slash group that has its own mailing list
* The Sentinel: "Absolutely amazing fic. Horrid show. But amazing fic"
* fannish platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LiveJournal, the irony of fans being on five kinds of social media and then complaining about their privacy
* Lord of the Rings movies as a lot of peoples' gateway to RPS
* personal decisions about how open to be about fandom in slash to one's family and friends
==Excerpts==
[Creatch]: 
[nitebird]: 
[Creatch]: 
[Creatch]: 
[nitebird]: 
[Creach and nitebird]: 
[Creach]: 
[nitebird]: 
[Creatch]: 
[Creach]: 
[nitebird]: 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Devra Langsam

In 2017, Devra Langsam was interviewed as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project. The interviewee was Megan Genovese.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* learning about Star Trek: TOS
* the creation of Spockanalia 
* social tensions between science fiction fans who also liked Star Trek (primarily male) and the new influx of fans (mostly female) who liked Spock: "It was a number of years later that Elyse Pines Rosenstein and I thought about doing a convention that was just Star Trek, because of the slightly negative feeling that there were at some of the regular science fiction convention."
* her reputation as a "mean" editor: "Yes, I’ve occasionally said unkind things that I later regretted, but it’s a long time ago, so maybe they’ve been forgotten." 
* regarding Visit to a Weird Planet: "It seemed like an obvious kind of idea. I had no idea that it was one of the first switch kind of stories. I never even thought of that, but it made such good sense that somebody should try it, and both of those stories are very well written. Both Jean Lorrah and Ruth Berman have gone on to become professionally-published authors, and they were good."
* regarding fan fic: "it’s easy to write fan stories because all the hard work of characterization has been done for you, which I think is one of the things that attracted people. They had these wonderful ideas, and they didn’t have to explain the relationships between the characters or describe them or describe their emotional reactions, because it had all been done. It’s a lazy way of writing, but a lot people start that way."
* turning down a submission from James Tiptree: "We got a submission from James Tiptree under one of her other names, and I didn’t want to publish it because it was so similar to a story that we had just published.So, I said, “Thank you, no,” politely. I didn’t realize it was real published author, and somebody else published it."
* Darkover fandom
* interaction with Trek PTB
* much about mimeograph machines
* advice for new fans
* "One time I was at a World Science Fiction Convention in Boston, and Andre Norton was the guest of honor, and I actually knelt at her feet. The poor woman was horrified. (laughs). I had been reading Andre Norton since I was about 12, and she was just such a good author, and I really admired her work. She was one of the early women in science fiction, and she wrote books that were very approachable. They were not all mechanical. So that was pretty wonderful."
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Doctor Beth

In 2012, Doctor Beth was interviewed at MediaWest as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length is 43:27. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Topics Discussed==
* her fannish origins
* Forever Knight wars
* collecting zines, selling zines on eBay
* discussion about some of her Stargate SG-1 fiction
* the current state of the Fan Qs
* experiences at ComicCon and other conventions
==Excerpts==
[Star Trek, the beginning of it all]: 
[Forever Knight wars]: 
[eBay]: 
[not all that is cracked up to be, plus Mary Sue]: 
[does the older the fandom get, is more slash for it produced?]: 
[Fan Q]: 
[her private zine collection]: 
[Forever Knight]: 
 
Category:2012 Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Eileen Roy

In 2017, Eileen Roy was interviewed by Megan Genovese as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 1:12:43. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* Star Trek: TOS as her introduction to fandom
* Jacqueline Lichtenberg was who encouraged Roy to write fanfic
* Roy's comments on Kraith, Lichtenberg's shared universe
* "Bone's Vision" is a fic Roy remembers as her first published fanwork (it appears in Kraith Collected #6) (however, Kirk's Challenge by Roy precedes this fic)
* the effect of Star Wars on fandom, the schisms regarding The Church of Ford
* Roy's views on slash, the emotionalism embedded in the topic
* the Star Trek movies on the big screen, which Roy regards as an alternate universe and not really canon
* the pace of fandom today: immediate feedback and communication as opposed to the long waits for phone calls and letters in the mail
* working with Paula Smith
* comments on Mary Sues
* Brent Spiner's (Data) comments that he needed to be paid to be at a convention as it was a performance, Carrie Fisher's comments that being a guest at a convention was like giving a lap dance
* fandom today, it's pervasiveness in popular culture
* "I don’t think I have anything to be really proud of [in fandom]. Proud is you’re doing something good, something hard when all forces are arrayed against you. Fandom was just a party. I’m glad that I didn’t get drunk and silly and step in the clam dip. That’s about it."
==Excerpts==
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
==References==
 
Category:2017 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Eileen Salmas

In 2013, Eileen Salmas was interviewed at Escapade as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Interview length: 59:46. A written transcript is available.
 
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* early Star Trek fandom
* being the PR person for Star Trek Lives!, and working with the International Star Trek Convention and Al Schuster
* Lunarians
* working for Gene Roddenberry
* babysitting Hans Gudegast's child (Rat Patrol)
* making a student film with Michael Praed (Robin of Sherwood)
* corresponding with Lew Collins (Pros)
* fanart
* zines
* RPS
==Excerpts==
==References==
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Category:Star Trek TOS Fan Interviews
Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Flamingo

In 2013, Flamingo was interviewed by Franzeska Dickson at Vividcon as part of the Media Fandom Oral History Project.
Length: 59:18:00. A written transcript is available.
For more information about the origins of this interview, where it is housed, contact information, suggestions regarding future interviewee candidates, and how to become volunteer interviewer, see the Media Fandom Oral History Project page.
==Some Topics Discussed==
* her fannish beginnings, due to stress
* average life cycles of fannish interests for others, fannish migration
* her reluctant entry into Starsky & Hutch fandom
* writing porn in her office
* her vidding
* Miami Vice and Starsky & Hutch
* her dislike of hurt/comfort
==Excerpts==
[her fannish beginnings]: 
[the reluctant social fan]: 
[dependent upon tech, or lack of]: 
[the first episode she saw on TNT]: 
[vidding]: 
[making male slash vids with a song with female pronouns]: 
[her vid [Discovery Channel"]: 
[showing a vid at a con, dealing with rudeness]: 
[putting together a vid show]: 
[keeping a fandom active]: 
[views on hurt/comfort]: 
 
[enduring fannishness]: 
Category:2013 Fan Interviews
Category:Vidder Interviews
Category:Starsky & Hutch Fan Interviews
Category:Miami Vice Fan Interviews