Sebastian (fan)

Sebastian was a legend in The Professionals slash fandom for her writing: lush and intense but not too dark, and widely considered one of the best writers in the fandom. A Brit, she started during the time of The Professionals Circuit library, but continued to write as zines became more popular in Pros fandom, contributing mostly to Oblique Publications zines. Many of her short stories were written with HG, another notable Pros writer of the time. For content, if not style, she was frequently mentioned in the same breath as Thomas, Courtney Gray and M. Fae Glasgow.
In Pros fandom at the time, it was common to have a favorite of the pair and make it clear which one was your favorite. Sebastian initially went for Bodie, but became a die-hard Doyley, strongly preferring him over "that other guy." 
M Fae said that after writing the story "Going for the Shore", Sebastian got hassled for writing a scene where B & D smoke and Doyle uses drugs. 
Though she was primarily known as a Pros writer, she also wrote slash in Blake's 7, and apparently later moved on to het Titanic fandom.
While most Pros fans loved Sebastian's work, a few took exception to her realistic and gritty stories. In 1998, fans on the CI5 List were discussing why Sebastian had taken a break from writing in the fandom: 
== Fanfiction ==
===Pros===
* Adagio | After Ojuka | The Anniversary | And No Passes! | Another Me | Army Games | The Ball Was Good | B & D Beside the Sea | Between The Lines | Bittersweet| Blood Heat (with E.T. | Bound to the Mast | Catharsis | Down to the Waterline | Et In Italia Ego | First Night, Last Night | Flu (with HG | |Going for the Shore | Homecoming | Hyperion to a Satyr | In the Grotto | The Jungle Book | Just a Kiss | November | No Unicorns (with HG) | On Heat | Pantomime | Perfect Day | Plain Sailing | Pleasure Bent | Siren | The Smallest Room | Shooting to Kill | Stultliloquy | Such a Day Tomorrow | Total Eclipse | Truth Beauty | Two in a Bunk (with HG) | Wonderful Tonight | Velvet Underground | Vivamus, Amemus
===Blake's 7===
* Cat's Cradle | Bittersweet | Cubicle 23 | Horizon Newsletter #27 | Interjunction | Melancholy | One Night Stand | Rapture | So Easy to Give | "touched" | Trapped | Virtual Reality
===Facelift===
Who Gave Us Delight | Zax (Prologue)
===Star Trek: TOS===
Alnitah #11 | Bigot! Brother! Bondmate! | Cheap Thrills #1 | Chronicles #1 | Duet #4 | Enterprise Log Entries #24, #27, #28 | Mirror Reflections | Starwyck | What is Honour?
==Her Introduction To Fandom==
In 2009, Sebastian shared some of her memories how she became a Pros fan:
== The Re-Writing Controversy ==
In 1996, soon after the The Professionals Circuit Archive started, Anne Higgins re-wrote a chunk of Sebastian's Catharsis to make a point on the CI5 List about Doyle's characterization in the story. The usual game of Telephone/Gossip led to people saying, "mostly what bothered me was the assumption that because someone didn't like how it ended, they decided it was okay to take the entire story and then tack on her ending as if she'd written the whole piece." It led to a long fannish conversation about whether fans had the 'right' to modify each other's work, which led to another long fannish conversation about the difference between fannish courtesy vs. rights and ethics. The fact that several other well known authors like HG ("Strange Days Indeed") and Pamela D ("Painting the Clouds") had done similar 'rewrites' was never brought up in the public discussion. See Remember Angola and Alternate Ending to Catharsis.
Even once the truth of the matter was clear, some authors were still upset by how easily their stories could be modified, now that there were plain text versions of their stories online. At least one author, Alexfandra, pulled her stories from the online archive because of it. In the aftermath, someone said to Anne, "Well, I'd encourage an essay rather than a 'redo' or whatever (geez, we don't even know what to call this thing, do we?!)". The word remix was still years in the future.
See also Responsefic and Remix.
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