A Star Terk fan since the late '70s, he stumbled across fanfic while reading news groups and eventually launched his site to serve as a repository for fans. Tremel was one of those college enthusiasts. "Modern fandom to me looks amazingly young, and more focused on fandom as a counter culture than on any one series or product." "We had a lot of college-age writers thanks to college connections, but relatively few ," she said. "Most of the time it's someone that posted a story when they were in their early teens and are now out in the real world looking for a job and don't want anyone to come across what the 13-year-old version of themselves was in to," he said. Dave Tremel, who's run since 1995, sometimes gets messages from regretful authors. And that scope and permanence can be either wonderful or horrifying, depending on your perspective. While older online fanfic is dwarfed by what you can find today, at the time it felt massive compared to photocopies passed between friends. "The slow realization that my partner and I had managed to create something that had the weight of owning a readership was unnerving."įanfic is an act of creation-even if the only thing being created is a horribly written story about Harry Potter having sex with Hagrid, its creator still wants it to be read as widely as possible. "I was stunned the first time I got fan mail from someone in Germany, or was asked for an interview by someone in France," she said. That's a reminder of how the computers we all take for granted were new and novel not all that long ago, as was the concept of going online and sharing your creations. Image: Robinson's biggest obstacle wasn't finding a fanfic community-it was getting her typing skills up to speed.
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