ZINEDOM

helping fanzine authors bring their fanfiction online to the next generation of fans

[zinedom]

Zinedom Project Update

The project is still alive, this time under the direction & assistance of the OTW Open Doors Team. Open Doors will be looking down the road for volunteers to help with converting and uploading of #fanzine era #fanfiction and #fanart. Stay tuned.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[guildenstern]

unfortunately no eclipse photography can ever outdo the waffle house one from 2017

[saintandstorms]

[zinedom]

One of my passions is preserving the history of the fanfiction community. And one of my favorite universities doing this work is Texas A&M University. In addition to the large sci-fi/fantasy collection (the papers of Martha Wells and George RR Martin) they have many slash and gen fanfiction fanzines. Check out this video from 2022 about their Science Fiction and Fantasy Collection

Read more about the TAMU Fanzine collection here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_Cushing_Library_Fanzine_Collection

[zinedom]

I am not affiliated with this fandom history group, but they do great work

FANAC Fan History Zoom publicity release

"We have less than a week until the next FANAC Fan History Zoom program. We have some very knowledgeable fans on this program and it promises to be an enlightening subject in an often overlooked area of our field. This is the last FANAC Fan History Zoom for this season. Join us!.

 Please get the word out to all your friends.

The Women Fen Don't See

Claire Brialey, Kate Heffner, and Leah Zeldes Smith

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Time: 3PM EDT, 2PM CDT, Noon PDT, 7PM London (GMT), and Mar 17 at 6AM AEDT in Melbourne

To attend, send a note to [email protected]

[jv]

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[jv]

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

[jv]

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

[ursiday]

A collage zine I made in 2021 about my cat, all the text is cut out from copies of his old vet and shelter paperwork

[zinedom]

Zinedom Project Update

The project is still alive, this time under the direction & assistance of the OTW Open Doors Team. Open Doors will be looking down the road for volunteers to help with converting and uploading of #fanzine era #fanfiction and #fanart. Stay tuned.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[zinedom]

Was the project to add "The Weight Collected" by Leslie Fish to Zinedom ever finished? If so, where can I find it? I came up empty in search.

The fanzine text was converted but then the project stalled because there is a lot of fan art that needs to be extracted from the PDFs, uploaded somewhere and then embedded on AO3. Volunteers willing to take on the project and come up with a way to complete are always welcomed.

[zinedom]

A Summary of the Physiological Roots of Andorian Culture by F. Sigmund Mead, Journal of Xenoanthropology, June 2341 edited by Leslie Fish

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Additional Tags: Fanzines Summary:

Leslie Fish’s dead-pan xenoanthropological study of Andorians based on how they appeared in the original TV series.

All text and graphics © 1976, 1997 Leslie Fish. First published in Sehlat’s Roar #2, a fanzine of the 70s, published by Randy Ash.

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[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Original Characters Additional Tags: away mission, Visions, Hallucinations, Solitude, Interdimensional Travel, Time warp, Battle, Battle with No Winner, History, Anthropology, Zinedom Archive Project, fanzine fic, Fanzine: Interphase, Time Travel Summary:

Spock agrees to attend a survey team as a way of obtaining some rest or relaxation in a Vulcan-like world. Instead, he experiences a vision of the planet’s past.

This story was originally published in August 1976 in the fanzine Interphase 3 and was reprinted in 1978 in Computer Playback 2. 

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[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/9 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Original Alien Characters Additional Tags: Telepathic Bond, Broken Bond, Telepathic Attack Summary:

When the Enterprise is sent with another starship to check out a disturbance near the edge of the galaxy, all the telepaths on both crews are attacked by a psychic energy, causing Spock to break his bond to Kirk.

Originally published in 1984 in the print fanzine California K/S, Editor Noel S.

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[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Leonard “Bones” McCoy & Spock Characters: Leonard “Bones” McCoy, Spock (Star Trek), James T. Kirk Additional Tags: Background Stephen Garrovick II, Background Nyota Uhura, Mystery, Temporary Character Death, Mild Gore, Grief/Mourning, Alcohol, Vulcan Mind Melds, Emotional Spock (Star Trek), Zinedom Archive Project, fanzine fic Summary:

A mysterious force teleports Kirk and a number of other key personnel straight from the Enterprise to places unknown. Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the Enterprise crew are left reeling in the aftermath. It seems hopeless when the bodies and a terminally wounded Kirk and Sulu are recovered a day later. Who engineered this cruel tragedy, and for what purpose? Spock won’t let this chapter close without looking into all avenues, and he won’t let McCoy lose himself in his grief.

This story was originally published in 1975 in the fanzine Rigel #2. 

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[futuresoon]

so my grandma died recently, and my parents have been dealing with the quantities of Stuff accumulated over the course of her and my grandpa’s lives, which could be interesting on its own as a family matter, but, well, grandpa was a science fiction writer, and they knew a lot of science fiction writers, which means a lot of the stuff is classic sci-fi and fantasy. books, artwork, that kind of thing. what i had not realized, but perhaps should have predicted, was that knowing a lot of science fiction writers in the ‘60s meant that they knew people who had written for this one TV show in the ‘60s that some science fiction writers worked on, and these people liked to share stuff.

what i’m saying is that i have now held in my hands one of the original, physical scripts for the star trek episode “amok time”.

it was like holding a piece of history. my own hands, carefully cradling the origin of sex pollen and fuck or die. a work whose influence went far behind what the writer could have expected–sacred, almost, in its way. who knows how much spawned from this episode? how much fanfiction would never have existed were it not for this holy text? indeed, the very concept of slash itself? an artifact, a priceless relic, sitting on my parents’ couch.

i haven’t seen the entirety of the episode itself, so i don’t know if there are any real differences between the script and what was aired, but i had to skim it anyway–and i did find something that is perhaps worth mentioning, whether or not this actually counts as canon. but hey, hard to get more canon than an Actual Official Script, right?

VULCANS BLUSH YELLOW, BITCHES, IT’S CANON

also, this:

thanks for specifying “karate-type”, theodore sturgeon. coulda gotten confusing, that.

anyway, it was a deeply surreal experience and i’m pretty sure the script is getting donated someplace with a lot of the other stuff, but man, my grandparents were cool

[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Leonard "Bones" McCoy & Spock Characters: Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Spock (Star Trek), James T. Kirk Additional Tags: Background Stephen Garrovick II, Background Nyota Uhura, Mystery, Temporary Character Death, Mild Gore, Grief/Mourning, Alcohol, Vulcan Mind Melds, Emotional Spock (Star Trek), Zinedom Archive Project, fanzine fic Summary:

A mysterious force teleports Kirk and a number of other key personnel straight from the Enterprise to places unknown. Spock, McCoy, and the rest of the Enterprise crew are left reeling in the aftermath. It seems hopeless when the bodies and a terminally wounded Kirk and Sulu are recovered a day later. Who engineered this cruel tragedy, and for what purpose? Spock won’t let this chapter close without looking into all avenues, and he won’t let McCoy lose himself in his grief.

This story was originally published in 1975 in the fanzine Rigel #2. 

Want to help authors bring fanzine stories online for the next generation of fans? Come help us at Zinedom!

[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Not Rated Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Spock (Star Trek), Original Characters Additional Tags: away mission, Visions, Hallucinations, Solitude, Interdimensional Travel, Time warp, Battle, Battle with No Winner, History, Anthropology, Zinedom Archive Project, fanzine fic, Fanzine: Interphase, Time Travel Summary:

Spock agrees to attend a survey team as a way of obtaining some rest or relaxation in a Vulcan-like world. Instead, he experiences a vision of the planet’s past.

This story was originally published in August 1976 in the fanzine Interphase 3 and was reprinted in 1978 in Computer Playback 2. 

Want to help authors bring fanzine stories online for the next generation of fans? Come help us at Zinedom!

[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/9 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Original Series (Movies) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard "Bones" McCoy, Original Alien Characters Additional Tags: Telepathic Bond, Broken Bond, Telepathic Attack Summary:

When the Enterprise is sent with another starship to check out a disturbance near the edge of the galaxy, all the telepaths on both crews are attacked by a psychic energy, causing Spock to break his bond to Kirk.

Originally published in 1984 in the print fanzine California K/S, Editor Noel S.

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[zinedom]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Star Trek: The Original Series Rating: Mature Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: James T. Kirk/Spock Characters: James T. Kirk, Spock (Star Trek) Additional Tags: Offscreen Torture, Grief/Mourning, Angst, hard decisions, crying it out, Crying, Hurt/Comfort, Emotionally Hurt James T. Kirk, Comforting Spock, Zinedom Archive Project, fanzine fic Summary:

The Romulans offer Kirk a choice: his officers' lives in exchange for an asylum-seeker.

This story was originally published in 1975 in the fanzine Contact #1. 

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