How Cait's Retail Therapy Is Unlike Other Girls'...
... Well for one thing, it involves a heckuva lot more slash.
Okay so I've had a couple of shittastic weeks, so I treated myself to some zines. Since so many people were fascinated by my collection, I thought I'd share some stuff.
First off, here are my two favorite stores:
AgentWithStyle specializes in reprints from lots of different fandoms, but TOS Star Trek is particularly noteworthy. They also have zines from a bunch of the newer fandoms, like Buffy, Harry Potter, and Firefly.
Jim & Melody's is a sort of clearing house for a bunch of fans and their stuff. Their listings change up periodically depending on what they have, and they have an awesome selection of stuff from Star Trek, Darkover, and more. The people who run the place are nice and knowledgable, too.
Okay, so here's what I got in the mail today:
A couple of LOTR zines, slash and gen. I've got back into LOTR fandom because of the fic o' doom. However, I'm all kinds of annoyed as I have Eomer NEEDS and fic about him is very short on the ground. **grump**
Here's some Trek stuff. Again a mix of gen and slash, though I have to note, with TOS stuff slash almost always tends to be better. IDEK.
Now here's a little beauty: a 1976 Guide to Star Trek Fan Clubs and Zines. What I find particularly interesting is we have this very gen publication, but the fanzine listing in the back is an alphabetical listing of zines. Now they don't classify slash on its own, which isn't unusual historically, but they do list the adult zines alongside everything else with no content warnings, which I find fascinating.
I wrote an abstract to do a paper looking at Trek fandom historically, so these are my research materials. *G* But man I'm glad I have something to look forward to with these babies.
Okay so I've had a couple of shittastic weeks, so I treated myself to some zines. Since so many people were fascinated by my collection, I thought I'd share some stuff.
First off, here are my two favorite stores:
AgentWithStyle specializes in reprints from lots of different fandoms, but TOS Star Trek is particularly noteworthy. They also have zines from a bunch of the newer fandoms, like Buffy, Harry Potter, and Firefly.
Jim & Melody's is a sort of clearing house for a bunch of fans and their stuff. Their listings change up periodically depending on what they have, and they have an awesome selection of stuff from Star Trek, Darkover, and more. The people who run the place are nice and knowledgable, too.
Okay, so here's what I got in the mail today:
A couple of LOTR zines, slash and gen. I've got back into LOTR fandom because of the fic o' doom. However, I'm all kinds of annoyed as I have Eomer NEEDS and fic about him is very short on the ground. **grump**
Here's some Trek stuff. Again a mix of gen and slash, though I have to note, with TOS stuff slash almost always tends to be better. IDEK.
Now here's a little beauty: a 1976 Guide to Star Trek Fan Clubs and Zines. What I find particularly interesting is we have this very gen publication, but the fanzine listing in the back is an alphabetical listing of zines. Now they don't classify slash on its own, which isn't unusual historically, but they do list the adult zines alongside everything else with no content warnings, which I find fascinating.
I wrote an abstract to do a paper looking at Trek fandom historically, so these are my research materials. *G* But man I'm glad I have something to look forward to with these babies.