The mildly annoying thing about going through all that old Elfquest stuff was, I got an idea for a story, which would be absolutely impossible to write due to the impossibility of getting character permissions at this late date. It's not just that I've fallen out of touch with the people involved; some of them left the project in a huff long ( Read more... )

Last week we got a post card from some fan related enterprise (a comic store or a local convention or something, I forget) addressed to Tower Mountain. We figured someone must have bought some old mailing lists, back from the days when I was the zine editor. Last night I got an email from someone asking of Tower Mountain Holt was still active. ( Read more... )

I have this whole folder of old Elfquest fic - an actual folder full of typed pages - which I was looking through yesterday. This is not my Tower Mountain stuff. It's my older Daystar stuff, dating roughly from 1981 to 1989-ish. Much of it features a not-so-thinly-disguised version of me as an elf. (Which in itself was fine, since that was the ( Read more... )

I've been reading all the recent posts about Mary Sues and going 'hmmm.'

I have what is possibly an oddball perspective on the issue. My first fandom (my first participatory fandom, anyway) was for the independent comic series ElfQuest, back in the 80s. EQ fandom was mostly organized into collaborative writing groups called 'holts' after the ( Read more... )

I was looking over some of my old Tower Mountain stuff recently, in light of my vague intent to make an archive, and... oh my God, I'd forgotten how over-the-top it all was. Characters getting imprisoned to the right, tortured to the left, turned into half-sentient animals and sold as sex slaves by Insane Evil Villains down the center. Rapes and ( Read more... )

Would there be any interest in my setting up a fic archive, similar to the one I have for my Buffy stories here, to house old Tower fics? Obviously this wouldn't be a complete collection, just anyone who happens to be reading this and happens to have an electronic copy of their old stories. (It's a little more difficult to include graphic stories ( Read more... )

In the first EQ group I wrote for, everyone had created a character based on themselves, and so did I. Symbol-Maker was Barb with pointy ears. She was an artist and a dyer, average for her world in most ways. I did give her a little more angst than she had any right to, but it was very ordinary angst - she had a conflicted relationship with her ( Read more... )