Comments | feliciakw: Fandom as Time Capsule

feliciakw

Fandom as Time Capsule

Mar 01, 2007 16:23

So I was crashing around my old fandom, The Sentinel, today--seeing what of my fic is still on-line, stumbling across a list in the Cascade Library of everyone's first posted fics (mine was way back in May 2001), get getting sort of nostalgic about the whole thing.

( TS as Time Capsule )

fandom, fic, n3, ts

Comments 2

izhilzha March 2 2007, 01:09:37 UTC

That's really interesting. I was barely into TS fandom when 9/11 hit...I didn't get really involved till quite a while later. So I guess I almost see the older part of the fandom, the older fics, etc, as partly fictional themselves. A time capsule, yeah, but not one I helped put together.

feliciakw March 2 2007, 02:25:16 UTC

Well . . . I joined Cascade Times in August 2000. I posted my first fic there, a haiku, in October 2000. I didn't get around to submitting to CL until May 2001, apparently. So, yeah, I was way into it when 9/11 hit.

In fact, I gave up fic for several days after. It just seemed too frivolous. Then I wrote "No Turning Back" as a way to express, through fic, the stuff that was going on in my head (and that one *isn't* on-line anymore).

It's just really interesting to me to look back and see the perceptions and plot devices that were the norm. Lots of Y2K fic.

Perceptions and plot devices . . . like, in the 1980s, all the movie bad guys were Russians or renegade Communists, or sometimes Latin American militants. (MacGyver is a really interesting pop cult time capsule for the 80s TV action/adventure). X-Files has the same sort of "from a more innocent time" feel of the 90s that TS has, only in a more space aliens/sci-fi way. They weren't worried with international terrorists; they were worried about intergalactic terrorists ( ... )