Timeline of something other than slash

[franzeska]

I love the Timeline of Slashed Sources, but do we have anything on media fandom history that's less slash-centric? There must have been at least a few big het fandoms in the 80s and 90s that wouldn't make it onto that list due to lack of slash. The Media Fandom article itself doesn't go into much detail (yet) in the history section. Like, for example, I know Moonlighting was ridiculously popular, but did it generate zines or just angry tv guide editorials? I know Remington Steele had tons of fan activity.

I don't know that we need a timeline necessarily, but if I'm looking at the slash timeline article and thinking "Ok, what about the other stuff", I have no idea where to look next.

Comments

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

Like, for example, I know Moonlighting was ridiculously popular, but did it generate zines or just angry tv guide editorials?

Wrong fandom. Try Beauty and the Beast. ;)
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:Beauty_and_the_Beast

[cesperanza]

Ha, you beat me here! Remington Steele and Beauty and the Beast! Also, in my memory, both Doctor Who (Four/Sarah Jane) and Star Wars (Han/Leia) were big het fandoms.

Yeah

[talking_sock]

I was about to add SW, B&B. I remember a little later that Lois and Clark had some huge little girl fandom going on, too. But was that a decade later? I'm no longer able to remember time except in decades.

[elf]

Hey! My new work internet filters think fanlore is a porn site! WTF?

Darkover & Dragonriders of Pern both had substantial fan activity. (Are books part of "Media fandom?") I have hopes of eventually tracking down a copy of the "Free Amazons of Gor" crossover by Randall Garrett.

[sporangia]

I was mainly active in fandom in the seventies, in later decades I read lots of fanzines but I wasn't paying much attention to the trends. I've always seen fanzine production as the tip of a huge fannish iceberg and because fanzines are a permanent record they have become the bench marks. But those bench marks only show a small part of what was going on in fandom. Many films and TV shows of the seventies had micro fandoms. It was difficult for widely dispersed fans to find each other to create enough critical mass to support a fanzine. Also if a film or TV series struck a chord, it might have a brief inflorescence and then fade quickly. An example would be the film the Frisco Kid (with Harrison Ford and Gene Wilder) or the early eighties series the Voyagers (Jon-Erik Hexum) I don't know if either fandom ever produced a fanzine, but I do remember reading stories from both--they were xeroxed copies passed around from SF conventions and fan-club networks. I will try to post a list here of all the micro-fandoms I remember from the seventies. I would love to see such a list from the eighties and nineties with both the mega-fandoms and the smaller fandoms together at last.

[franzeska]

That would be really cool! I've been buying a few anthology zines and it looks like a lot of fandoms turn up in those that never had any single-fandom zines to speak of either.

[msilverstar]

On the fanlore Fanfiction page, in the third paragraph, there's actually a reference to "Michela Ecks" fanfiction history timeline (on archive.org). I would love to point that paragraph somewhere else...