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There was, in my experience, two solid ways to find a zine in 1985. This was the year Back to the Future, Enemy Mine, and Coocoon all came out. Star Trek returned to prime time two years later. It was a seismic shift in which sci-fi went from being for dorks to being cool. It was a hell of a time to be alive. It was also when I first started publishing fanfic.

The first most effective way to find a zine to subscribe to was to flip to the back of your StarLog magazine. Anyone who was into Sci-Fi or fantasy subscribed to StarLog. Wild stuff went on in the back of StarLog because this was where the classifieds were.

If you are younger than 20 you might not know what a Classified Ad is. Back in the dark times, before the internet, the way you got information out to the world was to mail a couple of lines of text, about the length of a short Tweet, to your favorite newspaper or magazine along with a very reasonable ad fee. The editorial staff would then put your classified ad in the classified section where there were hundreds of other tiny ads. The ads could be for anything from a car for sale to someone looking for a date.

But in StarLog the ads were usually one of two things: Sci-fi Conventions and Zines. You would also see a lot of ads labeled 'fan club' these were targeted at a younger audience, but apart from the lack of racy art and erotica they were, essentially, just Zines. both fan clubs and Zines were cheap to subscribe to. You would take 4 envelopes, put a stamp and your mailing address on each of them then put them in another envelope with a dollar bill and mail that to the Zine address. If you had aspirations of being a published fan fiction writer you would mail your manuscript to the zine as well. You may or may not make it into the Zine. I was 13 so I did not get into a lot of Zines this way.

The second way to find Zines was to get on your bike and ride down to the comic shop, or maybe the video rental store (Not Blockbuster usually) and check the public bulletin board. You might find ads for Zines stuck to the board, or you might even find the zines themselves. Our local comics shop had a Zine of the month, you could come in, pull the Zine off the bulletin board, read it while sitting on the crappy couch in the back corner and then stick it back to the board when you were done. I got into a lot more of these Zines.

I started writing fanfic when I was still very young, 10 or 11 I think, I didn't know at the time that it had a name, I was writing because it was important to who I was then. I suppose I began publishing because the classified ad said "Do you have Star Trek Stories you'd like to share?" and I did and they asked nicely so I sent them.

I have no idea what my readership might have been, I don't know if they enjoyed my stories, or if they even finished them, I can presume that the editors who chose to publish my work must have liked it. Or maybe they were just desperate for something to put in the Zine, I don't really know. The type of validation we have now wasn't achievable then so no one thought of it.

But it was a fun adventure all the same.

#fanfiction #fandom old #terracegardenphoenix

[niennanir]

Navigation Issues

Me: Do you know how late the grocery store is open on Sunday? Sara: Hey Siri, how late is Publix open? Siri: .... Sara: Hey Siri! Siri: ... Sara: Hey Siri... you bitch. Me: Now I really, really want to set Siri to "Hey Bitch" Sara: You could do it. Me: Yeah but I have to use Siri in business meetings. And I'm thinking that would probably be unprofessional. Sara: Can you imagine!? A client asking you for a schedule and you saying: Hey Siri, you bitch! Siri: I'm sorry but I won't respond to that! Me: . . . Sara: . . .

Hysterical laughter

#hey siri #Who says AI isn't human enough?

[niennanir]

Chapters: 12/49 Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wolfram von Bielefeld/Shibuya Yuuri, Gisela von Christ/Adelbert von Grantz, Anissina von Karbelnikoff/Gwendal von Voltaire, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Shibuya Yuuri, Wolfram von Bielefeld, Conrart Weller, Gwendal von Voltaire, Gunter von Christ, Gisela von Christ, Yozak Gurrier, Greta (Kyou Kara Maou!), Anissina von Karbelnikoff, Adelbert von Grantz, Lord Gegenhuber "Hube" Griesela, Nicola (Kyou Kara Maou!), Cecilie von Spitzweg, Murata Ken, A cast of thousands Additional Tags: pretty much everyone, You get an OC and you get an OC, Violence, Hurt/Comfort, just hurt, Idiots in Love, Kid Fic, Depression, Flashbacks, the author was dealing with some stuff, please just read the notes Series: Part 3 of The Return of the Demon King Summary:

Yuuri Shibuya, 27th King of the Great Demon Kingdom, deals with the past, builds the future, learns some valuable lessons, and grows up a little bit along the way. But he’s occasionally still kind of a wimp.

Book 2: There are choices to be made and two decrees will alter the course of the future in vastly different ways.

Chapter 12 Admission

In Which our heroes discuss things they probably should have brought up already.

#kkm #kyou kara maou #fanfic #fanfiction

[niennanir]

I remember the first movie I was supposed to see.

The Rescuers 1977. I remember being very excited about it, and we lived in rural Ohio at the time, there was only the one theater the next town over with a single screen. Runs of children's films in particular were always incredibly short so you needed to plan to go the 2 weeks they were in the theater. As it turned out there was a family event that conflicted and I never got to see The Rescuers.

I did get to see the 1978 Re-Release of The Jungle Book though.

what's the first movie you remember seeing in theaters? don't try and be all edgy and cool and say like tetsuo: the iron man. be honest.

Go!!

#What I really wanted to see was Empire Strikes Back #But Mum said I wasn't old enough

[niennanir]

So it's 'The Love Boat' on rails

Sitcoms suck and I don't watch them

BUT

They are a necessary evil so let me pitch one:

A sitcom about the crew of a passenger train, the passengers are always changing and getting up to shenanigans, you only need to build the sets for the train and may 3 train stations making production cheap and you can get lots of antics if you separate the train from reality a little bit

[niennanir]

Chapters: 11/49 Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wolfram von Bielefeld/Shibuya Yuuri, Gisela von Christ/Adelbert von Grantz, Anissina von Karbelnikoff/Gwendal von Voltaire, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Shibuya Yuuri, Wolfram von Bielefeld, Conrart Weller, Gwendal von Voltaire, Gunter von Christ, Gisela von Christ, Yozak Gurrier, Greta (Kyou Kara Maou!), Anissina von Karbelnikoff, Adelbert von Grantz, Lord Gegenhuber "Hube" Griesela, Nicola (Kyou Kara Maou!), Cecilie von Spitzweg, Murata Ken, A cast of thousands Additional Tags: pretty much everyone, You get an OC and you get an OC, Violence, Hurt/Comfort, just hurt, Idiots in Love, Kid Fic, Depression, Flashbacks, the author was dealing with some stuff, please just read the notes Series: Part 3 of The Return of the Demon King Summary:

Yuuri Shibuya, 27th King of the Great Demon Kingdom, deals with the past, builds the future, learns some valuable lessons, and grows up a little bit along the way. But he’s occasionally still kind of a wimp.

Book 2: There are choices to be made and two decrees will alter the course of the future in vastly different ways.

Chapter 11: Breakdown

In Which There are Nightmares both Sleeping and Waking

#kkm #kyou kara maou #fanfic #fanfiction

[niennanir]

hi!! im following your book binding tutorial and everythings going great, my only thing is the text is a bit far to the right would you know how to fix that for future books?

A lot depends on the software you decide to use for your 'typeset' (the layout of the book) But what everything boils down to is margins.

Any software that presents itself as a word processor has the ability to adjust the margins. If you're using Word, or Google Docs, or Mac Pages those settings are going to be in various places, and you'll need to consult documentation for your specific software to find out where those settings are. In the case of the Nir Paperback you have three margins that you're going to have to look at carefully.

The most iffy one is probably the margin between the columns, The Gutter. I knew I wanted about half an inch as a page edge margin so that means the gutter should be about an inch since that's where the page will be folded. On an 11 inch sheet of paper the least horrible gutter number was .95 inches. You can play a little hard and fast with the rules and if you want more than a half inch margin you can do that, just make sure your columns stay even.

The other place things fall apart is the glue edge margin, left and right. These need to be exactly the same.

You want a little wiggle room on the glue edge. Most of the time your glue edge is going to take up about 1/4 inch, so the above numbers, usually, get your text centered up in the middle of the folded page.

You get varying performance depending on your software and your printer so the best course is to print a single test page and fold it to see if you like the way it looks. You might need to tweak the numbers to make it the way you want it, but once you find settings that fit your needs, save them and reuse them on all your books.

I hope that helps, if anyone else has questions, feel free to drop me an ask.

#nir paperback #nienna answers #battleshipart

[niennanir]

Don't-cha talk back

Uncle and I discuss an out of state event. Uncle: I wouldn't mind going, but I'm not going with [Friend] If I got to spend three weeks in a camper with him I'll strangle him. Besides, how does that look, two guys cross country in a camper. Me: Well, tell him the camper's full and you only have room for two. If you get desperate enough tell him I'm going with you. Uncle: Oh my gosh, that'd be even worse. If I traveled with you people'd think I was some sort of cradle-robber. Me: *evil grin* Nah, I'd just call you 'dad' the whole time. Uncle: No! *horror* Me: okay, 'pops' then. Uncle: If you call me 'dad' I get to tell you what to do! Me: You... tell me what to do now. Uncle: But you never listen! Me: *thoughtful* This seems like a normal father/daughter relationship to me.

#families are weird

[niennanir]

The thing is, OP, the Tolkien fandom is such that literally no one knows all the subtleties about everything. I have the entire geography of Middle Earth memorized, I speak Sindarin and Quenya, I own most of the volumes of the histories of middle earth and have actually read them and I'll go back and revisit, or reread and I'll pick up on something I didn't notice the first twenty times I read it.

Also, if there's one thing the Tolkien fandom loves it's yelling about whatever insight we're geeked out about in the moment. It's fine, traveler, pull up a chair, have a pint and tell us all about Old English Prefixes. Three guys at the table are going to nod sagely and the other six are going to stare at you with their mouths hanging open completely gobsmacked with joy and wonder.

Don't go keeping your existential crisis to yourself when there's a place by the fire right here, friend.

one of the interesting things about actually reading the lotr books for the first time, age 30 and post grad school, is i genuinely cannot judge how much average (or big!) fans of Tolkien know about the historical works he's borrowing from and retelling, and the words he's pulling straight from ancient languages, and the poems he's cheerfully loosely translating into modern English-- etc etc. I am an early medievalist by training! I read "athelas" being a healing plant and laugh bc of course it's just called "noble" -- which in turn is a pretty traditional way to name healing plants lmao. Frankly, I assume that I'm not catching more than a third of what JRR is laying down, in historical storyworlds alone. Hell, maybe I’m wrong about how he intended to use athelas (athel— prefix does mean noble in Old English tho, I’ve translated that too many times).

BUT I don't really know how to excitedly yell abt it bc I don't want to preach shit everyone knows, bc that sucks for us all. but if ppl DON'T know the fun history stuff I want to be a little more specific when I yell about stuff? Because it is so great! No matter whether you already know leagues more than me or whether you have, like i originally did, absolutely zero basis in the medieval stories that invented what we now call medieval fantasy. (Like. Look, I once asked my British friend if Merlin was a historical person and then I almost immediately became a medievalist in some sort of cosmic joke, so I have seen all the sides of this scale! but as a consequence I have no idea where everyone else is.)

#lord of the rings #jrr tolkien

[niennanir]

IDK about the rest of you but for me this'd be even worse. How many dumb Avengers ideas am I going to get between 2013 and 2024? 10? 42? What order are they going to be in? Am I going to come up with a new idea in 2020 that can only fit the timeline in the stuff written in 2013? (yes) Am I going to do an epic in 2015 that relies on two of the stories in 2014 being swapped in order? (also yes)

Seems easier to just stick to being angry about how hard it is to come up with a catchy title.

how do people come up with titles?

why can't we just number fics like classical composers did with their stuff?

"tentacle porn No. 8 in [fandom], [pairing], op. 57"

that would solve so many problems

#writing is hard

[niennanir]

Chapters: 10/49 Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wolfram von Bielefeld/Shibuya Yuuri, Gisela von Christ/Adelbert von Grantz, Anissina von Karbelnikoff/Gwendal von Voltaire, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Shibuya Yuuri, Wolfram von Bielefeld, Conrart Weller, Gwendal von Voltaire, Gunter von Christ, Gisela von Christ, Yozak Gurrier, Greta (Kyou Kara Maou!), Anissina von Karbelnikoff, Adelbert von Grantz, Lord Gegenhuber "Hube" Griesela, Nicola (Kyou Kara Maou!), Cecilie von Spitzweg, Murata Ken, A cast of thousands Additional Tags: pretty much everyone, You get an OC and you get an OC, Violence, Hurt/Comfort, just hurt, Idiots in Love, Kid Fic, Depression, Flashbacks, the author was dealing with some stuff, please just read the notes Series: Part 3 of The Return of the Demon King Summary:

Yuuri Shibuya, 27th King of the Great Demon Kingdom, deals with the past, builds the future, learns some valuable lessons, and grows up a little bit along the way. But he’s occasionally still kind of a wimp.

Book 2: There are choices to be made and two decrees will alter the course of the future in vastly different ways.

Chapter 10: Transposition

In Which Turn About is Fair Play

#kkm #kyou kara maou #fanfic #fanfiction

[niennanir]

Reblog if you are a fanfiction author and would like your readers to put one of your fic titles in your ask + questions about it

[niennanir]

I missed 2 because they were minor elves I didn't recognize.

Holy shit… please…take this quiz…

#jrr tolkien #middle earth

[niennanir]

You're theory's almost there... but might I present for Further Conjecture: JRR Tolkien.

Lord of the Rings (both book and movie) is fun to read/watch, is objectively good, and also very occasionally feels like homework. It feels like homework when you ask yourself; where the hell is Moria? Why don't any of these elves speak Common? If Theoden has a huge ass castle in the mountains why doesn't he Just live there? It's homework but it's like when your teacher said you had to do a book report but you could pick any book you wanted. Or like the time Mr. Jenkins told us to come back on Monday with bugs and leaves to stick under the microscope.

It's also, objectively, great literature. It's very very probable that Lord of the Rings will be the sort of thing that's a standard of college literature classes in a hundred years.

I think, quite possibly, fan fiction happens when the author of the source material, either purposefully or unwittingly, creates 'space' for it. Usually by either implication or omission. This is why there's so much comics fanfic. Because there's no real cannon, other than the fact that Uncle Ben and the Waynes always die. There's so much space to explore, so many characters to interact with, so many stories that could be told but haven't been. It's why DC and Marvel keep printing comics. And it's why fans keep writing fic.

Sometimes a creator will have a vision of a story and it's entirely complete, the narrative is tight and you see the entire picture beginning to end without any gaps. But gaps don't necessarily make a work inferior, they just mean that the author didn't need to fill them in order to tell the story. I'll even posit that Tolkien left those gaps on purpose because he wrote fan fiction himself when he was young and encouraged young people to do so as well because he viewed it as foundational in the process of learning to tell stories.

My dream is to one day write something where the narrative of the story is tight, and you see the whole picture and you stare at the wall for 2 hours after you've finished. And then when you go back to look at it again you say; Hey, what about...

Because I will have left those gaps for you, just for you, to go on your own adventure.

stating to think there’s an inverse correlation between how good media is and how easily fandomizable it is 😁

#writing is hard

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Me: I don't think my relationship is working out R: The one with your music streaming service? Me: yeah, It keeps shouting "I don't know what you want!" And I keep screaming back "Not that!" R: Breakdowns in communication are the number one cause of seperation. Me: When your tastes are U2, AC/DC, and Pentatonix it's hard to find compatibility.

#I've said the same thing about the last 5 guys I've dated.

[niennanir]

I'm walking down main street, running an errand on a Thursday at lunch time and I pass a couple, late sixties, holding hands as they walk in the opposite direction.

"It's so beautiful," the gentleman says. "Like it's not even real, like it's from a story."

The lady laughs happily and I smile to myself. Because their magical adventure is my every day and this wasn't the path a chose, it was the place I crash landed.

#I love this town #adventures in sarasota

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Chapters: 9/49 Fandom: Kyou Kara Maou! Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wolfram von Bielefeld/Shibuya Yuuri, Gisela von Christ/Adelbert von Grantz, Anissina von Karbelnikoff/Gwendal von Voltaire, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Shibuya Yuuri, Wolfram von Bielefeld, Conrart Weller, Gwendal von Voltaire, Gunter von Christ, Gisela von Christ, Yozak Gurrier, Greta (Kyou Kara Maou!), Anissina von Karbelnikoff, Adelbert von Grantz, Lord Gegenhuber "Hube" Griesela, Nicola (Kyou Kara Maou!), Cecilie von Spitzweg, Murata Ken, A cast of thousands Additional Tags: pretty much everyone, You get an OC and you get an OC, Violence, Hurt/Comfort, just hurt, Idiots in Love, Kid Fic, Depression, Flashbacks, the author was dealing with some stuff, please just read the notes Series: Part 3 of The Return of the Demon King Summary:

Yuuri Shibuya, 27th King of the Great Demon Kingdom, deals with the past, builds the future, learns some valuable lessons and grows up a little bit along the way. But he’s occasionally still kind of a wimp.

Book 2: There are choices to be made and two decrees will alter the course of the future in vastly different ways.

Chapter 9: Fear

In Which the past becomes inescapable, even on one’s honeymoon

#kkm #kyou kara maou #fanfic #fanfiction