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I was very pleased to be asked to provide another hour's worth of older vids for this year's REVELcon! Here's a list of the vids I showed, with comments, because I am so impressed by these vidders that I have to show them love! Since I was asked to focus on small fandoms, I wanted to find fun, high-energy vids that people would find entertaining even if they didn't know the fandom. I also threw in a few not-so-small fandoms like Star Trek, Sentinel, and Pros.

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Okay, I'm going to try this for the first time, because it sounds like a fun one. It's from fannish5.

1. What's the first zine you read? Name the fandom if you can't name the zine.

That would be the same as the first zine I bought; see below.

2. What was the first zine you bought? Do you still own it?

I'm pretty sure it was Stardate:Unknown #2. Two friends and I went to a con when I was in high school (circa 1977); three issues were out, and we each bought one. Mine had McCoy on the cover. (My fave character.)

It's possible that it was an issue of Warped Space, though; I started buying those early. And Masiform D. I loved that series in Masiform D about the human student studying at the Klingon school. [Brief time-out for musing: there seemed to be a lot of that back then: entire series of stories with original characters in the fannish universe, where the TV characters might never make an appearance. I don't see that as much now. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places.]

Anyway, do I still own it? Oh, yeah. And the other four issues. Or, if it was Warped Space: oh, yeah, and the other fifty+ issues.


3. What was the last zine you bought?

I bought a small pile at MW*C; don't have the list handy. They included Phoenix Investigations #2 (Rat Patrol/Sentinel crossover), Vilya (LOTR slash), and the most recent issues of Remote Control, Of Dreams and Schemes, and Diverse Doings.

4. How many zines do you own?

I'm not sure. Several hundred; possibly over a thousand. I've been collecting them for ever so long.

5. For how many fandoms do you currently buy zines or do you only read online fic now?

I'll buy virtually *any* zine--gen, het, or slash--that contains Rat Patrol or Barney Miller fanfic. One step down from that degree of rabidness, I'll buy all-Wild Wild West zines, but I won't usually buy a multi zine just because it has WWW in it. Ditto LOTR.

When I buy multimedia zines, I look for the above fandoms, plus Highlander, Blakes 7, Man from U.N.C.L.E., UFO, Star Trek, Doctor Who, and several others that I've probably forgotten. I usually end up reading all the stories, and have acquired thereby a passing familiarity with SG-1 and The Sentinel (I've also seen a handful of eps of each).