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turps1. How do you contribute to fandom (write, vid, costume, critique, archive, edit, organize cons, other)?
I write, mod a LJ community, own and maintain an archive and two other sites and beta ( badly)
2. Has your contribution changed over the years?
Yeah. I started writing, then wrote a lot more, then started to take on projects of my own.
3. What area would you like to contribute in but lack the resources (be it time, talent or equipment)?
I'd love to be able to do song vids. I love them so much but have neither the equipment, skill or time to do them.
4. What contribution of yours do you wish had received a wider audience?
My Mutant X stuff I think. It's such a small fandom that I'd love to see more people read what I write. But even that's not that important. I have some awesome friends in the fandom that keep me happy.
5. Which of your contribution are you most proud?
No doubt about this one. My Mutant X slash archive. At the time I started it there was no central gathering point for slash MX stories, so I decided to change that. I had no idea what I was getting into. At that point I had a geocities website and decided to use geocities for the MX site too. I created it with pagebuilder, no html needed at all. I e-mailed the author of every slash story I could find and slowly built up the archive. Then I started to worry about being TOSed, and decided to move to Populli. That week was a nightmare. I'd never used html coding before, or a FTP. I didn't know how to link the index page so it came up with my addy or how to upload anything. I sat for hours each day learning coding, nothing would go right, pictures moved, stories broke up and became garbled. I felt like crying so many times after I moved. But I kept on trying, and soon I could code by hand without thinking about it. My archive keeps growing and growing, and I'm so proud of it. It's not the most professional looking thing, no bells or whistles but I did every part myself. It's never going to the most popular site, I mean it's Mutant X, most people hate the show, but every once in a while I get an e-mail or someone will sign my guest map and it'll be worth every second I work on it.
I write, mod a LJ community, own and maintain an archive and two other sites and beta ( badly)
2. Has your contribution changed over the years?
Yeah. I started writing, then wrote a lot more, then started to take on projects of my own.
3. What area would you like to contribute in but lack the resources (be it time, talent or equipment)?
I'd love to be able to do song vids. I love them so much but have neither the equipment, skill or time to do them.
4. What contribution of yours do you wish had received a wider audience?
My Mutant X stuff I think. It's such a small fandom that I'd love to see more people read what I write. But even that's not that important. I have some awesome friends in the fandom that keep me happy.
5. Which of your contribution are you most proud?
No doubt about this one. My Mutant X slash archive. At the time I started it there was no central gathering point for slash MX stories, so I decided to change that. I had no idea what I was getting into. At that point I had a geocities website and decided to use geocities for the MX site too. I created it with pagebuilder, no html needed at all. I e-mailed the author of every slash story I could find and slowly built up the archive. Then I started to worry about being TOSed, and decided to move to Populli. That week was a nightmare. I'd never used html coding before, or a FTP. I didn't know how to link the index page so it came up with my addy or how to upload anything. I sat for hours each day learning coding, nothing would go right, pictures moved, stories broke up and became garbled. I felt like crying so many times after I moved. But I kept on trying, and soon I could code by hand without thinking about it. My archive keeps growing and growing, and I'm so proud of it. It's not the most professional looking thing, no bells or whistles but I did every part myself. It's never going to the most popular site, I mean it's Mutant X, most people hate the show, but every once in a while I get an e-mail or someone will sign my guest map and it'll be worth every second I work on it.
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:58 pm (UTC)It's not 'professional' looking? So what, indeed? *shrug* This is the only real place where the usually forgotten MX slashers can find stories, and that's the only thing that counts, right? And this archive is quite the famous one, too. It seems that when someone posts a new MX slash at MakeBelieve for instance, they always give permission to archive at your site. I think this is pretty awesome *g*