Fan fic? Fooey.

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 20 Jun 2001, 08:23 · from whorl-v0012.mbox · original

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From: "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes" <ddanehy at siebel.com>
Subject: RE: (whorl) Fan fic? Fooey.
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:23:45
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William Ansley wrote:

> ... I have been reading SF/F for over 35 years now but I have
> always kept my distance from any "fannish" activities.=20

William, William, William... I don't know how to tell you this,=20
but this list is a fannish activity, or, as they used to say=20
-- do they still? -- "fanac."=20

Granted, it's the kind of fanac that isn't usually referred to=20
as "fannish," but only because within fandom "fannish" was (is?)
generally used in contrast to "sercon," short for "serious and=20
constructive," where "fannish" was more the "partying with a few
thousand of your closest friends" sort of thing.

Much of the traffic on this list tends toward the sercon, but=20
it's all fannish in the larger sense.

--Blattid

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