Meta: A Beginner's Guide to Highlander (Highlander)

[argentum_ls]

Posted for the Fandom Battle at fffc.

Title: A Beginner's Guide to Highlander
Fandom: Highlander
Rating: G
Summary: An overview and apolgetica of the Highlander franchise

Link to a file on Google Drive

Comments

[raine]

Great job of summarizing it all!

[argentum_ls]

Thank you! I'm stunned that you took the time to read it all.

[raine]

Heh, I was curious to see what you wrote, and I read fairly quickly. 😎

[argentum_ls]

I'm glad to hear it's not a difficult read. That's always hard for me to judge.

And it seems like you don't have any objections or corrections to what I said, so that's awesome too. Though, if you did, I'd love to hear them.

[raine]

The odd thing for me was thinking that this fandom doesn't have a lot of fanfic, which - as a longtime fan - feels incredibly weird, but I'm probably not looking at it from the perspective of someone just jumping into the pool, LOL. ::shrug::

For the record, I still have issues with the way 7th Dimension was unceremoniously unplugged, but I know the archivist had been begging for money to support hosting the archive for several years with little success, so I can't fault her for deciding no one cared.

[argentum_ls]

... thinking that this fandom doesn't have a lot of fanfic...

It is really weird. HL was a megafandom back in the day, and now it has fewer than 5500 works on Ao3. By way of comparison, Teen Wolf, has over 123,000. I remember Amand-r even thinking (10 years ago now) that HL qualified for Yuletide because it had so little traffic.

... so I can't fault her...

Nor can I, though I do wish there'd been some warning. Alas, I don't think I was in a position to donate money then, even if I'd known of the need for it.

So much has been lost, from the lists, to 7D, to LJ, and to all the thousands of fans who've wandered off or died and took their stories with them. It's almost a miracle that we still have 5500 works.

[raine]

I had a stack of fic I printed off from 7th D and HL Slash and, well, pretty much every fic I adored. I tossed most of it years ago now, especially since I realized I wasn't rereading any of it but had it electronically stashed on a disc.

I think Killa pulled HLFiction.net; it hasn't worked in a while, so there's another archive in limbo right now.

[argentum_ls]

We're pretty much down to Ao3, FFN, and a handful of private sites and journals. :(

[raine]

So surreal! It'll be interesting if the reboot happens and is decent enough to inspire people to write more.

[argentum_ls]

As much as I would love some new (preferably, good) HL, I'm afraid the reboot will kill what remains of the original fandom, barring a few inevitable crossovers.

[raine]

Eh, it's been 30 years and we've had a hell of a lot of weird attempts at canon, so who knows? I never expected it to last this long, honestly, but if the last Watchercon a few months ago was any judge, the original cast and crew are still game to talk about the show and its characters.

[argentum_ls]

All very good points!

I guess we won't know until we know.

Other fanfic sites

[raine]

Not sure if you knew about this one: SquidgeWorld: https://squidgeworld.org/ It's the original Squdge.org site ported over to an AO3 template, IIRC.
Also, the original mailing list archive is still working: http://www.highlander.org, though it doesn't contain any of the slash or adult-rated fic.

Re: Other fanfic sites

[argentum_ls]

I do know about SquidgeWorld. I'm ~pretty sure~ I have an account on it, though I cannot for the life of me recall what my login or password are.

I did not how that the mailing list archive is still working. That's great news! I'll have to go poke it and see if any old favorites fall out.

Re: Other fanfic sites

[raine]

Have fun!😎

[malinaldarose]

I started to read this and was enjoying it very much -- but will have to get back to it later as it's morning and I have to get ready for work. And also homework.

[argentum_ls]

I hope you continued/will continue to enjoy it. Though, it's interesting that everyone who has commented on reading the piece isn't at all the audience for it ;)

[havocthecat]

Oh, this is delightful, delicious, and de-lovely, and sent me delirious with de-laughter. Thanks for writing and sharing! Now off to link a few friends.

[argentum_ls]

Excellent! I'm glad to hear you found it to be a de-fun read, and that you didn't have any objections or corrections to what I wrote.