Fandom: Suzette Haden Elgin Papers

Copying this from ithiliana (original here):

Robin Wayne Bailey is making an appeal on Facebook to save a vast archive of material that belonged to the late Suzette Haden Elgin.

From his post:

An antique dealer in Arkansas who purchases abandoned storage lockers for his business recently acquired one that contained all the papers, books and original artwork of Suzette Haden Elgin.

Suzette was much loved throughout Midwest and southern fandom and seen at many conventions during the eighties and nineties. A linguist, she retired from the University of San Diego and resettled in the Ozarks. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Society and the Ozarks Center for Science Fiction. For a list of her many books, check Wikipedia (I’m writing this on an iPhone). The antique dealer contacted LOCUS, who then contacted me. I verified with Suzette’s husband that he had no room for what reportedly are “hundreds” of boxes. If any fan group is interested in rescuing any of this material, I’ll pass along the antique dealer’s contact info. I hope someone can save it. Please share this across all fannish channels.

You can reach Bailey with a Facebook message.

I'm notifying all the archivists I know who work with sff collections, both on Facebook and private email, but I wanted to post here, and encourage people to circulate as widely as possible.

If you're not on Facebook, you can see the information at File 770.



Suzette was amazing. As a linguist and SFF writer, but also as a person. I did not know her well (I met her one year at Wiscon, and had a few exchanges with her thanks to livejournal about language and how to handle slowly watching a parent die), and still, she was unbelievable and kind to me. I hope a group can rescue this material. I wish I had the funds to do so myself, and then donate it somewhere.

Fandom: 30 Days of Fic: Day 8 OCs

( All 30 Days )

8 – Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

Well, that presupposes that I care if my characters are labeled Mary Sues. I think it is, in general, an overused term these days attached to female characters arbitrarily, whether they are original characters in fanfic or original characters in professional writing. So.

I write fewer OCs now than I did when I first started, mostly because I write shorter stories now than when I first started, and so focus more on a specific character than on a grand rollicking adventure in the world as a whole. But in general, I use OCs now the same as I did then, which was to help tell the story I wanted to tell. (I also use OCs less in fanfic now because I tend to start creating them and realize I want to tell a story about them not in a fanfic world.)

Fandom: AO3 Tag Generator

I've seen a few people post this AO3 Tag Generator, so I gave it a try, and what did I get?

seriously intense werewolf lapsex

Bahahahahahahaha.