Embarking on something

[cimorene]

I've read all the books by all the Golden Age mystery writers I've tried and liked so far, and I'm a little concerned I may have difficulty finding more.

That includes the last of the Thorndyke mysteries, although I first read some of them a few years ago so I could perhaps read a few again. Really, though, I'm going to have to think about what to read next, annoyingly. Maybe I can pick an old fandom I haven't read in a long time.

I don't have any Sentinel bookmarks on ao3, though I've definitely read through the fandom and even combed through the old archive multiple times, before it was imported. Maybe I couldn't find most of my old bookmarks when I was trying to move them to ao3? Or maybe it's that recently I've reread them from Wax's old bound slash instead of online a few times.

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[princessofgeeks]

I don't have any Sentinel bookmarks either!

I do remember great fic by Dasha, Lemon Drop, Speranza, Anna/Eliade and Helenish. Other authors may come to me. I generally remember fic by who wrote it because once I find an author I like, I vacuum up all their fic. I used to print the ones I intended to reread!

I read everything I could get my hands on from them, back when most of the Sentinel fic was on 852 Prospect.

Such a great old-school slash fandom.

It was the fandom I drifted into after Lotrips and I remember being amazed I could change fandoms at all! I blame mirabile_dictu.

I wrote a few Sentinel fic where are here on DW and tagged, and also on AO3.

I got into online fandom in 2002 and thus went backwards through some of the big old-school slash fandoms, like Due South, Sentinel and SG-1. Although SG-1 was in its 8th broadcast season when I started reading it. But I never watched it in real time.

[cimorene]

Laughing because I remember thinking similar things to this when I started reading Sg1. I had never seen the show, but there were writers I recognized from other fandoms and I read a few out of curiosity, and then an enthusiastically evangelist friend brought me a VHS of her favorite episodes on her way to the beach!

[twistedchick]

I wrote some Sentinel stories. I am Twistedchick on AO3, if you're looking for more. The stories at AO3 include ones published in zines as well as online.

[cimorene]

I'm sure I'll see your name soon then, since I've started browsing through the fandom there!

[phosfate]

If you want vintage Trek slash, try KSarchive.com They have Courts of Honor.

[cimorene]

I forgot about that site entirely! Maybe I should look for some genuinely ancient, like, zine fic.

[phosfate]

There's some on ao3, too. The hard part is finding the right search terms. And scans of old zines in various university archives that may or may not let us download them. (I wrote one asking if I could have access to a scan of a zine I actually co-edited and never heard back.)

[cimorene]

I guess this is why my dad has like a file cabinet full of all the small press publications he's been involved in... they do have a distressing tendency to disappear later.

[phosfate]

I've got all the stuff I was in or helped make, but buying zines often meant you had to be in the right place at the right time and know they existed, which was why there were zines that were nothing but lists of zines and how to order/contribute.

[cimorene]

😂