Pros multi-media zines: reviews ahoy!
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So we have had music as we open the presents, and there have been calendars and icons and ficlets and stories and I have none of these. I can't do graphics, and I made someone go ewww with my most recent drabbly effort (*iz proud*) so perhaps I won't do that, and I stupidly posted a story a fortnight ago which would have done quite nicely today and now I haven't got one for today. Whoops. But![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
byslantedlight did say anything Pros-y. So I thought I would tell you all about my zine adventures.
I like zines, and I have bought quite a lot of them. Most of them are zines which are still in print, and some of them are very recent indeed. And nearly all of them are Pros-specific. So Pros-specific that even a crossover with Ladder of Swords is quite the departure. It is comparatively easy to find reviews of recent zines, and it is comparatively easy to find reviews of Pros-specific zines.
But recently I took the plunge and bought second-hand a great heap of crossover and what I gather are called multi-media zines. I kept waiting for them to sing at me, or to smell of interesting things if I scratched them, but apparently that is not the same kind of multi-media. Alas. Anyway, it is not nearly so easy to find reviews of these zines. Not if you only know about Pros resources on the web. (I did find a few which listed all the B7 pairings in them, and I expect that there are reviews over in S&H-land, but that is foreign territory to me.) So I thought I'd do some.
So here we go. I split them into separate posts, a zine per post. And over the course of the day, as LJ permits, I shall post a bunch of them. I am hoping to post them for Concupiscence, Concupiscence 3, Dark Fantasies 2, Dark Fantasies 4 and It's Greek To Me. We'll see how it goes. If you get fed up, do feel free to beg me to stop!
So we have had music as we open the presents, and there have been calendars and icons and ficlets and stories and I have none of these. I can't do graphics, and I made someone go ewww with my most recent drabbly effort (*iz proud*) so perhaps I won't do that, and I stupidly posted a story a fortnight ago which would have done quite nicely today and now I haven't got one for today. Whoops. But
byslantedlight did say anything Pros-y. So I thought I would tell you all about my zine adventures.I like zines, and I have bought quite a lot of them. Most of them are zines which are still in print, and some of them are very recent indeed. And nearly all of them are Pros-specific. So Pros-specific that even a crossover with Ladder of Swords is quite the departure. It is comparatively easy to find reviews of recent zines, and it is comparatively easy to find reviews of Pros-specific zines.
But recently I took the plunge and bought second-hand a great heap of crossover and what I gather are called multi-media zines. I kept waiting for them to sing at me, or to smell of interesting things if I scratched them, but apparently that is not the same kind of multi-media. Alas. Anyway, it is not nearly so easy to find reviews of these zines. Not if you only know about Pros resources on the web. (I did find a few which listed all the B7 pairings in them, and I expect that there are reviews over in S&H-land, but that is foreign territory to me.) So I thought I'd do some.
So here we go. I split them into separate posts, a zine per post. And over the course of the day, as LJ permits, I shall post a bunch of them. I am hoping to post them for Concupiscence, Concupiscence 3, Dark Fantasies 2, Dark Fantasies 4 and It's Greek To Me. We'll see how it goes. If you get fed up, do feel free to beg me to stop!
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Date: 2011-12-08 11:31 am (UTC)But I'm also rethinking (again...) the whole thing about what needs preserving where. The web throws up occasional firestorms where some sort of tiny interest suddenly gets catapulted into global prominence for a day, and everyone suddenly has an opinion on... oh, a Youtube moment or a Twitter remark. People still remember, say 'cat in the wheeliebin woman' or - no, actually, I don't want to name too many because they're trying to live it down!
I am generally much happier on mailing lists where there is some sort of assumption that everyone has made at least the effort of subscribing and so things have some sort of limited circulation (and yes, I know that stuff gets forwarded off such lists, but...) rather than on the web where Google throws stuff up to anyone. But I gather I arrived about five years too late for that. Things are on the web - and I ought to be grateful, because without that availability I would never have found it after all that time.
But I'm looking at what I put in some of those reviews and thinking "ow. I would not like to defend that to.." (insert appropriate friends, family, employer here). On the other hand, I would have liked to have known more about them before buying them.
For some reason, I am less bothered about this when it comes to my stories. I don't know why.
Oh, it's all so complicated!