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[estirose]

Your IQ Is 110

Your Logical Intelligence is Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Exceptional Your General Knowledge is Above Average

A Quick and Dirty IQ Test

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Offtopicish

[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

This is kind of off topic but another person said that you might be of some help in answering a question I have. I am interested in the history of fan fiction. Recently, I have looked at the history of beta reading, trying to find the origins of the term. The person told me that you had been using the term back in November of 1995 or so in the Sliders fan fiction community, either on Usenet or the mailing list for the community. I was wondering if you had any possible insight on the origins of the term in the Sliders community, when it was first used, where you first heard the term front, if the definition that fandom used now matches with what is used at the moment... :)

Re: Offtopicish

[estirose.livejournal.com]

Hm.

I came into the Sliders fandom due to some friends in the Tomorrow People fandom (among them Kyrie Daniels), but I first heard of the term either way back in Highlander fandom back in 1993 or 1994 or possibly way, way back in pre-internet Starman (1986 TV series) fandom (though Highlander fandom is more likely). My memory of Sliders fandom is rather foggy, as I wasn't really involved in it. You might ask ladyslvr about Sliders fandom, as she was a bit more involved in it.

As for the term meaning, I think it meant the same then pretty much as it does now. A beta reader checked for spelling, grammar, characterization, cohesiveness... kind of an editor, really. There were some that just did one or the other, but a few who did all. (I had an absolutely fantastic one in Forever Knight fandom - Jennise Hall. Don't know if she's still on the 'net or in FK fandom, though.)

Hope this helped a little.

Re: Offtopicish

[partly-bouncy.livejournal.com]

Aaaah. Wow. That dates the term a lot earlier than the sources I had been finding on my own which had been pointing to the term being used the earliest of 1995... :) Very helpful, especially the fandoms.

Just so you know, Wendy Perkins was the person who pointed me in your direction.

The term meaning the same thing is rather cool in that kept its continutiny. I guess the confusion some people feel regarding the word is a lack of knowledge as the term migrated from one fan fiction community to another.

Thanks for taking the time to reply. :)

Re: Offtopicish

[estirose.livejournal.com]

No problem.

The more I think about it, the more likely it is that it was from one of my earliest online fandoms - Highlander, Forever Knight, or Tomorrow People - rather than Starman fandom, as I think that they were still called proofreaders or editors back then. I do remember hearing the term before I was hooked into Sliders fandom. So, somewhere between 1993-1995.