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dunmurderin) wrote2019-07-24 07:08 pm
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Sunshine Challenge: Prompt 6: Show Off Your Stuff
Prompt 6: Share Fannish Collections:
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Some cool things of mine – no pictures as of yet, but that may change over time.
Transformers-wise, I have a T-shirt from BotCon 2000, which was held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and was the first Transformers convention I ever went to. It was a heck of a lot of fun but not my best Transformers convention experience. That goes to the convention, also in Ft. Wayne, that I went to in either 2001 or 2002, where my girlfriend and I went and because we didn’t have tickets, hung out in the hotel lobby – where we actually got to listen in on an interview with Sky Byte’s voice actor. And because of some shenanigans and friends showing mercy on us, we also got to watch the episodes of Robots in Disguise that hadn’t been released in the US (or hadn’t been as of that time). Which meant we got to see the RiD version of the Combaticons in action.
I’ve also got a couple copies of ConQuest, a Transformers fanzine published by Raksha, a Transformers BNF from back in the day. She was known back then for being pro-Decepticon, seeing them as the misunderstood party in the Autobot/Decepticon war, hating Beast Wars/Beast Machines and organizing the first BotCon in 1995.
One of the copies of Con-Quest that I have is #29, the ‘zine where my first ever Transformers fanfic was published. (and which can be read here: Realization *Squee!*
Another fandom of mine is post-apocalyptic men’s adventure novels from the 1980s, most of which are centered on nuclear war as the source of the apocalypse. (I've also got a wonking stack of non-fiction books about nuclear war, many of which are from the 1980s.) I have examples of 30 different series – in most cases, I have the first book of the series. In a few cases, I have the entire series (usually in the case where the series is 3-5 books). In one case, I have not only the entirety of Doomsday Warrior, a 19 book series in print, I also have it in audiobook format. Specifically, in GraphicAudio format, which leads to another fandom of mine!
GraphicAudio is a company that creates audiobooks, primarily for long-haul truckers. Their tagline is “A Movie in Your Mind!” and they come pretty darn close to achieving that. Their books are performed by a cast with a narrator and includes sound effects and music. They do a lot of westerns but also a lot of science fiction, fantasy, comic book novel adaptations and post-apocalyptic mens’ adventure series, like Doomsday Warrior, Deathlands (the longest-running post-apocalyptic mens’ adventure series with over 125 books) and Outlanders (sequel series to Deathlands and also a long-runner with over 50 books).
For more on the
sunshine_challenge click on the link. Some cool things of mine – no pictures as of yet, but that may change over time.
Transformers-wise, I have a T-shirt from BotCon 2000, which was held in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and was the first Transformers convention I ever went to. It was a heck of a lot of fun but not my best Transformers convention experience. That goes to the convention, also in Ft. Wayne, that I went to in either 2001 or 2002, where my girlfriend and I went and because we didn’t have tickets, hung out in the hotel lobby – where we actually got to listen in on an interview with Sky Byte’s voice actor. And because of some shenanigans and friends showing mercy on us, we also got to watch the episodes of Robots in Disguise that hadn’t been released in the US (or hadn’t been as of that time). Which meant we got to see the RiD version of the Combaticons in action.
I’ve also got a couple copies of ConQuest, a Transformers fanzine published by Raksha, a Transformers BNF from back in the day. She was known back then for being pro-Decepticon, seeing them as the misunderstood party in the Autobot/Decepticon war, hating Beast Wars/Beast Machines and organizing the first BotCon in 1995.
One of the copies of Con-Quest that I have is #29, the ‘zine where my first ever Transformers fanfic was published. (and which can be read here: Realization *Squee!*
Another fandom of mine is post-apocalyptic men’s adventure novels from the 1980s, most of which are centered on nuclear war as the source of the apocalypse. (I've also got a wonking stack of non-fiction books about nuclear war, many of which are from the 1980s.) I have examples of 30 different series – in most cases, I have the first book of the series. In a few cases, I have the entire series (usually in the case where the series is 3-5 books). In one case, I have not only the entirety of Doomsday Warrior, a 19 book series in print, I also have it in audiobook format. Specifically, in GraphicAudio format, which leads to another fandom of mine!
GraphicAudio is a company that creates audiobooks, primarily for long-haul truckers. Their tagline is “A Movie in Your Mind!” and they come pretty darn close to achieving that. Their books are performed by a cast with a narrator and includes sound effects and music. They do a lot of westerns but also a lot of science fiction, fantasy, comic book novel adaptations and post-apocalyptic mens’ adventure series, like Doomsday Warrior, Deathlands (the longest-running post-apocalyptic mens’ adventure series with over 125 books) and Outlanders (sequel series to Deathlands and also a long-runner with over 50 books).
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What is it about those post-apocalyptic novels that appeals to you? I'm just curious because it's not a genre I've ever heard of before!
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Part of the appeal of the PA novels is pure nostalgia. I read a couple books from the Doomsday Warrior series when I was a kid (well, teenager) back in the 1980s as well as some of another series called Endworld. The attraction back then was partly a way to deal with my fears of actual nuclear war happening. The nice thing about post-apocalyptic series is that they all begin from the premise that there will be a time after the apocalypse. People will survive and life will continue -- might be different, might be not great, but there will be something that comes after.
I got re-interested in these books back in like, 2007 or so when I found rereleases of the first three books in the Endworld series at Barnes and Noble. I remembered enjoying the series and picked them up as some lovely bits of nostalgia. And found out that yeahhh, these books were not good. But they were fun to read in the same way that watching a cheesy movie is fun. This led to me collecting examples of the various series that were out there with the idea of writing my own post-apocalyptic men's adventure style series that would be the kind of thing I wish my younger self had been able to find. (That's still an in progress kinda thing...)
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Everyone’s conventions stories are giving me major nostalgia!