Slash Revolution International
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Slash Revolution International |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Dean (Deannie?), R'Rain, Race |
| Dates: | mentioned in November 1997 [1] 14 March 1998 (update) or before - 27 April 1999 (Wayback capture) or later |
| Type: | fanfic review site |
| Fandom: | multi |
| URL: | http://www.frii.com/~xangst/sri/index.html (Wayback link) |
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Slash Revolution International was a fanfic review site.
Reviews were posted by fans who had submitted a brief "resume" to the "Board of Review." [2]
The site had a section on slash glossary terms [3], abbreviations [4], a list of common pairings [5], and a section for zine ads (for sale and trade) and submissions. It also provided banners for fans to use on their own sites.
Fiction was searchable by: title, authors, category, pairing, fandom, and possibly location (print zine or online).
The page had a warning:
Be it known that if you are under the age of consent in your area, you are currently in violation of SRI mandate #0103, and are instructed to turn back immediately. This is a base of operations for slash fanfiction, and is off-limits to minors! [6]
From a fan in late 1997:
Reviews by slashers, for slashers. An organized attempt to pick the wheat from the chaff. Supposedly open to reviews of zine stories as well as netfic, but most of the reviews are of netfic. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Set/2246/ [7]
Reviews of Print Zines
The site posted "reviews" of fiction.
For print zines, fans needed permission from both the publisher and the author to have their "reviews" posted to "Slash Revolution International:
First, find yourself a great story to review!
Reviews for Zine stories
If that story is in a print zine SRI must receive permission from both the zine publisher and the story author before we can post the review. Have them write to [email protected], putting the words "REVIEW PERMISSION" at the front of the subject header, and putting the following information in the body of the email:
What review is being permitted (title of reviewed story and reviewers name) Is the email sender the author or the publisher. A website (if available) where readers can order the zine. The snailmail address where they can contact the publisher Whether the author wishes to have his or her email address listed on the review, and what that addy is.
Once both publisher and author have contacted us, we will post the review. If, for any reason, one of them does not wish the review to be published, we will send a note to the reviewer apprising them of that fact. [8]
Fan Comments
Speaking of going with recommendations instead of picking at random, let me put in a plug for the site that led me to the two online K/S stories I enjoyed. It's called "Slash Revolution International," and it seems to be putting together a bunch of reviews of slash stories. At the moment, certain fandoms (the heavily online ones) are represented much more than others, but I suspect that as the site grows and more people contribute reviews the fandom base will spread (anyone can be a freelance reviewer-- hint hint hint for people with strong opinions!). It also seems to have a few cross-referencing problems (I could only get to the reviews I read by clicking on the "new reviews" label... clicking on the category "Star Trek: the Original Series" tells me that there *are* no ST stories reviewed on the site at this time), but that's easily fixed. Maybe they do it automatically when they move a story from the "new" category into the regular fandom category, I don't know.
It has categories set up for the reviewing of print stories, but no reviews in those categories yet. And even if it just ends up reviewing stories on the net, I think it'll perform a priceless service. Isn't one of the biggest problems with accessing net fiction the very enormity of the set of unfiltered material? Reviews (especially those by other authors, who have reputations of their own) can give you a quick idea of the pairing, length, nature, tone, and quality of a story... that sort of filtering can take a lot of the hunter's headache out of tracking down net fiction. And the reviews themselves can be accessed different ways-- by fandom, by pairing, by author, by title, by category (h/c, angst, death, first time, etc... although it seems this categorization isn't always complete, so the ST 'first time' story I read doesn't appear under the first time category-- again, maybe it's a function of the review being new, or of the impossibility of completely cross-referencing every little thing).
In any case, I recommend it, and if enough people from a broad enough cross-section contribute to it, it will grow into something both spectacular and indispensable. [9]
See also
References
- ^ Strange Bedfellows (APA) #19
- ^ from Reviews
- ^ Slash Terms
- ^ Slash Fandom Abbreviations
- ^ Slash Pairings
- ^ Main Page
- ^ Strange Bedfellows (APA) #19
- ^ from Reviews
- ^ quoted anonymously from Virgule-L Sep 30, 1997)