User:Elf

Name/s:	Elf, formerly elfwreck
Fandom/s:	Harry Potter, Star Trek (TOS, mostly), Vorkosigan saga, Darkover, Mercedes Lackey's works, Heinlein's works, Filk, Sci-fi conventions, Metafandom, anything really weird.
You can find me at:	http://elf.dreamwidth.org
On Fanlore:	My contributions / email me

Bio

I have been a Fanlore gardener since very early in Fanlore's existence. While I'm not a wiki expert, I know a reasonable amount about how to format and edit pages, and I never mind questions or comments.

I'm a gamer, filker, and sci-fi fan. I started playing Dungeons and Dragons in 1978, and started collecting Elfquest graphic novels in 1983. I attended my first science fiction convention in 1986, where I was introduced to filk in the form of "Banned from Argo." I've played and collected many other tabletop role-playing games, including Champions, GURPS, Paranoia, Tunnels and Trolls, Star Frontiers, Boot Hill, and Runequest. GURPS and Fate are currently my favorite RPGs; and I have a collection of over 75 sourcebooks for GURPS and dozens of PDFs for Fate. In late 2022, I started getting into solo TTRPGs, including writing some of my own.

I worked as a volunteer for several large SF Bay Area conventions in the 1980s: BayCon, TimeCon, and Silicon. I regret missing the Rule Six year of TimeCon. I volunteered for ConFrancisco, Worldcon in 1993, and helped arrange accessibility resources. I've also attended several other conventions. I started attending Escapade for the Snarry meetup after Deathly Hallows, and have only missed one year since. I attended Worldcon in San Jose, bought a supporting membership for Dublin and converted supporting to full membership for ConZealand when it was announced it would be online. In 2022, I joined FAPA.

I joined LiveJournal in 2003 because of a post by my favorite RPG author, John Wick. (No connection whatsoever to the movie character who showed up years later.) I stopped updating my journal almost exactly 5 years later, in response to Strikethrough and the SUP buyout; I was active in communities and others' journals for a few years after that but eventually stopped checking in at all. I later moved my main activity to Dreamwidth, but as that slowed, I became more active at Tumblr. These days, I mostly split my fannish attention between Tumblr and Discord. I am not active on Twitter, and do not have a Facebook or Instagram account.

I'm a long-term supporter of the OTW. In 2008, I converted the first issue of Transformative Works and Cultures to a printable PDF and made it available for download.

I have a habit of joining new social media platforms and watching them collapse a few years later. I joined InkScape (an LJ clone inspired by Strikethrough), WritScrib, Imzy, Pillowfort, Fanexus, and BobaBoard, along with not-specifically-fannish platforms like WT.social.

Fanlore Event Participation

Stub September 2023

🎫 STUB SEPTEMBER CHALLENGE 🎫
Create a new Stub [ ✔ ]	Add to a Stub [ ✔ ]	Add section headers to a Stub [ ✔ ]	Add an internal link to a Stub [ ✔ ]	Add enough to a stub to remove the Stub tag [ ✔ ]

2023 Bingo

BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO
Add to a bullet point list [ done! ]	Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ]	Add an internal link [ done! ]
Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ]	Add to your user page [ done! ]	Thank someone for an edit [ done! ]
Add an external link [ done! ]	Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ]	Add alt text to any image [ done! ]

EXPERT EDITOR BINGO
Add an example fanwork to any page [ done! ]	Add five internal links to any page [ done! ]	Add a new section to a page [ done! ]
Say hello on a new user's talk page [ done! ]	Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ]	Add a quotation to a page and reference it [ done! ]
Add content to a section marked 'needs expansion' [ done! ]	Make a new character page (check out our dedicated page outline if you need a guide)! [ done! ]	Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ]

2022 Bingo

BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO
Add to a bullet point list [ done! ]	Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ]	Add an internal link [ done! ]
Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ]	Add to your user page [ done! ]	Add a new section to a page [ done! ]
Add an external link [ done! ]	Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ]	Add alt text to any image [ done! ]

EXPERT EDITOR BINGO
Add an example fanwork to any page [ done! ]	Add five internal links to any page [ done! ]	Add a category to a page or image [ done! ]
Say hello on a user's talk page [ done! ]	Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ]	Add a quotation to a page and reference it [ done! ]
Add content to a section marked 'needs expansion' [ done! ]	Create a Wanted page [ done! ]	Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ]

2019 Stub September

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Participation - Removed Stub tag from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Edited DeadJournal

2020 Fanlore Bingo

BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO
Add an internal link [ done! ]	Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ]	Add to your user page [ done! ]
Add a new section to a page [ done! ]	Fix a broken link [ done! ]	Fix a typo [ done! ]
Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ]	Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ]	Add an image to a page [ done! ]

EXPERT EDITOR BINGO
Contribute to any FanloreProject page [ done! ]	Add references to a page that doesn't have any [ done! ]	Create a wanted page [ done! ]
Archive a link and reference it [ done! ]	Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ]	Add an link to an orphaned page [ done! ]
Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ]	Say hello on a user's talk page [ done! ]	Add a category to a page or image [ done! ]

2020 Stub September

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Phineas and Ferb - add internal links, description of the fandom, a few fanworks
AO3 Census: Masterpost - should not have been a stub; also needed internal links & some formatting
Robin (DC Comics) - added canon & fanon details for the 5 main Robins, a few other links. Got a bonus badge for this one!
fanpol - expand definition, add eaxmples of use
Add Stub category to small swarm of doujinshi by Keisuke (fan) that don't have any details beyond fandom, creator, and cover image
N.K. Jemisin - add mention of Hugo Awards. Still a stub.
Booker (TV) - add a link to The Old Guard's "Booker" character, and a few other notes.
Biker Mice from Mars - this had a ton of group links but no description. Added description; remove stub tag, but it's still pretty sparse
Ko-fi needed a mention of AO3's not allowing it
Block needed a page
Koriand'r needed a mention of DC Comics: Bad at Math
The Flying Nun got a little more detail, and some fanart
Five Nights at Freddy's could still use some love
Rose Lalonde was a bad idea to edit - the page had like 50 words and I still got hit with spoilers I didn't want to see, dammit.

2021 Fanlore Bingo

BEGINNER EDITOR BINGO
Add missing information to an infobox on any page [ done! ]	Add an internal link [ done! ]	Add to your user page [ done! ]
Add a new section to a page [ done! ]	Add an extra line to a stub page [ done! ]	Leave your thoughts on a Talk page and sign your comment with ~~~~ [ done! ]
Add alt text to any image [ done! ]	Add to a bullet point list [ done! ]	Add an external link [ done! ]

EXPERT EDITOR BINGO
Create a redirect to a page from an alternate name, spelling or capitalization [ done! ]	Add an link to an orphaned page [ done! ]	Vote on a Featured Article nomination [ done! ]
Say hello on a user's talk page [ done! ]	Add a category to a page or image [ done! ]	Add a reference to a page that is missing citations [ done! ]
Add an image gallery [ done! ]	Add a quotation to a page and reference it [ done! ]	Add content to a section marked 'needs expansion' [ done! ]