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User:Franzeska

Name/s: Franzeska, Franzi
Fandom/s: Is it cheesy? Does it have cops? Does it have COPS IN SPACE?!
You can find me at: http://franzeska.dreamwidth.org/profile http://franzeska.livejournal.com/profile http://archiveofourown.org/users/Franzeska/ http://delicious.com/Franzeska http://www.librarything.com/profile/franzeska http://pupe.ameba.jp/profile/o0srpZ2EOBFP/
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The same Franzeska as pretty much everywhere else.

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Languages

I speak pretty decent Spanish and pretty rotten Japanese. I'm happy to help people decipher Japanese text. Just leave me a message on my talk page.

My Fandoms

Once upon a time, I had fandoms that my friends were actually in. Alas, that no longer seems to be true.

I first discovered fanfiction on the alt.tv.x-files group when I was 13. The first one I remember is Mason, though I suspect it's not the first one I read. After that, I spent several years obsessively reading fic for shows like the X-Files, Highlander, and Forever Knight.

In high school and part of college I went through my anime period and read a lot of Gundam Wing fic despite thinking the show was crap (what? There was a lot of that stuff) and Fushi Yuugi fic despite thinking that none of it lived up to the show. (And Ranma, and Mermaid's Scar, and Outlaw Star, and Cowboy Bebop, and...) My hands down favorite both in terms of canon love and awesome fic was Rurouni Kenshin, which is also one of the only fandoms I was actually active in.

I used to belong to about 8 zillion yahoo groups for HP and Kenshin and every anime series and Age of Sail franchise I've ever encountered. If only I could remember any of their names... (Damn you, yahoo, for taking adult groups out of the search directory!)

I have recently returned to my true first love: cheesy cop shows! I'm a huge fan of CSI: Miami and am slowly getting into CSI:NY. I've also recently watched all of NCIS and will probably move on to the rest of the CSI franchise next if those remaining Starsky & Hutch DVDs don't distract me first. For the love of god, if you know where to find some CSI:Miami slash, share, share, share!

I'm very lazy and have rarely organized anything or actively participated, but I did run the SxSAS list for a while, and I dragged a number of people into Onmyouji fandom. I've been on various OTW committees.


I use my real name online. (Hi, Mom.)

Manga

I currently read a lot of manga in Japanese and a lot of writing about manga in English. I no longer read manga in English because 1. everything that gets translated these days is crap and 2. current translations are all of abominable quality and commit the utter horror of leaving in the original honorifics. (No, recent manga fans and scanlation readers, that wasn't always how it was done! No, it doesn't have the same effect it would in the original Japanese! Die fangirl/boy Japanese in professional translations, die!!!)

To Do List

Here are some things I think someone should do. If not me, then how about you?

  • Fix the Aestheticism page. One of the most important early English language resources on BL, and no one's done anything to document it?!
  • The Anklebiters Archive. Has this disappeared from the internet? Alas! We really must document the flowering of the Vampire Hobbits trend.
  • "litfic" needs a definition
  • MediaMiner.org
  • Baka Updates, Manga Updates, My Anime List, and other anime/manga/scanlation/fansub-oriented pages like that
  • SSA's info is out of date
  • Maybe something on the Three Investigators?
  • The Ultimate Manga Guide (formerly the Usenet Manga Guide)
  • Anime/manga usenet groups
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