Calysta Rose's Media Pages
| Personal Fanfiction Website | |
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| Website: | Calysta Rose's Media Pages |
| Author: | Calysta Rose |
| Dates: | 1997 - 2001 |
| Fandom: | Star Wars TPM, Velvet Goldmine |
| URL: | http://www.ilithyiarose.org/media/index.html (Wayback link) |
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Calysta Rose's Media Pages was a website with fanfiction, mp3, fanart, character pictures, MiSTs and links.
It also hosted the Queer As Folk archive Across The Pond and it had an Escapade 11 con report and Calysta Rose's response[1] to an article about fanfiction called Stranger than fiction[2]. The topic of her response was RPS.
The site was linked at Mac & Anna's Place in the category "Individual Author Fiction and Fannish Personal Sites".
About
Welcome to my cultural participation site. What's cultural participation, you ask? Cultural participation is the process of taking the myths, images and stories that shape our culture and reshaping them into stories that have meaning and power for us as individuals and groups. It is an ancient tradition, started long before the written word of any sort was invented. Today large corporations sponsor our culture's storytellers and in so doing imagine that they have the moral right to keep the stories all to themselves. It is an unnatural state of things, and it impoverishes our culture.Every myth, legend, folk tale was once a single person's vision or story. But they turned around and told it to a friend, who told it to someone else and so on and so on. And so by the time the story, Robin Hood for example, has reached forward through time to us it is significantly altered from it's original form. But it is also still relevant, because each new listner who then retold the story reshaped the story so that it would speak to even more new listners. And that is what we in fandom do. We reshape a story, we take it out of it's isolation and ground it in the very real world that we live in.
Back in late August of '99 I accidentally stumbled across the fabulous world of slash fanfiction. I was instantly drawn into the beauty and wonder of m/m relationships. Specifically, I fell in love with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan from Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace thanks in no small part to the very talented Keelywolfe whose page I first stumbled into.
Since then I've found many new fandoms, pairings and a great many really wonderful people. And that last is the best, the people. Sure there is the occasional blowup, but for the most part my time in fandom has been really wonderful. Just this February 15th - 19th I got to go to my first slash convention (Escapade), and I had an absolutely wonderful time. I could go on forever about how much my life has been enriched by the people I've met, but instead I'll just encourage you to find a fandom or two that you love and really get to know the people in it. It can change your life.
My main fandoms at the moment are Due South, Queer As Folk and to a lesser extent The Sentinel. I'm a RayK fan in Due South (he's one of those men that make you want to drop down on your knees and give him a blow-job), I love QAF so much I created an archive and a mailing list, and I read and discuss The Sentinel quite a lot.
References
- ^ Response to Stranger Than Fiction Article. (Accessed 04 December 2015)
- ^ MIKE DOHERTY. Stranger than fiction, Special to The Globe and Mail, 26 April 2001. (Accessed 04 December 2015)