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| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | skalja |
| Alias(es): | Tinderblast, Firebolt, rabican, bayard |
| Type: | Fan writer, moderator, icon maker |
| Fandoms: | Spider-Man, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, others |
| Communities: | Scans Daily, fuckyeahspiderwife |
| Other: | |
| URL: | skalja at LiveJournal skalja at Dreamwidth skalja at Tumblr coqalane at LiveJournal (icon journal) Tinderblast at FanFiction.Net Firebolt's Corner (archive link, 2001) |
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skalja is a fan now primarily in comics fandom.
As Firebolt and later Tinderblast,[1][2] she was one of the earliest members of the Harry Potter fanfiction community.[3] She wrote the 2000 essay "Harry Potter and Slash" in support of slash "back in the days when it was still a serious point of controversy."[4][5] The essay was featured in FictionAlley's primer.
skalja was also an icon maker. Since 2006, her icon journal has been Coq-à-l'âne. In the early 2000s, she ran the site Harry Potter and the Chamber of Icons with Flourish and Bianca.
References
- ^ skalja.insanejournal.com in scans_daily. Comment on "[Admin] Proposal for a new home", posted 23 October 2009: "My friendship with McTabby was kind of at the tail end of my involvement in HP -- I was Tinderblast then (well, I still am in a lot of places), and before that Firebolt. Lulz, I like brooms."
- ^ She is not to be confused with later HP fan brodie (tinderblast). (See Endorse, applaud, extol, pimp, plug, shill, and hawk. Did I leave any out?, posted 20 February 2003, edited March 2003.) Her original LiveJournal handle rabican redirects to skalja.
- ^ Tinderblast is included on Flourish's list of Some Notable Oldies in the Harry Potter fandom. Her FanFiction.Net account was created in 1998, before the publication of Prisoner of Azkaban.
- ^ skalja at LiveJournal. On slash essays..., posted 04 February 2002. (Accessed 31 October 2021.)
- ^ "Harry Potter and Slash" was posted as Firebolt (archived 08 August 2001) then as Tinderblast (archived 22 June 2004) at FictionAlley.