Moey
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Maureen |
| Alias(es): | Moey, Mo, Moey Knight, morine10 |
| Type: | fan writer, moderator |
| Fandoms: | Harry Potter |
| Communities: | The Sugar Quill |
| Other: | |
| URL: | moeyknight at LiveJournal Moey at The Sugar Quill Moey at FanFiction.Net |
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Moey is a Harry Potter fan writer and "Deputy Headmistress" of The Sugar Quill.
History
Moey participated in early Harry Potter mailing lists, including HP4GU (starting in November 2000).[1] On November 15, 2000, she wrote of discovering ParadigmOfUncertainty:
- "Until recently I had declared myself a purest, shunning fan fiction of any sort. However, my Harry obsession recently got the better of me and I took a tip off a message board and decided to check out PoU (just knowing that I would be thoroughly disappointed) Well, having stayed up way too late, two nights in a row, all I have to say is "What was I thinking??" Lori, Penny, Carol, and Cassandra - FABULOUS!"[2]
She got a FanFiction.Net account in December 2000 and posted her first fanwork, a poem called "Could The Snape Save Hogwarts?", on December 26th. She posted "The Yule Brawl" on January 9, 2001; its author's note thanked "the editors at The Sugar Quill".[3] In 2002, her stories also were hosted at the Weird_Sisters Yahoo! group, a mailing list "for the distribution and discussion of Harry Potter fanfiction."[4]
Moey started a Blogspot blog in January 2002[1][5] and moved to LiveJournal in October 2002.[6]
At The Sugar Quill
Moey was "adjunct faculty" as of March 2001[1] and "Professor of Fanfiction" as of January 2002.[5] Around July 2002, she became "Deputy Headmistress".[7] The SQ glossary entry for "Deputy Headmistress" states:
- "Deputy Headmistress - Moey. Oh, how do you solve a problem like Moey? How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? She is gentle! She is wild! She's a riddle! She's a child! She's a headache! She's an angel! She's a pirate! According to Zsenya, a Deputy Headmistress does way more work than her title gives her credit for."[8]
Moey was also known for propagating many Sugar Quill idiosyncrasies, such as the all-caps and with-an-'x' spellings of words such as "ROX" and "SUX", as well as the "secret" of the number 87.
In December 2002, Moey was interviewed alongside other Sugar Quill staff members for a segment on NPR about Harry Potter fanfiction.[9]
References
- ^ a b c Magoo et al. SQ, a history. (Archived 05 July 2004 by the Wayback Machine.)
- ^ morine10 at ParadigmOfUncertainty. Post 4349: (no subject). 15 November 2000. (Accessed 23 September 2013.) WebCite.
- ^ The Yule Brawl at FanFiction.Net. (Accessed 23 September 2013.)
- ^ Weird_Sisters at Yahoo! Groups (archived 14 February 2002). Moey's FanFiction.net profile states: "Come join me and Jedi Boadicea at [Weird_Sisters] to discuss!" (accessed 23 September 2013). From 14 February - 25 April 2002, Moey was listed as a "Weird Sisters regular" whose stories could be found in the group; by 16 January 2004 Moey was no longer mentioned explicitly in the group's description. The group was deleted sometime after 14 September 2005.
- ^ a b pegleg at Blogspot (Archived 13 January 2002 by the Wayback Machine). Also www.thepirateknight.com (Archived 30 September 2002).
- ^ moeyknight LiveJournal account created on 25 October 2002 (accessed 23 September 2013). Post to Blogspot announcing the move to LJ on 29 October 2002 (archived 31 October 2005).
- ^ See Sugar Quill's "Staff Room" page on 05 June 2002 versus 06 August 2002, and the Glossary page on 06 August 2002 versus 07 December 2002.
- ^ The Sugar Quill Glossary. Deputy Headmistress. (Accessed 23 September 2013.)
- ^ Harry Potter Fan Fiction, interview by Margot Adler, All Things Considered (National Public Radio), 29 December 2002. See Sugar Quill in the News! (accessed 23 September 2013) and Moey's LiveJournal post (29 December 2002, accessed 23 September 2013).