Mary Borsellino
| Fan | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Mary Borsellino |
| Alias(es): | monkeycrackmary, sharpest_rose |
| Type: | fan writer, vidder, fansite owner, acafan |
| Fandoms: | Lord of the Rings, DC Comics, Supernatural, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Bandom, others |
| Communities: | rosiesamfrodo.com, dombillijah.com, Girl-Wonder.org, Even Robins, One-Nine-Hundred |
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| URL: | http://www.maryborsellino.com/ http://muse.inkstigmata.net (fic site; defunct) sharpest_rose at LiveJournal monkeycrackmary at YouTube |
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Mary Borsellino has been active as a fan and academic in several fandoms.
Mary now writes and publishes original fiction and also works on video games and visual novels. She was a contributor for Sequential Tart, a webzine about the comics industry.
Lord of the Rings
In Lord of the Rings fandom, Mary is best known for Pretty Good Year and West of the Moon, a long and popular series of Frodo/Sam/Rosie stories that inspired shared universe fanworks by other authors and artists. Storytellers is an archive for fanworks inspired by the universe. The stories were also collected in a zine, published in 2003. Pretty Good Year was a finalist at the 2003 Mithril Awards in the category "Story focusing on Hobbits".
Mary also co-founded the fan hosting domains rosiesamfrodo.com and dombillijah.com with Hope in 2002.
DC Comics
In 2006, Mary founded Girl-Wonder.org, an activism site protesting the treatment of female characters, created in response to a 2004 storyline involving the death by torture of a female character. She also founded the fansite Even Robins.
See also: sharpest_rose at the Stephanie Brown Wiki
Fanvids
Mary has been a vidder since at least 2006. She has created vids in a variety of fandoms. Several of her Supernatural vids were nominated for Lawrence Awards.
Example Fanfiction
- Pretty Good Year and West of the Moon, Lord of the Rings, c. 2000-2003.
- Fantastic Beasts: A two-parchment essay for Care of Magical Creatures by SB, Harry Potter, 2004.
Fanzines
See Zines and Fanzines at Mary's website for more.
Fanzines of Mary's fanfiction include:
- Pretty Good Year (2003)
- One Nine Hundred (2007)
She has also contributed content to other zines:
- "Eleven ways not to start an autobiography", story from Lotripping (2004)
- "The Echo of Bells", story from Inside a Song (2004)
- "'Less Campy': Supernatural's attempted reassertion of a pre-Buffy status quo", essay from Some of Us Really Do Watch for the Plot (2007)
Fan Studies
See Cultural Studies at Mary's website for more.
Other Links
- Interview with Mary Borsellino (and Part 2) at henryjekins.org, 2009