Rachael Sabotini

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Name:	Rachael Sabotini
Alias(es):	Wickedwords, Alys Sanders, Alys, rache
Type:	Vidder, Author, Meta Fan
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URL:	http://mediafans.org/rachael/ fiction site (Rachael Sabotini's House O'Fanfic) http://bamvidvault.ning.com/profile/RachaelSabotini streaming video site
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She co-founded the Media Cannibals and vidded with Sandy Herrold as part of Clucking Belles

Her first fanfic was at Worf/Riker story in 1989 in the print zine To Boldly Go....

In 25 Jan 1993, she joined the Virgule Mailing List under her Alys pseudonym using a borrowed university account.

She is a former administrator of the ROG-L mailing list.

Rachael Sabotini contributes to Fanlore as user:wickedwords.

Interviews

• Team Angst McShep Match Interview with Rachael Sabotini (2007)
• a February 2009 interview for National Public Radio's All Things Considered segment on vidding: Vidders Talk Back To Their Pop-Culture Muses by Neda Ulaby (2009)
• Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Rachael Sabotini (2012)
• Media Fandom Oral History Project Interview with Rachael Sabotini (2015)

Her Name

In 2007, she wrote: "My pseud 'Rachael Sabotini' is a riff off of Raphael Sabatini, the author of Scarmouche, Captain Blood, and many other swashbuckling novels, and my lj name 'WickedWords' is both a book about Curses, Insults, Put-Downs, and Other Formerly Unprintable Terms and a line of erotica novels I'll leave you to guess which one I pulled off the shelf when I was trying to figure out a name for my lj. Both names seem too long for email, so I usually go by rache."

In 2000, she was the winner of a Citizens Against Bad Slash Tongue-in-Cheek Award: "I present this award to Rachael Sabotini, one of my favorite Sentinel writers, who also wins the award for the person who has her name mispelled the most."

Meta

• The Fannish Potlatch
• You Big Bully!
• The Genealogy of Vidding, aka the three great houses of vidding
• Three-Point Characterization, or No, We Really Aren't All Watching the Same Show

Vids

Notable Vids with the Media Cannibals

• Detachable Penis (The Professionals)
• Hippie Boy (The Sentinel)
• The Man Song (The Sentinel)
• Same Thing In Reverse (The Sentinel)
• Hair (Multimedia)

Notable Vids with Clucking Belles

• Wipeout
• A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness, aka Hot, Hot, Hot

Fanfiction

Notable Zine Stories

• Breathing Sorrows by Megan Kent and Rachael Sabotini, published in Futures Without End issue #1 (Highlander) Winner Best Novella Stiffie awards 1998
• Diplomacy in Waltz Tempo by Rachael Sabotini in Surfacing (Stargate: Atlantis)

Early Fiction

• "Arch" in To Boldly Go... #1 in 1989 was her first story
• Empire of the Senses as Alys published in Beguiled (The Professionals) 1991. An excerpt from this story was originally published in Cold Fish and Stale Chips #4
• Fish Out of Water as Alys Sanders published in The Hols of CI5 (The Professionals) 1991
• Zippity-Do-Dah Affair as Alys published in Exposures (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) 1991

Other Stuff

• She is the voice of Elizabeth Weir in the Written by the Victors podfic.

• In the summer of 2013, the her vid A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness was selected to be part of the vidding segment in the New York Museum of the Moving Image exhibition.