Southern Comfort: Rogue Fan Club
| Website | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Southern Comfort |
| Owner/Maintainer: | Bonnie "Dni" Cunningham and Lynn Keslensky (founders); Bobbie Gorden (President), John Greener (Vice-President) and Bucky Williams (Vice-President) |
| Dates: | 1996-2008 |
| Type: | Fan club/mailing list |
| Fandom: | X-Men |
| URL: | on Wayback |
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A fan club/mailing list for the X-Men character Rogue. The first reference to the website appeared in the signature line of Alexandra N's posting of part two of a fanfic on ACFF in September, 1996,[1] and the website acknowledges the mailing list started in 1996. [2] The site moved from earthlink.com to its own domain in October 1999.[3] The fan club was originally started by Bonnie "Dni" Cunningham and Lynn Keslensky, who came from a Gambit fan club called "Guild O' Thieves" (which later became The Gambit Guild). Bonnie and Lynn created the group as a place to discuss Rogue that was also Gambit-friendly, as many of the websites and mailing lists of the time were not.[4]
The mailing list emphasized friendly and courteous discussion, with a three-strikes system for those who broke the policies against flaming, spamming, forging or persistent off-topic posting. With the release of the X-Men movies, the list also instituted a ban on posting potential or ideal casting discussions due to their tendency to take over the mailing list to the detriment of all other discussion.[5]
As of 2008, there were 167 members, according to the members page.[6] The site was comprised of the following sections:
Main Page
- What's New?
- Join the Club! - information about the club and links to the member bios, polices and guidelines and so on.
- Gambit-Friendly - links to various Gambit archives, mailing lists and The Gambit Guild.
- Links
- Rogue Links
- Gambit Links
- Mystique Links
- X-Men Links
- General Comics
- Fan-Fiction
- Members' Sites
- M & Ms! (Mailing Lists and Message Boards)
- Credits - a page is dedicated to the members of Southern Comfort who offered added help and resources to maintain the club and the website.
Rogue's Castle
An archive of all of the canon information about Rogue collected by members of the mailing list. It included "basic stats to an extensive history, detailed info on her powers and how she got them along with a list of her comic book appearances. There are even details on her first appearances, intended and actual. Who has she used her skin-to-skin based powers of absorption on and who has been immune to those powers?"[7]
Club Pages
As well as providing the link to the mailing list, the club pages also included:
- Introduction to SC: An explanation of what Southern Comfort is all about.
- Policies & Guidelines: The rules that give our SC Rogue Fan Club a warm and friendly atmosphere.
- Members/Bios: Meet the members of the mailing list.
- Member's Sites: Some of the SC members have great sites of their own.
- Member Logos: Have a website and are a proud member of SC? Go here to get your logo.
- Members Only!: Click here if you're an SC Member and want to join in on the added fun for members only.
- A transcript of the August 25th, 2001 chat with Rogue writer, Fiona Avery.
Rogue's Gallery
- Southern Sounds - A gallery of downloadable sound files, mostly from the original cartoon, X-Men: The Animated Series. This site was originally created to be linked with SC as well as Sugah & Spice, the Gambit and Rogue site run by former SCer and Internet X-pioneer, Loni Kingrey.
- Art Gallery - This gallery of Rogue pics includes scans and other digital images from various publicly published sources, such as comics, cards, the web, etc.
- Fan Art Gallery - art created by members of the mailing list.
- Reading in Comfort - The fanfiction gallery, sorted by Stories, Author and included an explanation of the rating system used.
- Rogue Stuff! - This is a fun area of free Rogue stuff you can download, including wallpapers, coloring pages, etc.
SC Shop
The club was unusual in that it had a shop attached to the website, as part of Amazon's "website shop" program which allowed maintainers to select particular items of interest to advertise and receive a referral fee.
Ending
The site went down between October 11, 2008 and November 1, 2009, according to the Wayback archived pages. The last update appears to have been in February 2008, according to the What's New page.[8]
Awards
Marty Blase's X-Page: X-Page of the Week
5th Annual EXY Awards - Best Rogue Site - 2001
- 2001
- Best Fan Archive or News Site - 2nd place - Rogue's Castle
- Best Individual X-Character Site - 2nd place
- Winner's Circle Award - 3rd place
- 2002
- Best Individual Character Site - 3rd place
- Winner's Circle Award - 2nd place
X-Men Prime Awards - Best X-Character Site - 2001
References
- ^ Exodus, Part 2/2 (X-Men), acff googlegroup, September 1, 1996
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - Join The Club! May 14, 2008 (Via Wayback)
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - What's New. October 11, 1999 (Via Wayback)
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - Introduction to SC, January 25, 2002 (Via Wayback)
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - Policies and Guidelines, August 11, 2008 (Via Wayback)
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - Members/Bios, August 11, 2008 (Via Wayback)
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - Main Page, August 11, 2008 (Via Wayback)
- ^ SCRogueFanClub - What's New? October 11, 2008 (Via Wayback)