Te

Fan
Name:	Te
Alias(es):	Teland, thete1 Daddy793 Janete (pseud write w/ Jane St Clair)
Type:	Archivist, Fan Writer, Moderator
Fandoms:	Angel the Series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, DC Comics, Due South, Smallville, X-Files, X-Force
Communities:
Other:	Teland
URL:	teland at AO3 teland at Dreamwidth thete1 at LiveJournal teland at Tumblr
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Te has been a member of various fandoms since the late 1990s. Te posted the first Spike/Xander fic, Post-Grad and Post-Grad II in March/April 1999. She's currently very involved with DC Comics fandom.

She is archivist for Lost Boys Archive, Remember Us, an archive "devoted to fanfiction about characters of color", was moderator of a Five Things challenge in 2003, Little Black Dress Challenge starring Krycek, and ran the wereadshite LiveJournal for recs site updates. She wrote extensively in all her fandoms.

Fanwriter collaborations

Her early writing partners were:

• Alicia (The X-Files)
• Debchan (X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel the Series)
• The Spike (X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Angel the Series)
• Jessica Harris (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Jane St Clair under the name Janete in (X-Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Though she occasionally cowrote with:

• Branwyn (X-Files)
• Pares (X-Files)
• Sheila aka. Mimesere (Angel the Series)
• Lat (Due South)
• Jack Buggery (Smallville)
• Linabean (Smallville)
• Seperis (Smallville).

Notable Works

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

• Cicatrix (Co-written with Debchan and TheSpike)
• Bananarama
• Post-Grad

DC Comics:

Smallville:

• Past Grief
• The Project

X-Men/Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossover:

• Little Gods (Co-written with Jane St. Clair)

X-Files:

• Friends, a slash Lone Gunman story
• A Love of Dead Things
• Witness Tree
• Naughty Chair

Other:

• The Latest Party
• Rising
• Easy. The first Wes/Gunn fic, posted October 2000

Interviews

• The AD's Office Interview: New Authors: Alicia, Drovar, JiM, Donna Milan, MJ, Valeanna, Te, and Viridian5 (1998)
• Chronicle X Interview with Te from Chronicle X's Spotlight On feature (1999 or 2000)

• Interview with Te from chrislee's Octaves of the Heart (early 2000s)

• Fan Fiction Oral History Project with Te (2012)

Fan Reactions and Comments

Unknown Date

Don't know if there's anything to say 'bout Te. Dark. Twisted love and black beauty. She's a strange sort of genius, and when I can read her (I'm allergic to dark and must read only in small doses) I come away utterly disturbed. Which is good.

1998?

I like Te best at two extremes -- the Afternoon Wierdness pieces, which are tossed off as quickly as the name suggested, are often razor sharp portraits with all sorts of shadowy implications lurking under the surface (I rather like Te's alternate title of Genderfucking and Weapons Play with Mulder and Krycek) -- I'd particularly point out "A Dress", "Makeup", "Shameless", "Of Course", and "So Minimal/Shadowsweat." "Necessities" is pretty neat, too. And at the other extreme, Aenima has *such* a great setup and start that I've been dying to see more of.. And Ever After is a combination of the two: a quick one off that has turned itself into a series.

2000

One of the best authors in fanfiction, the excellent Te's work centers on The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and a whole slew of assorted rarer fandoms. Te has the quality the better slashers possess of not taking hir work too seriously all the time. Story summaries reveal everything from "Mulder goes looking for Alex, and is found by him" to "An unfortunate incident involving T&A, a bottle of Finlandia, Bobo III aka Sam the Homosexual Slut Bear, and 12 (go ahead, count 'em) mystical trollkinds inadvertently ripped a hole in the fabric of space-time, leaving our own reality wide open and heartwrenchingly vulnerable to this exceedingly alternate universe.

2008

Okay, let's talk about Te a moment, since I can't think about DCU without thinking about her. Three points are required to form a stable surface, so I use that metaphor to talk plot and characterization--it takes 3 points to create an interesting characterization to me, as one-dimensional and two-dimensional characters don't hold my attention.

I dissented violently and openly from many of Te's DCU characterizations--I think she actually annotated one of my stories on de.lici.ous with a comment like "Sarah hereby opposes my fundamental view of the DCU." Some of them bordered on the incomprehensible to me. But--for me personally--it's better to have a fandom with Te-like figures out there, throwing out weird radical stuff, than without. It tends to open up imaginative spaces in fandom for play that otherwise aren't going to exist. Te-like figures destabilize the space-time continuum of fanon, so to speak, and--for me personally--offset the strong tendency of fandom to go a little bit too far with the urge to have "more of the same."

Oh, I didn't say those were your only two choices; I brought up Te because she did bring the diveristy of characterization to DCU, putting it front and center, and I think that "school of thought" if you will is still in play today. it had a big impact, which is what we agree on. It may not have produced stories I liked or wanted to read, but it did create a lot of diversity. It's just not a big win for me, and it made me realize that diveristy at that level isn't that important to me.

References

Related Links
People	Debchan, Jane St Clair, LaT, Jack Buggery, Linabean, Livia Penn, Pares, Seperis, TheSpike
Places	ClarkLex, ClarkLexFic, Due South Archive, Remember Us, Smallville Slash Archive
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