astolat

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Fan
Name: astolat
Alias(es): shalott, the lady of shalott
Type: archivist, developer, con runner, slasher, vidder, fanwriter
Fandoms: multifandom, American Idol, Avengers, James Bond, BtVS, DCEU, Entourage, Harry Potter, Highlander, House, M.D., Justice League, L.A. Confidential, Merlin, Person of Interest, PotC, Sherlock Holmes, Smallville, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, The Sentinel, Thor, Transformers, X-Men
Communities:
Other: Intimations
The Lady of Shalott
URL: astolat at AO3
astolat at Dreamwidth
astolat at LiveJournal
astolat at Pillowfort
astolat at Tumblr
astolat at Twitter
astolat at YouTube
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astolat is a popular fanwriter[1] and vidder in myriad fandoms since 1994 and has contributed greatly to fannish infrastructure. As a fanfiction writer, she has written numerous Fandom Classics in large media fandoms such as Stargate: Atlantis, Supernatural, Smallville, Harry Potter and Merlin as well as crucial works in smaller fandoms (James Bond, L.A. Confidential, Master and Commander, etc.).

Some of her fannish history can be found at her userpage on Fanlore.

Regarding her pseud:

"I'm astolat here on LJ, having grudgingly accepted the name because my longtime pseud "shalott" was taken, except over time I've fallen in love with the name and now it's what I'm using almost exclusively. I've also gone by shalott and (a while ago!) the lady of shalott.[2]

In 1998, she co-developed the Automated Archive software that powered the main archives in due South, The Sentinel and Smallville slash fandom. She created Sencrit, a Sentinel writers' workshop in 1998.

In 2002, she founded Vividcon, the fan convention dedicated to vidding and the following year in 2003, she founded Yuletide, the annual rare-fandoms gift exchange fanfic challenge.

In 2007, she wrote the post An Archive Of One's Own, proposing and subsequently developing Archive of Our Own, the fanworks archive that began in 2009.

In 2015 Gigi Kiersten wrote:

"There was never another person in fandom that most fit the description of a BNF more than Fanfic Writer, Professional Author, Vidder, Web Developer, and Fandom Activist Astolat. For the last twenty years, Astolat has not only seen the evolution of fandom from mailing lists to tumblr, but she is still here, when many of her contemporaries have disappeared from fandom altogether."[3]

Interviews

Fanfiction

Stargate: Atlantis

Merlin

Harry Potter

Marvel Cinematic Universe

The Witcher

Supernatural

Other

Vids

Influential vids include:

Influential Posts

Awards

STIFfie

1998

Stargate Fan Awards

2005

2006

McKay/Sheppard Fan Awards

2005

2006

2007

2008

  • Best Adventure - 1st place Ordinary Life

Merlin/Arthur Fanfic Awards

2009

Merlin Slash Awards

2010

Reviews and Recommendations

Archives/Mailing Lists/Zines

Archives

As Archivist

As Contributor

Mailing Lists

As Moderator

As Member

Zines

As Contributor

Podfic

As Creator

As Contributor

Meta

Contributing:

About:

Re Astolat's Outing

BNF status

Slash

OTW/AO3

References

  1. ^ astolat (2013-01-18). "fanfic lifetime stats". Dreamwidth. Archived from the original on 2023-05-07.
  2. ^ astolat at spnroundtable (2008-02-22). "Ask The Author". LiveJournal. Archived from the original on 2012-12-02.
  3. ^ Gigi Kiersten (2015-02-25). "Astolat". Fannishery. Archived from the original on 2016-07-28.
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