Squidgie
| Fan | |
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| Name: | Squidgie |
| Alias(es): | squidgiepdx, Walter H |
| Type: | fan writer, archivist, webmaster |
| Fandoms: | Stargate Atlantis, due South, Hawaii Five-0, Grimm, Sports Night |
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| URL: | squidgie at Archive of Our Own squidgie at SquidgeWorld |
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Squidgie is a fanwriter and webmaster, known for his work on squidge.org. Squidgie was the founder of Squidge.org and is credited with hosting hundreds of fannish mailing lists, websites and archives. His free hosting service provided a safe space for at risk fannish content, particularly slash fanfiction.
Squidgie is the current owner of Squidge.org and the webmaster behind WWOMB's move to the SquidgeWorld Archive (SqWA).
Fandom Biography
A comment at r/slashfanfiction post in September 2013:
I run Squidge.ORG, and post my stuff in the busiest archive, Peja's WWOMB. I also have my own LJ and crosspost to/from Dreamwidth. I'm either "Squidgie" (WWOMB/DW) or "SquidgiePDX" (LJ).
LONG, long time ago I started in X-Files with Mulder/Skinner & Mulder/Krycek. Then moved into The Sentinel and wrote Blair/Jim, Blair/Jim/Rafe, and one time a Jim/Rafe. That one was...nice. :)
Took a break from writing for almost 10 years, and only wrote 2 or 3 stories (Scrubs - JD/Dr Cox or JD/The Todd). And then I saw Sports Night.
For a while, Dan/Casey from Sports Night was my OTP. Then my bff (and no co-writer) trickled me into Stargate Atlantis with a few McShep (McKay/Sheppard) AU fics - and that got me hooked.
I'd have to say that my real OTP is McKay/Sheppard. However, I still write the occasional Dan/Casey from Sports Night, Parrish/Lorne (or even Parrish/Lorne/Dex) from Stargate Atlantis. I have to say my most popular fics (by hit count) are Steve/Danno from Hawaii Five-0; they're fun to write, but I don't write them enough. Ditto for Nick/Monroe from Grimm - although I don't think I've ever gotten out of a Nick/Monroe story without going NC17. There's just something about them...
There's a series of books & movies called The Donald Strachey Mysteries - and they're fun as hell to write, because the main couple is actually gay. Plus, you get to write case!fic, which I'm liking.
In the last few months I've written G/PG versions of Harold/John from Person of Interest. I can only see them in G/PG settings and can't really "sex them" up; I can see the loving, caring friendship there, but not physical...
So overall, I have to say McShep as my OTP.
EDIT: Forgot to list stories... Because I'm all about AU, they make up a large amount of the stories I save [...] on my iPad. sheafrotherdon's "Iowa 'verse" is probably at the top of the list - everyone knows it and everyone loves it. There's lesser known ones that I love, like "Event Horizon Books"[1] and "Mail Myself To You"[2] by incredible authors in the SGA realm. For Grimm, try "Hotel California"[3] and for Hawaii Five-0, you have to read the "Commander Octopus" series - but don't eat or drink while you read, or you may ruin a computer or choke to death when you start laughing! If you want recs in Don Strachey or Sports Night, let me know! They're older & more obscure fandoms.[4]
References
- ^ Event Horizon Books, a one-shot McKay/Sheppard fic by daughtershade.
- ^ Mail Myself To You, a McKay/Sheppard fanfic by aesc, dogeared, sheafrotherdon.
- ^ Hotel California, a Grimm story by VampirePam.
- ^ "Fandoms, represent! : SlashFanfiction". 2013-09-23. Archived from the original on 2022-03-23.