"Buckaroo Banzai, it's the latest issue"

[olivermoss]

The 25th anniversary of the film was ten years ago? I guess it was as I just saw a thing about the 35th anniversary being this summer. There may be an attempt to do some events. I went to a 25th anniversary screening in 2009 and was asked to do a panel at a convention. I prepared materials and information, only to find out at the con that the panel was being run as a roundtable with 4 other people. One of the other people was a guy who was pushy, talked over everyone and physically took the only mike so only he could talk. He soap boxed about his general pet peeves about media fandom while I sat there with my notes. I did try to get the mike back, but it was clear the only way to do so would have been by force

The panel also ran over because he wouldn't stop ranting about movie distribution models and their effects on fandoms. Ah, memories ...

I am going to celebrate the event by writing more smut and maybe commissioning some fan art. This Rawhide/Tommy piece was done for my winning bid in a Fandom Trumps Hate auction.

The reason I'll be focusing on smut is that in the mailing list era of this fandom homophobes harassed slashers into taking down all their fics, harassed webhosts of websites hosting fic and everything posted to the mailing list got deleted. Sadly, virtually nothing made it to AO3 and I am forever salty. Nothing I can do but try to populate it a bit myself ... and maybe throw large amounts of money at fan auctions.

Comments

[przed]

I can't believe Buckaroo Banzai is 35 years old!

Thanks for sharing that Rawhide/Perfect Tommy piece.

And boo to homophobes targeting fic and pushy guys who take over panels.

[olivermoss]

I was around for the big kerfuffle when the bastards decided to 'clean up' fandom by nuking queer content. All the fics, gone. And now no one looks for TABB fic so I get like 20 readers at best, but I will still populate AO3 with more.

I can believe the film is that old, but I am just staggered that it's been ten years ago since those viewings and other things. 2009 being 10 years ago is weird to me.