So, while i was headed down to denver for the Roswell Season 1 Marathon krispy and i were doing, i started thinking of how i got involved in the whole roswellian fandom.
im moderately involved in several fandoms now, and was involved in a couple then. so why roswell?
it sure as hell wasnt the writing, cause after season 1, it was all downhill. it wasnt the main characters, cause by the end i was the founder and president of the “Max Must Die” club, and copresident of the “Liz is Evil” club. it had to have been the fandom.
i watched the first episode completely by accident..flipped past a channel with a girl writing in her journal..”5 days ago, i died. and then things got really weird.” and thought, “huh, that was kinda cool.”
i cant even remember what lead me to look online for information about roswell. i really cant. but i joined a list. sounds pretty innocent, right? but this list was the RoswellAfterCurfew list, and it had most of the greats in the fic world. Mnenosyne, Elizabeth, Courtney, Loki, Pilar, LovelyPoet..is it any wonder i fell in love with the fic?
i regret to say that i wasnt one of the original “Grits and Ice Tea Girls”, but i was one of the “RAC Gutter Girls” on the same list. everyone chatted, there was lots of fic..and people kept mentioning Michael and Maria. as this was only about the 3rd or 4th episode, i vaguely remembered Maria as Liz’s kooky best friend, and Michael as the guy with the attitude. but there were stories and interpretations and i got caught up in it, and it was fun.
Hundreds of websites sprung up. dedicated to Liz and Max, Michael and Maria…not nearly enough dedicated to Alex. many, way too many have disappeared. but some of the greats are still there.
roswell underground is no longer updated, but its still there.
ficorama still has some of the best fic in the business
Then, the shipper wars occured..you think that there is sniping and backstabbing in other fandoms? dear jeebus, you havemt even gotten started. the Dreamers hated the Candies, the Candies hated the Dreamers, and everybody hated the Rebel Alliance. it was UGLY. Fanforum was probably the worst of it, and i advoided there as much as possible. I hung out in Egypt and Candy is Dandy and sometimes, when my friend buggs was around, hung out in the Insomniacs Thread at FanForum.
Slowly, as roswell hit season 3 and Maria’s character was destroyed (and Liz did her horrible granny panty tail shake. *shudder*), sites started disappearing, writers stopped writing, boards closed, the RAC list died. and it was sad.
roswellian fandom was a rush to be involved with. many people i met i still talk to. i met krispy somehow..i cant even remember how, i still sometimes talk to Reese, and buggs even less, but they are still on my AIM list. Kara of RoswellUnderground and i bond occansionally over our love for all things Irish, and EmilyFairy inherited most of my old My Little Pony collection.
the fandom still exists, but it is much diminished. Starstruck Art is no longer anywhere i can find. the roswellunderground/egypt board is nothing but archives now. mnemosyne hasnt had a new fic in ages. and the M&M Files, one of my favorite fic sites, closed down completely.
but we are still here, in pockets at the Candy is Dandy board, and KravingCandy.net, the Bordello of Fanfiction, and, at Mudpies, my own site.
am i crazy? yes. duh.
but ive never gotten into another fandom the way i did with roswell. and im involved in quite a few..harry potter, xmen movieverse, newsies, earth2, angel, buffy, gilmore girls, joan of arcadia..(although im really getting into joan lately), but they never pulled me in like roswell.
im teetering on the edge of doing my own rosfic rec every week or so..or maybe a site rec, but i dont even know if any roswellians come here with the exception of krispy. would anyone be interested? would anyone care?