December 1997: Kielle Founds the CBFFAs

To us, our X-people! This week, V and Emily try desperately to understand the X-Men-specific fic genre of Subreality, created by Kielle, a huge community builder who passed too soon. We look at many of Kielle's amazingly impressive undertakings in '90s and early '00s X-Men fandom, including the creation of Subreality and the Subreality Cafe, her website the Comic Fan-Fiction Authors Network (CFAN), the Comic Book Fan-Fiction Awards (CBFFAs), the Scratching Post, and, also, just how damn much she was beloved by her fellow X-Men fans. Special thanks go out to Nevanna, our lovely Patreon donor who requested this episode and agreed to have her brain picked by V, and to X-Men fandom veterans and friends of Kielle, Rossi and Dex, who also agreed to be interviewed by V and gently corrected her about Subreality (and what a "fictive" is).

Sources

CBFFAs on Fanlore Kielle on Fanlore i love kielle Subreality Cafe on Fanlore Spotlight On... Kielle CFAArchive Kielle's LiveJournal CBFFAs 1998 CFAN c. 2001 Subreality Cafe Subreality Subsites

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