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There is a long history of icon making on GreatestJournal, InsaneJournal and LiveJournal. There is also a history of AIM icon making that precedes the blogging history. There has been some kerfluffling in the community as people have different ownership concepts regarding icons. Some people treat icons with out text as bases. Others do not like that.

Below is a partial timeline of events regarding icon making in the Angel fandom.

On August 8, 2004, the Angel icon GreatestJournal community _ats_icons was created. [8]

[edit] Fan Fiction

[edit] Archives

[edit] FanFiction.Net

As of May 28, 2007, there were 7,423 Angel stories on FanFiction.Net. [9] As of December 8, 2007, there were 7,618 Angel stories on FanFiction.Net. [10] As of February 16, 2008, there were 7,658 stories on FanFiction.Net. [11]

[edit] FanLib

FanLib is not a big, important archive in the Angel fandom. As of February 21, 2008, only 122 stories were found on it. This is in part because some parts of media fandom had big issues with the site regarding its launch. The first Angel story was published on the site was She'll Always Be With You by blueanddollsome and was published on March 17, 2007. [12]

[edit] Beta Reading

By 2004, a number of X-Files fan fiction writers who were part of the “Yes Virginia” group of fan fiction authors had migrated to other fandoms. Some examples of this migration included Harry Potter with the author Parsons, Lord of the Rings with the author Sebasky, West Wing with the authors Sabine, Punk, and CazQ, Stargate with Suelac and Minnow, Farscape with the authors Suelac, Fialka, Sab and Pene, Sports Night with the authors Sabine and Punk, Smallville with the author Punk, and Buffy/Angel with the authors August/Unwinding, Minnow and Sebasky. As they migrated, they took their traditions of machete beta reading with them.

[edit] Drabbles

People were writing Angel drabbles prior to 2003. On February 23, 2003, the LiveJournal community angeldrabble was founded. [13] It was created for the posting of Angel related drabbles.

[edit] Femslash

alien_altars was created on March 18, 2007 as a challenge community for femslash cliches. Some cliches include About to die, must have hot sex, Aliens made us do it, Amnesia, Aphrodisiacs/Sex pollen, Caught masturbating, Everyone thinks we're doing it, Forced marriage, Forced to share a bed/sleeping bag/tent, Fuzzy morning after or "do you remember what we did last night?", Genderswitch (one or both women is turned into a man), Huddling for warmth, Insomnia, Jealousy, Kid fic are just a few of the examples to chose from. Fandoms represented include Angel. [14]

[edit] Secret Santa

On November 11, 2004, the LiveJournal community 3_ships was founded. [15] It is a threesome secret santa community. Fandoms represented by this community include: Angel, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, DCU, Doctor Who, Firefly, Harry Potter, House, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Pirates of the Carribean, Stargate, Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, X-Files.

[edit] The Internet

[edit] GreatestJournal

The community on GreatestJournal was founded mostly as a place to role play. By late 2007, because of management issues at GreatestJournal, parts of the community transitioned to other journaling services.

Below is a partial timeline of Angel related GreatestJournal community creation dates.

On January 11, 2004, the role playing GreatestJournal community __sunnydale was created. [16]
On April 28, 2004, the role playing GreatestJournal community _sunnyd_ was created. [17]
On April 29, 2004, the Illyria GreatestJournal community _illyria_ was created. [18]
On May 5, 2004, the Alias, Angel, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer GreatestJournal community _my_47th_slay_ was created. [19]
On June 11, 2004, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer community ___buffyfans was created. [20]
On July 22, 2004, the Angel/Buffy: The Vampire Slayer GreatestJournal community _btvs was created. [21]
On August 8, 2004, the Angel icon GreatestJournal community _ats_icons was created. [22]
On December 29, 2004, the role playing GreatestJournal community _sunnydale_ooc was created. [23]
On January 20, 2005, the Angel/Buffy: The Vampire Slayer fan fiction GreatestJournal community _btvsfiction was created. [24]
On December 20, 2005, the role playing GreatestJournal community __revamped__ was created. [25]
On April 21, 2006, the GreatestJournal community _slayers was created. [26]

[edit] LiveJournal

There is a sizable Angel community on LiveJournal. A large portion of this community migrated to LiveJournal from mailing lists in the period between 2001 and 2003.

Below is a partial timeline of Angel related LiveJournal community creation dates.

On March 11, 2001, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and later Angel community buffyfans was created. [27]
On April 23, 2001, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and later Angel community buffyfan was created. [28]
On February 20, 2002, the Angel LiveJournal community angel_fans was created. [29]
On October 12, 2002, the Buffy/Angel LiveJournal community bashippers was created. [30]
On February 23, 2003, the LiveJournal community angeldrabble was founded. [31] It was created for the posting of Angel related drabbles.
On May 21, 2003, the LiveJournal community allcrossovers was created. [32]
On July 10, 2003, the Angel/Wes LiveJournal community angel_wes was created. [33]
On September 22, 2003, the LiveJournal community allfandomfics was founded. [34]
On October 27, 2003, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer community btvs_angel was created. [35]
On October 28, 2003, the LiveJournal community angeluncensored was created. [36]
On November 11, 2004, the LiveJournal community 3_ships was founded. [37]
On June 6, 2006, the Marcus Hamilton LiveJournal community bigbadinarmani was created. [38]
On January 1, 2007, the LiveJournal community 7musicalmusesv2 was created, and it hoped to include Angel among its fandoms.

[edit] Mailing lists

Mailing lists played an early and important role in the Angel fandom, first as an extension of existing Buffy: The Vampire Slayer lists before having lists of their own.

Below is a partial timeline of mailing list creation dates for Angel related lists.

On March 22, 2001, the mailing list milliways-L was created for the posting of science fiction related fan fiction and discussion. Fandoms represented included this one. [39]

[edit] MySpace

MySpace has a number of role playing groups on it. These groups tend to be private and have membership totals between five and 250.

Below is a partial timeline of Angel related MySpace group creation.

On July 2, 2004, the MySpace group angelfanshowforum was created. [40]
On July 2, 2004, the MySpace group angeltvshowforum was created. [41]
On July 4, 2004, the Spike MySpace group Spikesfans was created. [42]
On September 23, 2004, the Angel action figure MySpace group toysthatslay was created. [43]
On October 24, 2004, the Fred/Illyria MySpace group illyriaburkle was created. [44]
On October 24, 2004, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role play group buffyangelrpg was created. [45]
On December 31, 2004, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace group buffyangeluniverse was created. [46]
On January 16, 2005, the MySpace group angelverse was created. [47]
On January 18, 2005, the Buffy/Angel MySpace group buffyangelshippers was created. [48]
On January 23, 2005, the MySpace group iloveangel was created. [49]
On January 31, 2005, the MySpace group TheWBSucks was created to express annoyance over the WB canceling people's favorite shows. [50]
On February 8, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer role playing group btvsangelrpgroup1 was created. [51]
On February 19, 2005, the MySpace group AbNuGfEfLyFaNs was created. [52]
On February 23, 2005, the multifandom fan fiction MySpace group fanfic was created. [53]
On February 24, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group buffyangeltheapocalypse was created. [54]
On February 26, 2005, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly MySpace group sunnydalerehab was created. [55]
On February 27, 2005, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel MySpace group keishahosler was created. [56]
On March 9, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role play group OldonesRP was created. [57]
On April 10, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace group buffygroup was created. [58]
On April 26, 2005, the Buffy/Spike MySpace group trulove was created. [59]
On April 29, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace group groupsAngelandBuffymyspacecom was created. [60]
On May 2, 2005, the Glen Quinn MySpace group fansofGlennQuinn was created. [61]
On May 8, 2005, the MySpace group buffyvegans was created for fans of Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer who are vegans. [62]
On May 22, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group roleplayingbuffyandangel was created. [63]
On June 1, 2005, the MySpace group angeltheseriesyahaira was created. [64]
On June 29, 2005, the Spike MySpace group SPIKEYRIP was created. [65]
On June 29, 2005, the MySpace group draksideofsunnydale was group. [66]
On July 1, 2005, the Angel, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Charmed role playing MySpace group charmedangelbuffyrpg was created. [67]
On July 5, 2005, the Angel, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Charmed and Harry Potter MySpace group buffyangelhpcharmed was created. [68]
On July 12, 2005, the Joss Whedon MySpace group JWJWJW was created. [69]
On August 3, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group AngelBuffyRP was created. [70]
On August 3, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group BuffythevampireslayerandAngelRoleplaying was created. [71]
On August 8, 2005, the Angel/Cordy MySpace group AngelandCordy was created. [72]
On August 9, 2005, the Drusilla MySpace group DrusillaTheVampire was created. [73]
On August 14, 2005, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel role playing MySpace group Angel101 was created. [74]
On August 28, 2005, the Jensen Ackles MySpace group JensenAckles was created. [75]

[edit] National Communities

Because of a variety of factors, the Angel fandom had a number of different national and linguistic communities that were created. Many of these communities were started early on by members of the Angel fandom who were bilingual and had access to the original English language version of the show or after the show was aired in countries besides English speaking ones.

See specific national histories for additional information:

[edit] Role Playing

The Angel community had a sizable role playing community. For a while, some of this community was centered around GreatestJournal but as the site faced issues in late 2007, early 2008, the role playing community that was there, left.

Below is a partial timeline of role playing related dates in the Angel community.

On November 3, 2002, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer role playing Blurty community buffyverse was created. [76]
On January 11, 2004, the role playing GreatestJournal community __sunnydale was created. [77]
On April 28, 2004, the role playing GreatestJournal community _sunnyd_ was created. [78]
On October 5, 2004, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer role playing Blurty community vampsx4 was created. [79]
On October 24, 2004, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role play group buffyangelrpg was created. [80]
On December 29, 2004, the role playing GreatestJournal community _sunnydale_ooc was created. [81]
On February 8, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer role playing group btvsangelrpgroup1 was created. [82]
On February 24, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group buffyangeltheapocalypse was created. [83]
On March 9, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role play group OldonesRP was created. [84]
On April 10, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace group buffygroup was created. [85]
On July 1, 2005, the Angel, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Charmed role playing MySpace group charmedangelbuffyrpg was created. [86]
On August 3, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group AngelBuffyRP was created. [87]
On August 3, 2005, the Angel and Buffy: The Vampire Slayer MySpace role playing group BuffythevampireslayerandAngelRoleplaying was created. [88]
On August 14, 2005, the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and Angel role playing MySpace group Angel101 was created. [89]
On December 20, 2005, the role playing GreatestJournal community __revamped__ was created. [90]

[edit] Fandom Size

Includes data on total stories posted to FanFiction.Net on December 28, 2006 and January 3, 2006, total of new stories added during those periods, number of LiveJournal communities and users with the fandom as an interest, number of news stories on Google, number of episodes on television in a two week period.

[edit] May 2007

As of May 28, 2007, there were 7,423 Angel stories on FanFiction.Net. [91]

[edit] December 2007

As of December 8, 2007, there were 7,618 Angel stories on FanFiction.Net. [92]

[edit] February 2008

As of February 16, 2008, there were 7,658 stories on FanFiction.Net. [93]

As of February 21, 2008, there were 650 fans on FanPop [94], 122 stories, 27 videos, 15 images and 2 screenplays on FanLib. [95] On that same date on LiveJournal, buffyfans had 344 members, [96] buffyfan had 1,366 members, [97] angel_fans had 649 members, [98] and btvs_angel had 215 members. [99]

[edit] External Links

Angel: FanWorksFinder

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

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