Blur
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[edit] Introduction
This band has a BandFic fandom. Its existence predates July 2005. Material for this fandom can be found several places on the Internet including FanDomination.Net. [1] It is generally believed that there is not an off-line, convention and fanzine based fan fiction community related to this community.
[edit] The Band
The band was formed in Colchester, England in 1989. [2]
[edit] Terminology
Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan community.
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[edit] Timeline
Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan community.
- Blur was formed in Colchester, England in 1989. [3]
- On March 17, 1999, the mailing list blur was created. [4]
- On March 5, 2002, an article about Blur was created by harleschuck on Wikipedia. [5]
- On November 20, 2002, the LiveJournal community blurslash was created. [6]
- On August 18, 2003, the LiveJournal community blur_daily was created. [7]
- On December 26, 2004, the LiveJournal community altmusicblur was created. [8]
- On March 26, 2005, the LiveJournal community blurmedia was created. [9]
- On July 28, 2005, the Russian language LiveJournal community ru_blur was created. [10]
- On January 8, 2006, the LiveJournal community omg_blurzorz was created. [11]
- On January 30, 2006, the LiveJournal community blur_radio was created. [12]
- On June 11, 2007, the InsaneJournal asylum blur_fans was created. [13]
- On March 19, 2008, the BlurSlash[14] website was created due to the breakdown of the Star-Shaped archive
[edit] Kerfluffles
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[edit] Influential fanworks
Back in 2004 the NME magazine asked to Graham Coxon, Blur's former guitarrist, about a slash fanfiction work called Graham in Wonderland [15], which was kind of pornographic. He openly expressed his dislike, but that never stopped the members from the blurslash community over Livejournal.
[edit] Fandom members
Following there's a partial list of some memebers from the Livejournal community blurslash:
- jericho1
- kkscatnip
- ninhursag
- javafox
- poopins
- helvissa
- gasgiants
- uselesstree
- eat_your_cancer
- pollyethilene
- blurred_rubbish
- foxwrapped
- NarcoticRainbow
- blueblurjeans
- roomeight
- hope_to_last
- catlinbee
- cheery_lips
- glassbomb
- kylioo
- lelaine_barclay
[edit] Fandom size
[edit] 2007
- As of April 8, 2007, there are zero Blur stories posted on FanWorks.Org and FicWad. There were 2 Blur stories posted on Quizilla, 5 stories on FanDomination.Net on this date.
[edit] 2008
- As of January 1, 2008, there was 1 story on Quizilla. [16]
- On March 19, 2008, the BlurSlash [17] archive was created
[edit] External links
[edit] See also
[edit] Sources
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