Dawson’s Creek

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[edit] Introduction

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[edit] Terminology

Below is a list of terms and their definitions that are used in this fan fiction community.

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[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial timeline of events that took place in this fan fiction community.

[edit] 1998

  • From 1998 to 2003, Dawson’s Creek was in its first run on television.
  • A number of large fan fiction sites began to appear including the [1]Dawson's Creek Fanfiction Forum and the still updated (as of 2007) [2]Alex's DC Site. Both were created after being influenced by the now defunct [3]Melody's Dawson's Creek page.
  • The now defunct [4] Creekers' Choice Awards began in 1998 and ran 3 consecutive years. It was shut down in the third year when the webmasters felt the voting process was being manipulated by a few members of the DC fan fiction community.

[edit] 1999

  • By 1999, badfic must have been floating around the Dawson’s Creek community because in January of 1999, niviene posted an announcement to alt.tv.space-cases that he was starting a badfic site which would mock Space Cases, X-Files and Dawson’s Creek.
  • [[5]] Mediocre Creek Theater 3000 also took to spoofing poorly written fan fiction by utilizing the between-lines-sarcastic-commenting action of Mystery Science Theater 3000 for each story.
  • In 1999, fan fiction archive webmasters Alex and Katy wrote [[6]] The Greatest Story Ever Told in order to make an entertaining commentary on fan fiction written with poor grammar, spelling (even of character names), and cookie-cutter plots, which were becoming increasingly common.

[edit] 2000

  • From 2000 to 2002, part of this fan fiction community was based at FanForums’s message boards.

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

  • One of the largest Dawson's Creek fan fiction sites on the internet, CapesideDiaries.com, closed down, and hundreds of stories were lost.

[edit] 2007

[edit] Kerfluffles

Dawson's Creek Fandom Wiki lists the major "Moments in the Couple Wars" as follows:

  • Sarah spamming FanForum with trophy posts after the finale spoilers were posted. DJers claiming that they would never gloat in such a way had the outcome been different. [9]
  • Neo's fake spoiler about the gang filming a waterpark episode makes it into the FF spoiler compilation thread. Stays there several days, even though JillLeigh "could not attest to the veracity of the source". [10]
  • Stela finally melting down and telling Julialex to go to hell: "All you ever do is whine and insult and instigate, you bitter little bitch. Go to hell." [11]
  • The Project Nookie peeps posting on Project Soulmates, causing the PS regulars to flip out and wake Stela up so she could handle the chaos for them. [12]
  • JerryD posting on PaceyPorn because he was banned everywhere else. [13]
  • Sex Day [14]

[edit] Influential Fanworks

  • The series [[15]] Moving, by an author called Kilby, was one of the first stories to use a Pacey/Joey pairing. In 1998, the TV show, and much of the fan base, were biased for Dawson and Joey to be a romantic couple. Kilby's story influenced many other fan fiction writers, who later used the template of Moving to write their own works.
  • Liz Woolf, webmaster of the defunct website Lizsdesktop.com: By The Shores of the Creek, was another well-read early fan fiction writer who won many awards at the Creekers' Choice Awards. One of her better known series was Same Time Next Year, and her story The Opposite of Sex was regarded as a classic.
  • The series [[16]]Dazed and Confused was written by "Laura", and was one of the earliest series to use more romantic pairings than the conventional Pacey/Joey/Dawson ones. Laura's stories pushed the standard love triangles to love rectangles or further.
  • [[17]] Model Behavior was written by Katy and was an early Dawson/Joey pairing to take the action out of the home base of the fictional town of Capeside. Recognizing Katie Holmes's downplayed good looks, Katy sent Joey to NYC to start a modeling career.
  • Katy also wrote [[18]] The Dawson Show. This series took the idea of Dawson's self-centeredness to new heights while being one of the first to use the idea of bending the characters of Dawson's Creek to fit a movie or book plot and tell these plots in a new way. The Dawson Show spoofed and followed the general plot of The Truman Show, also making the actors who played the characters on Dawson's Creek "real" characters behind the scenes. Laura was one of the first authors to impose a plot from a book in her series [[19]] The Westing Game.
  • [[20]] I Know What You Did Last Summer, by Lisa, took the movie plot idea and created a murder mystery series with the Dawson's Creek characters. This was one of the first series to take an unconventional turn by concentrating on a plot driven by something other than the romantic pairings between characters.

[edit] Fandom Members

[edit] Fandom Size

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[edit] See also

[edit] Sources

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