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January 6
- Warped Space 50 was published in January 1984. It contained Star Wars fan fiction. It was 99 pages long. In Warped Space #50, Paula Smith contributed an essay to ongoing dialogue about characterization issues in fan fiction. She discussed something known to fanzine readers and writers called “Langsam’s Law.” She is quoted by Langley as saying "special caveat for writing media-based fiction. Don't make an established character do or say something out of line with his established character, of if you must, give good, solid reasons why."
- On January 6, 1997, b5teens, a Babylon 5 mailing list for teens, was founded.
- On January 6, 2000, the Xena mailing list dreamslores was founded. It was dedicated to the Uber fan fiction writer Dreams, aka iNgRiD. [1]
- In January 2003, there was a get together of British Harry Potter fan fiction fans. This particular get together was called Oxt00b. (s00: [2])
- On January 6, 2003, the Advanced Inuyasha Mailing List was created to discuss latest developments in the Inuyasha storyline, to include the latest manga chapters. Currently, Patches posts text translations of each new manga chapter, and Urd-chan combines and edits those texts into scans and posts them to http://adinuyasha.thebrokenconsole.com/ . Notices are posted when newest scanlations are available.
- The narnia_rpf community on LiveJournal was created on January 6, 2006.
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