Fanhistory.com:Selected anniversaries/January 8
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- On January 8, 2003, Buffy Fiction Archive was founded.
- 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 8, 2003, the LiveJournal community doggettreyes was created. [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])
