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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 community.

Java Junkie: A fanfiction that ships Lorelai/Luke. Origin of the name is Lorelai's love of coffee and the fact that Luke sales her favorite.
Jolly Green Giant: a nickname given to Dean by non-fans. Origin is a comment made by Jess.
Literati: A fanfiction that ships Rory/Jess. Origin of the name presumed to be a pun on the game, and Rory and Jess' mutual love of books.
PDLD: A fanfiction that ships Rory/Finn. Origin of the name is the acronym Punch Drunk Love Duo.
Sophie: A fanfiction that ships Rory/Logan. Origin of the name is a Master and Commander reference in Season 5. Other names for Rory/Logan fics: Rogan.
Trory: A fanfiction that ships Tristan/Rory. Origin of the name is the combination of Rory and Tristan's names.
Narcoleptic: A fanfiction that ships Rory/Dean. Origin of the name is Lorelai calling Dean "Narcolepsy Boy" in season one.
LMLD: A fanfiction that ships Rory/Luke. Origin of the name is the acronym Like Mother, Like Daughter.

[edit] Timeline

Below is a partial list of events by date that took place in the Gilmore Girls fan community.

[edit] 1998

Betsy Vera created a page called BEDLAM: About Writing – Beta Reading in 1998. Betsy’s page was notable for several reasons. Early on, in the late 1990s, this page was important in terms of defining how to beta read as the page contained examples of various beta reading jobs, giving different perspectives on how people actually went about the process. The story being critiqued and used as an example was from the Buffy: The Vampire Slayer community but the site was referenced in such communities as the Star Wars, Star Trek, Gilmore Girls and X-Men fan fiction communities.

[edit] 2000

On January 26, 2000, Perfection by Minako01 was published on FanFiction.Net. [1] It was the first Gilmore Girls story published on the site.
On October 5, 2000, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in the United States. [2]
On November 5, 2000, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Brazil. [3]
On November 15, 2000, the Gilmore Girls fan fiction fan site Gilmore-girls.net was founded. [4]
On November 22, 2000, the Gilmore Girls fansite Gilmore Girls dot ORG was created. [5]

[edit] 2001

On January 2, 2001, the Gilmore Girls's mailing list tristan-n-rory was created. [6] It was dedicated to the Tristan/Rory pairing.
On January 4, 2001, the Gilmore Girls fan fiction archive, The Chilton Library was founded by Rebecca Carefoot. [7]
On April 5, 2001, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Israel. [8]
On July 11, 2001, the mailing list GilmoreGirlsSlash was founded. [9] It was created for the posting of Gilmore Girls slash fan fiction. The stories posted there are mostly femslash. Rory/Lorelai fan fiction is not allowed to be posted.
On August 1, 2001, the mailing list Gilmore_Girls_fan_fiction was founded. [10] It was created for the posting of Gilmore Girls fan fiction.
On September 2, 2001, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Sweden. [11]
On September 8, 2001, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in France. [12]
On December 12, 2001, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Australia. [13]
On December 29, 2001, the mailing list GilmoreGirlsAdultFic was created. [14] It was for adult oriented Gilmore Girls fan fiction. Rory/Lorelai fan fiction was not allowed to be posted and slash pairings like Paris/Rory and Lorelai/Rachel were discouraged. Posters of slash fics are pointed to GilmoreGirlsSlash.

[edit] 2002

On January 8, 2002, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Finland. [15]
On March 8, 2002, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Argentina. [16]
On May 25, 2002, the mailing list RJ_Library was created. [17] It was dedicated to the Gilmore Girls's pairing Rory/Jess and Luke/Lorelai.
On July 15, 2002, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Italy.
On September 1, 2002, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Belgium. [18]

[edit] 2003

On May 6, 2003, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Spain. [19]
On July 27, 2003, Gilmore Girls premiered on television in Hungary. [20]
On September 22, 2003, the LiveJournal community allfandomfics was founded. [21] It would host Angel, Battlestar Galatica, Buffy: The Vampire Slayer, Dante's Cove, Dark Angel, Doctor Who, Eureka, Firefly, Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter, New Tricks Queer as Folk, Star Wars, Stargate, Supernatural, Torchwood, Tru Calling, Wrestling fan fiction along with additional fandoms.
On November 23, 2003, an English language article about Gilmore Girls was created on Wikipedia. [22]

[edit] 2004

In March 2004, Gilmore Girls Slash fanfic archive was founded. [23]
On May 17, 2004, the LiveJournal community gg100 was founded. It was created as a Gilmore Girls drabble community. [24]
On May 24, 2004, a German language article about Gilmore Girls was created on Wikipedia. [25]
On May 31, 2004, the LiveJournal community lukelorelai was created for Gilmore Girls Luke/Lorelai friendship fic. [26]
On June 22, 2004, the LiveJournal community anti_dean was founded. It was an anti-Dean community. [27]
On July 3, 2004, the MySpace group gilmoregirls was created. [28]
On July 13, 2004, the LiveJournal community gg_awards was founded as a place to hold the Gilmore Girls icon contest. [29]
On September 11, 2004, the LiveJournal community troryfic was created for fan fiction based on the character Trory. [30]
On September 21, 2004, the MySpace group gilmorehtml was created. [31]
On November 9, 2004, the LiveJournal community gilmoreimprov was created for Gilmore Girls improv fan fiction. [32] Pairing represented by this community include Rory/Logan.
On November 14, 2004, the LiveJournal community ggsocialites was created for the Gilmore Girls's Rory/Logan pairing. [33]
On December 7, 2004, a Spanish language article about Gilmore Girls was created on Wikipedia. [34]
On December 9, 2004, the LiveJournal community narcoleptics was founded. It was dedicated to the Gilmore Girls's pairing of Rory/Dean. [35]
On December 20, 2004, the MySpace group GilmoreMoment was created. [36]

[edit] 2005

Screen shot of gilmore-girls.net dated to Match 7, 2005. Image from http://whois.domaintools.com/gilmore-girls.net

On January 28, 2005, the MySpace group Gilmoregirlsrockmysocks was created. [37]
On February 1, 2005, the LiveJournal community booksnifferanon was founded. It was a Gilmore Girls's Rory/Logan community. [38]
On February 12, 2005, the LiveJournal community gg_fic was founded as a place to post Gilmore Girls fan fiction. [39] Pairings that people posted fic for included Rory/Jess, Marty/Rory, Marty/Lucy, Logan/Rory, Luke/Lorelai and Lorelai/Rory.
On February 21, 2005, the MySpace group ll4ever was created. [40]
On February 28, 2005, the LiveJournal community spoilerjunkies was founded as a place to post and discuss spoilers and speculations for upcoming episodes of the show.
On March 1, 2005, Black & White & Read was founded. [41]
On April 30, 2005, the LiveJournal community rj_challenge was founded. It was dedicated to manipulations of pictures related to the Rory/Jess pairing. [42]
On May 2, 2005, the MySpace group gilmoregirls009 was created. [43]
On May 20, 2005, the LiveJournal community ggmusichallenge was founded. It was a Gilmore Girls's music challenge community. [44]
On July 26, 2005, the MySpace group gilmoregirlslikemotherlikedaughter was created. [45]
On July 27, 2005, the MySpace group rorysbookclub was created. [46]
On November 16, 2005, the first season of Gilmore Girls was released on DVD in central Europe and Norway. [47]

[edit] 2006

Mailing list and LiveJournal community creation by year compared to other fandoms.

Number of LiveJournal communities compared to mailing lists created by year from the following fandoms: Andromeda, Charmed, CSI,Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter, Xena, X-Files. Totals are based on years of creation found on those fandom's article pages as of December 15, 2006.

Anime and Television categories with most stories added on FanFiction.Net in 24 hour period December 29 to December 30, 2006

On March 19, 2006, the LiveJournal community gg_ficrecs was founded. It was created as a place for reccomendations of Gilmore Girls fan fiction. [48]
On October 23, 2006, the LiveJournal community gg_santa was created as a Gilmore Girls secret Santa community including fanfiction. [49] Pairings represented included Rory/Logan, Rory/Jess, Rory/Marty, Lorelai/Luke, Lauren/Alexis, Luke/April, Rory/Lane/Paris, Rory/Dean, Lorelai/Dean, Christopher/Lorelai.
On November 10, 2006, Eclecticon 2006 had a panel for the general discussion of Gilmore Girls. [50]

[edit] 2007

On January 1, 2007, the LiveJournal community 7musicalmusesv2 was created, and it hoped to include Gilmore Girls among its fandoms.
In May 2007, "'Luke and Lorelai: a journey of their kisses" was a popular fanvid circulating in the Gilmore Girls community. [51]

[edit] 2008

In May, 2008, a new, all inclusive Gilmore Girls fansite opened called Ultimately Gilmore. Ultimately Gilmore hopes to become the resource for Gilmore Girls fans.

[edit] Kerfluffles

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[edit] Influential Fanworks

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[edit] Influential Communities

On January 24, 2008, misskitten on FanLib said of this community,

It may be for some fandsoms, but not all. Some of my fandoms are well-repressented on LJ, but I wouldn’t say any of them are the main channel for that fandom’s fanwork. For Firefly I would say the main channel is Fireflyfans.net, for Gilmore Girls I would say Fanfiction.net and BWR are the main channels. Firefly seems well-repressented on LJ, at least to my impression, though I’m not an LJ user, but I can’t say GG has that strong a presence on LJ, at least not that big a group… [52]

[edit] Fandom Size

[edit] December 2006

There are 10,699 stories on FanFiction.Net as of December 6, 2006. [53] There are 15 stories on FanDomination.Net as of December 6, 2006. There are 10 stories on Fiction for Fans as of December 6, 2006. [54]

[edit] May 2007

As of May 23, 2007, there are 88 Gilmore Girls stories on FanLib. [55]

[edit] August 2007

As of August 17, 2007, there are 98 Gilmore Girls stories on FanLib. [56]

[edit] January 2008

As of January 1, 2008, there are 1,734 fans on FanPop. [57]

As of January 30, 2008, there were 220 stories, 43 videos, 23 images and 2 screenplays on FanLib. [58], 20 stories tagged gilmoregirls on Quizilla [59] and 13,181 stories on FanFiction.Net. [60]

[edit] Fandom Members

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Contents

[edit] Introduction

[edit] Terminology

[edit] Timeline

[edit] 1998

[edit] 2000

[edit] 2001

[edit] 2002

[edit] 2003

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2008

[edit] Kerfluffles

[edit] Influential Fanworks

[edit] Influential Communities

[edit] Fandom Size

[edit] December 2006

[edit] May 2007

[edit] August 2007

[edit] January 2008

[edit] Fandom Members

[edit] External Links

[edit] See Also

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