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[edit] Introduction

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[edit] The Show

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[edit] Terminology

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

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Beta Reader - A proofreader, someone who reads through a draft of a story and makes suggestions ranging from corrections to grammar and spelling, to comments on plot and characterization.

George and Lynn Fic - a clandestine name for fanfics about actors Dean Cain and Terri Hatcher.

Gfic - Any fanfiction that is rated PG-13 or less.

Nfic - A category of fanfiction that must be rated R or higher, whether due to language, graphic violence, or explicit depictions of nudity and/or sex. Abbreviation of "Naughty Fanfiction", due to a pervasive mental association with smut.

Tank Ending - Named for fanfic author Tank Wilson, refers to an abrupt, cataclysmic downer ending, usually though not always fake, and often containing a high death-toll.

[edit] Timeline

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

[edit] 1993

• On September 12, 1993, Lois and Clark premiered on television in the United States. [1]

[edit] 1994

• The Lois and Clark fan fiction community was busy by 1994. Their biggest archive was created by this time. They had a Usenet group. The community was using IRC to communicate in real time.
• On April 26, 1994, Lois and Clark premiered on television in France. [2]
• On August 25, 1994, Lois and Clark premiered on television in Germany. [3]
• On November 27, 1994, Lois and Clark premiered on television in Sweden. [4]

[edit] 1995

• From 1995 to 1997, story blurbs for the biggest Lois and Clark fan fiction archive were written by Lauren Willoughby, Renate Brink and Jennifer Adkins. The Fanfic Archive [5] now has well over 2000 stories and is one of the very few archives to offer a full editing service for all stories submitted. All stories are checked for spelling, grammar and ratings. The Archive was ably run for many years by Kathy Brown, and is now run by LabRat.
• On August 5, 1995, Lois and Clark premiered on television in Argentina. [6]

[edit] 1996

• On December 28, 1996, Lois and Clark premiered on television in Croatia. [7]

[edit] 1997

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[edit] 1998

• On January 7, 1998, Lois and Clark premiered on television in Finland. [8]
• In February 1998, Sci-Fi Entertainment ran an article on fan fiction. It referenced the Lois and Clark fan fiction community. An extract of a relevant section of the article says:

There's also high-volume activity associated with Star Trek (referred to here as a aggregate for all four series, although currently Voyager seems to be leading to the greatest fanfic response ) and Lois and Clark: The New Adventure of Superman. But there are other, too: Star Wars, Babylon 5, Sliders, Xena, Dr. Who, Quantum Leap, Highlander, SeaQuest DSV, Beauty and the Beast - all of these popular science fiction and fantasy series have sites dedicated to the stories and characters of those universes.

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There's the example of Lois and Clark, where fans opted to pursue the series fifth season on their own. "We were inspired by the cliffhanger final episode and one of the show's writers coming online and telling us what they were starting to plan for the fifth season," recalls Leanne Shawler, who coordinated this fifth season effort - one of five available on the Net - that's posted at http://www.lcfanfic.com/thm-s5.htm. "There are 19 writers doing 22 episodes and six editors to go over each episode. Installments are posted once a week to our website and to the general fanfic mailing list - with a December pre-emption and a couple of others here and there so we can stretch things out until the season would normally end on TV - in May."

• From March 1998 to the present day, the Lois and Clark community has celebrated its best authors and stories by distributing the Kerth Awards, voted for by fans. 1998 was the inaugural run of the Kerth Awards, which recognized the best stories from all those that had been placed on the Lois & Clark fanfic archive prior to the end of 1997.
• On August 29, 1998, the mailing list celebratingloisandclark was created. [9]
• On October 20, 1998, the mailing list thefolcsbunch was created. [10]
• On December 2, 1998, Lois and Clark premiered on television in Romania. [11]

[edit] 1999

• On January 8, 1999, the Dean Cain mailing list everythingdeancain was created. [12]
• Around February 1999, Melissa Diss plagiarized Star Trek, X-Files and Lois and Clark stories and changed them to The Nanny stories. [13]
• On February 2, 1999, the mailing list theloisandclarkclub was created. [14]
• On February 28, 1999, the mailing list loisandclarkakasuperman was created. [15]
• On February 28, 1999, the mailing list loisandclark was created. [16]
• On April 6, 1999, Premiere by Hawk became the first Lois and Clark story to be posted on FanFiction.Net. [17]
• On May 24, 1999, the mailing list LoisandClarkNAOS was created. [18]
• On October 5, 1999, the mailing list adayinthelifeofmetropolis was created. [19]
• On December 18, 1999, the mailing list clarkkent was created. [20]

[edit] 2000

• On January 1, 2000, the mailing list loisandclarksloveshack was created. [21]

[edit] 2001

• On October 4, 2001, the mailing list LCFic was created. [22]
• On November 1, 2001, the mailing list loisandclarksfriendship was created. [23]

[edit] 2002

• On May 28, 2002, the LiveJournal community ljoffolcs was created. [24]

[edit] 2003

• On February 17, 2003, the mailing list LCFic2 was created. [25]
• In 2003, the Lois & Clark Fanfic Message Boards went online in April.

[edit] 2004

• On June 5, 2004, Episodenführer der 5 Staffel by PearlQ19 became the first German language Lois and Clark story to be posted on FanFiction.Net. [26]
• On June 14, 2004, the LiveJournal community loisandclarkfan was created. [27]
• On October 10, 2004, the mailing list Lois_and_Clark_Metropolis_Rp was created. [28]
• On November 27, 2004, the Teri Hatcher mailing list Forever-Teri-Hatcher was created. [29]

[edit] 2005

• On January 26, 2005, the MySpace group FOLC was created. [30]
• On February 14, 2005, the mailing list loisandclarkarchive was created was an update list for The Lois & Clark Archive's Website. [31]
• On February 15, 2005, the MySpace group LNCTNAOS was created. [32]

[edit] 2007

• On March 22, 2007, Vitamins and Minerals by dsdragon became the first Lois and Clark story to be posted on FanLib. [33]

[edit] Kerfluffles

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[edit] Influential Fanworks

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[edit] Fandom Members

See Lois and Clark fans for a fandom directory.

[edit] Fandom Size

As of December 28, 2007, there are 32 works on FanLib, 31 of which are stories and 1 which is a screenplay. [34] As of December 28, 2007, there are 127 fans on FanPop [35], 431 stories on FanFiction.Net [36], 3,173 stories on The Lois & Clark Fanfic Archive [37] and an uncounted number of works in progress on two Lois and Clark message boards: Zoomway's board [38] and the Lois and Clark Fanfic Messageboard [39].

[edit] External Links

• Lois and Clark @ FanFiction.Net
• Lois and Clark @ FanLib
• Lois and Clark @ FanPop
• Lois and Clark @ FanWorksFinder
• Lois and Clark @ IMDB
• Lois & Clark Fanfic Archive
• Lois and Clark Message Board
• Lois and Clark Fanfic Message Boards

[edit] See also

• Lois and Clark fanzines

[edit] Sources

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