User:Sockii
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sockii, known sometimes in real life as Nicole Pellegrini, is a collector, website and mailing list organizer, vidder, artist, fanfic archivist and fanzine publisher active in a number of fandoms since 1993.
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General biography
Born in Ancona, Italy in 1972, sockii grew up in New York state and has always considered herself a fan. She can vividly recall being obsessed with The Beatles when she was only five years old, listening to her mother's old lps records non-stop and imagining crazy adventures about John, Paul, George and Ringo in her head. For most of her early years she followed various musical acts avidly including Duran Duran, The Police, and Pink Floyd. She became active in Pink Floyd and The Police on-line fandom while in college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1990 and 1994. In 1994 she moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she still resides today, and become active in television and movie fandom on-line as well, organizing websites and mailing lists for various fandoms such as A-Team and later Babylon 5 and Star Wars. She counts Laura Michaels and Rita Ractliffe as two of her mentors into media fandom and publishing fanzines.
Currently she is primarily active in music fandom once again, obsessing over The Police just like the good old days and pursuing concert photography as a new passion. She is an avid collector of printed material related to her fandoms, and will be featured in an upcoming documentary on fans of The Police including an interview regarding her collection.
sockii is also the webmaster for actor John Glover's official website, and appreciates the fact that she can truly call herself Satan's Little Helper.
Timeline
- Joined The Police xmission mailing list in September of 1993, and was already involved in her first kerfluffle there before the end of the month.
- In 1994, sockii began the onthejazz on-line newsletter for A-Team fans, the beginning of organized A-Team fandom on the internet.
- Launched the first A-Team website on-line and Sockii Press in 1995.
- Founded the Master and Apprentice mailing list and archive[1] for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace slash fan fiction on May 21, 1999.
- Founded the Joxer Enthusiasts Supporting Sapphic Subtext, a Xena fan mailing list and website, in June of 1998.
- Registered the domain sockiipress.org[2] on September 30, 1999, which is still active as a hosting domain for several small fan fiction archives and individual fan fiction authors.
- In 1999 opened the original joxerotica archive[3] for adult fan fiction based on the characters portrayed by Ted Raimi.
- On January 6, 2000, launched an unofficial fansite for actor John Glover. The website became John Glover's official site in May of 2004.
- In 2000 opened the Shanghai Slash archive[4] for Shanghai Noon slash fan fiction.
- On April 24, 2006, launched tookooltokalypso.org, an unofficial website for Stewart Copeland of The Police.
- On February 12, 2007, attended The Police Rehearsals at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles, California, embarassing herself greatly on television broadcasts worldwide. The rest of 2007 would pass in a fangirl haze as she attended six more Police concerts in what she dubbed the All Your Cash Are Belong To Us world tour.
Fandoms
Past
- A-Team
- Babylon 5
- Brimstone
- Hong Kong cinema
- Pink Floyd
- seaQuest
- Shanghai Noon
- Smallville
- Star Wars
- Xena: Warrior Princess
Present
Ships
Fanworks
Archives and webdomains
sockii founded the following archives:
- Beyond the Rim (archive now closed)
- Master and Apprentice (no longer archivist)
- Joxerotica (no longer archivist)
- The Lurker's Den (archive now closed)
- The Rest Is Silence (archive now closed)
- Shanghai Slash
- Provides hosting service for several authors on www.sockiipress.org
Fansites
Fanzine contributions
- Published, edited, and provided artwork for all titles produced by Sockii Press
- Interior artwork for Gods Darkness Desire
- Cover art for The Oak and the Cypress
Songvids
- "Bang a Gong" (Rush Hour)
- "Go West" (Shanghai Noon)
- "Kinda I Want To" (Brimstone)
- "Proud" (Shaolin Soccer)
- "Satan Is My Motor" (Brimstone)
Awards
Art Awards:
- 1st Place, Best Science Fiction in Show for "Blue" (Shore Leave 2000)
- Favorite Portrait for "Young Qui-Gon" (Friscon 2000)
- Best Portrait for "Journey to the West" (Philcon 2002)
- 1st Place, 2-D Media for "Portrait of Elrond" (Shore Leave 2004)
- Best Craft Fandom Related Medium for "Jupiter" (Bascon 2004)
- 1st Place, Media for "Sheppard" (Shore Leave 2005)
- 1st Place, Sci-Fi for "Chiana" (Shore Leave 2006)
- Best Fan Art for "Sheppard" (Mobicon 2007)
