Journal created:
on 24 October 2004 (#4933793)
Updated:
on 11 October 2012
Name:
Oxford >U< Folklore and FanFiction Society
Location:
Oxford, United Kingdom
Website:
Membership:
Moderated
Posting Access:
All Members , Moderated
Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk. -- Henry Jenkins
This is the community for Oxford's one and only Folklore and Fanfiction Society. We are not affiliated with the University although all of our regular members are OU students.
Our society is dedicated to discussing, reading, and writing folklore (old and new), fanfiction, and mythology. This community will be a way for us to communicate with each other and for the outside world to see what's going on with our society and our members.
As of the Christchurch quiz on the 30th January 2006 we are, officially, the joint cleverest fannish society in Oxford, beating DocSoc., HP Soc., and the SciFi Soc. The lovely and rather talented
anotherusedpage composed this ballad for the occasion:-
Forth went the ficcers, fearless and bold
Full cheerly to Christchurch, one night crisp and cold
All strong in their seeking for victory sweet
To claim them the crown of the cleverest of geeks
Witty and whimsical though facing the wise
Promoting their passions to take home the prize
Asking for old and obscure knowledge random
Queerest of questions in coolest of fandoms
Giving their answers with much mirth and gayness
Refraining from cheating, all churlish and heinous –
They were loudest of laughers, and lively in banter
Full friendliest folks, and yet fiercest of ranters
The strongest of ‘shippers, most squeeful of slashers,
(All bold in the face of the slash-fiction-bashers)
So great was their geekery that ‘gainst all good sense
They vanquished their rivals in victory immense
All except tolksoc, (the team whose high scores
Could perhaps be attributed to canon-nazi-bores
If our ficcers were feeling that bit less magnanimous –
But they’re not, so let’s praise them with awe that’s unanimous
This true team who’s geekery rivals our own,
With whom we will willingly share victor’s crown
Although they knew not what RPS stood for)
So the ballad of the geek-battle ends in a draw
This is the community for Oxford's one and only Folklore and Fanfiction Society. We are not affiliated with the University although all of our regular members are OU students.
Our society is dedicated to discussing, reading, and writing folklore (old and new), fanfiction, and mythology. This community will be a way for us to communicate with each other and for the outside world to see what's going on with our society and our members.
As of the Christchurch quiz on the 30th January 2006 we are, officially, the joint cleverest fannish society in Oxford, beating DocSoc., HP Soc., and the SciFi Soc. The lovely and rather talented
anotherusedpage composed this ballad for the occasion:-Forth went the ficcers, fearless and bold
Full cheerly to Christchurch, one night crisp and cold
All strong in their seeking for victory sweet
To claim them the crown of the cleverest of geeks
Witty and whimsical though facing the wise
Promoting their passions to take home the prize
Asking for old and obscure knowledge random
Queerest of questions in coolest of fandoms
Giving their answers with much mirth and gayness
Refraining from cheating, all churlish and heinous –
They were loudest of laughers, and lively in banter
Full friendliest folks, and yet fiercest of ranters
The strongest of ‘shippers, most squeeful of slashers,
(All bold in the face of the slash-fiction-bashers)
So great was their geekery that ‘gainst all good sense
They vanquished their rivals in victory immense
All except tolksoc, (the team whose high scores
Could perhaps be attributed to canon-nazi-bores
If our ficcers were feeling that bit less magnanimous –
But they’re not, so let’s praise them with awe that’s unanimous
This true team who’s geekery rivals our own,
With whom we will willingly share victor’s crown
Although they knew not what RPS stood for)
So the ballad of the geek-battle ends in a draw
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