A New Old TV Discovery

[queenbookwench]

So, I got Paramount + in order to watch Lower Decks with the person I watch Star Treks with, and idly started watching the pilot of the original Beauty and the Beast series, and whoops, looks like I’m about to have a lot of feelings about a show that started airing when I was 8, and possibly a new Yuletide fandom. 

Also, I’m wondering if there’s like a secret stash of Early Internet fic for this show somewhere? I feel like there must be, but maybe it’s just early enough that there isn’t/wasn’t. 

Comments

[zana16]

I suspect there was some zine fic. I vaguely remember seeing some Beauty and the Beast stories in multimedia zines I got for the Professionals stories.

[queenbookwench]

Oooh, I hadn’t even thought about zines, but that makes total sense!

[malinaldarose]

Not much on AO3, but a lot more on Fanfiction Dot Net. But there probably are Secret Stashes somewhere.

[queenbookwench]

FFN makes total sense, especially since it’s been around awhile. I checked and there’s definitely more fic there, though I did find some good stuff on AO3. And a couple people at FFN mentioned fests online, so I am Poking Around.

[malinaldarose]

When I started searching for fic for Earth: Final Conflict, which I just got into a few years ago, I ended up visiting the Wayback Machine a lot.

[queenbookwench]

I found the stash!

It’s so interesting to me the way different eras of fic have distinct styles that cross fandoms…

[malinaldarose]

I suppose it's like any other form of literature -- styles come and go.