links: Fandom Overview and first two recs
As promised/threatened, from the LJ community crack_van. This is by way of being a catch-up post; I'll post future links individually as the recs go up.
Crack_van asks smaller fandoms for overviews of the fandom the first time they're featured on the community. ranalore and her evil twin boniblithe did a wonderful overview back in 2004, which I link in my own supplemental overview. But since the state of the fandom has changed somewhat since then, and the images had vanished from their original overview, I thought I ought to post a supplement to it, and did so. That post, for whatever amusement value it may have, is at: