Vale, Sabine
Jan. 25th, 2013 01:32 pmI have just heard that ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
iamsab.livejournal.com passed away yesterday. She was a wonderful writer and a smart, funny fan who will be dearly missed by a lot of people, including me.
I loved her stories - especially her Farscape stuff, which I read before I ever interacted with her and which turned my brain inside out in the best possible way. But the best and most important thing she ever did for me was say 'hey, we should run a ficathon!'
Back in 2004 - and I can't believe that it's been nine years - we were on AIM one afternoon, talking about how we should totally get![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selenak to write a Londo/Chiana story. And it was Sab who came up with the delightfully crazy plan of creating a whole space show crossover ficathon to achieve this. Thus was Multiverse born.
(If you're thinking 'but wait, Selena didn't write that Londo/Chiana story until years later' then you would be right. It turns out that asking Selena to write the story worked better. Nevertheless, I regret nothing.)
In twelve years of active fanning I have written some pretty good stories and vidded some pretty good vids, but there's nothing I'm as proud of as Multiverse. I flew solo on modding duties in subsequent years, but the whole thing would never have happened without Sab. I wish she wasn't gone.
iamsab.livejournal.com passed away yesterday. She was a wonderful writer and a smart, funny fan who will be dearly missed by a lot of people, including me.I loved her stories - especially her Farscape stuff, which I read before I ever interacted with her and which turned my brain inside out in the best possible way. But the best and most important thing she ever did for me was say 'hey, we should run a ficathon!'
Back in 2004 - and I can't believe that it's been nine years - we were on AIM one afternoon, talking about how we should totally get
selenak to write a Londo/Chiana story. And it was Sab who came up with the delightfully crazy plan of creating a whole space show crossover ficathon to achieve this. Thus was Multiverse born.(If you're thinking 'but wait, Selena didn't write that Londo/Chiana story until years later' then you would be right. It turns out that asking Selena to write the story worked better. Nevertheless, I regret nothing.)
In twelve years of active fanning I have written some pretty good stories and vidded some pretty good vids, but there's nothing I'm as proud of as Multiverse. I flew solo on modding duties in subsequent years, but the whole thing would never have happened without Sab. I wish she wasn't gone.