A random, innocent, and unrelated trip to Fanlore turned into me finding a page on the Nirvana fandom. I’ve only ever accidentally found myself on this site, but today I was thinking about things that constitute as fanwork and it was the first link on Google. So I went from Fanwork > Fansite > Neocities (home of one of my first real sites on the internet) > BLEW (which has already been linked on this site) > Nirvana (band). Anyway, some pretty interesting stuff on that page.

I’ve dipped my toes in Nirvana RPF with AO3 and the BLEW fansite so reading the tropes surprised me (given the little I’ve read is not like this): “The broader fandom leans towards the deification and masculinization of Kurt (he described himself as “feminine”). Surprisingly, there doesn’t seem to be much woobification of him in fic, despite the vast potential for this. This seems to happen more often in fan art, where artists sometimes focus on Kurt’s on stage preference for wearing dresses and depict him as small, fragile, and with female-looking anatomy.”

Also of interest to me are the Kurt Cobain graphic novel and the Heart-Shaped Mailing Box (born after the original Territorial Pissings mailing list shut down). The alt.music.nirvana usenet newsgroup, which was created the day it was announced that Kurt passed, has been brought up in various subreddits including r/Nirvana. Also love that Kurt’s Nirvana “fanfiction” and fan art were mentioned on the page. By the way, I have also not seen Last Days (2005) but I’ll get to that in time.

All in all, a fun read!

Peace, love, empathy

Nikki