WDVF
The WDVF (Witterhetssällskapet Din Vän Fandom) consisted of three active fans who were also close friends: John-Henri Holmberg, Bertil Mårtensson and Mats Dannewitz Linder. The name translates as "The Belles-Lettres Society Your Friend Fandom"; its main activity consisted of publishing satirical oneshots, but it also ceremoniously awarded silly prizes accompanied by diplomas and speeches in Latin. Only three award ceremonies were held, since the idea was to hand out the major award, The Space Potty Carolus Gustavus, once each to the three named "members", and the minor award, The Space Potty Sancta Brigida, to some outsider who had spoken or written disparagingly of the Society. The main award was an actual pink plastic potty, the minor one a miniature doll's house potty. Carolus Gustavus, of course, was the Latinized name both of a famed Swedish warrior king (1622–1660) and the first names of the (in the late 1960s) Swedish Crown Pince; Sancta Brigida was a Swedish 14th Century saint. It was all extremely silly.
In the 1960s, WDVF did a series of witty fanzines under different titles, later by some fans considered classics; members also edited and contributed to SF Forum, the leading fanzine from the Scandinavian SF Association. The oneshots published by the WDVF were: Punsch, Mjölk, Valthornet, Förbundets för Kronobergs läns självbestämmande Röst, Nex, and Den suckande tungan, all of these appearing 1967 through 1969. All except the last were quite small, ranging from 8 to just over 20 pages; however Den suckande tungan (The Sighing Tongue) collected all to that point published poems by Kjell Borgström, added an absurdly pretentious introduction, parodic academic notes, and a meticulous but meaningless list of explanations, and ran to 86 pages. In 1985, when WDVF in the guise of its three members was chosen as fan GoH at Swecon in Stockholm, a final WDVF oneshot was produced, called Ett äkta WDVF-fanzine ("A Genuine WDVF Fanzine").
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