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| − | or AJAY [[Amateur Journalism]], which see. Producing or writing for amateur magazines. The initials usually refer to the hobby as carried on in the [[mapas]]; but an AJZINE is one distributed in an [[amateur press association]], not just any [[amateur]] magazine.
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| − | The name which participants in [[mundane]] [[amateur press associations]] gave their hobby, which predates and partially inspired [[fandom]]'s [[apas]]. [[mundane APAs]] differ from [[fandom]]'s in two important respects–they do not have either [1] minimum activity requirements or [2] a maximum number of members. The vast majority of [[mundane apa]] members over the years have been hobby printers as opposed to hobby writers. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] published 13 issues of [[The Conservative]] for the [[UAPA|United]] ([[UAPA]]) and [[National Amateur Press Associations]] ([[NAPA]]) between 1915 and 1923, and thus indirectly influenced [[Donald A. Wollheim]] and [[John B. Michel]] to found [[fandom]]'s first [[apa]], the [[Fantasy Amateur Press Association]] ([[FAPA]]), which is still churning out mailings. Over the years, a number of [[actifans]] have belonged to and participated in the [[mundane apas]] and quite a few people who started in ajay made their way to the [[fan]] [[apas]]. As a result, many [[actifans]] (beginning primarily with [[Francis T. Laney]] in the mid-1940s) prefer to be called "[[amateur]] journalists" or "[[amateurs]]" rather than "[[fans]]" (as [[Hugo Gernsback]] designated us). "Amateurish" remains a pejorative but "[[amateur]]" comes from the Latin amare, which means "to love," making [[amateurs]] people who do things for the love of doing them. And, paraphrasing [[Walt Willis]], those who hold that professionals are invariably superior to [[amateurs]] are doomed to prefer the ministrations of gigolos and prostitutes to those of willing and imaginative lovers.
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