Ostercy

Ostercy (John-Paul  Janson De Couët) is a British member of the fanfiction community and has been involved in the Tomb Raider fandom since 1996.

Timeline Below is a partial timeline of this author's involvement in the Laraverse.

1996 - Banned from Croft Times discussion forums

1997 - First Tomb Raider story written

1999 - Fan fiction page "Ostercy's TR Fables" founded, featuring artwork by Agnes Heyer ,

2000 - Foundation of Dark Cafe

2001 - Organises first official fan fiction writing competition (The First Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition)

2001 - Stories posted at Tales of Power and Beauty

2002 - The Second Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition [6]

2003 - Administrator for a short time at the Village of Tokakeriby fan forum

2003 - Judge of Tomb Raiders Community Network 2003 Tomb Raider Story Competition

2004-2006 - no time for Lara due to hideous real life job

2007 (June) - The Third Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition [7]

2007 (July) - Begins a debate about the content of the GameTap TR Webcasts and about the administration of www.tombraiderforums.com ("KatieGate")

2007 (July) - Banned from official Eidos TR forums, tombraiderforums.com and Katie Fleming TR forums

2007 (July) - Writes "Audience" to celebrate 10 years in fan fiction :)

2007 (November) - The Fourth Village of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition

2007 onwards - working on an autobiography of Natla (TR1 version)

2010 - The Fifth Village of Tokarkeriby TR Story Competition [10]

2011 - The Sixth Village of Tokakeriby TR Story competition [11]

2011 - Finished two volumes of Natla "autobiography" - The Atlantean Way and The United States Of Atlantis

2012 The Sixth Villiage of Tokakeriby TR Story Competition [12]

2012 - Founds Classic Tomb Raider club at Facebook [13]

2012 - Leads resistence to rebooting of Lara Croft character [14]

2015- Replaced as Admin of Tomb Raider Wikia whilst working on UK Labour's 2015 election campaign. This allows Wikia staff to change emphasis of Wikia away from classic Tomb Raider to marketing "Rise of the Tomb Raider ".

Fandoms
 * Tomb Raider

Membership Below is a partial list of communities, sites and mailing lists this person belonged to at some point.

The Croft Times

Dark Cafe

The Croft Codex

Stories

Tomb Raider Fables

A Tomb in the Earth;

1. Olympus Mons (1997)

2. Byzantium (1998)

3. GM (1999)

4. England, my England (2000)

5. An Icon of the Prophet (2001)

6. The Dead (2002)

Crossovers with Tim Radley;

Crocodile tears (Lara and Angel)

Plastic fantastic (Lara and Barbie)

Scripts;

The Streets Are Not Enough

Audience (2007)

External links
 * Ostercy's home page
 * Twitter: @ostercy
 * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ostercy.jansondecouet
 * Hotmail: ostercy2003@hotmail.com