This ANZAC weekend was the local scifi con, Swancon. And like so many recent cons, it was online.

This was an interesting experience! I was unfortunately very sleepy this weekend so wasn't up for a bunch of content I'd been looking forward to, but participated in couple of Youtube chats via Watch2gether, which were super fun. I also submitted to ( Read more... )

I had to make a Wattpad account to read something and decided to try out posting something, because I needed a distraction(*). It's a site for posting fiction, with a lot of teenagers writing self insert RPF romances. I settled on Wedding Is Destiny since Pride and Prejudice femslash never goes out of style and it can just sit there to be stumbled ( Read more... )

Happy distracting Comment Fest Lots of fandoms, allows for fanart etc as well as fanfic.

Homestuck Comment Fic fest

All The Nice Things Flash Exchange A fic exchange for nice things happening to people

Lockdown Fest For fanworks of any kind on a theme of being stuck inside. Has a sub-theme of Covid-19 but these works must be tagged so people can ( Read more... )

@electric_challenge is a dreamwidth community encouraging people to make dreamwidth posts about gaming.

Stage 1: A friending memeStage 2: My history as a player of computer games, below ( Read more... )

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A conversation made me curious so I looked up if there was any information, and found two very interesting posts by the same blogger.

Yuri isn’t Made for Men: An Analysis of the Demographics of Yuri Mangaka and Fans compiles existing information on Japanese creators and fans

Report on the Yuri Fandom Demographic Survey discusses a survey they ran ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I mentioned it before, so:
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I did make it in the end, but only for the Saturday. Which was lots of fun and SO MUCH LESS EXHAUSTING than going for the whole con, so I think I'll make it my default from now on.

There's no panel notes or anything, just me rambling about my day.
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Thought I should mention it while I remember. (Also I just gave my self a minor burn and need a distraction, sorry if this is a bit badly worded as a result ( Read more... )

I argued with someone on tumblr who said the quantity of fanfic produced has starkly decreased since 2009, but while I was sure they were wrong I couldn't back myself up with hard evidence. Luckily their main argument was "these days there's nothing as active as Stargate Atlantis fandom used to be", which was pretty easy to refute ( Read more... )