So tomorrow is a HUGE DAY for the Lizzie Bennet Diaries fandom. There definitely is one, and it's actually one of the most delightful fandoms I've come across in a while, even if my interaction with it has been almost totally in YouTube comments and on Tumblr.

In case you missed my earlier flailing, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries is a retelling of ( Read more... )

THE LIVEJOURNAL TRILOGY!!!!!!!

So, in case you missed it:

Part 1: The Demise of a Social Media Platform: Timeline of LiveJournal’s Decline;

Part 2: Keeping Track of a Fandom Diaspora; aaaaaaaand

Part 3: why we hate tumblr so much but keep using it anyway:
The pros and cons of fandom on Tumblr
For months, arguments about Tumblr have been circulating ( Read more... )

Hey, you guys!

I know this is totally last minute but is anyone going to LeakyCon next week! I just snagged a press pass! (Yes, this means I might get to interview John and Hank Green and StarKid and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries and Maureen Johnson, yes :D ( Read more... )

Dear Yuletide Author,

Thank you so much for writing for me! I am more excited about this Yuletide than I have been for any out of all the last 7 years! (and wow that is a long time!)

Watch this space for a detailed letter, but in the meantime, for you and everyone else, please enjoy the awesomeness:

Stuff about me: I really will love anything ( Read more... )

I am so proud of my mom, oh my god.

From an email she just sent me:
I am SSOO glad you have the right attitude about the Twilight series. All the women here are talking about how they & their daughters love the books & can't wait to see the movie. I stood up & said my daughter says the Twilight series is undermining female independence from, ( Read more... )

First,

OTW, or, I am exhausted. <-- if you only read one link about the OTW election, make it this one.

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If you're an OTW member, I believe you need to vote in this election. The org has gone through a lot of recent growing pains, and we have the opportunity to take it forward in a really positiive, progressive direction. Or, as outgoing ( Read more... )

( TAG BUNDLES, M through WHATEVER: )

So, Delicious:
I am currently shut out of both of my delicious accounts. I cannot log in to my personal account, bookshop, which I 've had since 2006 and which my firefox extention informs me had 12,679 bookmarks as of the last sync. Apparently my password is suddenly invalid. I'm terrified that half of my tags and links will be gone. Like I ( Read more... )

Here is a thing about me. About once every 3 or 4 months or so I start craving modern Arthur/Merlin AUs, and nothing will satisfy me but modern Merlin AUs, where Arthur is a business exec and Merlin his lowly PA, or Merlin is a starving hipster artist and Arthur his unlikely jock roommate from university, or any number of rom-com AUs, or someone ( Read more... )

But first, here is a list of Notting Hill AUs in every fandom ever, because you know you want Notting Hill AUs in your life.

(Note I have not read any of these, I am just PLOPPING THEM HERE SO THAT WHEN I NEED A NOTTING HILL AU, I CAN HAVE ONE.)

Notting Hill AUs in Every Fandom Ever:
- Mighty Boosh - Howard/Vince
- SPN - Jared/Jensen (by
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