I was reading a post about the illegal demolition of a historic building in Melbourne, The Corkman Hotel and the problem of illegal demolition of historic buildings. The ideas the poster talks about - what buildings mean in a community, that their fabric is not the only valuable thing about them - feel relevant to recent discussions around fandom ( Read more... )

"fanfiction does not need the approval of anyone associated with the original text, because it’s not about them."

Such an important point and well worth reiterating. Though I would say fanworks because it is not just writing, but vidding and other visual art, podficcing and filking, and anything else I've left out.

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I was trying to remember why Winterfox was a familiar name and then I recalled that they were the reviewer/commenter who made 50 Books POC a much, much, much quieter place.

People, Strange Empire trailer makes it look like wall to wall violence against women, a real 'how many ways can we abjectify this bunch of actresses' show. Actually looks ( Read more... )

Thought some non-Tumblr or Tumblr-lite people might find this interesting:

A Tumblr user, bisexualamy, explains how they are making an invite only community. Though being Tumblr, other users will be able to read, like and reblog. This structure is fascinating because Tumblr doesn't have communities like LJ and DW has or like mailing lists were. ( Read more... )

I read a series of historical romance novels recently and was reflecting that, as close as they came, they still didn't manage the emotional payoff that I get from fan fiction. It's also that queer historical romance is an arid desert when it comes to lesbians and bisexual women. I thought this series delightful when it started because it was about ( Read more... )

1. I don't know Lilo's sister's name, I've not seen the movie, but I can recognise the crown of her head when a post scrolls up my screen.

2. I ship Mako More and Raleigh Beckett as intensely as if they were my first ship based entirely on pictures on Tumblr. I have not watched Pacific Rim. The Meeting Of Your Sparks (2626 words) by tielan
is an ( Read more... )

Brief last few episodes of Orphan Black review: Cosima mimicking Leakey made me flail.

Cool post about how Steve Rogers is Vimes not Carrot.

Slightly gobsmacked that this podcast is grouping LJ with zines and Usenet as old school fandom: Slash report 410 A Brief History of Fandom. So when will Tumblr be sidelined? Is the next platform here yet ( Read more... )

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So, my tumblr dash is suddenly full of gentlemen I believe I rightly assume to be the Canadian national/limpic hockey team. And I kind of vaguely know their names because it's fandom and in fandom everyone knows your OTP's name. But holy cow, they're young. Are they all fifteen or what? Babies.

Can the TV from the US come back now?

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I find this link hilarious in a bitter fashion: Girls don't buy toys so we don't give a fuck about them (slightly paraphrased). Once, years and years ago, I went looking for fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion because hello, tragic frenemy slash, but all I found were forums dominated buy blokes and all they talked about - ALL THEY TALKED ABOUT - about ( Read more... )