What we need:

more kindness, more history, more context, more empathy, more listening skills, more good faith

less blame, less assumptions, less zero sum conclusions, less bridge-burning, less finger pointing
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On the need for positive feedback and safe spaces. Things I wish I had understood better in my early years.

"A safe place is fantastic, but my real concern is what happens in real life. Does the butterfly soul understand that fannish validation is bound by fandom and that they may not be able to replicate that kind of feedback in real life......

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Back in 2010, one fan wrote about her perception of the intersection between fandom, social justice and the rest of the world:

"....I think a lot of people don't notice how broad and long term the effects of fandom's existence.....really are. There is a generation of published authors that have come out of fandom, and right now a new generation is ( Read more... )

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1kU0zto at January 08, 2016 at 06:12PM

ozhawkauthor:

If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.

If you aren’t able to do that, then you need to realise that your actions are making fandom unsafe for creators. That you are stifling creativity.

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The year was 1986, and Star Wars fans were discussing their changing fandom, the impact of commercialization on fandom and the role of fandom in general. The widespread adoption of the Internets was still 10 years in the future. 
[They continued]  the discussion on the sometimes differences between writing-for-pro and writing-for-fun. I think the ( Read more... )

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1XUzoB0 at December 08, 2015 at 07:32PM

To to anon who contacted me about orphaning work at AO3: I am not AO3 Abuse nor do I know much about AO3’s orphaning policies. I only know what I read online and what I’ve had seen in fandom over the years.

Those huge honking caveats aside…..

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Jonah (I met a man with weary eyes..
....Jonah, why did you run?) written by April Valentine

T'hy'la ("Reach out to me my brother
call out my name in your mind...
...I thought I could live without you...")

Who wrote: "What Do You Do With A Drunken Vulcan" Twas Roberta Rogow! [A Dreamwidth post with
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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1L51tsu at November 08, 2015 at 01:21PM


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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1MhFhx9 at November 07, 2015 at 11:42AM

Transformative Works and Cultures -Symposium Section: Fandom Meta and History By Fans For Fans:

Symposium broke new ground in terms of making the area of fan studies something that fans themselves could have an ongoing voice in. To quote:

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1XVoZRY at November 06, 2015 at 06:00PM

Well not exactly. What Lucas first said was: “You are prohibited from creating any fanworks”. But if you do create, we own it. So there.”

More about the Star Wars Fan Homepages Protest can be found on Fanlore, the fan run wiki about media fandom.

An excerpt ( Read more... )