🔖 Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.
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🔖 Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic Symposium) via Lori Morimoto’s Introduction to Media Fan Studies.
How has the fandom gift economy changed since this was written in 1999?
🔖📺👱♀️ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: “I’ve Earned the Right to Stand Where I Am”.
“Was it an ideal working situation? Absolutely not. But it’s OK to love Buffy for what we created because I think it’s pretty spectacular.”
🔖 Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and so I read this interview with Donna Tartt.
🔖 Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads).
This is my favorite Wednesday think piece so far.
Ricci’s Wednesday was devious, quietly furious, and most importantly, content to be so.
🔖 Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked in this week’s The Rec Center
The first time I started working on a fic in the past couple of years, I did it in a spiral notebook.
🔖📚 Read …and a partridge in a pear tree (19913 words) by strangehunger.
This is a beautiful and perfect Gideon the Ninth mall employee AU. Gideon works at Spencer Gifts. Harrow works at Hot Topic. And my boy Palamedes works at B&N, of course.
🔖📝 Read Finding the Secret Door Into Your Novel.
When a novel is wick, it has a life about it.
(Have we talked about how I married Dickon, Internet? Because I did.)
🔖📺 Read Wednesday Forgets Why We Fell in Love With the Addams Family.
“The Addams Family films were about family being a haven of pure acceptance and unquestioning love.”
This is a perfect articulation of something I’ve known in my heart since 1991.
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A year of new avenues robinsloan.com
I want to insist on an amateur internet; a garage internet; a public library internet; a kitchen table internet.
Yes! This! (hat-tip to Austin Kleon)