Knowing that Cait Corrain was a Reylo makes their actions make a lot more sense.

Not because of the ship they were interested. Not because of the fandom they were involved in. Rather, because knowing that they were active in fandom in a large, active ship with a lot of drama and a LOT of fic being posted, it really puts some aspects of the situations into context for me.

I've been thinking about fan space bullshit for a while (just not posting it anywhere lol), so I felt like now might be the best time, and this might be the best place, for me to get some of these thoughts down. I'm sure nothing I'm saying is 100% original, as I've seen many others express the same gripes with modern fandom, but I think this kind of thing can be talked about and rehashed at any point for the sake of d i s c o u r s e.

So I've been using DeviantArt a lot recently for a personal project. This combined with my Snowflake Challenge musings (where I pondered what is now the best site for posting adult art in the wake of Twitter's struggles) inspired me to write up a long comparison of how DeviantArt and Tumblr compare as sites for posting fanart. n = 4546 words.

The past few days I've been working on pieces for Zines, right now I'm working on a 2nd piece for one that is spicy. The SFW is just about done. And I'm brainstorming for another one.

Via bluedreaming, I came across a fair and very thoughtful post observing the impact AO3 has had on smaller archives, and by extension on fandom-specific communities. I love AO3 and everything it stands for and was born of, and I want it to keep existing. I also see a lot of commentary on the lost feeling of "community" in fandom spaces these days, and this post offers interesting insights into AO3's unfortunate contribution to the trend.

In 2012, for reasons that don't bear exploring at this juncture, I decided to make a list of all of the meta on reccing that I could find. I went through metafandom and I started going through metafandom and I ran out of steam. Every once in a while I'd pick it up again, and I'd, say, go pull more meta data for the links I'd pulled from metafandom. Sometimes I found that those links and entries that I read had since become locked or deleted; I chose to keep those links because I'd read the content there and I knew that I cared about it and maybe, someday, the entry would be accessible again, or, anyway, surely the data I did have meant something; I couldn't make myself delete anything, so there are some dead links in here.

Over my roughly 23 years in fandom, I've witnessed a number of scam artists, grifters, and otherwise bad actors within fandom. I've had the good fortune, but also the wariness and caution, to not be taken in by these people. So today, for my second Fannish50, I'm going to talk about signs of scam artists and other kinds of grifters, gaslighters, and toxic people in fandom that have become apparent to me over the years and have helped me avoid them.

Anon: Hey so I have a question. I asked one of the forensic psychology college professors (i'm a psych major) if l0li/sh0ta counts as cp and she said that it does because even though they are animated depictions, they are meant to represent children. Made me feel weird, what is ur stance on this?