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@annejamison
being late getting into a piece of media or joining a ‘dead’ fandom is not that bad actually cause even if it seems like the party is over there will always be people still celebrating and the decoration is still up and there’s a piece of cake reserved especially for you in the fridge you just have to come and enjoy it.
academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches
"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell
I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.
I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.
I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.
The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.
"The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter."
also I just want to say, like, learning isn't just important if you have a career where people are obviously dependent on you. Learning is just important.
This is the most terrifying thing to me, that somehow we have reached the point where people are literally arguing that there is no "value" in learning how to think. Learning has value. The mere act of learning and teaching your brain how to do the hard thing that learning is has value. Period. Full stop. Do it.
the legislature's performance audit of our state university system mentioned learning 3 times, teaching 0 times, knowledge 0 times, professors 1 time, efficiency 48 times, and efficiencies (plural) 27 times.
Sometimes, fanfiction is carefully plotted out stories, with plot points and call backs and themes that all tie it up in a meaningful and exciting way.
And sometimes fanfiction is, ‘Watch me do a fucking KICK FLIP off this cool sentence!! Also here's some sex'
Both are beautiful forms of writing.
🎉 One month of Fansplaining 2.0 🎉
We've been live for a month, and what a whirlwind it's been! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's supported the project so far. We genuinely could not get off the ground without this early support.
Since we launched, we've published some incredible writing:
Writing by, for, and about fandom.
Our launch post, explaining what Fansplaining: The Publication is all about.
The three things you need to build a juggernaut fanfic community: popularity, modularity, and intimacy.
Fansplaining editor @lincodega on the elements of The Pitt that make it ripe for fanfiction (as well as what journalists can't stop getting wrong about the Pitt fandom).
How a German novel about Irish sheep (detectives) inspired a legion of devotees around the world.
@morgan-leigh on Three Bags Full (first titled Glenkill in its original German), the beloved mystery novel that was the source for The Sheep Detectives film.
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
Soila Kenya on non-native English speakers reading and writing fanfiction in English, the language that has the most global "linguistic capital" in fandom.
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
@annejamison on the Good Omens series finale as a metatextual commentary about fandom and fanfiction—and one that gave the characters back to the fans.
TV was perfect for tech’s failure narratives—but in Silicon Valley “post-failure” era, will audiences still tune in?
@elizabethminkel on depictions of tech on television, and how we read these characters in light of our shifting feelings about real-life tech.
We've got so much more in the works, including:
Thai GL fandom
Conlang enthusiasts
Fandom stats as fanworks
Covering Game of Thrones
Negative comments vs bots on AO3
Homestuck's fanworks
Gay pirates
And, of course, @hellotailor recapping The Vampire Lestat over the next two months! ✨
If you like what we’ve been doing, please become a subscriber!
Reporting, criticism, and more, all by, for, and about fandom.
Subscriptions start at $7 a month/$70 a year. We also have a significant discount for students, educators, un/underemployed folks, etc. Email [email protected] and we'll be happy to share the code.
Here's to many more months (years!) of fan culture writing to come! 🥳
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
Our latest piece is live! The brilliant Soila Kenya writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fanfiction spaces, and why for her and the fellow fans she interviewed from Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, this is partly about the global dominance of English-language pop culture, but especially about the legacies of colonialism:
The deep psychological imprints of this language disparity remain. And therefore, when I encountered fanfiction, it didn’t even occur to me that there were fanfics written in any language but English, let alone Swahili or any of the 42 indigenous languages in Kenya.
Click through to read the whole piece or listen to a full audio version! And if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a (free) member or especially a paying subscriber—we want to commission more pieces from Soila and other smart writers and we need your help to pay them!
(As a reminder, we have a discount rate for anyone who wants it, no questions asked—if you're a student, educator, un/underemployed, have a lower income, or literally any other reason, just email [email protected] and we're happy to provide!)
This piece is SO good—absolutely worth your time to read or listen (I always love hearing the writers read their work, but since the focus of this piece is language, it was especially great hearing Soila read it). If you enjoy it, please share widely: I know what Soila writes here will resonate with so many people across fandom.
nothing legolasts forever
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
Our latest piece is live! The great @annejamison (who you might know as the author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World) writes about the recent Good Omens finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction:
And so, May 13th found me awake at 1 A.M., watching the series finale through bleary and teary eyes. Despite widespread sorrow at the glittering yet gutting conclusion for our heroes, 6,000+–year-old angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley, I thought it was the most heartfelt and validating love letter to fanfiction I’ve seen come out of a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, this message got tangled up with the show’s other unique ambitions: to save itself from its author—not Pratchett, the other one—and restore the Good Omens legacy to its fans.
Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version! 💞
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
Our latest piece is live! The great @annejamison (who you might know as the author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World) writes about the recent Good Omens finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction:
And so, May 13th found me awake at 1 A.M., watching the series finale through bleary and teary eyes. Despite widespread sorrow at the glittering yet gutting conclusion for our heroes, 6,000+–year-old angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley, I thought it was the most heartfelt and validating love letter to fanfiction I’ve seen come out of a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, this message got tangled up with the show’s other unique ambitions: to save itself from its author—not Pratchett, the other one—and restore the Good Omens legacy to its fans.
Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version! 💞
Ever since I first read Fic back in....2014?? (when we were both mired in Deep Sherlock Times lol) I've been such an admirer of Anne's writing, especially the way she can connect threads across different kinds of transformative texts—real English major stuff, but always done in a fun, accessible way. 😅
Good Omens is not my fandom at all, but I found this a very engaging read—highly recommended for anyone interested in fanfiction and the ways adaptations engage with their audiences.
I am a longtime Fansplaining fangirl and 2/3 of the current editorial team is featured in my class right now :)
Are you gonna share the syllabus! 😉
Funny you should ask. We now are required by state law to share a basic syllabus on a public website so it can be policed by legislators and concerned citizens like Moms for Liberty. Thus I share no syllabus details other than what I am legally required to post. It’s really bad for the vast majority of instructors who don’t have tenure and is having a chilling effect. I was so tempted to retool the course as “the queer critical race theory of Marxist fanfic” or “transgender for everyone: fanfic as explicit gay diversity for the masses” but i actually went in the direction of more dead authors and lots of student choice for discretion’s sake. There are no fan writers listed on any version of the syllabus for my fanfic class
Today's vent:
#I see it differently but I love this so much
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
Our latest piece is live! The brilliant Soila Kenya writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fanfiction spaces, and why for her and the fellow fans she interviewed from Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, this is partly about the global dominance of English-language pop culture, but especially about the legacies of colonialism:
The deep psychological imprints of this language disparity remain. And therefore, when I encountered fanfiction, it didn’t even occur to me that there were fanfics written in any language but English, let alone Swahili or any of the 42 indigenous languages in Kenya.
Click through to read the whole piece or listen to a full audio version! And if you enjoy it, please consider becoming a (free) member or especially a paying subscriber—we want to commission more pieces from Soila and other smart writers and we need your help to pay them!
(As a reminder, we have a discount rate for anyone who wants it, no questions asked—if you're a student, educator, un/underemployed, have a lower income, or literally any other reason, just email [email protected] and we're happy to provide!)
This piece is SO good—absolutely worth your time to read or listen (I always love hearing the writers read their work, but since the focus of this piece is language, it was especially great hearing Soila read it). If you enjoy it, please share widely: I know what Soila writes here will resonate with so many people across fandom.
Just seconding the love for this piece! It really is SO tremendously worth your time.
Soila was one of my favorite WorldCon panelists last year and here she's written a really thoughtful but also extremely enjoyable treatise on what can sometimes be the "cringe" effect of reading—let alone writing!—fics in your native tongue.
I found this piece so engrossing, delightfully wry, provocative, and educational. It makes me so happy and proud to be a part of this era of Fansplaining.
I have been looking for this article FOREVER thanks for bringing it into existence
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
Our latest piece is live! The great @annejamison (who you might know as the author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World) writes about the recent Good Omens finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction:
And so, May 13th found me awake at 1 A.M., watching the series finale through bleary and teary eyes. Despite widespread sorrow at the glittering yet gutting conclusion for our heroes, 6,000+–year-old angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley, I thought it was the most heartfelt and validating love letter to fanfiction I’ve seen come out of a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, this message got tangled up with the show’s other unique ambitions: to save itself from its author—not Pratchett, the other one—and restore the Good Omens legacy to its fans.
Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version! 💞
Ever since I first read Fic back in....2014?? (when we were both mired in Deep Sherlock Times lol) I've been such an admirer of Anne's writing, especially the way she can connect threads across different kinds of transformative texts—real English major stuff, but always done in a fun, accessible way. 😅
Good Omens is not my fandom at all, but I found this a very engaging read—highly recommended for anyone interested in fanfiction and the ways adaptations engage with their audiences.
I am a longtime Fansplaining fangirl and 2/3 of the current editorial team is featured in my class right now :)
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
With canon now a sprawling fanfic multiverse, there’s plenty to choose from. I hope that fandom, asking with Aziraphale, “Why give us Crowley only to take him away?” will make use of the many pens and blank books the series holds out and keep writing. Maybe the dropped threads of Good Omens’ hastily downsized third season will serve their fanfic purpose and inspire some new stories—in whatever universe the authors most like.
In our latest, @annejamison writes about the Good Omens series finale, and how the show's metatextual conclusion comments on transformative fandom—and gives these characters back to the fans.
Click through to read or listen to an audio version! ✨
Bonus: the mentioned Olivier fake nose in question. (At least it's the first nose brought to mind. That man loved his prosthetics.)
I believe that is the very nose.
I don’t care what anyone says they are in the snow globe rewriting the book of life with all the blank books in the bookshop
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
With canon now a sprawling fanfic multiverse, there’s plenty to choose from. I hope that fandom, asking with Aziraphale, “Why give us Crowley only to take him away?” will make use of the many pens and blank books the series holds out and keep writing. Maybe the dropped threads of Good Omens’ hastily downsized third season will serve their fanfic purpose and inspire some new stories—in whatever universe the authors most like.
In our latest, @annejamison writes about the Good Omens series finale, and how the show's metatextual conclusion comments on transformative fandom—and gives these characters back to the fans.
Click through to read or listen to an audio version! ✨
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
Our latest piece is live! The great @annejamison (who you might know as the author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World) writes about the recent Good Omens finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction:
And so, May 13th found me awake at 1 A.M., watching the series finale through bleary and teary eyes. Despite widespread sorrow at the glittering yet gutting conclusion for our heroes, 6,000+–year-old angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley, I thought it was the most heartfelt and validating love letter to fanfiction I’ve seen come out of a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, this message got tangled up with the show’s other unique ambitions: to save itself from its author—not Pratchett, the other one—and restore the Good Omens legacy to its fans.
Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version! 💞
Ever since I first read Fic back in....2014?? (when we were both mired in Deep Sherlock Times lol) I've been such an admirer of Anne's writing, especially the way she can connect threads across different kinds of transformative texts—real English major stuff, but always done in a fun, accessible way. 😅
Good Omens is not my fandom at all, but I found this a very engaging read—highly recommended for anyone interested in fanfiction and the ways adaptations engage with their audiences.
The author is dead. Long live the authors.
Our latest piece is live! The great @annejamison (who you might know as the author of Fic: Why Fanfiction is Taking Over the World) writes about the recent Good Omens finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction:
And so, May 13th found me awake at 1 A.M., watching the series finale through bleary and teary eyes. Despite widespread sorrow at the glittering yet gutting conclusion for our heroes, 6,000+–year-old angel and demon Aziraphale and Crowley, I thought it was the most heartfelt and validating love letter to fanfiction I’ve seen come out of a commercial enterprise. Unfortunately, this message got tangled up with the show’s other unique ambitions: to save itself from its author—not Pratchett, the other one—and restore the Good Omens legacy to its fans.
Click through to read the piece or listen to an audio version! 💞
Three fanfiction experts give their insight into the the social, collaborative, imaginative community of writers and stories.
I was recently on the radio to talk about fanfiction (and the growing connection to pro romance) with the brilliant @annejamison and @gyzym, and I'm so pleased with how this conversation turned out! It's rare that an ostensibly "fic 101 conversation" can get into this level of nuance (a testament to both the interviewees and the interviewer and her producer, who were very thoughtful). And all in under half an hour!
This was a great conversation--have been interviewed by @elizabethminkel but never with her! and I'm a longtime @gyzym fangirl so that was also very cool
