🎉 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! 🥳
