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Fandom Friendships Challenge

Fanhackers is about the discussion of ideas on fandom and one of the core ideas is about the friends we’ve made along the way. From November 11th to 24th, join us and Fanlore in a brand-new collaboration to add content to community themed articles on Fanlore! The theme is choosen to celebrate our upcoming Fandom Friendships zine, which you can learn more about here.

You can learn more abou thow to participate in the Fandom Friendships Challenge guide. If this is your first time editing Fanlore, you can also check out Fanlore's New Visitor Portal and tutorial pages to learn how to get started. And if you’d like to consult with the other editors before, during and after the event, feel free to join Fanlore's Discord server where you can chat with other Fanlore folks and ask any questions you may have. We hope to meet you on the pages of Fanlore and happy editing!

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Our shared Editing Challenge with Fanlore starts today! This week is all about Fandom Friendships!

prof-grace-aspen

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.

nope-the-weeb-deactivated202408

I know this has good intentions, so I will just add the "how you treat them, even as objects of fiction, can speak about your own character, be careful out there"

prof-grace-aspen

Your addition is actually completely antithetical to my message. It is literally the opposite of what I am conveying.

Stop telling people to encourage the cop inside their head.

How you treat fictional characters, given they are entirely objects of fiction, does NOT necessarily speak to your own character, and you do not need to be "careful".

It is not dangerous to imagine dark things happening to fictional characters. It does not mean you are secretly a bad person. It does not mean you unconsciously want to hurt people in real life. It is not a "slippery slope" to doing bad things to people in real life. You cannot damage your brain or turn yourself into a bad person by consuming "dark" fanfic.

I can write tentacle noncon of my favorite character all day long and be a fierce anti-sexual assault advocate in real life because what I do in my head is not the same thing as what I do in real life.

askinfresh

These tags were too perfect to not include

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July 11, 2023 - 23:50 UTC

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Celebrating the OTW’s 15th Anniversary

OTW15 kicks off today! Celebrate our 15th anniversary by taking part in a trivia game and a fanworks challenge and you might win some OTW swag. Plus Fanlore is hosting a special Stub September event. Read more at https://otw.news/celebrating-6f1d66