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WE HAVE A LAUNCH DATE FOR FANSPLAINING 2.0! And it is very soon: next Wednesday, April 29th. 🎉🎉🎉
We're so excited to share everything we've been working on these past few months (starting with a *big* piece by @lincodega on The Pitt fandom—yes, for once, it's by someone who's actually in the fandom—with some amazing stuff in the queue for the following weeks.)
More soon!!
covid-19 fandom survey
here’s something i’ve been working on for quite some time!
i’ve been curious specifically about the impact the covid-19 pandemic and quarantine has had on fandom spaces, those in them, and the culture surrounding that. i don’t know too many people so it’s hard to get a concrete answer just out of observation -- that’s where you come in!
i’ve made a google form with some basic identity questions and questions based on your experiences - negative and positive - in fandom spaces over the last year. all i ask is that you are over the age of 13 at the time of taking this survey. i implore you to take it if you are transgender, lgbt+, or a fan-of-colour. i want your voices to be heard.
here is the survey link (more info below the cut)
Have you been enjoying the work we've published since our relaunch? Become a subscriber! 🎉
We've been thrilled by the initial enthusiasm around this project, but we have yet to reach a baseline of subscriber revenue to pay writers each month, let alone editors. We'd like to open widely for pitches—it's vital to us that we get as many voices in here as possible—but we just can't afford it yet.
Check out our subscriber tiers: fansplaining.com#/portal/
Make a one-off donation: fansplaining.com/#/portal/support
And as a reminder, we have a discount for students, educators, un/underemployed folks, or anyone else who needs it, no questions asked. Just email us at [email protected] and we'd be more than happy to share the link!
🎉 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! 🥳
“It was hard to get pitches placed about other shows, but editors still wanted the dragons. Nothing sells less than a lack of enthusiasm about the only franchise that could consistently get me work, so I kept writing about HotD as the job applications piled up. What started as a hobby and became a job soon turned into a life raft I quietly resented.”
In our latest, @michellejaworski writes about the Game of Thrones media industrial complex from the inside.
Read or listen to an audio version:
Recovering from the Game of Thrones content mines.
Writing by, for, and about fandom.
We've been relaunched for two days, and the response has been incredible so far! 😍 Hundreds of people have already signed up to help support getting more deep, thoughtful journalism about fandom out into the world.
You can read all about this new chapter via the link above, but TL;DR, our long-running fandom podcast has expanded to become an independent, subscriber-supported journalistic outlet with a full editorial team, publishing one longread a week by, for, and about fandom.
If you haven't become a Fansplaining member yet, please join us! It's free to sign up. And if you have the means, we'd really appreciate you becoming a paid subscriber. Our lower tier gets you access to all our articles—all articles have audio versions read by the authors, btw!—and our higher tier also gets you all past and future special episodes. (We're going to do at least one per month going forward, maybe more!)
We also have a discount for underresourced folks: lower income, students, unemployed or precariously employed, etc. If this is you and you'd like to subscribe, please don't hesitate to write us for the discount code ([email protected]).
And finally, a note for the several hundred people who are still paying members of our Patreon: please check your email or log onto Patreon. 😅 Unfortunately we have to do this manually: you cancel your Patreon support and sign up at our new site, hosted by Ghost. You'll see an email from me sent out Wednesday! It includes thank-you discount codes for subscriptions at both tiers; you helped sustain this project since the main podcast ended two years ago, and I'm incredibly grateful for that! Hopefully we'll see you over on Ghost soon. 🥰
attn: African K-pop fans!
The great Tabby Kibugi is working on her next piece for us and looking to talk to African K-pop fans of all sorts. She's not on Tumblr, so we're sharing her post here to reach more folks:
Are you a K-pop fan based in an African country? For Fansplaining, I'm covering the growth of K-pop fandoms across Africa and how fans are creating their own spaces through conventions, fan events, dance crews, etc. Email: [email protected], for a chat. Thx!
BTW, if you missed Tabby's first piece for us:
Thai “Girls Love” thrives on real-life star pairings—for better and for worse.
Exciting news: Fansplaining now offers gift subscriptions! Is there any better way to support a fandom-related project than by sharing it with your friends? 💞 Purchase access at any tier for a month or a year, and we'll send a link to pass along to whoever you want! Click this link to open the portal directly, or find it at the bottom of Fansplaining.com.
