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Me working on those asks 🙏

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Well, I’ve officially finished editing panels from the first half of my read through of From Eroica With Love!

For those who weren’t here in August when I started, I started Tumblr as a way to talk primarily about my interest in the shōjo works produced by members of the Year 24 group.

My first read of FEWL was Covid era (while I had Covid) and it wasn’t complete, it wasn’t in order, and I didn’t pop into the fan spaces. One of the first things I posted was basically: Help, I’m a fandom elder who hasn’t interacted in spaces to any real extent since the LJ era. I had been badly burned by the purges, and by the time I jumped ship to ao3 I had contented myself to just keep to myself.

I honestly know when I decided to create this tumblr, and it was one of my earliest panel posts:

For anyone who hasn’t read the early volumes of FEWL in awhile, I carefully cropped the panels from two pages and stitched them together. To me, this was the premise. Seeing the mirror images together in my heart and then sharing them; I had to show the parallel to someone or someones who would see it through fan goggles.

Before I even know I was going to post these, I had a camera roll full of panels.

So, I jumped on Tumblr and I started interacting with the incredible people in these tags. Reading the tags and talking in the comments and the FEWL Discord has been such a delight. It’s way different then functionally then the fandom I began in, but the spirit is so unchanged.

This community has been amazing to me since I started and I appreciate it very much.

I’m certainly not going to stop here, but as is widely known in the fandom, there’s a tonal shift after the hiatus. I'm not aware of how much of post hiatus FEWL is really going to encourage my panel edits, though I may be surprised!

Something that I haven’t shared is that I’ve been avoiding fan works while I read up to the hiatus. So before I jump into the 90’s, I’m going to take some time to read the incredible FEWL fic I know is out there.

I’ve also considered reading and posting my read through of a shorter classic series as a kind of refresher before I jump back into FEWL. Or maybe revisiting an old favorite I haven’t read in awhile! I’ve also got other posts about very specific queer history as it intersects with BL in the works as well ( though these take much longer as I want to be very careful to get things right!).

Please recommend me your favorite FEWL fics and or other good shorter (By this I mean on or around max 7 volumes!) reads in a similar vein that you think I may like!

And thanks so much for being here! It’s been so fun so far and I’m sure it will continue to be ❤️

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FEWL posts will continue soon, I'm just so busy! First month post-op has been challenging In a variety of ways!

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….And neither am I!

After a long but successful surgery I am home and on the mend. I’m home earlier than expected and doing very well as far as recovery goes. Thanks to everyone for the likes and well wishes on my post before I left, they meant the world to me and were very comforting in a difficult time. Eroica posts will continue as planned, though I’m jumping around a bit. I also have a more extensive text post about an Eroica fact that’s in my drafts being polished that I can’t wait to share! From Fop with love 💕

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Hello! Today I am going into surgery and will be offline for a few days as I recover in the hospital. I have a couple queue posts left, but after that the daily eroica panels will pause for a bit while I recover. Hopefully I'll be back in action in the next week! See you soon

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I just thought of the pun and ran with it. The very old school SD/ chibi kitty that was once much more commonplace fan art. This is super quick for a laugh.

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You carry the fewl fandom by the way 🫶

It's really easy to be enthusiastic about fewl when there are so many incredible people here who share my love of the series! I'm definitly going to start posting my daily fewl again soon, life just snuck up on me and gave me a wallop. Thank you so much 🫶‼️ I hope my fewl posts escape containment and get new eyes on the series!

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Sorry if this is none of my business, ignore this ask if you'd like, but what's the small ship you were talking about in that fanfic reblog? Apologies I'm nosyyyy

No apology needed whatsoever! The small ship is Spones (Spock/Bones) from Star Trek. It exists in the shadow of one of the biggest ships of all time, but it really does enemies to frenemies in such a good way!