#general issue

[zuko-always-lies]

I like it when people vote in my polls, don’t get me wrong, but one very annoying thing that has struck me about tumblr culture is that there are a lot people who apparantly find one of my polls engaging enough to vote on, but don’t find it engaging enough to reblog so that more people can see it and vote on it.  Tumblr runs off good content being reshared so that more people can see it.

[transformativeworksandcultures]

TWC No. 25 is published

Table of Content

Editorial Editor, Copyright and Open Access Theory Catherine Coker, The margins of print? Fan fiction as book history E. J. Nielsen, Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies as reclamatory fan work Lesley Autumn Willard, From co-optation to commission: A diachronic perspective on the development of fannish literacy through Teen Wolf's Tumblr promotional campaigns Shannon Howard, Surrendering authorial agency and practicing transindividualism in Tumblr's role-play communities Milena Popova, "When the RP gets in the way of the F": Star Image and intertextuality in real person(a) fiction Dan Vena, Rereading Superman as a trans f/man Praxis Lauren B. Collister, Transformative (h)activism: Breast cancer awareness and the World of Warcraft Running of the Gnomes Ludi Price and Lyn Robinson, Fan fiction in the library Rachel Elizabeth Linn, Bodies in horrifying hurt/comfort fan fiction: Paying the toll Victoria Godwin, Theme park as interface to the wizarding (story) world of Harry Potter Sophie Gwendolyn Einwächter amd Felix M. Simon, How digital remix and fan culture helped the Lego comeback Seth M. Walker, Subversive drinking: Remixing copyright with free beer Symposium Kevin D. Ball, Fan labor, speculative fiction, and video game lore in the Bloodborne community Babak Zarin, "Can I take your picture?"—Privacy in cosplay Kelli Marshall, Milk and mythology in Singin' in the Rain Liza Potts, A case of Sherlockian identity: Irregulars, feminists, and millennials Review Bethan Jones, Post-object fandom: Television, identity and self-narrative, by Rebecca Williams Amanda D. Odom, Role playing materials, by Rafael Bienia Kathryn Hemmann, Anime fan communities: Transcultural flows and frictions, by Sandra Annett Sandra Annett, Boys love manga and beyond: History, culture, and community in Japan, edited by Mark McLelland et al. Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC), ISSN 1941-2258, is an online-only Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works. TWC is a member of DOAJ. Contact the Editor with questions.

[ygconfessions]

To the BP cultural appropriation confession. Just want to remind other POC that you can address your issues and concerns WITHOUT DRAGGING BLACK PEOPLE DOWN. our hyper visibility isn't a privilege. We still get treated like trash. If you want to have your issues address then DO IT.

[transformativeworksandcultures]

CFP: The Future of Fandom (1/15/18; 9/15/18)

This special 10th anniversary issue of Transformative Works and Cultures seeks to explore the future of fandom while looking back to its past. How might scholarship on fandom's past and present invite speculation about its future? And what might the possible futures invoked by technological, ecological, and political discourses mean for fandom's communities and practices? Science fiction in particular--the field whose strategies spawned fandom, and the genre in which much fan activity occurs--has used imagined futures to shed new light on the present and the past. In turn, studying where we are and where we have been allows us to imagine where we may be heading.

We invite essays that seek to historicize and contextualize fans, fan works, and fandoms across past, present, and future. Scholarship on fandom’s futures can open connections between technology and interfaces, fannish discussions and trends, fictions of imagined futures, and cultural and political changes in order to illustrate how fandoms may be understood in their historical contexts and cultural interactions.

This issue will feature a special section, “Predictions,” that will allow fans and academics to imagine fannish futures. We particularly invite personal and creative responses, including essays from the future, documenting trends that haven’t yet come to be.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

How have interfaces affected fannish communities and production, and how may these change in the future?

How do demographic shifts in fandom and new voices change fan works and communities? How have new generations of fans changed fandom?

How have the intersection and interactions between industry and audiences changed, and how may they change in the future?

How do fannish futures look from different global locations, and what will transnational landscapes of fandom look like in the future?

How is the fannish future gendered and racialized? How have fans created or imagined different futures for queerness, transness, disability?

How have fandoms engaged with Afrofuturism, Chicanafuturism, Indigenous futurism, and other literary, cultural, and social movements challenging the whiteness of the imagined future?

How has the commercialization of fan works changed over time, and how will it play out in the future legally, economically, or socially? Is there still a clear distinction between fan and pro writers?

How have social and cultural changes affect the intersections between politics and fandom? How do these changes connect to fannish social activism?

What changes in the source material and media, in fannish social organization, platforms, and technology, in fannish access, culture, and demographics do we see emerging as we look ahead?

How does the increasing mainstreaming of fannish behavior affect fannish identities and behaviors? How does it alter mainstream audiences’ engagement with fannish subcultures and media industries.

What will fandom be 10 years from now, or 20? Are there some things that never change, that make us what we are––and if so, what?

Submission guidelines

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC, http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) is an international peer-reviewed online Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and to promote dialogue between the academic community and the fan community. TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms that embrace the technical possibilities of the Web and test the limits of the genre of academic writing.

Theory: Conceptual essays. Peer review, 6,000–8,000 words.

Praxis: Case study essays. Peer review, 5,000–7,000 words.

Symposium: Short commentary. Editorial review, 1,500–2,500 words.

Contact

Please visit TWC's Web site (http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or e-mail the TWC Editor (editor AT transformativeworks.org).

Due date

—January 15, 2018, for estimated September 15, 2018 publication.

[martabak-manis-spesial]

Can we please as a woman didn't feel insulted when someone say, "Are you gaining weight?" or something similar to that? Because, you know, some of us really try so hard to add that one stone in our body.

[daw-n]

general issue smells good // ig: amyhu4ng

[slayeroflight]

New combat boots, 15$ cdn