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@feeisamarshmallow said: I’m very interested in fan studies and while I’m a multi fandom blog, I do collect posts about fan studies, fan culture, and fan experiences under my tag “I’m a fandom nerd”. As for recommendations, seconding all above as well as fansplaining and haich-slash-cee (that blog is specific to research on the hurt/comfort trope).    

I actually loved your tag and it has been pretty useful for me, so you got a follow for that! I’m already following both these blogs - things are going get more serious here starting next month.

@hermitknut said: not me, but toastystats / destinationtoast are all about fanfic statistics, which might be helpful in supporting your work!         

They are really great! If you think in another accounts, pls send my way ♥

@annejamison said: I don’t post often and not only fan studies, but as I will be teaching fanfiction and adaptation this semester there will be an uptick

First of all, I absolutely love your book about fic, thanks for writing that! Second, I’ll keep my eyes on your blog because I’m going to teach a course about fan studies some time in 2022 and it’ll be helpful to see the types of discussions you’ll post. Still about the course I plan to teach,  I’ll be actually the person to  call attention to the field in the academia in my country (I’m from Brazil). Honestly, my goal is to create some kind of organization/lab that legitimates the field in my country. We have specific studies, but nothing that can be perceived as a field. It’d be great to hear about your course, if you feel comfortable to talk about it with me. I’m literally going to uncharted territories in my country and that’s kinda terrifying ahahaha

[ashby-santoso]

4, 20, and 25 for the book ask :)

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Everyone is asking me this which is great because it’s the same question I would want to ask!! Several authors I liked a lot, one is Adrian Tchaikovsky who wrote Children of Time (aka the Spider Book). A first contact novel involving sentient spiders. I skimmed the human bits but the spiders are marvellous. (And biologically plausible which is extra fun!)

20. What was your most anticipated release? Did it meet your expectations?

Hmm probably the third in a smutty romance series I’ve been reading called How To Belong with a Billionaire by Alexis Hall. Think 50 Shades of Grey but with mlm protags who both already know they are kinky and know how to communicate about consent. This one...I would say it about 70% met my expectations. Generally well handled and the protags work their way towards a nice hopeful ending, but he did drop a couple of plot threads in slightly frustrating ways. The book also had some much darker moments which I wasn’t expecting at all, but they were v well handled and I think they fit in the story.

25. What reading goals do you have for next year?

I want to go on reading more lovely SFF and queer romance, there’s so many exciting books coming out so I’m trying to maintain an attitude of “what a wonderful smorgasboard to choose from” rather than “must read all must read all”. I do want to read some more Ursula Le Guin though. And maybe some non fiction about activism, socialism etc, particularly focused on what we can do in Britain.

[badgerlock]

Trope: "Put down all your weapons" *weapon removal takes implausibly long time and involves pulling weapons from unexpected places*

No | rather not | I dunno | I guess | Sure | Yes | FUCK yes | Oh god you don’t even know |

Tbh it doesn’t matter how many times I see this trope, it’s always hysterical and it’s 10000% better when it’s a super unexpected character 

The flipside is also good, re: Gandalf going into the Rohirrim hall with his “””walking stick””” and probably thinking huehuehue the entire way

[drwhittakerwho]

Hi friend! Love your blog, you're a wonder :) Would you mind tagging the new year's episode? Am trying to avoid seeing anything from it (including trailer) until it airs (it's just so nice to be surprised!). Thank you for reading :)

Hi! 

First of all, thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoy my blog! 

And of course! Thank you for asking, I will gladly do it. Do you have a tag in specific that you want me to use? I can use “dw spoilers” which is my usual tag for un-released episodes but if you have any other tag blacklisted let me know so I can add it. 

Have an awesome day, my friend! 

[nonasuch]

Hey, saw your tags on the sci fi post. I hope you don't mind me asking, but is there a particular Tiptree story you'd recommend? I've always loved Le Guin and I'd like to read more sci fi. :)

Try “The Women Men Don’t See.” Then consider this quote, from an introduction to one of Tiptree’s books:

"It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree's writing."

Then just, like. laugh despairingly, I guess.

[thebibliosphere]

Does it amuse you to realise that you managed to have the hell-tooth pulled on the Ides of March? I was trying to think up an appropriate joke but I got stuck XD (maybe it's the prediction of doom for ALL of your medical problems? All you need now is some angry romans and you're cured!)

Hell I fucking hope so. I wanted to keep the tooth so I could sacrifice it to the demon rose but it’s been sent away for testing to try and figure out what the fuck is actually wrong with my teeth. 

[beescream]

a question about the banana school manga. I gotta ask. why does the mighty blond have what appear to be permanent sunglasses? I thought it was an art style thing for a while but none of the others have them.

here’s reasons i’ve seen so far - a) he’s drawn in a different artstyle to the rest of the characters bc he’s an ‘american style’ hero, b) it’s canon his eyes didn’t always look like that, so probably it’s something to do with his superpower (which sucks bc i just think it’d be super cool if he’d always had black sclera), c) he’s chronically ill/injured, so it’s a good way to make him look even more emaciated when he’s thin

or d) just cause it looks rad

[thebibliosphere]

Ah! You like A Series of Unfortunate Events?? This makes me very happy. Have you seen/will you be watching the netflix show?

I plan on watching it as soon as I have time. I loved the books :)