May 26, 2021
Misha Collins tweeted about climbing up on the roof to watch the lunar eclipse on May 25th with his children, ending the tweet “They scrambled back down. I got stuck. (Too old to climb down.) Please send help.”
link to tweet
Karl Urban and Jensen Ackles on Location for The Boys
May 26, 2021
Karl Urban, who plays Billy Butcher in ”The Boys,” shared a photo of himself and Jensen Ackles in a field beside a pond. The photo was captioned “Another massive day on set with @jensenackles. It kinda looks like we’re golfing here .That’s ridiculous ! No time for that .Working hard to deliver you a ballistic season 3 of@theboystv”
link to instagram post
Jensen Ackles & Vought International Soldier Boy Tweet
May 28, 2021
Vought International, the multimedia company that owns the copyright to The Boys’ characters, tweeted the cover of a Soldier Boy comic. Jensen Ackles retweeted with the addition “Real images of #SoldierBoy coming soon [wink face]”
link to tweet
Misha Collins “I’ve still Got Game” Tweet
May 28, 2021
Misah Collins tweeted a photo of himself with a green parrot-like bird on his shoulder, captioned “This bird keeps chewing up food and spitting it on me, which apparently is a mating ritual. I’ve still got game.” Fans found this charming.
link to tweet
Jensen Ackles on His Daughter's Birthday
May 30, 2021
Jansen Ackles made an instagram post on his daughter JJ’s 8th birthday, mourning that this was the first birthday he has spent apart from her. The post includes a picture of Jensen and JJ together, and talks about how he feels like time is moving too fast.
link to instagram post
Misha Collins Feeding a Calf for Random Acts
May 30, 2021
Misha Collins posted a picture of himself bottle-feeding a small calf at Loving Farm Animal Sanctuary. He was doing this volunteer project for the charity Random Acts, which was holding a campaign last week to spread awareness of their work and encourage people to perform acts of kindness.
link to instagram post
Jensen Ackles Behind the Scenes of The Boys
May 31, 2021
JPL Concepts tweeted an image of Jensen Ackles behind the scenes of The Boys. In the image, Jensen still has the full beard and longish hair and is wearing a light jacket.
link to tweet
links to my published research & posts about my 2020 dissertation
Publications on Fanbinding
These are articles I have published on fanbinding (it’s been a busy year, as you can see!) Thanks to @renegadepublishing for always supporting the work of aca-fans.
“Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models.” Transformative Works and Culture (March 2022).
w/ Kim Kennedy, “Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions.” Humanities (May 2022).
w/ Kim Kennedy, “Fanbinding and a Community-Generated Information Environment.” Proceedings from the Document Academy (August 2022).
Follow the Fans: The Real Live Dissertation
you can read the dissertation in full at this Google Drive link! I will keep this research masterpost here in some form so that anyone interested can look at how things changed over time (if that’s your jam, god speed)
Yes, you can totally send this to your friends, that’s why it’s on the internet
If you are interested in citing this dissertation in further scholarly work, please message me. I will almost definitely say yes, but let’s talk about it! Especially if you’re interested in the bookbinding chapter, we should hash out any ethics issues before I sign off.
Intro to Le Stuff
what will you find on this blog?
what am I actually talking about?
affirmational v transformational fic
Assorted Rage Posts
AC - additional commentary; OP - original post
why fandom needs to confront its racism (among other things) [AC]
why fanfiction is folklore [AC]
why book history should pay attention to fanfiction [AC]
why unsolicited feedback doesn’t really fit in w fandom community [AC]
why snooty book culture is historically unfounded [AC]
why coffeeshop AUs are a modern pastoralist fantasy [AC]
why fanfiction is a descendent of women’s coterie manuscript practices [AC]
why the gendering of fandom marginalizes it [AC]
why we write out of spite [AC]
why intimacy is fundamental to fandom [AC]
why fic preservation is important [AC]
why fanfiction is a preservation mechanism [AC]
why people enter fandom obliquely [AC]
why Penguin Books has a Penguin logo (and other history too) [OP]
why the word ‘ghost’ has an ‘h’ in it [OP]
why contradictions in fandom are actually a good thing [AC]
why fandom vocabulary shifts [AC]
research progress posts below the cut
The ‘Does This Make Sense?’ Check: Chapter Summaries
Introduction - Part 1
Introduction - Part 2, fandom communication circuit
Chapter 1 - history of fannish media
Chapter 2 - Part 1, writer function
Chapter 2 - Part 2, writerly texts
Chapter 2 - Part 3, fannish frame of reference
Chapter 3 - Part 1, intertextuality and reader recognition
Chapter 3 - Part 2, paratexts and readers
Chapter 3 - Part 3, reading experience and community boundaries
Chapter 4 - Part 1, Introduction to The Bookbinders
Chapter 4 - Part 2, Methodology and Motivation
Chapter 4 - Part 3, Reciprocation and completing the fandom communication circuit
Chapter 4 - Part 4, Complicating the traditional publishing narrative
Chapter 4 - Part 5, The Redundancy of Preservation
🎤 Hello again from H/D Wireless 2020! We hope you’re enjoying the fics and art so far! Who could have guessed that two weeks would fly by faster than the new Nimbus? Must be the total loss of meaning for time and space this year.
Anyway! Hum along and maybe even break into a whistle while enjoying the submissions you might have missed!
And as always: Don't forget to leave kudos and comments for all the talented creators! 🎶
🎙️ Playlists:
🎶 Youtube
🎶 Spotify
🎵 🎶 📻 🎶 🎵
🎶 H/D Wireless Art 🎶
📻 The Pass (T)
🎵 Song prompt: The Pass, by Rush
🎵 Summary: Draco, lost in darkness, seeks a guiding light.
📻 If you knew… (T)
🎵 Song prompt: Young Folks from Peter Bjorn and John
🎵 Summary: The war had left scars on all of them.
Some were obvious.
Some only if they looked closely.
But the worst ones were those they couldn't see.
Those that were hidden inside.
📻 an ode to the boy i love (G)
🎵 Song prompt: Animal - Troye Sivan
🎵 Summary: an evocation of vulnerability, trust and tenderness
🎶 H/D Wireless Fic 🎶
📻 Now that the spring is in the air (T, 5.7k)
🎵 Song prompt: Seasons in the Sun by Westlife
🎵 Summary: A surprise attack in Diagon Alley leaves Draco struggling to make peace with the fact that he won't live long enough to experience his own wedding.
📻 Seven Days to Monday (M, 11.7k)
🎵 Song prompt: Say Something - A Great Big World
🎵 Summary: There are seven days before Harry has to meet Draco for the final signing of their divorce papers. It's been months and the surprise at finding nothing but more cold sheets and an empty pillow next to him still catches Harry unaware. He doesn't know where they go from here. Whether it's possible to go anywhere after everything that's happened between them.
📻 Blond Brew (E, 30.4k)
🎵 Song prompt: “Blondes” by Waterparks
🎵 Summary: A blond roast with soy milk makes Draco's morning, but a pair of green eyes makes his week.
📻 A Series of Nonsensical Events (T, 12.8k)
🎵 Song prompt: My Gospel by Charlie Puth
🎵 Summary: Malfoy is up to something. When Harry and the other Aurors are called into a Gringotts break-in and find him the culprit, Harry’s at a total loss.
But things only get weirder from then on.
📻 Ignore the Truth (E, 2.6k)
🎵 Song prompt: Dangerously - Charlie Puth
🎵 Summary: "Longtime on-again-off-again lovers Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy were caught in a compromising position in one the Ministry's lifts yesterday evening. While fans of the couple are optimistic, there's still doubt as to whether or not this particular reconciliation will last. When asked directly about the nature of his relationship with Draco Malfoy, the Boy Who Lived had simply this to say, 'Fuck right off, we're busy.'"
- The Daily Prophet, "Love Is In The Air," 28th Oct. 2005.
📻 Your Daddy Knows (You're A Flame) (E, 27.8k)
🎵 Song prompt: Babyfather by Sade (2010)
🎵 Summary: It's just over a week until Draco's twenty-fifth birthday party and Harry Potter is a busy wizard. Amongst all the excitements of fatherhood, work and friends, Harry realises something special about his husband Draco. He is pregnant with their second, much wanted baby.
There's only one problem: Draco is entirely oblivious to the fact and seems determined to remain so.
📻 Don't search me in here (E, 6.7k)
🎵 Song prompt: Gone - Charlie XCX & Christine and the Queens
🎵 Summary: Draco spotted him in a corner, crowded by Ministry employees. He looked like an animal, trapped in a cage. He had a strained smile on his , and his eyes were looking everywhere else than on the people in front of him.
Draco can’t quite help himself, watching Potter from afar. Just out of curiosity, of course. He’s happy with his life, nothing is missing, and if he’s lonely it’s entirely by choice.
📻 I Can Be Your Lighthouse (T, 4k)
🎵 Song prompt: The Lighthouse by The Used
🎵 Summary: When Harry gets called to investigate reports of Dark magic, the last thing he expects to find is an almost unconscious Draco Malfoy. After multiple instances, he resolves to find out what's going on.
📻 Drop Everything Now (T, 21k)
🎵 Song prompt: Sparks Fly by Taylor Swift
🎵 Summary: After accidentally bonding himself to Malfoy, Harry finds himself in an utterly precarious situation…
🎶 H/D Wireless Fic and Art 🎶
📻 Art: Our Love Song (G)
🎵 Summary: Harry and Draco enjoying a Sunday morning bus ride in London.
📻 Fic: Modern Love (E, 61k)
🎵 Summary: Harry Potter, of all people, knows that life isn’t always fair. And no one gets to be happy all of the time. But surely there’s something more—something better—than a rubbish Ministry job, and a lonely old house, and that feeling that everyone out there is doing a better job of living than Harry is.
And it really doesn’t seem fair that Draco Malfoy is back in Harry’s life, all of a sudden, and even though he’s wandless, and living with Muggles, and making his mother cry with his lifestyle choices, he’s happy. So what's he doing right, that Harry isn’t?
Because things don’t really change, do they? And if Harry can’t be happy, he’ll settle for a good night’s sleep, some posh antiques, and the opportunity to find out what Malfoy has been up to for all these years.
Kudos to our wonderful creators! Our total word count for the first week is nearly 35k, which is really impressive for a femslash fest. We understand that this can be a bit overwhelming, but we hope you have the time to read and comment (and view the lovely art)! ♥ Your tired mod is super excited to spend Sunday enjoying wlw works. See you with more creations on Monday!
Heart Full of Stars (Sharp and Glorious) - A gift for Icarusinflight | AO3 | LJ | DW
Hermione Granger/Millicent Bulstrode
Summary: Hermione knows working herself into the ground isn’t a healthy coping mechanism, but right now it’s the only one she’s got. When deliberate intervention forces her to work with one of her old schoolmates, will things fall into place, or will they just fall apart?
fic | 9910 words | PG-13
Muggle play - A gift for Leontinabowie | LJ | DW
Padma Patil/Susan Bones
Summary: Susan's favourite thing is to dress up as Muggles and go for a milkshake. Padma happily indulges.
art | digital | PG
Good For What Ails You - A gift for the community | AO3 | LJ | DW
Cho Chang/Luna Lovegood
Summary: Cho's got an injury. Luna's got the cure.
fic | 2200 words | PG-13
A Lifetime of Love - A gift for Hippocrates460 | AO3 | LJ | DW
Rolanda Hooch/Minerva McGonagall
Summary: A lifetime of shared experiences. A lifetime of shared moments of quiet and peace, joy and love, grief and loss. A lifetime with a partner who’s always at your side, and a moment of just one more way to show that love to the world.
art | digital | G
State of the Arctic - A gift for Frnklymrshnkly | AO3 | LJ | DW
Fleur Delacour/Nymphadora Tonks
Summary: Fleur and Tonks are part of an all-witch research team, sent to negotiate with the Antarctic snow crabs.
fic | 6355 words | G
rioja and chatter - A gift for Kellychambliss | LJ | DW
Minerva McGonagall / Poppy Pomfrey
Summary: After being sent to hospital, Minerva decided that it is time she goes after what she wants in life. The fact that Dolores had tried to ban relationships between staff only pushes her on to talk to Poppy and see if there is anything there.
fic | 1704 words | PG-13
Mine - A gift for the community | AO3 | LJ | DW
Pansy Parkinson/Hermione Granger
Summary: Pansy can’t stop fucking Hermione. She also can’t stop thinking about her. Could Hermione feel the same way?
fic | 4500 words | NC-17
They Say It’s Your Birthday - A gift for Rose-grangerweasleyisbae | AO3 | DW
Minerva McGonagall/Rolanda Hooch
Summary: Rolanda wakes Minerva on her 63rd birthday and promises rest, relaxation, and rambunction. How can Minerva say no to a night out on the town getting tattooed, listening to ELO, and fighting the patriarchy?
fic | 9864 words | PG-13
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Welcome to the Weekly Wrap-Up, where we highlight some of the articles and videos that have gone up over the past week that you might have missed! Relics And Rarities With Deborah Ann Woll Prepare to enter a fantastical world with Deborah Ann Woll. She’s the Dungeon Master and storyteller fo...
I’m a little late getting this up, but better late than never, right? It was another full week on the blog where I participated in the usual memes, reviewed some good books (I really enjoyed the middle grade one!), and even talked about some book-inspired costume ideas.
Monday - Review: Shattered Dreams by Ulff Lehmann
Tuesday - Top Ten Tuesday: Some of the Longest Books I’ve Read
Wednesday - Can’t Wait Wednesday: A Conspiracy of Truths by Alexandra Rowland & Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
Thursday - Middle Grade Review: The Thorn Queen by Elise Holland
Friday - Bookish Halloween Costumes
In reading news, I finished up In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt, which was a spooky, folktale-feel book. I’ll be posting my review for that one tomorrow! I also (finally) started reading The Child Thief by Brom because I’ve my eye on it for ages--I’m a sucker for a dark Peter Pan story. I’m almost done with it and it’s okay. I really like the story, but the writing isn’t quite what I thought it would be. I think I’m going to finally pick up The Haunting of Hill House next, so I’m pretty excited for that. :)
How was your week/weekend!? What are you reading? Let me know!
okay y’all! it’s done! this dissertation is done. I am waiting for the go-ahead from my advisor to submit but she is complete! I will post an open-access Google link to the full project once I receive my final mark, so that I don’t jeopardize the ~anonymous submission~ rules. Thank you all so much for reading along and sending your support these past five months. It’s been a joy of a project, and even more so because I’ve connected with fandom community in meaningful ways as both a fan and a fan of fandom
Things I posted
an explanation on why forthcoming mainstream-published works that reinterpret other works that are no longer under copyright protection do not ~quite~ qualify as fanfiction
a sassy post on why DMing fic writers ‘update??’ doesn’t fit the community ethos of fandom. feel free to link this in response to annoying DMs.
a reflection on bias in information organization, particularly in library cataloguing systems
thoughts on completionism and bingeing fanfiction
Things I recommend and Things I’m Thinking About
the 1995 BBC serial adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. It’s really just 6 hours of Colin Firth sulking in the corner of a room and good lord I would watch 12 hours of Colin Firth sulking in the corner of a room. then I watched the 2005 film adaptation the next day, and I love them both, and they do different things very well. I’ll write a post about medium and adaptation and versioning this week and use P&P as an example, simply because it’s on my mind
and on the other end of the heterosexual relationship spectrum, the 1975 film The Stepford Wives. Bone chilling. I’m not a horror film person, but I loved this film, and Jordan Peele cited it as heavily influencing Get Out. Highly recommend.
