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Shen Yuan had absolutely no hope for this. It's important to understand that the worst thing you can do with a wildly popular novel is to create a sequel or side story after it's been running for years. That would be a thankless task, and readers would often say, "It's not the same anymore!" This is unavoidable, because even if the author remains unchanged, the readers will not. Both are progressing on different paths; how can one expect them to converge again?

MA'AM 🤣

atlantic article screenshot headline: no one knows how big pumpkins can get sub head: a decade ago, the worlds heaviest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds. now the 3,000 pound mark is within sight by yasmin tayag

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

There's something wonderful and funny about having a fandom in law. Like, I don't go here, but my friend does, so now I know random shit about F1 teams or wrestlers or kpop groups

Then you see something about their brainworm and you bring it to them like a crow, like "I saw this and thought of you"

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

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I’m a PASSIONATE fanfic commenter, but sometimes it slows me down because I feel like I need to leave long notes. But, as an author, I know even a short comment matters. So I made a guide to make it easier. Hopefully this helps someone else too! #fanfiction #fanfic #leaveacomment #harrypotterfanfic

How to Advocate for Trans Rights in Your Community Want to push back against the bigoted attacks targeting trans and gender-nonconforming people? Here are specific ways you can help—with your time, money, and everyday actions.

so off that Supreme Court decision, we offer you a guide on how to advocate for trans rights in your community:

Someone said, "The goal of living in capitalism is earning enough to escape the horrors of capitalism."

I think about this a lot.

Not as of season 3, no. He’s still just popping in as he can.

It's Independent Bookshop Week. Ways you can support them:

-Don't browse a little bookshop, make a mental note of titles, then get them on Amazon. Buy the books then and there! Dare you!

-Get them to order books in, they almost always can.

-Just march in and present them with a huge bag of money.

#murderbot

happy pride to all the little gay people in my phone

Poster for Langya Bang showing a man's back

Lee watches #nirvanainfire master thread 🧵

Contains discussions of the plot, language notes, historical and setting based trivia, and general commentary.

flex tape meme where a guy is standing next to a giant plastic container with water shooting out of it; in the second panel is a close-up shot of his hand, with a piece of tape on it, covering up the giant hole. in the first panel the man is labeled "me," the container of water is labeled "all of my fucking problems" and in the second panel the hand with tape on it is labeled "another notebook"

about to fucking do it again folks

Toxic Femslash Convenience Store - Profile | Archive of Our Own An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Toxic Femslash Convenience Store
- prompting and claiming open!
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this is maybe trite at this point but it is in your interest to find ways to create things. basically everyone wants you to be consuming nonstop. making stuff, from cooking to photography or whatever, can help you feel more in control. doesn’t even have to be something you share with other people

I like a lot of looks this year but this one might be my favorite

SURPRISE #MetGala2025

Ayo Edebiri in Ferragamo at the Met Gala. A ton more red carpet looks later on our site. #MetGala

Teyana Taylor by Ruth E. Carter in Marc Jacobs #METgala

so obsessed with the legacy of bisexual slayage on display here

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested

Wonderful thread.

i feel like i've talked about this before but a fundamental survival skill for surviving fandom is learning to identify when the speaker is presenting a phd thesis vs. playing dolls.

Rate limiting for logged-in comments on #AO3 is now in place. If you get a "Retry later" error when leaving or editing multiple comments over a short period of time, please wait about 15 minutes and try again.

Lisa Sterle's incredible Ten of Swords tarot card from the Modern Witch tarot, depicting a woman with long hair lying on a jagged landscape under an ominous sky. She's stuck full of swords and looking at her phone. It's captioned EVERYTHING IS FINE.

I'm so glad there are fic writers willing to share their stories with us on ao3. The world is too horrible, the anxiety too intense and the stomach ache too bad to endure the day without being able to read my favorite characters suffering and laughing and banging nasty

Everything is dumb and terrible, and it's gonna be dumb and terrible for a while. It’s important to do what you can to make it less dumb and terrible, and it's important to find a way make some contentment for yourself in spite of everything being dumb and terrible.

The Endless Appetite for Fanfiction — Fansplaining In 2024, everyone wanted a piece of fic, from AI grifters to traditional publishers to ravenous audiences. Where did that leave the people who write it?

It has been a YEAR for fanfiction (not in a good way). 🥲 Normally, we'd discuss all of this stuff on our "Year in Fandom" episode, but with the podcast on hiatus, I decided I'd write about these trends instead. What happens fanfiction scales—but participatory fan communities do not?

It's December, so here are a collection of end of year digital housekeeping tasks you can do while chilling out for the holidays in order to improve your privacy and security for entering 2024 on a good footing. You don't have to do all of them, but they're stuff to consider!

Check To See What Apps Your iPhone Is Training AI On And here's a step-by-step guide to disabling them. FOREVER WARS does some News You Can Use

Here’s some news you can use if you recently installed iOS 18 and don’t want all your apps’ data used to train Apple’s AI by default. Includes an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to turning these permissions off!