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For 2025 Fanlore is having monthly editing challenges! Each month you can earn a glowing new badge for completing the suggested editing task. August's editing challenge is to add 3 reaction/review quotes to a page. Find out more on Fanlore: bit.ly/3VVU51W

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This #FeaturedArticle, we’re watching a #metavid! Premiering at #Vividcon 2013, Run Boy Run is a #GameofThrones fanvid by Hollywoodgrrl, focused on the female characters of the show and the violence perpetrated against them. Curious? Learn more on Fanlore: https://bit.ly/4mFAKwX

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For #FandomInColor we're highlighting Hobie Brown, aka Spider-Punk. His popularity skyrocketed after his film debut in #AcrossTheSpiderverse. Fans love to include meta about his shoelaces in their fanworks! Are you a fan? Help us expand his Fanlore page! http://bit.ly/455x6Fo

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For #FandomInColor we'll be holding a editing chats on our Discord. Come join us on Sat July 26 at 10pm UTC and Sun July 27 at 3pm UTC to chat and help expand articles about fans and fandom of color! Everyone is welcome! https://bit.ly/4dX4Uaa

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This week’s #FeaturedArticle brings you #InvaderZim, the cartoon created by Johnen Vasques. The show follows Zim, an outcast alien with a mission to invade Earth, and Dib, a young boy hellbent on thwarting Zim’s plan. Curious? Find out more on Fanlore: https://bit.ly/40u6uwb

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For #FandomInColor we're spotlighting Nile Freeman, a newly created immortal, who is our POV character for the mercenary group known as #TheOldGuard. Since the release of the second film her Fanlore page could use some updating. Can you help with that? https://bit.ly/4lr8bTJ

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This week’s #FeaturedArticle is about Victorian AU! This term describes fanworks that take characters from a modern or future-set fandom and relocate them to a stereotypical Victorian romanticism era setting. Are you a fan? Learn more on Fanlore! https://bit.ly/46LS3aB

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This edition of #MetaMonday is looking at glockgal's essay: Drawing Characters of Colour. Give the essay a read, and tag us with your #FandominColor art! https://bit.ly/44t0x5a

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For #FandomInColor, we're highlighting Bill Potts. A companion to the Twelfth Doctor, Bill was well-liked in the fandom, but doesn't feature in fanworks as much as one would think. Are you a fan of Bill? Help us expand her Fanlore page! bit.ly/3GB2sLG

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This week's #FeaturedArticle is SYOT, a trope in #HungerGames fandom where readers would submit characters to an author to include in their #HungerGames fic. SYOT fics were a huge undertaking and many were abandoned as WIPs. Go to Fanlore to learn more! https://bit.ly/44xrIdA

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Today's #FanworkFriday is What Shall We Do With A Drunken Sailor? by Halrloprillalar & Laura Shapiro. This #StarWars fic is from the early days of the web, and went against Luscasfilm's dictates that fans didn't write "gay stories". Visit its Fanlore page! http://bit.ly/3Go40J2

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This week's #FeaturedArticle is Diana Bennett, a controversial character from Beauty and the Beast fandom. Introduced after the death of beloved Catherine as a potential love interest for Vincent, she caused quite a stir at the time. Learn more at Fanlore! https://bit.ly/3GnHtvQ

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This month is Fanlore’s fifth annual celebration of #FandomInColor! Throughout the month of July, we’ll be spotlighting the contributions of fans of color to fandom, celebrating favorite characters of color, and more! Join us and help expand Fanlore!

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For 2025 Fanlore is having monthly editing challenges! Each month you can earn a flattering new badge for completing the suggested editing task. July's editing challenge is to archive all the external links on a page. Find out more on Fanlore: https://bit.ly/3VVU51W

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This week’s #FanworkFriday is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (aka HPMOR), a well-known but controversial Harry Potter fanfiction which reimagines the plot of the first book through the lens of science and rationality. Learn more on Fanlore! https://bit.ly/43VWoGD

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For this week's #FeaturedArticle we're reading A Master of Magic, a self-insert #SherlockHolmes story written by a seventh grader in 1903! Featured in The Minneapolis Journal, it found new love on Tumblr in 2024. Curious? Check out the Fanlore page! https://bit.ly/44hOSEO

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This week’s #FeaturedArticle is Fobwatch Fic! This #DoctorWho trope involves the Doctor using the chameleon arch to become human. Often, their companion looks after The Doctor while they are in human form. Learn more on Fanlore! https://bit.ly/3ZFrM9H

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For this week’s #FeaturedArticle, we’re highlighting #SherlockHolmes, the iconic detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories have been adapted countless times and have one of the oldest fandom in fannish history. Visit Fanlore and learn more: https://bit.ly/2EueYXe

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Riding up on the waves is Fanlore's Annual Bingo Challenge! Join us from June 2th - June 15th. Complete the challenge by getting a bingo, blackout, or total blackout, and you could win beachy badges! bit.ly/FanloreBingo25

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An archangel and a prince of Hell. Mortal enemies? Or two sides of the same coin? Today's #ShipSunday is #GoodOmens pair Beelzebub/Gabriel. They picked up lots of new fans after they unexpectedly went canon. Are you one? Help us expand their Fanlore page! bit.ly/43mvmYJ

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For 2025, Fanlore will be having monthly editing challenges! Each month you can earn a colorful new badge for completing the suggested editing task. June's challenge is: work on a canonically queer character’s page. Find out more on Fanlore: bit.ly/3VVU51W

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For Creature Feature Month, we’re highlighting the novel #Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The text is considered to be the first modern science fiction story, and Frankenstein’s monster is regarded as a horror icon in pop culture. Learn more on Fanlore! bit.ly/4kdWxe4

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For our Creature Feature month, we're looking at Demons in Fanworks. Whether they be canonical demons or more often AUs where a character is made a demon, it is a common trope in fanworks. Do you know of fanworks with demons? Add them to the Fanlore page! bit.ly/4khBSFU

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For Creature Feature Month, we’re highlighting #WingKink, a trope in fanworks where wings are erogenous zones that produce pleasurable feelings when caressed. The act of touching another character’s wings also carry intimate implications. More on Fanlore: bit.ly/4mHYuRO

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This week's #FeaturedArticle is 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although it has only a small fandom, the influence of the film on the science fiction genre can't be understated with many creators stating that it influenced them. Curious? Check out the Fanlore page https://bit.ly/45xH8kj

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Scary stories you read late at night under the covers; this week’s #Thurminology is Creepypasta, a type of horror fiction found exclusively online. Some stories have also spawned their own fandoms. Check out the fanlore page and add your fave example! https://bit.ly/3H9wkyU

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This week's #FeaturedArticle is thought to be the most expensive filk album ever created! It's Divine Intervention. Released in 1986, and unlike others of its time, it was recorded in a studio and used professional musicians. Check out its Fanlore page! https://bit.ly/43AGdy9

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As part of our Creature Feature Month we'll be hosting two editing chats on our discord, May 17, 20:00 UTC and May 18, 15:00 UTC. Come chat and help us expand Fanlore pages on creatures! bit.ly/FanloreDiscord

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For this week’s #FeaturedArticle we’re talking about The Beholder! This Dungeons & Dragons fanzine created in 1979 ran weekly for 12 years, and is still remembered fondly by the #D&D fandom. Heard about it? Head on over to Fanlore to check out the issues! https://bit.ly/4meQCqB