Cool fannish links

[sophinisba]

Here are some neat things on the Internet!

Doctor Who podfic - lunchy_munchy, fishpatrol, paraka, and cantarina1 collaborated on a podfic of In an Interstellar Burst, an AU of Journey's End in which Rose, Martha, and Donna sort out the Doctor's problems and their own and then go have trope-y adventures and sexytimes in space. !!!!!

Vidding meta - thingswithwings has an interesting discussion about the genre of multifandom Women Are Awesome vids.

XMFC recs - rubynye posted Fanfic & Social Justice: An X-men: First Class Recs Post, a great resource for interesting stories that ends with a great mini-essay contesting the idea that social justice discussions inhibit creativity in fandom or produce boring fics that nobody wants to read:

all of these stories are on my list because I enjoy them, and that enjoyment is enhanced by the truths their authors chose to include rather than elide when they wrote them. In these stories I see a broadened range of our shared humanity, and I think that is an absolutely excellent development.

Fuck yeah rubynye!

Merlin fic - themadlurker posted How to Survive Promotion in the Middle Ages, over 80,000 of fun, tightly plotted fic involving Arthur and Gwen as adorable young marrieds plus Merlin, Gwaine, Lancelot, OCs, sword fighting, secret identities, medieval literary references, and other fine things.

The AO3 - The Archive of Our Own is still awesome and getting awesomer all the time! Kudos! Tags! Sorting! Easily downloadable files! And now prompt memes hurrah!! I have invite some codes so let me know if you would like one. Accounts are useful even if you're not interested in posting fic there.

Merlin fest - kinkme_merlin is running the Never Have I Ever challenge, where you earn points by filling prompts with ships, kinks, and fanwork types that you haven't done before. I would probably sign up for this if I weren't already working on exactly the same goals at kink_bingo and summerpornathon this summer (and if I could ever get used to posting anon comments without freaking the hell out). This seems to me like a neat way of encouraging variety at the meme without seeming to be against the most popular pairings, the thing that seemed to upset so many people about Project Diversity last year. Anyway I hope other fans have as much fun as I have been having trying out new things. (Unless they prefer to keep developing their strengths/do more of what they've been doing, which is also cool!)

Fandom angst - SOMETIMES I WORRY THAT I COME OFF AS THE KIND OF SELF-RIGHTEOUS HYPOCRITICAL SOCIAL JUSTICE-R DREAMWIDTH SNOB (OR MAYBE JUST A WANNABE DREAMWIDTH SNOB) THAT PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT ON THE ANON MEMES EVEN THOUGH I DON'T EVEN READ THE ANON MEMES ANYMORE AND WHY SHOULD I CARE WHAT THOSE PEOPLE THINK ANYWAY. I DON'T EVEN KNOW, THESE DAYS I'M READING IDK MAYBE 60 ARTHUR/MERLIN FICS EVERY WEEK AT THE PORNATHON. SOME OF THEM ARE AWESOME AND A FEW ARE BAD AND MOST ARE FINE BUT I READ THEM ALL BECAUSE I WANT TO BE A GOOD PARTICIPANT AND FEEL CONNECTED TO THIS FANDOM. AND I STILL WORRY EVERY TIME I WANT TO SAY "FUCK YEAH FEMSLASH!" THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO THINK I'M SOME KIND OF KILLJOY AND WONDER WHAT I'M DOING AT THE COMM, OR ELSE THAT THEY'RE SECRETLY THINKING "OH SURE YOU TALK A GOOD GAME BUT I KNOW HOW MUCH CHARLES/ERIK PWP YOU'VE BEEN READING." WHAT IS THIS YOU GUYS DOES IT EVER GO AWAY? CAN WE EVER JUST HAVE FUN LIKING WHAT WE LIKE?

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[sophinisba]

DO NOT GO TO THE ANON MEMES CHAILA THEY WILL MAKE YOU SO CRAZY that even a year after visiting you'll be consumed with paranoia and taking it out on your flist by launching out of nowhere into emo capslock!

Also hello and welcome! I saw your comments at t'wings vidding post and I thought, hey, it's always nice to know more people who put women at the center of their fandom (even if I haven't watched any TSCC). So it is good to hear from you here. :)