I spent some time in a lot of new pop media forums this year. This is what I observed. So I’ve always been the collectory sort. Snow globes and statuettes from around the country. We’ve got magnets from each installation of our favorite art exhibit. I like picking up cool, pulp covers of my favorite… Continue reading A Year in Forums: I Don’t Know How Collecting Works Now
James Cameron’s Avatar is still the top grossing movie of all time even fifteen years after its release. It’s followed in the top five by Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water, Titanic, and Star Wars: Episode VII. While Marvel and Star Wars, as properties, have massive transformative fan communities around them, the James Cameron… Continue reading How does fanfic emerge?
Hot take.I don’t like fanfiction AUs.Now what am I talking about exactly?In the parlance of the fanfiction community, “AU” means “Alternate Universe.” It is a work in which the characters of the original IP are placed into a completely new setting unlike their original one. Not to be confused with something like a crossover or… Continue reading I Hate Alternative Universe Fanfiction
About a decade ago, I had this online gaming pal who was only getting into Harry Potter as an adult via the movies and some of the games. They knew I had not only read the books but knew them in pretty intricate detail. It was one of my primary fandoms as a kid well… Continue reading When Canon Gets Remolded in Our Image
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