Elizabeth Minkel

In a normal year, @flourish & I would have made a list of five big fandom trends for our annual “Year in Fandom” round-up. But the podcast is on hiatus, and I was left with MANY THOUGHTS about fanfiction seeming to break containment this year and nowhere to put them. So this is a “Year in Fandom” segment of sorts, about a set of related fanfiction trends that I’m pretty unhappy about!

I get that sense that a lot of fandom folks are, like me, worried about the way the ground seems to be shifting beneath us: in meta after meta, I’ve seen frustration over a larger but increasingly passive fic readership; dismay that traditional publishing has a growing influence over a practice that partly exists in opposition to it; and anger that some guy can just copy-paste your work and charge money for it, and no one outside of fandom seems to care.

What happens when fanfiction scales—but participatory fan communities do not? Read or listen to an audio version via the link above!

sovietpostcards:

“A Winter Evening” by Makhmut Usmanov (1983)

huariqueje:

Remember de Snow - Joanna Karpowicz , 2020.

Polish. b, 1976 -

Acrylic on canvas, 50 × 60 cm.

thelostcanyon:

Stormy winter afternoon, J-Six Ranch, Cochise County, Arizona.

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huariqueje:

The Book She Left Open - Jess Allen , 2023.

British , b. 1966 -

Oil on canvas. , 50 x 60 cm.

holidaysincambodia:

Lioness Devouring a Man, Phoenician Ivory Panel, c. 9th-8th century BCE. From the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, northern Mesopotamia, Iraq.

(via alwaysalreadyangry)

lascitasdelashoras:

Nikos Economopoulos. Public bus. Tirana, Albania, 1991

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lissu:

a new year

ihateornithologists:

these are actually supposed to be stickers/acrylic charms so they are ..not full normal drawings but they turned out kinda ok so i’ll post them here ig

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huariqueje:

Schwedter Winter Landscape - Karl Hermann Roehricht , 1971.

German , 1928-2015

Mixed media on hardboard