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  <pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 00:20:12 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: Blorbo From My Notebook</title>
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  <description>I wrote about &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/815366790381256704/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-blorbo-from-my&quot;&gt;some reoccurring traits&lt;/a&gt; that, by the time I was in my late twenties, I&apos;d realized that my favorite fandom characters shared.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(And then I looked at Ilya Rozanov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then I looked at &quot;protectiveness&quot; and &quot;snark&quot; and &quot;sense of responsibility&quot; and &quot;resilience&quot; and &quot;being really, really good at something&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then I looked at my own decision to make Ilya a vampire with mind powers, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the number of people who notice how perceptive he is in the books, to the point where one of them even asks in one scene if he&apos;s psychic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And then I smiled and shook my head at my own continued predictability.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=509518&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:55:38 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: That Rivalry Sure Is Heated</title>
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  <description>I am pretty sure what, when I first started watching &lt;em&gt;Heated Rivalry,&lt;/em&gt;, I said to myself, &quot;I&apos;m enjoying this series so far and I&apos;m glad that the fandom is so active, but I&apos;m not really into sports or sports romance so I don&apos;t think I&apos;ll be fannish about it.&quot; Possibly I also told you something to that effect. Time makes fools of us all, I suppose, because here I am, two months later, spending some time writing my own fanfiction (although that&apos;s set in an AU that makes shameless use of my favorite tropes) and a lot more time admiring the &lt;em&gt;immense&lt;/em&gt; talent of other writers in this fandom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are five fanfics that I&apos;ve particularly enjoyed.  Please heed the ratings and warnings in the AO3 headers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/76618196/chapters/200528511&quot;&gt;other forms of intimacy&lt;/a&gt; by ultravioletdaydream&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shane and Ilya taking care of each other.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The four installments in this fanfic - two set during the show&apos;s first season, and two after - perfectly capture a series of moments in the evolution of Shane and Ilya&apos;s relationship and the growing affection and understanding between them.  (Fun fact: the third section appeared on my radar because of &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/810760225318649856&quot;&gt;a post&lt;/a&gt; about How To Believably Torment Shane Hollander, which I have kept in mind as I&apos;ve set out to do exactly that.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/77992696&quot;&gt;Mr. Emergency Contact&lt;/a&gt; by fandom_commitment_issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ilya Rozanov realizes he&apos;s an emergency contact in the exact moment he needs to act like an emergency contact. Hayden Pike has to release a statement about it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Kidfic&quot; isn&apos;t exactly one of my go-to fannish tropes, but I was both entertained and moved by the way this story took a premise that even the writer admits is &quot;crack treated seriously&quot; (Ilya has to pick up the child of Shane&apos;s friend and teammate from school in the middle of the day) and ran with it. In addition to Ilya&apos;s grouchiness at Hayden for putting him in this position, and the adorable moments in which he and the sick little girl negotiate snacks, movies, and medicine-taking, I always like when fanfic delves into the public perception of the Hockey Lads and the lives that they lead, and that&apos;s a big part of how this fic unfolds.  I also love how readily Ilya calls on Shane&apos;s mom for advice, and how she helps him without hesitation.    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/78123036&quot;&gt;Knowing&lt;/a&gt; by toomuchplor&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Shane Hollander and Ilya Rozanov are not Scott&apos;s problem. That&apos;s all there is to it.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I always love a well-written outsider POV, and this story explores Scott Hunter&apos;s perspective on Shane and Ilya&apos;s (very unsuccessful) attempts to be sneaky, while Scott himself is falling for Kip and dealing with the pressure of the closet.  Their scenes together are sweet and sexy and funny, but also include a very believable argument and attempt at compromise.  Also, Ilya continues his tradition, established in the books (none of which I&apos;d read when I first encountered this fic), of showing up in the middle of other hockey players&apos; romantic drama to be a hilarious menace. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/80912516&quot;&gt;hayden needs to take a minute&lt;/a&gt; by profdanglais&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hayden&apos;s curiosity gets the better of him and he ends up learning more about his best friend than he needed to know.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the end of &lt;em&gt;Heated Rivalry&lt;/em&gt; The Book, Hayden figures out that Shane and Ilya are together, but it has yet to happen in the show, so in the meatime, fanfic writers have, naturally, taken it upon themselves to write their own versions of how it might happen.  I love all of the character voices in this little story, and although Shane is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the &lt;em&gt;Game Changers&lt;/em&gt; character whom those in the know would likely associate with Steve Rogers, the mention of his &quot;Captain Frown&quot; inevitably reminds me of &lt;a href=&quot;https://murderballads.bandcamp.com/track/the-ballad-of-captain-americas-disapproving-face&quot;&gt;The Ballad of Captain America&apos;s Disapproving Face&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/81342521&quot;&gt;knockout&lt;/a&gt; by PenAndInkPrincess&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;(in which Ilya learns that being a passenger in the car knocks Shane tf out)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was completely charmed by this post-canon character and relationship study, which affirms that even long-established partners can learn things about each other.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=508718&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:11:02 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: &quot;Your Presence Still Lingers Here&quot;</title>
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  <description>I wrote about a few of the original characters that I created for my very early &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; fanfiction, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/810300612728258560/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-your-presence&quot;&gt;some of my memories&lt;/a&gt; of the fandom culture in which &lt;em&gt;My Immortal&lt;/em&gt; came into being.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=506503&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:46:27 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: A Vicarious Fannish Ride</title>
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  <description>I wrote about &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/809026684409020416/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-a-vicarious&quot;&gt;the time my girlfriend&apos;s online RPG became my primary fandom.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not immune to the sentimental allure of a fandom anniversary, and I&apos;d hoped to post this entry last fall, roughly 20 years after the events that it describes.  But in October, my offline life became very chaotic, very quickly, and I didn&apos;t have nearly enough energy to decide what I wanted to say, or - just as importantly - what I wanted to leave out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we know each other offline, and you have some idea of &quot;Briar&apos;s&quot; real identity, please don&apos;t bring it up here.  I gave her a pseudonym, and ultimately cut out a lot of what I&apos;d written about the progression of our relationship, for a reason.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=505481&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:36:11 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: Love Multiplied</title>
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  <description>With Valentine’s Day coming up at the end of the week, I decided to list my top five polyamorous ships across my various fandoms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. The Crew of Light aka the Polycula (&lt;em&gt;Dracula&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was following &lt;em&gt;Dracula Daily&lt;/em&gt; in 2022, I summed up the relationships between Stoker’s heroes as follows, more or less: “Lucy, her three boyfriends, her girlfriend Mina, Mina’s husband Jonathan, and… whatever Doctors Seward and Van Helsing have going on.” &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Rose Tyler/Ninth Doctor/Jack Harkness (&lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each of the three characters and component pairings was fascinating and charming in their own way, and the trio clearly and believably cared for each other, and enjoyed their adventures together, within their relatively little shared screen time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Kara Danvers/James Olsen/Winn Schott (&lt;em&gt;Supergirl&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The connection between these three, as it developed over the first season of the CW’s &lt;em&gt;Supergirl&lt;/em&gt;, was what inspired &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://nightforest.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://nightforest.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;nightforest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and me to coin the phrase “Team Triad.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Poe Dameron/Rey/Finn (&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wasn’t the biggest fan of &lt;em&gt;The Rise of Skywalker&lt;/em&gt;, but I did enjoy seeing Finn, Poe, and Rey go on an adventure together, and the group hug between them at the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Varice Kingsford/Numair Salmalín/Ozorne Muhassin Tasikhe (&lt;em&gt;Tortall&lt;/em&gt; series)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The backstory in &lt;em&gt;Tempests &amp; Slaughter&lt;/em&gt;, in which Arram (later Numair) and Ozorne are best friends at mage school, makes the events of &lt;em&gt;Emperor Mage&lt;/em&gt; at least ten times more tragic than it already was.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=504585&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:32:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: &quot;Don&apos;t know... Shouldn&apos;t know... Helpless.&quot;</title>
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  <description>I followed up on a previous TBT entry by writing about &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/807757774934163456/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-dont-know&quot;&gt;my urge to rescue a stranger&apos;s original character from the narrative in which she found herself&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=504445&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 21:20:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>3SF 2026!</title>
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  <description>The latest &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;threesentenceficathon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; - one of my favorite fandom events - has been live for a week, and will be open to new prompts until February 15.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve written a few ficlets for &lt;em&gt;The Magnus Archives&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Stranger Things&lt;/em&gt;, and will post a roundup once the event wraps up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&apos;ve also left prompts for several of my fandoms, including obscure ones like &lt;em&gt;The Hypnotists&lt;/em&gt;, because hope springs eternal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=503817&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:10:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: Looking Forward (Again)</title>
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  <description>Happy new year, my friends.  At the beginning of 2025, I talked about some of my creative plans for the year.  There are certainly fanfics that I &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; to write, but for various reasons, I haven&apos;t had a lot of energy for it lately and am hesitant to commit to even one project, let alone several.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But that doesn&apos;t mean that there&apos;s nothing in the fannish world to which I&apos;m looking forward.  Here are some of those things, in no particular order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Finally reading and sending feedback for my &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;fandomgiftbasket&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; gifts&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. The return of &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;threesentenceficathon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; on January 17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Receiving my beta reader&apos;s feedback on a Five Things fic that I wrote months ago for &lt;em&gt;The Hypnotists&lt;/em&gt;, which is still my small fandom of choice&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Reading &lt;em&gt;Through Gates of Garnet and Gold&lt;/em&gt;, the latest installment in Seanan McGuire&apos;s Wayward Children series&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. Talking about &lt;em&gt;Stranger Things&lt;/em&gt; with anybody who has also finished the series, because I have &lt;em&gt;feelings&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are some of your fannish hopes and/or goals for 2026?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=503236&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:47:21 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>As my gift for the &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://seasonsofdrabbles.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://seasonsofdrabbles.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;seasonsofdrabbles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; exchange, TheMistyDarkPrincess wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/69364156/chapters/179852421&quot;&gt;Conflicting Affections&lt;/a&gt;, a series of ficlets that focused on Elias and Jon (with bonus Martin) from &lt;em&gt;The Magnus Archives&lt;/em&gt;.  I have yet to get tired of reading about Elias being possessive of his Archivist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;fandomgiftbasket&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is open through October 11.  Check out the &lt;a href=&quot;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/132012.html&quot;&gt;master list of requests&lt;/a&gt; and see if you&apos;re inspired to create a fannish gift for somebody!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=500230&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:16:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Fandom Gift Basket 2025</title>
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  <description>Signups for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;fandomgiftbasket&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are open until Friday! Comment on &lt;a href=&quot;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/100513.html&quot;&gt;this post&lt;/a&gt;, within the required format, if you want somebody to create something for you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will share my requests once they&apos;re visible on the comm, but there are already a lot of &quot;gift baskets&quot; available for your perusal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=497986&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:55:53 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: How An X-Men Fangirl Spent Her Summer Vacation</title>
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  <description>I shared some glimpses of my how my teenage obsession with the X-Men &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/793176763589099520/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-how-an-x-men&quot;&gt;manifested at a summer camp for artsy weirdos&lt;/a&gt;.  (These were some of the &lt;em&gt;less&lt;/em&gt; weird examples.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=497760&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:46:09 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: &quot;Too Obsessed&quot; was an interesting word choice.</title>
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  <description>I shared a tongue-in-cheek observation about fannish obsession that I &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/791907962281213952/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-too-obsessed&quot;&gt;scribbled in one of my notebooks&lt;/a&gt; as a teenager.  I think that it might amuse some of you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=496398&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:53:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: Fannish Anticipation</title>
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  <description>Here are some fannish things that I&apos;m looking forward to right now!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I signed up for the &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://seasonsofdrabbles.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://seasonsofdrabbles.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;seasonsofdrabbles&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; ficlet exhange and I should receive my assignment very soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Another round of &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;fandomgiftbasket&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; starts on August 23.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Author signups for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandombang.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandombang.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;smallfandombang&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; begin on September 1, and...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. ...its sister event, &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;smallfandomfest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, is planned to start again in November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. This isn&apos;t related to a specific event, but I intend to draft at least one chapter of my &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/11723571/chapters/26408019&quot;&gt;Ordinary Town&lt;/a&gt; sequel before the trip I plan to take a week from Thursday.  The project now has a title, &lt;em&gt;Dream Just A Little&lt;/em&gt;, and I have a pretty good idea of what will happen in the first chapter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=496300&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:58:28 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: &quot;These are the things I would do for love.&quot;</title>
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  <description>I wrote about &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/781704982939549696/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-these-are-the&quot;&gt;the intersection of my shipping obsession and my music obsession&lt;/a&gt; in the early 2000s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until the concert in question, I did not actually know that &quot;Savage Garden&quot; was a reference to Anne Rice (I think that either Elle or my housemate pointed that out), so hearing the phrase in the recent &lt;em&gt;Interview With The Vampire&lt;/em&gt; series was sort of a reverse &quot;I understood that reference!&quot; moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=486318&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:17:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: When I Grow Up</title>
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  <description>I turned 40 yesterday (that&apos;s as many as four tens!), so I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/781121155830562816/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-when-i-grow-up&quot;&gt;a message to my 16-year-old fangirl self&lt;/a&gt;, who was deep in an obsession with the X-Men but very worried that she&apos;d have to give up all fannish activities when she finished high school and started college.  I&apos;m so glad that I didn&apos;t.  So, so glad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could also have told her, &quot;you don&apos;t actually hate Charles Xavier as much as you think you do,&quot; but I&apos;m pretty sure that other people &lt;em&gt;did&lt;/em&gt; try to tell me that, and I didn&apos;t listen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=485769&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:33:10 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: Fooled</title>
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  <description>I don’t like April Fool’s Day, but I do like stories about scams and hoaxes.  Here are five of my… well, “favorite” is a loaded word when talking about some of this subject matter.  People were definitely or very likely hurt in all of these cases.  People died in connection with some of them.  I am not trying to make light of those tragedies when I say that I am fascinated by these accounts… but then again, maybe that’s how all the True Crime Girlies excuse their obsessions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway.  Here are five scams or hoaxes that I find myself thinking and talking about a lot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Beatrice Sparks’s Teen Diary Empire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I already alluded, &lt;a href=&quot;https://nevanna.dreamwidth.org/478143.html&quot;&gt;in a previous entry&lt;/a&gt;, to the intersection of books like &lt;em&gt;Go Ask Alice&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Jay’s Journal&lt;/em&gt; with the War on Drugs and the Satanic Panic.  I would still recommend Rick Emerson’s &lt;em&gt;Unmask Alice&lt;/em&gt; to anyone who’s interested in those topics, or remembers picking up the supposed “diaries” of “real anonymous teenagers” from their local bookstore or school library.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. MsScribe’s Fandom Social Climbing&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;MsScribe was a fanfic writer and LiveJournal blogger in the Harry Potter fandom of the early 2000s, who employed sockpuppets, weaponized existing ship wars, and almost certainly embellished the truth about her personal life, to gain sympathy and favor from the “Inner Circle” of popular fangirls.  Part of why her actions remain a compelling and enduring part of fandom history was the deftness with which she understood and manipulated the expectations, grudges, rivalries, and allegiances of her community.  In addition to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Ms.Scribe_Story:_An_Unauthorized_Fandom_Biography&quot;&gt;Fanlore article&lt;/a&gt; and the archived version of Charlotte Lennox’s “Unauthorized Fandom Biography,” you can watch Strange Aeons’ &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgZdu3M4f7s&amp;amp;t=4841s&quot;&gt;video on the topic&lt;/a&gt; if the audiovisual format is your preferred one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Thanfiction’s Hobbit and Wizard Cults… And Beyond&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think that there are two reasons why I closely followed the fandom exploits of Andy “Thanfiction” Blake (as recounted primarily by his former partner, &lt;a href=&quot;https://kumquatwriter.wordpress.com/&quot;&gt;Abbey&lt;/a&gt;, and by &lt;a href=&quot;https://theteablogger.tumblr.com/&quot;&gt;The Tea Blogger&lt;/a&gt;, who has spent years building a massive timeline of Blake’s online activity), and they’re only tangentially related to his phony celebrity connections or attempts to scam people out of their money (and it’s been speculated that financial benefit was never even his primary objective anyway).  The first reason is that I understand, on a very personal level, how the narrative that he offered his closest followers – including his supposed ability to “channel” characters from &lt;em&gt;Lord of the Rings&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt;, as well as his own OCs – might have been appealing.  I’ve talked about fictional characters and worlds in some of the same ways that he did, and so have a few of my friends, but none of us have ever started a cult about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Secondly, Blake’s years on Tumblr, in which he often posted about &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt; and current events (and appeared to over-identify with fictional characters but didn’t necessarily “channel” any), offer another example of how a bad actor can manipulate the norms of a subculture – in his case, the trappings of social justice and the revisionist version of his own mental illness and trauma history – to gain attention and power over others.  The use of Tumblr (and other online platforms) for activism or for bonding over shared experiences is not an inherently bad thing, but I’ve long been skeptical of the social expectations that can develop in those environments and their vulnerability to exploitation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. TIED: Amanda Riley’s and Belle Gibson’s Fake Cancer Diagnoses&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I know, these two cases are unconnected, but they’re similarly horrifying when one considers how brazenly each woman took advantage of a religious community (in Riley’s case) and the already problematic world of complementary medicine and “wellness” trends (in Gibson’s), benefiting both financially and emotionally from their lies, at least for a time.  Riley’s crimes are covered in a podcast called &lt;em&gt;Scamanda&lt;/em&gt;; my primary understanding of Gibson’s story comes from a recent Netflix dramatization, &lt;em&gt;Apple Cider Vinegar&lt;/em&gt;, but it’s based on a nonfiction book that I’ve requested from the library and am looking forward to reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. Lani Sarem’s Attempted Bestseller List Coup&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Handbook for Mortals&lt;/em&gt; – an awkwardly written “urban fantasy, paranormal romance” complete with a love triangle – appeared at the top of the Young Adult New York Times bestseller list in August 2017 despite nobody in the YA writing and publishing community ever having heard of it or its author before.  It remained there for less than a day while booksellers and journalists pieced together writer Lani Sarem’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://ew.com/books/2017/08/24/handbook-for-mortals-pulled-new-york-times-bestseller-list/&quot;&gt;plan to buy her way into fame&lt;/a&gt; (and hopefully the production of a movie franchise).  Although this scheme didn’t arise in transformative fandom, it’s come up in fandom history conversations because of a brief rumor that Sarem was secretly the author of infamous badfic &lt;em&gt;My Immortal&lt;/em&gt;.  There’s no evidence that this was the case, and part of me hopes that &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; particular mystery is never solved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are there any scams or hoaxes – within or outside of fandom – that have captured your attention?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=484420&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2025 02:04:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: For The Uninitiated</title>
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  <description>I shared some of my teenage attempts to &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/778577891737911296/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-for-the&quot;&gt;catalog the trope of The Ignorant Masses&lt;/a&gt; - and the use of memory erasure to &lt;em&gt;ensure&lt;/em&gt; their ignorance - in speculative fiction.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Consider yourselves warned that this post is long, and also discusses &lt;em&gt;Harry Potter&lt;/em&gt; a lot, although I talk about other media, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=483575&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 10:47:32 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: Fandom Adjacent</title>
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  <description>Inevitably, my friends’ and my fannish interests and participation don’t always line up completely.  I like to think that we can still support and even vicariously enjoy some of each other’s fandom obsessions… or, at least, I try to offer them that support, to the best of my ability, because I’d like them to do the same for me, to the best of theirs.  Here are five fandoms to which I would consider myself “adjacent” even though I’ve never created any fic for them (which is how I personally define participation, for these purposes, though that’s obviously not a universal metric).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: Voyager&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve actually seen a scattering of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek&lt;/em&gt; episodes, across several eras, because I know so many dedicated fans, though I’ve never sat down and watched any series from the beginning.  And, of course, I love any and all stories about the franchise’s place in overall fandom history.  But one of my closest friends in college was especially fond of &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt; and showed some of our social circle a sampling of episodes; we shared an appreciation for the episode “Meld,” and I fangirled intensely over the descriptions of telepathic contact in the fic that she wrote as a result.  Although that experience was only one tiny facet of a very long friendship that incorporated several fannish obsessions – shared and otherwise – it was an early sign that we interacted with stories in very similar ways, and when she confessed that Brad Dourif’s character was “eating her brain,” I understood exactly what she meant.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anybody is wondering whether she also showed me and our other friends “Threshold,” she absolutely did.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;em&gt;Kingdom Hearts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am not a video game person and never have been.  I heard enough about &lt;em&gt;Kingdom Hearts&lt;/em&gt;, from my two best friends at the time (one of whom was the &lt;em&gt;Voyager&lt;/em&gt; fan that I mentioned above) to recognize the parts of the story that would likely appeal to me (possession! hidden memories! dual identities! an elaborate media crossover not unlike the ones that I scribbled on every available scrap of paper as a young teenager!).  If it had been in any other format, I might have been right there with them.  I did read some of the manga, just to gain some understanding of what they were talking about, and could probably pick out Sora, Riku, Kari, and Axel from a lineup, although I am led to understand that at least one of them has a metaphysical doppelganger.  Or three.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;em&gt;Les Miserables&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My high school choir practiced a medley from &lt;em&gt;Les Mis&lt;/em&gt; when I was a freshman (I don’t remember whether or not we actually performed it), and the theater department at my summer camp staged the musical during my last year, but there were probably a few years in between when I had no idea what the story was about, beyond the general historical setting.  If that. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Around the time that the 2012 movie was released, my then-housemate showed me a recording of the 25th Anniversary stage production and read me enough passages from the original novel to convince me of Enjolras and Grantaire’s tragic love.  I enjoy reading what other people have to say about all of the characters – but especially those two – even if I have yet to tackle the book or develop any particular desire to write about them myself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. &lt;em&gt;Glee&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ve seen the first season and part of the second, I’ve liked some of the songs, and I’ve watched Mic the Snare’s &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a8FEqrG8c4&amp;amp;pp=ygUSbWljIHRoZSBzbmFyZSBnbGVl&quot;&gt;outstanding video essay&lt;/a&gt; more than once.  My impression of &lt;em&gt;Glee&lt;/em&gt; is that it offered compelling characters who were often frustratingly underserved by the plot, which created plenty of space for transformative fanworks, including crossovers.  Thus, about a decade ago, I spent a lot of time talking with my friend D – who was more invested in the show than I was – about AUs in which Kurt Hummel was (variously! not all at once!) a vampire, a magic user, and a mutant with psychic empathy powers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. &lt;em&gt;Supernatural&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s difficult to be involved in modern fandom and be entirely ignorant of this show, and I’ve enjoyed fanfic and meta about it despite only having seen a relatively small number of episodes, many of which I experienced alongside my dear friend &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/users/ellerkay/pseuds/ellerkay&quot;&gt;Elle&lt;/a&gt; (who gave me permission to identify her in this post).  I’ve happily beta read some of her fic, and since the final seasons of SPN and &lt;em&gt;The Magnus Archives&lt;/em&gt; happened at roughly the same time, we shared some of the joys and frustrations and worries that came from witnessing the end of an ongoing, episodic story in real time.  I might never commit to watching all or even most of SPN from the beginning, and I’ll probably never adore it like she does, but I love her love for it.  Anyone who thinks it’s a cool and fun hobby to sneer at fans of the Winchester brothers can take it somewhere else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=483239&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:20:06 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: &quot;What if we kissed in the blog post, and we were both girls?&quot;</title>
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  <description>In recognition of Femslash February, and Valentine&apos;s Day later this week, here are some of my favorite F/F pairings (out of the ones that I&apos;ve written in fanfic). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. Anthy Himemiya/Utena Tenjou (&lt;em&gt;Revolutionary Girl Utena&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The movie might show an onscreen kiss, but I overwhelmingly prefer the version of Utena and Anthy’s relationship that we see in the series, which appears to be straightforwardly sweet in its earliest stages, before the unfolding story reveals all the layers of manipulation, betrayal, and – ultimately – genuine closeness and hope.  The open-ended conclusion to their arc is perfect.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Kitty Pryde/Xuȃn Cao Manh (&lt;em&gt;X-Men&lt;/em&gt; comics)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Specifically, I latched onto their relationship in the &lt;em&gt;Mekanix&lt;/em&gt; miniseries from the early 2000s, in which they reconnect on a university campus and fight giant robots. I’m hoping to write about this storyline in an upcoming Throwback Thursday post, so I won’t say too much more at the moment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Rey/Rose Tico (&lt;em&gt;Star Wars&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don’t think they ever talk to each other in the movies, but I think they’d make a good team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;4. Georgie Barker/Melanie King (&lt;em&gt;The Magnus Archives&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although I tend to be more hopeful about their relationship in my own writing, I think that it has the potential to be both deeply loving &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; profoundly dysfunctional, even before the events of Season Five.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. TIED: Amity Blight/Luz Noceda (&lt;em&gt;The Owl House&lt;/em&gt;) and Sammy Gutierrez/Yaz Fadoula (&lt;em&gt;Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two “opposites attract” romances between teenage girls, one of which I knew was canon before I even saw them onscreen, while I spent a lot of time wondering whether the other one was &lt;em&gt;actually&lt;/em&gt; developing in a romantic direction or if I was just wearing slash goggles.  I’m old enough to understand how very remarkable it is that mainstream family entertainment gave us storylines like these.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=479966&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 02:42:15 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Throwback Thursday, Fandom Edition: Bingo Brainstorm</title>
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  <description>I shared &lt;a href=&quot;https://forest-of-stories.tumblr.com/post/774788617709207552/throwback-thursday-fandom-edition-bingo&quot;&gt;a list of the story ideas&lt;/a&gt; that I generated for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://ladiesbingo.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://ladiesbingo.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;ladiesbingo&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; several ago, as well as what I eventually did with some of them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=479358&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:31:55 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>3SF 2025!</title>
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  <description>The &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;threesentenceficathon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is running through February 9!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If the number of comments on each post is too intimidating, I recommend &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/search?user=threesentenceficathon&quot;&gt;searching the community&lt;/a&gt; for the fandoms or characters of your choice.  Just remember to check the &quot;also search in comments&quot; box.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=477183&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:46:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: The Year Ahead of Us</title>
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  <description>Here are some fannish things that I hope to accomplish in 2025.  I am assuming – perhaps optimistically – that I’ll have the time and energy for fandom.  I hope that you have the time and energy for the things that bring you joy, too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. I would like to write belated birthday presents for two wonderful fandom friends.  (Both fics will probably be for &lt;em&gt;The Magnus Archives&lt;/em&gt;, unless I am otherwise inspired.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. I definitely want to participate in &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://threesentenceficathon.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;threesentenceficathon&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; if it happens again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. I want to write more &lt;em&gt;Hypnotists&lt;/em&gt; fic, including the multi-chapter exploration of two characters’ later teenage years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. I still haven’t given up on the possibility of a sequel to &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/11723571/chapters/26408019&quot;&gt;Ordinary Town&lt;/a&gt;, which offers an outsider perspective on the first season of &lt;em&gt;X-Men: Evolution&lt;/em&gt;.  My wordcount during two long-ago NaNoWriMo sessions also covers the second season of the show, although, like the previous fic, it would need some pretty drastic edits.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. I hope to continue my Fandom Throwback Thursdays!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And I would like to keep posting my Tuesday Top Fives as well, so at this point, I’m asking you to suggest topics for future entries.  You can ask about fandom and pop culture, books and libraries, baking or crafting… anything that you’d enjoy seeing me talk about.  Any one person can suggest multiple topics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I’ll see you next year, friends.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=475492&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 03 Dec 2024 20:02:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: &quot;I also want them to land on something soft&quot;</title>
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  <description>I have loved hurt/comfort in fiction before I knew that the term existed (and I am far from alone; I took the subject line for this entry from &lt;a href=&quot;https://inksandpensblog.tumblr.com/post/636086811425488897/hurtcomfort-writers-see-a-character-and-be-like&quot;&gt;a stranger’s tumblr post on the subject&lt;/a&gt;).  Here are some of my favorite associated tropes, in no particular order.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Nightmares and the direct aftermath, whether a character is clinging to a friend or partner upon waking up, wandering around and brooding, having a late-night heart-to-heart with another character, or some combination of the three.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Mind%20Control%20Aftermath%20*a*%20Recovery/works&quot;&gt;Mind Control Aftermath &amp; Recovery&lt;/a&gt;, which is an AO3 tag that currently contains almost 4,000 fanworks, and also an umbrella concept for so many sub-tropes that they could almost comprise a Top Five list in and of themselves.  Let survivors of mind control, possession, or conditioning grapple with issues of guilt and personal responsibility! Let them remember being a helpless puppet, or remember thinking that their thoughts and actions were entirely reasonable, or remember nothing at all! Let their friends and allies relearn to trust them (or not)!  Let the survivors hate the loss of control, or miss it, or some combination of both! If the canon allows for it, let the recovery include More Mind Stuff But In A Nice Way This Time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Characters who slowly learn that they have agency and worth after being severely dehumanized, or who take a long time to realize that they’re truly safe and not dreaming or hallucinating, or who confuse their rescuers/comrades with their captors/tormentors.  (This can also go hand in hand with the above.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Touching or kissing someone’s scars.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. &lt;em&gt;Mutual&lt;/em&gt; comfort and solidarity between characters who have had the same or similar terrible experiences, especially if their coping strategies are different.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do you like H/C fics? Which tropes (or trope subversions) to you enjoy the most?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=473138&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 20 Nov 2024 03:19:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Tuesday Top Five: Fannish Happiness</title>
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  <description>Here are five of the media- or fandom-related things that have made me happy recently.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;fandomgiftbasket&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; reveals went live in mid-October.  I wrote two &lt;em&gt;X-Men: First Class&lt;/em&gt; ficlets, &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/58396540&quot;&gt;Second Thoughts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https://archiveofourown.org/works/58935634&quot;&gt;See How We Measure People&lt;/a&gt;, both of which focus on Charles and Erik.  I received two lovely &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt; pieces: &lt;a href=&quot;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/78161.html?thread=694353#cmt694353&quot;&gt;Belief&lt;/a&gt;, which is about Martha Jones during the Year That Never Was, and &lt;a href=&quot;https://fandomgiftbasket.dreamwidth.org/78161.html?thread=694865#cmt694865&quot;&gt;an untitled Nine/Rose/Jack interlude.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. I left some &lt;em&gt;Hypnotists&lt;/em&gt; prompts for &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;smallfandomfest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; because of course I did.  Anybody who wants their small fandom represented has &lt;a href=&quot;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/933697.html&quot;&gt;two more days to submit prompts&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://wish-upon-a-meme.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://wish-upon-a-meme.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;wish_upon_a_meme&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is a prompt exchange event that looks very cool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. I’m rewatching &lt;em&gt;Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous&lt;/em&gt; at Cartoon Night and it still rules.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. I’m rewatching the first season of &lt;em&gt;Arcane: League of Legends&lt;/em&gt; with my housemates, before we dive into the new episodes, and it also still rules.  Also, if this show had been around when I was still LARPing, Jinx is absolutely and completely the type of character that I would have yearned to play.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=471849&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:39:54 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Small Fandom Fest 36</title>
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  <description>You can still expect to find happy fannish things on this blog for the immediate future, and one of the happiest fannish things on my radar is the &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png&apos; alt=&apos;[community profile] &apos; width=&apos;16&apos; height=&apos;16&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;smallfandomfest&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; fanwork exchange, which started another round at the beginning of this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://smallfandomfest.dreamwidth.org/933697.html&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/a&gt; is the post with all the rules, as well as the link to the submission form and list of existing prompts.  Prompts will be accepted through November 21.  I encourage anyone with a small fandom to join in!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=nevanna&amp;ditemid=471436&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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