May 2013
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“if you ever doubted that Sanditon was ultimately about fandom, references to LBD...”
– Can YouTube Roleplay Transform Austen’s Unfinished Novel?
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“You will never get a fan to care more about clothes, cars, shoes, or household...”
– Why Yahoo can buy Tumblr, but it can’t buy Fandom
The unspoken truth behind Yahoo’s much-touted bid to court Tumblr’s younger demographic is that for all intents and purposes, Tumblr culture is fandom culture. There are still plenty of other spaces where fandom exists, but we have...
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weird speculation here, but I’m starting to hope that Welcome to Sanditon will turn out to be a stealth bridge between LBD and another Austen adaptation: Persuasion.
In which a young woman and her widowed father move to a popular resort town. And Sanditon, once it is a well-established locale via the current webseries, could act as a stand-in for Bath.
Also, Anne Elliot...
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“He placed his long-fingered hand on Jeff’s chest. Jeff heard himself whimper...”
– Amazon to monetize fan fiction, he moaned | MobyLives
Dustin wrote Jeff Bezos fan fiction and it is beautiful.
(via libraryjournal)
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The true and overlooked origins of Tumblr →
Karp wasn’t the first person to create a tumblelog, the term used to describe the stripped-down blogging and content curation he has become known for. He wasn’t even the second.
The true origin of Tumblr involves a German and an American, hundreds of lines of code, and their common desire to change the way we think about blogging.
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AMAZON ANNOUNCES FRANCHISE-BASED FANFIC PUBLISHING... →
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READ THIS Gav wrote it while I screamed at her about Fanlib and franchise tie-ins and flailed a lot on twitter. A great summary of the many many problems with amazon’s new scheme to profit from fans writing fanfic.
A quote in the article: “Fandom has always been a fundamentally...
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The rise of the anti-fandom fandom →
The phenomenon has become Tumblr’s Newton’s Law: For every great fandom, there’s an equally vocal anti-fandom, bringing it down a peg or three.
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The Tumblr Your Fave is Problematic (YFIP) has one purpose: making sure you have a list of all the uncool things—read: racist, homophobic, sexist, ableist, sizeist, transphobic—your favorite celebrity has allegedly done or said....
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Can Kickstarter save manga publishing? →
Manga legend Osamu Tezuka’s Crater will come to the States for the first time thanks in large part to crowdfunding efforts.
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Tumblr's advertising problem summed up in 1 orange... →
Now that Yahoo has purchased Tumblr, a good deal of speculation has gone into the question of, you know, what the hell Yahoo is going to do with it. A blog post by noted media analyst John Battelle floated the idea that it’s all about Tumblr’s native advertising system, something Yahoo is just beginning to explore.
There’s just one problem with that hypothesis: Tumblr users...
AMAZON ANNOUNCES FRANCHISE-BASED FANFIC PUBLISHING... →
READ THIS Gav wrote it while I screamed at her about Fanlib and franchise tie-ins and flailed a lot on twitter. A great summary of the many many problems with amazon’s new scheme to profit from fans writing fanfic.
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10 things Tumblr can teach Yahoo about the... →
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One of the Internet’s oldest companies has a lot to learn from the young community it just acquired.
However unwilling Tumblrites might be, they still have much to teach Yahoo about the ways and means of Internet culture. If Yahoo is paying attention—and to be fair, the press release does state, “we promise not to screw it up”—it could carry these lessons far into the...
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Biggr may not be bettr for Flickr usrs →
At Yahoo’s triumphant press conference yesterday in New York, it tried admirably to take the spotlight off its latest acquisition, Tumblr, and shine it on Flickr.
Yahoo took a huge gamble with the Flickr redesign, especially coming at a moment when everyone is looking at Yahoo’s relationship with Flickr users as a study of its potential relationship with Tumblr users. At...
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Tumblr gets trolled by fake Yahoo staff blogs →
Brace yourself, Tumblr: the reign of terror has begun. The reign of terrible troll blogs, gullible Tumblr users falling for them, and Tumblr banning them for impersonating Yahoo staffers, that is.
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10 things Tumblr can teach Yahoo about the... →
One of the Internet’s oldest companies has a lot to learn from the young community it just acquired.
However unwilling Tumblrites might be, they still have much to teach Yahoo about the ways and means of Internet culture. If Yahoo is paying attention—and to be fair, the press release does state, “we promise not to screw it up”—it could carry these lessons far into the future.
As long...
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The Shipping News: Slashy TV Finales, Yahoo Ruins... →
Plus “2 Fast” is 2 Fabulous and stunning webcomic “Starfighter”.
You guys! it’s my week to do the Shipping News, and this week’s was E P I C. check it out for thoughts on everything from Vin Diesel to the SPN season finale to Saturday Night Live’s canonical gay wedding to Yahoo/Tumblr to PRINCE OF TENNIS. oh my god why didn’t i include some GIFS of...
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BRACE YOURSELVES: TUMBLR BELONGS TO YAHOO NOW.
BRACE YOURSELVES: TUMBLR BELONGS TO YAHOO NOW.
After days of speculation, Yahoo’s board approved a deal to buy the popular blogging site for $1.1 billion in cash, according to the Wall Street Journal. Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer is likely to make the announcement Monday at a press conference in New York City.
The Tumblr community has gone into full-on freakout mode. The Yahoo tag on Tumblr is...
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Yahoo just swallowed the best Tumblr community... →
Before the Yumblr tag was all about rumors of Yahoo buying Tumblr, it was devoted to a thriving foodie fandom full of original characters.
The Prince of Mint Chocolate; Illustration by spudstud
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5 reasons Tumblr is doomed if Yahoo buys it →
If the sad state of Flickr, the rotting carcass of Delicious, and the ghost of GeoCities are any indication, having Yahoo add Tumblr to its smelly domain locker would be its demise.
4) Underestimating fandom
When Yahoo bought, then tried to sunset Delicious, it did more than just piss off a good chunk of the Internet and ultimately lead to the site’s becoming a shell of itself. It destroyed a...
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"Sanditon" role-playing is so popular that Twitter... →
Fans of the new series from the creators of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries are wildly enthusiastic on Twitter.
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'The Baseline Is, You Suck': Junot Diaz on Men Who...
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a write—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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"Brave" fans win: Disney will keep the old Merida →
After fans spoke out online, the heroine of Brave won’t be getting a sexy princess makeover after all.
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Why fanfic is better than any fake boyfriend →
There’s an even better, less expensive way to go about the elaborate business of obtaining romantic fulfillment without a real-life investment.
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Anonymous asked: will any other inception characters be making an appearance in i seem to be a verb?
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Anonymous asked: Maybe you can’t have trust, real trust, without having just a little doubt, too.
cyborganize asked: I totally respect your love of gay serial killers, but that is really one of my bigger disloves. and yet GILLIAN ANDERSON + ARCHIE PUNJABI nghhhhhhhhh. do you think someone will make a fanedit or YouTube playlist of Hannibal for me with just their scenes? HINT???
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Anonymous asked: Have you been getting to any of the free weekend movies at the MoMA?
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Benedict Cumberbatch fans fuel Indiegogo campaign →
With four days to go, Little Favours has raised more than $115,000. Not bad for a first timer’s short film project.
INCEPTION FANDOM WHY DID YOU NOT TELL ME THAT PNUT WAS DIRECTING A MOVIE ajfklasfasfsddk
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This is a Blog: Yo I just saw this article and... →
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Yo I just saw this article and wanted to say something about it. The Daily Dot has been on my shit list since they wrote a story last summer about how larry shippers are sooooooooo crazy and this new article is completely consistent with that. But I think a very potential impact it could have is…
I fucking hate the Daily Dot, and especially Aja Romano for...
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Joss Whedon is alive and on Twitter →
When @JossActual showed up on Twitter this morning, it was with a wit and verve that can only be described as, well, Whedonesque.
oh larry shippers
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Lizzie Bennet Diaries team takes on "Sanditon,"... →
Fans of Gigi Darcy should definitely tune in to the new series from the LBD team.
