tumblr i’m stuck in my room because my housemates have been having a party for the last 8 hours straight and i don’t want to meet any of their friends because i’m socially awkward and shy and i don’t want them to judge me
but seriously
it’s been 8 hours and i really need to pee
BUT IF I SUDDENLY EMERGE AFTER 8 HOURS I’LL LOOK LIKE THE GIANT FREAK THAT I ACTUALLY AM
what do i do
help
Anonymous asked: when can non project backers get their hands on the book? :3
The print version of Fight Like a Girl will be made available to the backers who requested copies (and to each of the writers, YAY!) in August.
After that, e-book versions and special print-on-demand versions will be made available to the general public in November. :)
<3!
claudicus asked: Hi Aja - I was wondering what your thoughts are on Amazon's new legal fanfic publishing platform 'Kindle Worlds'? I've read both positive and negative responses to it... and thought I'd ask you about what you thought. Thanks :)
Hi, claudicus! :D
I have an opinion piece on it being published on Monday, that is not so much a “let me tell you how much i hate this” as a “sigh, this is just the latest in a long line of attempts by the publishing industry to (mis)understand fandom.”
In the meantime, I think Gav’s take on it is absolutely perfect.
calvinahobbes asked: Hi Aja! I was talking to a friend about Kindle Worlds and all it entails, and they raised the point that Austen fandom must be one that has experience dealing with the split between free and for-pay fanworks (like, tension between the two kinds? Works that cross over from free to published?). I know you're in Austen fandom, and I was wondering whether you had any insight on the point? I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Hi!
Honestly, when I was in JA fandom there was no tension, and from the many times I’ve popped in and re-dabbled in the fandom + talked to other current fans, my impression is that nothing’s changed.
Published Jane Austen fanfic is so common that it has its own moniker, JAFF—and this also refers to the free fanfic that’s on the Derbyshire Writers Guild and Pemberley.com and elsewhere. When I was in the fandom (it was my *first* fandom, so late 90’s), there were a bunch of free online JAFF writers who went on to become some of the most popular published JAFF writers. Around the time I was in the fandom an entire small publishing press started up that was just devoted to publishing Austen continuations. And a lot of the authors who published their novels also continued to be in the free online fandom spaces. Because why wouldn’t they be?
Obviously the reason there was no tension was because P&P is public domain, and there’s no one to shame the fanfiction writers for “stealing” the characters.
I will say that when I was in the fandom there *was* tension between the academic side of the fandom and the fanfic writers, because the fic writers, especially the AU and modern retelling writers, were seen as derailing the community. This was actually why Pemberley eventually stopped hosting fanfiction and the DWG was formed way back in the day, and is actually why I drifted away from the fandom. I’ve never trucked much with elitism. ;)
“You will never get a fan to care more about clothes, cars, shoes, or household products than they do about whether Sterek is going to happen on Teen Wolf.” —
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 never had such a megalithic and central social platform so visibly united under one umbrella. …
Even as Yahoo insists nothing will change, business analysts and media experts are speculating that the company intends to plumb Tumblr for its advertising potential. But if that’s the case, Yahoo should know that when you market to fandom, you have to adopt a whole new way of thinking about marketing, brand advertising, and consumer loyalty. [READ MORE]
(please read this article omg i have never wanted to *drop mic* until this day)
Karaz01: I don’t have a stone to throw in this battle, but that quotation made me laugh out loud. It’s strange to watch the Tumblr/Yahoo shenanigans from the perspective of not giving a shit. After years of watching my beloved Livejournal get stripped away year after year until it became both unrecognizable and an empty husk of what it once was, I feel only a certain sense of inevitability regarding the “downfall” of tumblr. It was only a matter of time.
Fandom, as it always has, will survive. (Though I’m not sure what’s more annoying: being advertised to via Yahoo or having all of our works/activities made villainous via Livejournal.)
Emmagrant01: ^^THIS. OMG, for serious. And yeah, was anyone else on a fandom Yahoo group that got deleted? Yes, DELETED. Every single fic and post and idea and bit of fannish squee in that segment of fandom, completely gone forever, just because someone at Yahoo decided your fandom violated their TOS. I hate to sound like a BOFQ, but good lord, the STORY of fandom is how we’ve been kicked out of every decent social networking platform ever, and then we picked up our fics and arts, dusted them off, and went on to find to the next place to hang out. We’ve been around for decades, and we’re still here, and we’re not going anywhere.
(via emmagrant01)
ughhhhh yes, so much yes to all of this. (And there’s a reason, historically, that bitter old fandom queens are bitter. <3)
(Source: bookshop, via emmagrant01)
“if you ever doubted that Sanditon was ultimately about fandom, references to LBD fandom abound throughout the show’s interplay with fans. (The Sanditon softball team is called the Sanditon Seahorses, a reference to the fan name for Lizzie/Darcy shippers.) And the fan-created Sanditon Tea—perhaps modeling itself after Adagio’s popular real-life fandom tea service—is making us wish that we could pop in for a Cuppabatch.” — Can YouTube Roleplay Transform Austen’s Unfinished Novel?
“You will never get a fan to care more about clothes, cars, shoes, or household products than they do about whether Sterek is going to happen on Teen Wolf.” —
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 never had such a megalithic and central social platform so visibly united under one umbrella. …
Even as Yahoo insists nothing will change, business analysts and media experts are speculating that the company intends to plumb Tumblr for its advertising potential. But if that’s the case, Yahoo should know that when you market to fandom, you have to adopt a whole new way of thinking about marketing, brand advertising, and consumer loyalty. [READ MORE]
(please read this article omg i have never wanted to *drop mic* until this day)
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 isn’t a character who would likely start a vlog or twitter, but if she gets caught up in the Sanditon Domino-craze it would actually make sense.
The somewhat plot-free social media experiment that is Welcome to Sanditon would make more sense in this context. (I suppose it could also be a stealth bridge into a Sense and Sensibility or Emma adaptation, as well.)
Reblogging because Sanditon acting as a stand-in for Bath would be absolutely BRILLIANT. (I hateship Austen/Bath so hard, did presentations about it in college, it’s a Thing. I LOVE THIS IDEA.)