memory of the future

Wow, it does not seem like nearly the end of the year at all.

( Wrote this to procrastinate on shovelling snow )

there’s a candidate (tiffany g) for the otw board this year whose platform boils down to “wanting to get ao3 unbanned in china” and suggestions for doing so are dubious. this tumblr post has more details. i don’t have an otw membership this year, but heads up for those of you who do.

Links roundup:

• You can now buy piano sheet music for Gris! I kind of want the physical book, of course, but I would probably wreck the edges so fast if I used it with an actual piano. The arrangements are quite good.

• An essay about Dutch baroque typography, and how modern typography is unnecessarily gendered.

• Chaoyang Trap S2 E1 — this is a great newsletter about Chinese pop culture and internet life, and this specific issue covers how the Taiwanese indie scene is perceived in and operates on the mainland. Of course, it touches on cross-strait politics and the shared cultural nostalgia around Teresa Teng; but there’s also an entire section of how machismo gets associated with authenticity, rock music, and Beijing. It also comes with a playlist (Youtube / Spotify). [CW: the music videos by Chthonic and Obsess have violent imagery. Also there’s a bunch of smoking and alcohol in various videos and lyrics.]

• Last month someone in The Old Guard fandom was exposed for racefaking and claiming to be a cultural authority in order to bully POC.

( Back on my britcom bs )

( And being nostalgic for boybands I wasn’t even a fan of )

3rd set! Full alphabet here.

( K, L, M, U, V )

Decided I might as well do this! I’m posting these in sets organized by theme, since I don’t think anyone wants me to post 26 times in a row. Grabbed from naye.

Full list, if you want to do this yourself:

A: Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed. B: A pairing – platonic, romantic or sexual – that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind. C: A ship you have never liked and probably never will. D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom? E: Have you added anything cracky/hilarious to your fandom, if so, what? F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it? G: What was your first fandom? H: Do you prefer live action TV shows or animated TV shows? I: Has online caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why? J: Name a fandom you didn’t care/think about until you saw it all over the internet. K: What character has your favorite development arc/the best development arc? L: Say something genuinely nice about a character who isn’t one of your faves. M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend. N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice). O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of? P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas). Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why. R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom? S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon. T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending? U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites. V: Which character do you relate to most? W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom. X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom. Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)? Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

( A, B, C, O, R )