especially the urge to use fandom as an organizing mechanism to discipline the writer!

i mean for sure these categories are not so static, plenty of solvers write, plenty of fans love problems, plenty of writers are fans, yadda yadda. and we all love a blorbo. but yes the popular tendency to treat the writer as no more than a blorbo delivery mechanism is really not good

which is why fandom as a site of exchange between writers and readers/fans is also a site of contestation. some fans really seem to hate the creators of the thing they love, as if they resent their power to impose problems. even when they don't there's for sure a kind of jockeying that goes on

For those wondering, I do still frequently go through wistful envy! I encourage you to browse my friend @charlenedraws.bsky.social's thread here: bsky.app/profile/char...

In 1987, there were 27 California Condors in the world, all captive.

In 2024, there were 566.

369 of them fly free.

We did that. We fixed it.

more here: aetherograph.tumblr.com/post/7871117...

The number of times I see gg boiled down to “gamers mad at women” that leaves the racists, antisemites, homophobes et all out, or the fact that it was a calculated act of domestic violence, or that he did it in response to me getting an abortion… that context is really relevant to why it blew up!

I humbly request that if you are unfamiliar with #endfathersday, Kathy Sierra, the endless September, the “chimpire”, or chanology that you maybe do a bit more reading and see shit in its proper context.