LINKDING

Summary: [bjornruffian] ohhhh like a friend for him???? YES omg I LOVE THIS. Wait it’s going to end badly for this robot right? OH NO IM ALREADY HEARTBROKEN HOW CAN I BE SO INVESTED ALREADY ➜ yuletide fic - for Fandom For Robots ➜ Computron and bjornruffian work on their next collab, and Computron revisits memories of his creator ➜ and hello I had SO many sad robot feels and robot friendship feels! shrieking with delight ➜ 2k words in length

Excerpt: Can someone get the doors? Thanks. Please remember we’re on an honor system for chairs—if you’ve eaten today, please leave them for someone who hasn’t. We don’t need another fainting incident. First of all, if you’re looking for a technical look at restoring and reconstructing lost Backwards Man episodes, that’s Greg Bakun’s panel tomorrow morning at 9:30, which I really recommend checking out if you’re not too hungover. This panel is about the recent recovery of clips of “The Goldenrod Conspiracy,” the changes to the story that arise from them, and what it means that every single surviving frame of “The Goldenrod Conspiracy” comes from censorship board clips. ➤ a short story with the conceit that it's a transcript of a con panel, in a futuristic dystopian world ➤ but even in this future where food is hard to come by, fans still gather to talk about their fave media ➤ I loved the history of the fan relationship to the (fictional) show in question, and in particular the lost episode that the panel is about! ➤ the rest of the worldbuilding about the dystopia was pretty broad-strokes and not particularly developed, but I enjoyed all the fan and panel content so much and that's where the focus really is ➤ 5k words in length

Summary: <blockquote>i don’t know, writing a paper with her could be… fun? i mean, what’s the worst that can happen? / From: leldiwanyby-uea.edu To: mwright21by-kcl.edu Subject: Re: Re: Re: Fuck you M– If you think we’re citing fucking Samuel Kline[...] [three paragraphs snipped – click to expand]</blockquote> ➤ fic about the made-up film Goncharov, by which I mean, fic about the made-up academics who study the real-in-their-world film Goncharov and have fights about it in academic journals, and also write fic about it ➤ told entirely via text messages, ao3 comments, academic paper abstracts, and emails ➤ yes obviously it's enemies-to-lovers ➤ it's completely delightful, I love everything about it ➤ 6k words in length

➤ takes place entirely in comments on webnovels

<blockquote>untamed social media au but they're all in an unrelated fandom and it's way more focused on their opinions than their interpersonal drama</blockquote>

<blockquote>Two grown men get into a fight over the internet on a novel discussion forum over their favorite fictional characters. </blockquote>

<blockquote>✈️: i mean it's already My Brand for really good dick to change people ✈️: maybe mobei's meat popsicle awakens something in him 🥒: i hate you so much.</blockquote>

<blockquote>When Shen Yuan accidentally volunteers to take over a fanfic exchange from a mod who is way in over their head, he immediately turns around and makes Shang Qinghua take on most of the work. It doesn't go terribly--for them. It goes pretty bad for everyone else.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Shen Yuan doesn't remember writing a 300k PIDW fix-it fic, but he must have, because it's been posted to his AO3 account. (He doesn't remember getting an AO3 account either.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>Lan Zhan has been working at the public library for three years the first time he meets the most beautiful man he has ever seen. (50% library shenanigans, 50% fandom feels, 100% WangXian.)</blockquote>

<blockquote>My wife promised me that she'd cosplay as Boat if I did Varadar Tau. Little did I know that it would be a journey of freeze frames, dim lighting, and bumping into Matt Schnee at the worst possible moment. A BarraCon 2008 report.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Wei Wuxian’s hand jolts, spilling a drop of wine onto the tabletop. “Love?” he croaks, then clears his throat and tries again. “Lan Zh— uh, Hanguang-jun, in love?” “Have you not heard the story?” the other young woman asks, looking pitying. “You must, it is a truly heartrending tale of star-crossed romance and mutual pining — go to any storyhouse in town, everyone has been requesting a reading of this book.” “There’s a book?” Wei Wuxian says blankly.</blockquote>

summary: So here are my top 10 tips for ways to find what you need when AO3's tagging system has failed you. With real-life examples!

➤ how to post audio to ao3

<blockquote>The Fanwork Permission Statements (FPS) List is a multi-fandom database of creative people who are happy to inspire creativity in others, and have posted Blanket Permission Statements to say so.</blockquote>

<blockquote>While AO3 has a way to click to see notes at the end, this tutorial is how you can not only have your viewers click to view certain notes, but also click back to where they had been reading before. We don’t even need to use a workskin for this, but just an implementation of simple anchor links. So whether you have a lot of references in your work or just want to let your inner Pratchettchar- loose, this is how you do it.</blockquote>

<blockquote>This was our entry in the 2005 Vividcon Challenge show, for the Milestones theme (in honor of the 30th anniversary of vidding). So we vidded our take on vidding history.</blockquote>

Super-simple ways to allow text selection at FF.net 2 simple methods, take your pick: Method 1) simply change the url from "www.fanfiction.net/..." to "m.fanfiction.net/...". You're done.

<blockquote>No, I think it looked a little better on me.</blockquote> ➤ a fascinating vid that starts out looking like a vid about the Lego Movie, then moves into being about Lego media in general and then into, like, fandom, and it all moves smoothly and comes together coherently in a really interesting way.

Now that we've finished rolling out the new search and filtering features, it's time to give our previous series on hidden search operators and neat tricks an update as well.

<blockquote>Whether in the future, the past, or the present, Kate and Cecelia are destined to have a very interesting correspondence.</blockquote> ➤ scenes from three aus. I liked the star trek and fandom aus best

<blockquote>Computron feels no emotion towards the animated television show titled Hyperdimension Warp Record (超次元 ワープ レコード). After all, Computron does not have any emotion circuits installed, and is thus constitutionally incapable of experiencing “excitement,” “hatred,” or “frustration.” It is completely impossible for Computron to experience emotions such as “excitement about the seventh episode of HyperWarp,” “hatred of the anime’s short episode length” or “frustration that Friday is so far away.”</blockquote>

<blockquote>Just because Yuuri isn't big on social media, doesn't mean his fans aren't. (aka a social media fic)</blockquote>

<blockquote>To whoever matched me on NASA RPF and didn't just now default, you are my hero.</blockquote>

<blockquote>Tingle balls Tingle balls Tingle all the way.... (oh, oh, oooh!)</blockquote>

➤ how to gif

<blockquote>The arrival of Star Wars: The Force Awakens made the Star Wars fandom explode earlier this year. The modern Star Wars fan is catered to not only by seemingly every kind of product with enough surface area to slap Kylo Ren on, but also by the width and breadth of the fanworks available to her. With decades of fanworks to sift through, the possibilities can seem infinite. But once she’s read her eyes out on all the Poe/Finn fic she can find and indulged in prequel fanvids set to Evanescence songs, she might have a question. Where, a new Star Wars fan might well ask, is all the Han/Luke fic?</blockquote>

<blockquote>Olly’s mastered the art of keeping his real life out of his fandom. He just wasn’t ready for the fandom collision that brings Neil into both. A tumblr AU.</blockquote> ➤ I know zero about this fandom (is there even a fandom? I wouldn't know) but I thoroughly enjoyed this fic

<blockquote>Darcy I have strong opinions Liza Benítez Nope, you are mean. Darcy I’m sure my dedication to giving you feedback is terribly offensive Liza Benítez well one day I’ll figure out your motives Darcy Will you now?</blockquote> ➤ oh no how does this au work SO WELL. It continues a little past the point where it needs to, where it's just pointless relationship fluff, but it's just YEAH.

<blockquote>Daniel Jackson vs. Wormhole X-Treme fandom</blockquote>