linkspam

[lotesse]

(A thought I have about how to get back to Journal Fandom Vibes is that I want to link pieces of "real" writing -- i.e. not corporate/SEO -- I find around the web. The internet has been my source for this sort of writing for decades now, and I fear that it's getting harder and harder to find. Thus, linkspam!)

Jude Doyle on Jonah Hill and toxic masculinity (medium link)

Alba M. on Rimbaud and adultism (medium link)

Anne Helen Petersen on Bedrotting and Loud Quitting (substack link)

Comments

[lotesse]

Glad to share! I feel like years in fandom have definitely left me with a healthy respect for how much individual users can do to get what they need out of even the worst platforms, ie TikTok, lol

[vriddy]

I can't say that I understand TikTok in the context of fandom well yet (in that the thought of reccing a fic with my real face on video Does Not Appeal), but the part about trying to make sense of the world, like the world of work they've been sold as Being It since childhood, and then building on top of each other's edits to build to the understanding that actually work doesn't have to be their entire lives, things like that, in the medium they're most familiar with, resonated. I suppose it's the same for fandom/fic stuff but... I'm not quite there yet :D Haha.