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The 2023 Hugo Awards: A Report on Censorship and Exclusion

Leaked emails and files indicate authors and works deemed “not eligible” for the awards were removed due to political considerations.

Non-Canon JAFF Ship Prompt Fics 2023

Seems relevant to some people's interests!

Below the cut, the two prompts I posted, for my own records. I don't know if I'll write anything, I haven't had the writing bug in a while, but it was fun coming up with prompts.
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There's been recent rumblings on tumblr about people wanting to move to dreamwidth, which I think would be great!

Two nice guides to dreamwidth aimed at tumblr folk which cover most important things:

Here's a guide to how this all works on a cultural level

Disjointed Dreamwidth Tips (written by someone who wasn’t on LJ)

Some extra things:
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A summary of this SarahZ video about the TERRIBLE behaviour of the people who run Homestuck. You don't need to know anything about Homestuck to understand this post.

To paraphrase SarahZ, the company harasses and dismisses anyone who critiques them as 'poisoned', despite having openly admitted to some serious fuckups.

And watching Andrew Hussie(42) interact with SarahZ(23), I see a practiced combination of intimidation, condescending flattery, and the promise of secret insider knowledge trying to leverage Hussie's power as a loved, respected, and powerful creator talking to what they see as a weaker, star-struck, easily influenced female fan. Looking back on everything I know of Homestuck, it's clear Hussie has used this schtick successfully for a decade to mistreat, silence, and control those around them, and it's only really coming to light now.
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concrit_x

I thought about joining for about five seconds and then my anxiety went NOPE. But it seems relevant to people's interests and at least somewhat active.

It ended very sharply since they made the discord read-only at local midnight (my lunch time, a few hours ago) I've joined a few related discords, though, and had a bunch of new people follow me who I am slowly checking out one by one (if I do this too quickly I just go UGH TOO HARD and never subscribe to anyone).

Anyway, the con was a lot of fun! *waves to everyone I saw there, and also anyone I didn't* I have one more panel to write up and then I'll do a panels post, but in the meantime here's some links I had opened in tabs and stuff.
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Wiscon is open for online registration until the 20th.

I got the free ticket because I am pretty sure timezones mean I won't be able to actually attend anything (which is fair enough, it was hardly designed to be an international con!), but will see.

I had to make a Wattpad account to read something and decided to try out posting something, because I needed a distraction(*). It's a site for posting fiction, with a lot of teenagers writing self insert RPF romances. I settled on Wedding Is Destiny since Pride and Prejudice femslash never goes out of style and it can just sit there to be stumbled upon whenever someone happens to want some.

You can post original stories and charge money for them, and there's also some kinda cute features for adding character notes and stuff to help with the writing process. It's very clean and brightly coloured, posting stories feels easy and light which I can see people finding encouraging.

It's moderately easy to use, certainly compared to fanfiction.net, though there didn't seem to be a html option so I cut and pasted the Rich Text from the AO3. It also has WAY less info on each story than Fanfiction.net or AO3, making finding stories nearly as opaque as searching tumblr tags. There's probably tricks to it I'm missing, though.

If you're curious, here's the three versions: Ao3, Fanfiction.net, Wattpad.

I have had ZERO VIEWS so far lol. Everyone seems to do covers there so I chucked one together haphazardly. As you can see, graphic design really isn't my passion, but eh, noone's going to read it anyway.

I don't know if I'll bother cross posting anything else. My main motivation is to help anyone thinking "I wish someone had written X" and am not sure what I write is what people there are likely to be looking for. I've written a few tropey romances but not for fandoms anyone's much into these days, especially not young people. I was curious to know what it was like to post to, and now I know!

(*)From my toilet breaking and me needing to wrangle a plumber. Yes, great timing, amiright? It's all fixed now, but it was good to have something mindless to do like cutting and pasting chapters.

electric_challenge is a dreamwidth community encouraging people to make dreamwidth posts about gaming.

Stage 1: A friending meme

Stage 2: My history as a player of computer games, below.

Stage 3: My favourite gaming communities:

otome_games, which I started when the mod of the previous otome community vanished. It's a small but very nice group and they're fun to squee with.

I poked through my subscriptions but all the other dreamwidth gaming communities I'm in haven't had any posts in months :(

The Black Emporium discord, for the Dragon Age rarepair exchange, is pretty active. I muted it when I needed a break from exchanges but everyone was very nice last time I popped in.

I'm on a few game dev discords but try to keep my game dev persona a bit separate to my fannish one. I can pass on links to anyone who's interested!

And now my history as a player of computer games, under the cut.

I love games, but am also very bad at almost all of them, with very bad reaction times and coordination. So since the beginning, I've made my own games, because the ones I wanted to (or even could) play didn't exist.
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A conversation made me curious so I looked up if there was any information, and found two very interesting posts by the same blogger.

Yuri isn’t Made for Men: An Analysis of the Demographics of Yuri Mangaka and Fans compiles existing information on Japanese creators and fans

Report on the Yuri Fandom Demographic Survey discusses a survey they ran in English speaking yuri fandom

"Yuri" is f/f manga and anime made in Japan, which has a very different culture and history to f/f made in English.

tl;dr: Analysis I've seen of English speaking femslash fandom has it being like 90% queer women. But English speaking yuri fandom is more evenly split between (mostly straight) men and (mostly queer) women, with a non-negligible number of non binary people. And while there's gender differences in how people approach yuri, they're not as big as you might expect. I find this a really interesting counterpoint to the general assumption that f/f for straight men and f/f for queer women involve completely separate and distinct genres and social groups.

More thoughts and numbers below the cut! Also a brief mention of works containing incest.
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