A fanfic writer and Feminist Ryan Gosling discuss celebrity culture, gender and theory, and the political perils of Fassavoy fic.

So then, because he’s Hardison, he created a fandom.

Or A Brief Sketch Of An Ideal Outcome For An Entirely Fictional And Deeply But Unnecessarily Disturbed Relationship Dedicated To Certain Individuals Who Even When Figuratively Armed With Vessels Of Water And Saccharine Coatings Cannot Take A Hint

John/Karkat, John/Eridan, commentfic, PG. Fanfiction by Dave Strider.

"I don't even get to be a cruel, capricious god anymore. Now I'm the cruel, capricious god's pet accordion monkey."

Bitty comes out to Johnson in the Haus kitchen after baking four pies in a row. Bitty bakes when he’s nervous, but he also bakes when he’s happy, when he’s tired, when he’s irritated, and when it’s Tuesday, so it’s hard to draw conclusions. Unless you peeked ahead to the last panel first to check for cliffhangers, but Johnson would never do that.

Cassandra stumbles across a secret literature-exchange society in Skyhold. She disapproves, of course. Deeply. (That person who keeps prompting for crossovers with characters out of Varric's novels? Not her.)

The Avengers discover that there are fans who write explicit RPF fic about them. Some of them are very confused. Some are proud. Some don't understand why everyone writes the pairings who aren't together but hardly anyone writes the couple who actually is together. Much silliness ensues.

Join the Try Guys as they plunge headlong into the Archive of Our Own! Will Keith's MCU gangbang wow the masses? Can Zach reconcile his love of Harry Potter canon with its fandom? Will Eugene's cannibal cops serial still work if he files off the serial numbers? Find out as the Try Guys tackle the world...of Fanfiction!

This is about to get very meta but it does not necessarily depict real life events and/or my actual opinions about the lovely fanfic on this site.

There is a fucking primer. Dylan doesn't quite know what to do with that.

Falconers bring back the Horton ‘Hug Check’ when playing the Seattle Schooners, because no one wants to be the guy to injure the Captain’s secret boyfriend.