Little cloud, home again

You asked for it, and it’s happening: the fandom Craft Fair is coming BACK! Get ready for our third annual craft extravaganza, running February 19 - 27, 2027!

Follow us on bsky at @ourfamilyourfight and tumblr at @ourfamilyourfight and fill out this form to get our info emails.

This year’s focus: CREATURES OF THE DEEP and ALL THINGS NAUTICAL. Show us your tentacles, your creepy fishies, your ships, and your stormy seas. 

We’ll be going back to our roots and supporting the Trans Youth Emergency Project at the Campaign for Southern Equality once again, because their work remains crucial and they need our support!

More info to come in a few months, but for now, we’d love to see what you’re making or planning to make, so use the tag #fandomcraftfair to show off (or to say what you’d like to see and bid on!).

Some nitty gritty details to get you started:

No more than 12 listings per crafter, but you can have as many identical items within those listings as you’d like!

OFMD-themed items are of course welcome, but we want to encourage plenty of items that appeal to a wider audience! To that end, we will not be allowing crafts from other fandoms so we can maintain that balance.

Minimum price for physical items is $12 to account for the cost of shipping (the exception is stickers, bookmarks, and other flat paper goods that can be shipped untracked with a stamp).

We’ll be limiting what can be shipped via Lis this year to folks making 10 or more identical items! Otherwise, all crafters are responsible for  shipping their own items.

Something I notice is, when men discuss the manosphere, they either centre the reason boys fall down that pipeline on some inner weakness or defectiveness of the boy, ie. "they're just autistic weirdos who want rules for women because they can't get their dick wet," or they centre the reason on women, "feminism had made women too woke, mean and impossible to socialise with."

What I noticed while working is that every single little Tate goblin I had to work with had conservative parents, and I have never once seen that aspect of all this discussed. Boys will reflect the social norms they are raised in within their household. The biggest preventative for manosphere bullshit I saw in the boys I worked with was a dad who isn't a fuckwit and a household that isn't LARPing the 1960s.

Bonus bonus: Adrian and Sasha never talked about past partners enough to realize their connection, until the threeway with Luca when in idle conversation they ask what he does (cuz he's Fit) and he says he's a hockey player and that's just enoug for one of them to ask where and he says Ottawa Centaurs and Adrian goes "Troy’s team?" and Sasha goes "Ilya’s team?" And revelations are had all round, until Luca needs another drink (or something)

HEEELLPPPP I LOVEEEEE!!!

You know I always gotta throw my favourite doll Luca into the mix whenever possible so this is PERFECT!!! Let Luca have his crazy slut summer with truly the two worst people imaginable!!!

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

noelle: i feel like i've been watching myself live my life through glass. i want to do something crazy. i want to break free. i want to grow giant wings and fly away from this town. but i can't, because i'm just a noelle, and a noelle can only do noelle things

susie: i felt like i had no place in this world until i learned that i am a hero destined by fate, that my path was prepared for me and me alone from the beginning, and now that's a load-bearing source of purpose and self-worth in my life. surely i am not about to have a catastrophic crashout over finding out maybe that's not true the way i thought it was

kris: what if there were a way you could give up some of the little power you already have to gain the power to change your story? what would that cost you? how could you find ways to claim your agency despite that terrible bargain?

so often feminine men are solely depicted as white or white passing, and are stripped of their more masculine features in order to seem beautiful or feminine, or their masculinity are at odds with their femininity, which can perpetuate traditional gender roles, racism, and even transphobia and transmisogyny.

in reality femininity and masculinity aren’t competing opposites, but go hand and hand, and same is the case with blackness and beauty

THE PAYOFF:

Miriam Margolyes for British Vogue’s July 2023 pride themed issue: “I wouldn’t want to be straight for anything.”