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Our latest is live! 🌟 A fantastic piece by music journalist Earl Hopkins on Drake's fandom, who continue to stand by the music even as they struggle with unanswered questions over the artist himself:

It’s a loyalty Drake has routinely relied on: whenever his back has been against the wall, Drake has mastered the ability to generate hits that make listeners forget what battles he’s lost, or what embarrassing moments were brought to light. And no group has had more selective amnesia than Drake fans. 

This piece weaves in all the cultural context and tons of great reporting with Drake fans alongside critical writing about his most recent triple-album release. A truly deep dive! Earl also recently published a book:

And here is another artwork I made for Art History zine! 

@borntomakearthistoryzine 

It’s a collab with @spookyfoot, based on a Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea, with an academic/romantic/19th century twist :D Read spooky’s fic on AO3. And enjoy Yuuri as a sculpture coming to life, Victor as a genius sculptor, Mila as Aphrodite and Yurio as Cupid, with a ton of symbolism sprinkled all over the mix ;) 

When IWTV S2 was airing, @hellotailor and I exchanged *a lot* of texts bemoaning the fact that no editors would bite on her coverage, which I think is the sharpest around. At the time, I said that if I expanded Fansplaining, perhaps *I* could publish her coverage of season 3...

😎 I'm so proud to present Gav's first recap of TVL!! She'll be covering the whole season for us, and possibly writing a feature related to the production as well. (And coming on for a post-season special episode podcast.) We KNOW there are a lot of fans out there who want fan-critics who really dive in and properly analyze these episodes, so hopefully we can help fill that gap!

Harry Potter needs a hug. And he gets it. He gets all the hugs.

Hogwarts era Harry-is-a-Slytherin teeth-rotting Drarry sweetness with a possibility of hurt/comfort in future chapters. It's a WIP, but with standalone chapters, like oneshots in a series, so enter with no fear of cliffhangers! It begins at the end of 3rd year.

Read on AO3

CHAPTER TWO!

Harry should’ve sat with Draco during the match, not with a pack of bloody weasels. He should’ve been Draco’s guest. He should’ve shared all the impressions and the excitement with Draco, not the stupid Gryffindors. The entire summer, Draco had been waiting for their reunion with bated breath, for Harry to ask for another hug so Draco could pretend to only give it grudgingly, when it was all he lived for. And to be denied all that, to be reduced to watching his best friend have fun with a rowdy bunch of plebeians from afar, like they were no more than mere acquaintances? Draco had seen precious little of the game himself for how he seethed the whole time, trapped between his parents, a bird in a gilded cage.

Original art by なかむー

We've been live for a month, and what a whirlwind it's been! Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who's supported the project so far. We genuinely could not get off the ground without this early support.

Since we launched, we've published some incredible writing:

Our launch post, explaining what Fansplaining: The Publication is all about.

Fansplaining editor @lincodega on the elements of The Pitt that make it ripe for fanfiction (as well as what journalists can't stop getting wrong about the Pitt fandom).

@morgan-leigh on Three Bags Full (first titled Glenkill in its original German), the beloved mystery novel that was the source for The Sheep Detectives film.

Soila Kenya on non-native English speakers reading and writing fanfiction in English, the language that has the most global "linguistic capital" in fandom.

@annejamison on the Good Omens series finale as a metatextual commentary about fandom and fanfiction—and one that gave the characters back to the fans.

@elizabethminkel on depictions of tech on television, and how we read these characters in light of our shifting feelings about real-life tech.

We've got so much more in the works, including:

Thai GL fandom

Conlang enthusiasts

Fandom stats as fanworks

Covering Game of Thrones

Negative comments vs bots on AO3

Homestuck's fanworks

Gay pirates

And, of course, @hellotailor recapping The Vampire Lestat over the next two months! ✨

If you like what we’ve been doing, please become a subscriber!

Subscriptions start at $7 a month/$70 a year. We also have a significant discount for students, educators, un/underemployed folks, etc. Email [email protected] and we'll be happy to share the code.