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It was a closely-fought battle, but in the end, only one page could emerge victorious. The winner of our Fanlore Featured Article Faceoff 2022 is... Uhura! 👑

Did you know that any Fanlore user can vote on the Featured Article that displays every week on Fanlore's front page? That means you, too! You can check out the current nominations here and add your votes! You just need a Fanlore account, which you can create at this link!

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This is it: the final showdown! Who will be crowned the Featured Article Faceoff victor of 2022?

Beloved Star Trek legend and cultural role model Uhura is up against a trope that may also have originated in Trek fandom - Sex Pollen! Who will win? The U.S.S. Enterprise communications officer and translator, or the trope that infects characters with an alien or magical plant pollen, causing an uncontrollable desire for sex?

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Things are getting intense in the semi-final of Fanlore's Featured Article Faceoff! Is your first choice still in the running? Vote for your favorite article from our top 4 in the polls below:

Sex Pollen, the trope where a substance causes characters to desire sexual relations, is up against Fandom Ghost: Created Out Of Whole Cloth By Fanon, the tendency of fandom to apply a fanon archetype to characters with little basis in canon. Vote for the winner!

Uhura, the legendary Star Trek character whose impact is still felt today, decisively beat Manpain in the previous round. She now faces off against Reader-Insert, the popular fic trope featuring the reader as a character commonly called Y/N. Who will advance to the final?

From sixteen Fanlore Featured Articles, eight remain... who will make it to the semi-finals?

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It's round two of Fanlore's Featured Article Faceoff, and things are really heating up! Check out the contenders below and vote for your favorite:

Sex Pollen, the trope that causes your fave characters to lose all their inhibitions, faces off against Bunkies, the first fic where "gasp" there was only one bed! Vote for the winner!

Uhura, the beloved Star Trek character who broke barriers, is now up against Manpain, the fannish term for the concept of centering a male white character's pain... Who will make it through?

Metafic, the genre of fic where the characters interact with the author, is facing off against Fandom Ghost: Created Out Of Wholecloth By Fanon, a phenomenon where a very minor character is given a typical fanon archetype. Which one gets your vote?

Which was your favorite Fanlore Featured Article of 2022?

2022 had a number of fandoms face off in brackets and polls (some of which deserve their own wiki page). Are you ready for one more to celebrate another year of fan knowledge?

We found the Featured Articles that garnered the most attention throughout the year on Fanlore's social media. Vote for your favorite Fanlore Featured Article in 2022, from these sixteen finalists:

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If you missed reading any of our contenders, now's your chance to peruse the pages, or you can get right to voting in the poll and help crown the winner!

First up is Sex Pollen, the common trope where a substance causes characters to lose inhibitions and come together carnally, versus the arguments for and against the Unauthorized Sequel, where fans riff on another fanwork without asking first.

The Purple Pages, a collection of over 20 Starsky & Hutch RPF stories printed on purple paper, goes up against iconic Star Trek character Uhura, whose portrayal by trailblazer Nichelle Nichols has had powerful, lasting impact.

KuroKen, the Haikyuu!! best friends ship with a global fanbase faces off against Bunkies, a Star Wars story from '79 where for the first time in fandom history there's, gasp, only one bed. (Unfortunately two winners won't fit in this bracket…)

Listen up, it's Amplificathon, the multifandom podfic challenge which ran annually from 2008-16 versus Manpain, the tragic backstory of many a fictional favorite that may or may not lead to them qualifying as a poor little meow meow.

Reader-Insert is a type of fanfiction written in 2nd person point of view, in which the protagonist is always the reader. Will you vote for it over one of the very first Star Wars fanzines, Against the Sith?

Tunalock, a characteristically unique AU of 2013 Sherlock fandom in which Sherlock Holmes is a tuna fish, is facing Metafic, a label describing fanfic in which characters interact with the story's author or are aware they are fictional characters. Which one will win?

Kraith is a fan-created Star Trek: TOS alternate universe that reimagined Vulcan culture. Will it win over Fandom Ghost: Created Out Of Wholecloth By Fanon, a Tumblr meta discussing fandom's tendency to take a character out of a canon and make them fit a specific archetype?

Slow Show, the beloved and widely popular Good Omens fanfic that was completed in December 2019, goes up against see it all in bloom, a series of futurefic stories in Boku no Hero Academia fandom by aloneintherain.

Vote for your favorite from each bracket and help decide who goes through to the next round!