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July 20 - August 2, 2016: Cipher Hunt!
Buy gold...! Have you ever connected with fellow fans on a worldwide project?
July 22-23, 2017: The Supergirl Musical Homophobia Scandal
Up, up, and... oh no. Why can't femslashers have nice things?!
July 16, 2010: Inception Incepts Fandom with Arthur/Eames
Dream a little bigger, darlings. Were you an Arthur/Eames shipper? How do you think the movie really ended?
July 10-11, 2023: The OTW Suffers a DDoS Attack
ATTACK! Where were you during the 2023 OTW DDoS attack?
June 2016: Bubble Pop! Zine Party Rocks D.C.
Bubble, bubble, bubble pop! Have you ever heard of a guerilla zine party?
June 19-20, 1982: The Con of Wrath
Beam us up! What would you do with a suitcase full of fanfiction?
June 10, 2016: Voltron: Legendary Defender Premieres & June 10, 2017: #shoegate
See ya later, pala-dudes! You know how our ending stinger is "well-behaved fandoms rarely make history"? Well, this fandom is VERY POORLY BEHAVED and therefore, have made history.
June 5-6, 1832—Present: Barricade Day Makes Les Amies de Les Mis Fandom Cry
And I can hear them now!
June 1, 2015: The Marion Zimmer Bradley & Walter Breen Episode (TW: CSA, Rape, Incest, Total Institutional Failure)
History is not always fun and celebratory and silly Star Trek holidays. Sometimes it's going, "This horrible, ugly thing is part of our architectural foundation. Now what?"
May 23, 2001: Die, Seven, Die! + What Was Usenet?
NET.SPACE! Did you Usenet? Were you a September nuisance?
May 19, 2009: Glee Premieres on FOX
Don't stop believin'! Listen. The songs slapped. They did. However. There are so many "howevers."
May 3, 2021: Dracula Daily Delivers the First Message From Our Friend Jonathan
Paprika! Plus, bats! Bats everywhere! Also, Jack the Ripper!
May 3, 1991: Dallas Closes Out Its Final Season
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer! Who shot JR?
April 15, 1912: The RMS Titanic Sinks (And 85 Years Later There's a Huge Fandom About It)
Iceberg right ahead! Are you ready to go back to Titanic?
April 2, 1956: As the World Turns Premieres on CBS
It wasn't me... it was... my evil twin brother! What more could you want from your stories?
March 26, 2005: Doctor Who Returns to the BBC
Fantastic! Come along with us on the TARDIS, won't you?
March 22-25, 2012: Holy Musical B@man!
He's darkness! He's vengeance! And, amazingly, we understand a joke in the show BECAUSE OF A PREVIOUS EPISODE OF TWIFH!
March 1988: The Killing Joke Is Released
Do you want to know how he got these scars? DC's choice(s) surrounding Barbara have no easy answers.