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October 18-19, 2019: The First Ineffable Con, Plus We Talk About Neil Gaiman (TW Sexual Assault [Not Detailed])
When we put this on our calendar, it was supposed to just be a happy episode about awesome Good Omens fans, you know? Sigh.
October 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs Publishes Tarzan of the Apes, Invents the Franchise
Fan clubs! Conventions! Fan campaigns! Fanfiction! The Pizza Hut Book-It model of consumerism!
October 2-16, 2010: WAR Thirteen, In Memory of Susan M. Garrett
A look into the fannish life and ongoing impact of Forever Knight BNF Susan M. Garrett, who seems like she was a completely awesome fangirl, writer, and person.
September 25 - October 5, 2023: Voter Fraud Upsets the AO3 Top Ships Bracket Tumblr Poll
We're baffled. We're a little bitter. We're mostly confused?
September 16, 2012: The Bullshit Tweet
#*@%$(*! Have you ever been in a fandom that got its wrist slapped by the object of its affection (or its creator)?
September 1, 2017: The Handbook for (My) Immortals: Or, Two Literary Frauds!
Dust off your fishnets and stretch out your middle fingers, it's time to get goffik.
Summer 2000-2003: Harry Potter Fandom and the Three-Year Summer
It was amazing! It was fresh and new! And it has been tainted forever!
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?"