#Brianna Dym

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You like reading fanfics? How about reading about fanfics? 😏

Here’s what I've read so far (or am currently getting through) for my dissertation on fanfiction bookbinding! I'll be updating it as I go until the end of July. If you have any recs to add to the towering pile or any questions/opinions about something on there, I’m all ears!

on fan studies & ficbinding ✔

Alexander, Julia, ‘Making fanfiction beautiful enough for a bookshelf’, The Verge, 9 March 2021 <https://www.theverge.com/22311788/fanfiction-bookbinding-tiktok-diy-star-wars-harry-potter-twitter-fandom> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Buchsbaum, Shira Belén, ‘Binding fan fiction and reexamining book production models’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Dym, Brianna, and Casey Fiesler, ‘Ethical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom data’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Jenkins, Henry, Textual Pochers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (New York: Routeledge, 1992)

Jenkins, Henry, ‘Transmedia Storytelling 101’, Pop Junctions, 21 March 2007 <http://henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html#sthash.gSETwxQX.dpuf> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Hellekson, Karen, ‘Making Use Of: The Gift, Commerce, and Fans’, Cinema Journal, 54, no. 3 (2015), 125–131

Kennedy, Kimberly, ‘Fan binding as a method of fan work preservation’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 37 (2022)

Minkel, Elizabeth, ‘Before “Fans,” There Were “Kranks,” “Longhairs,” and “Lions”: How Do Fandom Gain Their Names?’, Atlas Obscura, 30 May 2024 <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fandom-names> [accessed 12 June 2024]

Penley, Constance, Nasa / Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America (London: Verso, 1997)

Price, Ludi, ‘Fanfiction, Self-Publishing, and the Materiality of the Book: A Fan Writer’s Autoethnography’, Humanities, 11, no. 100 (2022), 1–20

Schiller, Melanie, ‘Transmedia Storytelling: New Practices and Audiences’, in Stories: Screen Narrative in the Digital Era, ed. by Ian Christie and Annie van den Oever (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018), 99–107

on folklore, the internet, other background reading ✔

Barthes, Roland, ‘La mort de l’auteur’ in Le Bruissement de la langue: Essais critiques IV (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1984)

Blank, Trevor J., Folklore and the Internet: Vernacular Expression in a Digital World (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2009)

Mauss, Marcel, ‘Essai sur le don. Forme et raison de l’échange dans les sociétés archaïques.’, L’année sociologique, 1923–1924; digital edition by Jean-Marie Tremblay, Les classiques des sciences sociales, 17 February 2002, <http://classiques.uqac.ca/classiques/mauss_marcel/socio_et_anthropo/2_essai_sur_le_don/essai_sur_le_don.html> [accessed 10 June 2024]

McCulloch, Gretchen, Because Internet: Understanding How Language is Changing (Random House, 2019)

Niles, John D., Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature (University of Pennsylvania Press: Philadelphia, 1999)

hopefully coming up next (haven't started yet)

A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, ed. by Paul Booth (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)

A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Research, Ethics, ed. by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2021)

Dietz, Laura, ‘Showing the scars: A short case study of de-enhancement of hypertext works for circulation via fan binding or Kindle Direct Publishing’, 34th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT ‘23), September 4–8, 2023, Rome Italy (ACM: New York, 2023)

Fathallah, Judith May, Fanfiction and the Author: How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2017)

Finn, Kavita Mudan, and Jessica McCall, ‘Exit, pursued by a fan: Shakespeare, Fandom, and the Lure of the Alternate Universe’, Critical Survey, 28, no. 2 (2016), 27–38

Hjorth, Larissa et al., eds. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography (New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017)

Jacobs, Naomi, and JSA Lowe, ‘The Design of Printed Fanfiction: A Case Study of Down to Agincourt Fanbinding’, Proceedings from the Document Academy, 9, issue 1, article 5

Jenkins, Henry, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006)

Jenkins, Henry, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning In A Networked Culture (New York: New York University Press, 2013)

Kennedy, Kimberly, and Shira Buchsbaum, ‘Reframing Monetization: Compensatory Practices and Generating a Hybrid Economy in Fanbinding Commissions’, Humanities, 11, no. 67 (2022), 1–18

Kirby, Abby, ‘Examining Collaborative Fanfiction: New Practices in Hyperdiegesis and Poaching’, Humanities, 11, no. 87 (2002), 1–9

Kustritz, Anne, Identity, Community, and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction (New Work: Routeledge, 2024)

Lamerichs, Nicolle, Productive Fandom: Intermediality and Affecive Reception in Fan Cultures, (Amsterdam: Amsterdam Universtiy Press, 2018)

Popova, Milena, ‘Follow the trope: A digital (auto)ethnography for fan studies’, Transformative Works and Cultures, 33 (2020)

Rosenblatt, Betsy, and Rebecca Tushnet, ‘Transformative Works: Young Women’s Voices on Fandom and Fair Use’, in eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices, ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves

Soller, Bettina, ‘Filing off the Serial Numbers: Fanfiction and its Adaptation to the Book Market’, in Adaptation in the Age of Media Convergence, ed. by Johannes Fehrle, Werner Schäfke-Zell (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), 58–85

[sbooksbowm]

Weekly Wrap-Up - 2 October

Look who is procrastinating editing the bookbinders chapter! This kid. The main body is written, but I’m trying to work in some theoretical background in the introduction to do the academicky-thing of nodding to the other writers who have laid the groundwork for this kind of research. I’m speed-reading Leah Price’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Books and trying to scrounge together some information on Jessica Pressman’s forthcoming Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age, both of which foreground a lot of the points I make about the tensions between digital and print forms of texts. 

New Approach to the Weekly Wrap-Ups!

I’m only 2.5 weeks out from turning in this dissertation, so as I move away from giving regular updates about my research, I’m going to change the form of the weekly format to compile all of the things I posted about, recommend, and am thinking about in one place. That way, if you’re ever wondering ‘what is sbooks up to?’, you can go to my research masterpost and click on my weekly wrap-ups to get quick access to fun links and lukewarm takes.

Things I posted about

Casey Fiesler’s (@cfiesler) awesome video about fan migration, the oral explanation of her most recent article with Brianna Dym. This is totally worth the 30-minute watch, and Fiesler does an amazing job of tracking the history of fannish media alongside the impetuses of fan migration

a reflection on why fans are the most likely to think critically and expansively about the media they consume, in response to the criticism that fans are content with just consuming the same story over and over again (which is true, but not without reason)

Things I recommend 

Riley J. Dennis’s Case for the Legend of Korra, which is an excellent elaboration on some popular pro-Korra arguments against the naysayers of the sequel series. I love that Riley talks about Korra’s journey towards humanization via healing from trauma, which is something I think many viewers feel affirmed by.  

Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s 'The Sound of Someone You Love Who’s Going Away and It Doesn’t Matter’. What a title! And it really does sound like it.

Things I’ve been thinking about

Takeaways on writing: This has been a week of revisions, with some serious cutting and clarifying. My advisor pointed out that as I am a newbie academic writer, I still rely a lot on quotations instead of paraphrasing my sources for support, rather than evidence. Rephrasing a lot of quotations opened up a lot of room for my own argument. This process made me think a lot about writing guidance in middle school and high school, wherein I was trained to use quotations as evidence rather than as support. Anyone else learn this? That the more people who agree with you, the more right your argument is, instead of drawing from original or revisiting primary evidence and using previous writing as a framework for analysis? It’s a pretty bad habit! And it makes us reliant on regurgitating other work rather than working through our own arguments and examining how they align or disalign with others. Graduate school has been one long re-learning process on writing...and I studied writing in uni. 

Different kinds of fan spaces: I hang out, actively participate, and lurk in a variety of fan spaces, mostly in the form of Discord servers (my love) and Facebook groups (bane of my existence). And I’m in a lot of fan spaces for different media: TV shows, books, comics, podcasts, even fan platforms. Though this has been said elsewhere, the difference in attitude and behavior of fans depending on the type of space (and whether fans are masked by a pseudonym or not) is fascinating to me! I’m in one enormous Facebook group dedicated to television show, and without fail, every single post ends up with the comments off because the discourse gets too heated. This behavior is almost definitely a function of:

the impersonal size of the group. In my favorite Discord servers, the smaller size makes the conversation more personable and friendlier (I know these people! I’m not going to harangue them!), and,  

affirmational versus transformational fandom: affirmational fans tend to work within the confines of canon, and so when they disagree over the interpretation of canonical elements, the conversation turns to facts (’no, this is how it happened in season 12, episode 472’) over feelings (’this happened once in the spin-off comic and I’m cool w extrapolating this bc I wanna feel warm and fuzzy inside’). Transformational fans are less canon-restricted and perhaps more lenient, and are probably more likely to silo themselves in fan spaces with agreed-upon interpretations (e.g. I’m in a few dedicated shipping servers, and I know other shipping servers exist, but I won’t bother myself with them, because that’s not my cup of tea, so I’ll just save myself the trouble). 

This isn’t to say that affirmational fans won’t break off from the main group and form their own interpretive communities, but I think affirmational fans are more likely to want to be a part of the “official” fan spaces, because they are interested in the “official” story. 

This is anecdotal conjecture, but I wonder, have you seen differences in fan behavior depending on the fannish space you’re in? I’d love to hear about other fan-space-specific experiences!

[briannadym]

[UPDATE: SURVEY CLOSED] I need you to take this survey!

Update: Thanks to everyone’s hard work, we collected 1,030 responses. The survey is now closed!

My name is Brianna Dym, and I’m an aca-fan at the University of Colorado Boulder researching everyday practices in transformative fandom. To do this, I have a survey linked here that asks about some day-to-day things you may or may not do as part of your involvement in fandom. If you are at least 18 years old and hang out in fan communities where people read and write fanfic and create and share fanworks, then this survey is for you! Please, take this survey and share it with your fandom friends! It takes roughly 15 minutes to complete. I want to reach a wide range of different kinds of folks in fandom, so your answers are important!

Take the survey now! [link removed]

[transformativeworksandcultures]

TWC 33: Fan Studies Methodologies

Transformative Works and Cultures, No. 33, Fan Studies Methodologies, edited by Julia E. Largent, Milena Popova, and Elise Vist (June 15, 2020)

Editorial

Julia E. Largent, Milena Popova, and Elise Vist, Toward some fanons of fan studies

Theory

Briony Hannell, Fan studies and/as feminist methodology

Sophie Hansal & Marianne Gunderson, Toward a fannish methodology: Affect as an asset

Milena Popova, Follow the trope: A digital (auto)ethnography for fan studies

Dennis Jansen, Thoughts on an ethical approach to archives in fan studies

Brianna Dym & Casey Fiesler, Ethical and privacy considerations for research using online fandom data

Naomi Jacobs, Interdisciplinary methodologies for the fan studies bricoleur

Christopher Luke Moore, An approach to online fan persona

Suzanne R. Black, Adding a digital dimension to fan studies methodologies

Rukmini Pande, Critique of methodological practices in fan studies

Praxis

Adrienne E. Raw, Rhetorical moves in disclosing fan identity in fandom scholarship

Abby Waysdorf, Placing fandom, studying fans: Modified acafandom in practice

Daisy Pignetti, "She's a fan, but this was supposed to be scientific": Fan misunderstandings and acafan mistakes

CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Applying Brenda Dervin's sensemaking methodology to fan studies

Ruth Flaherty, Benefits of quantitative and doctrinal methodological approaches to fan studies research

Lies Lanckman, Fans, community, and conflict in the pages of "Picture Play," 1920–38

Erika Ningxin Wang, Brittany Kelley, Ludi Price, & Kristen Schuster, Beyond the multidisciplinary in fan studies: Learning how to talk among disciplines

Symposium

Mandy Rhae Olejnik & Danielle Hart, Exploring a threshold concept framework to fan studies research methodology

Sarah Elizabeth Ader, Negotiating acafandom as a first-time researcher

Maria Alberto, Fan users and platform studies

Shayla Olsen, Methodological model for fictocritical fan fiction as research

Martine Mussies, Autiethnography

Dawn Walls-Thumma, Diving into the lacuna: Fan studies, methodologies, and mending the gaps

Regina Yung Lee, The affective labor of fan studies: A pedagogical problem in two parts

Milena Popova, Fan studies, citation practices, and fannish knowledge production

Interview

Julia E. Largent, Milena Popova, Elise Vist, Interview with Louisa Ellen Stein: Whole self and felt scholarship in fan studies

Review

Lesley Autumn Willard, "Fans and fan cultures: Tourism, consumerism, and social media," by Henrik Linden and Sara Linden

Balaka Basu, "Fanfiction and the author: How fanfic changes popular cultural texts," by Judith Fathallah  

[transformativeworks]

OTW Guest Post: Brianna Dym

This month's OTW Guest Post is with University of Colorado, Boulder student Brianna Dym, who discusses privacy in fandom, her article in Transformative Works and Cultures, and the fandom communities that were important to her when growing up. Read more at http://otw.news/guest-post-2cf1b

[fanhackers]

Tumblrpocalypse Special, Part 6

Today's scholarly reaction to the Tumblrpocalypse comes from Emily Roach. "One of my big concerns is where fan communities will actually migrate to if Tumblr does end up driving huge parts of fandom away and/or deleting blogs. Dr Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym's research on migration from the journals to Tumblr identifies that the alternative platform needs to be sufficiently well established in order to encourage migration in the first place (see also a Slate article on this). At present the alternative platforms have their own glitches which drove people away from them and/or have left new users underwhelmed. Pillowfort is very new and is still ironing out issues. LJ still has the issue with its Terms of Service. Dreamwidth could work well for fandoms like Harry Potter that have a history of thriving on the journals and are quite meta/fest/fic heavy, but I struggle to see a very media-oriented fandom with a significant number of people who use their mobile phones for fan activity getting on with that space. Twitter is an established option for some fandoms, most notably celebrity fandoms, but it doesn't work at all well for other fandoms. Unlike the LJ to Tumblr move - where Tumblr seemed like the obvious choice to people looking to migrate after deleting LJs in 2017 - my sense is that people don't have that natural space to move to. This will lead, in my view, to people continuing to use Tumblr until the bitter end - see LJ, the biggest migration seemed to come in 2017, some ten years after Strikethrough/Boldthrough - and a new urgency around trialing alternative platforms, seeking out Discord chat spaces (and equivalent) and so on. While people find their feet on other platforms I think fandoms are likely to fragment as I don't think people see any one space as the obvious alternative at present."

[rhinocerosproject]

Sewing Circle Participants

Sewing Circle Participants

Thank you to everyone who participated in sewing the rhinoceros! We could never have finished it without you. You are forever in our hearts.

Deanna Cruise                   back

Juliana Pennington            shoulder

Yue Yang Caigla Zou          back

Yuen (Jessica) Chen           back

Kelly White                         shoulder

Athena Johns                     leg

Antoinette Barton               head

Erica Lipshultz                   rump

Marc Fletcher                    back left foot

Siobhan Cassidy               front right leg

Elisa Li                               head

Harry Yu                             head

Beth Thomas                     snout

Erica Barajas                     forehead

Vivian Romney                  shoulder

Zoe Walker                       head

Amy Khalmann                 rear flank

Alina Hayes                      feet

Janice Wood                    rear flank

Barb Bakun                      head

Andi Wong                       rear flank

Sarah Stein                      back, thigh

Chloe Marrinstein            head, foot, outline, da booty

Sadie Marrinstein            thigh

Amanda H. Johnson       head, foot, outline 

Kaila Wood                     head, foot, outline

Leah Johnson                 head, foot, outline

Ani Mukerji                      back leg

Inka Mukerji                    back leg

Winnie Ding                    rear flank

Jennifer White                back feet

August White                 back feet

Neve Schmitt                 head

Michelle Schmitt            head

Sigrid                             foot

Leah Anderson              foot

Mary Kenny                   rump

Isle Oritt                         rump

Olga                              back leg

Dustin                           rhinobum!

Linnea Furlog                head

Pam Deluco                  rear leg, haunch, elbow, letters

Jeff Thomas                  back

Bryan Barkley               rear

Mary Wheeler               back top flank

Teri Gardiner                tail hair, rump, belly, ridge of back

Robin Hill                     rump

Darcy Padilla                stomach

Emily Clark-Krasner     rear

Yuen Chen                   leg

Jodi Connelly                back

Noah Greene                belly

Ryan Meyer                  belly and back

Arielle Rebek                belly

Muzi LaRowe                eyes

T. Blackmon                  bottom

Bettina Pauley               tail

Allyson Feeney              rump

Mark Baugh-Sasaki      back foot

Dox Lorax                     haunch

Kelli Rae                        rump

Cesar Rubio                  unknown

Ho Yan Nip                   unknown

Frank Merritt                all over, circles, edges, hindquarters, shoulder, rump, dark purple bottom edge of shoulder armor, behind the ear

Kim Miskowicz            rump, right foot, rear/rump

Julia Langer                buttocks

Jonathan Coignard     buttocks

Suzanne Gore             haunch

Kelly Wang                  from hip to buttock

Steve Rasmussen       rear leg

Bob Rocco                  rump

Odysseus Wolken       upper rump

Juliette Langley           lower rump

Fehim Haelzic              crown/forehead

Leyla Haelzic               crown/forehead

Tanja Gels                   head

Lisa Ekstrom               from right leg, forehead

Eva Walker                  front leg

Sara Wright                 eye

Karrie Hovey               shoulder

M. Dym                       a wrinkle on the head

Amy M. Ho                  front foot, forehead

Dave Lyons                 just below eye

Mel Day                       forehead

Heather Peters            ear

Helen Hiebert              butt

Alyssa Casey              neck, horn

Vanessa Gingold         rump

Mary V. Marsh             front right toe, ear

Antonio Guerra            letra C

Jenny Phillips               hands

Ingrid Rojas Contreras hoof

Maia Wachtel                 lines on the back

Roli Douglas                  the top line

Noga Wizansky              rump

Suzanne Forester          border line

Cindy Steiler                 face

Alexa Boromo               behind

Amber Hoy                   back

Melody Dalton              back

Cheyenne Dalton          rear feet

Elizabeth Boyne            ear

Teddy Midler                front foot

Drew Cameron            face

Cathy DeForest            front left hoof

Leah Korican                face

Mayumi Hamanaka       r - text   

Dana Zed                      shoulder

Erin Sheanin                  knee

Alisha Funkhouser        front foot

Debbie Walker              unknown

Nancy Marriner            tail

Summer Om                face

Eraden Wordal Chesh  face

Isle Oritt                       knee

Mary Grace Tate          toe

Sophia Auen                face

April Marriner               tail

Charlotte Semmes       snout

Andre Chevonier          foot

Jane Cassidy               foot

Kellen Rhoda               foot

Meiasha Gray              border

Samantha Bankston    back foot

Winship Varnes            hindquarters

Miranda McFarland      belly

Susan Paigen               nose

Kevin Holmes               ear

Jackie Wallowheng       plants

Beta Heist Morello        edge

Elaine Todd                   nose and edge near nose

Lori Chambers              back foot

Mickie McCormic          foot scales

Jeremy Logan                ear hair

Brook Craddock            mythical horn!

Morning Hullinger          toe jam back foot, shoulder flank, final inner

C.C. Chaya                    scales

Lolli Jacobsen                back

Sarah Crews                  rump

Connie Burket                ears

Debbie Divine                rear leg

Martha Rhea                  hindquarters

Donna Sandberg            along the top of the back shoulder and letter H

Pam Morgan                  back

Ruth Cathcard Rake      front leg and letter R

Gretchen Boyum           front leg, front foot

Rachel Butler                 front leg

Lucy Butler                    front leg

Bill North                       butt, ground, back right foot

Caroline Stoll                 head

April Engstrom              back right leg/hip

Connie Wilson              close to face

Gloria Gonzalez            hind foot

Judy Nease                  chin

Alleigh Weems             horn

Lyndsi Weems             back foot

Karla Prickett               rump

Jennifer Baker             back

Kent Manske               spots

Susan Tuoley              back foot and butt

Susan Paigen             nose

Christina Steinbrecher       pfrandt (lower leg)

Yeqi Song                    legs

Yuan Luo                     legs

Jenny Chin (Kuan-Jen)    legs

Jingying Liang             back leg

Jianguyin Reng           back leg

Beth Abdallah             back flank

Rebecca Redman       back leg

Michael Seidel            kidney lining

Rita Hsing                   head

Sandy Lee                  back

Chelsea Herman        back

Marie Kidd               �� right front foot

David Kidd                 right front foot

Amy Whitcomb          rump

Bob Carpenter           nose

Barbara Carpenter     nose

Cynthia Beecher        ear

Leteb Beecher           ear

Susan Sweet             ear

CK Itamura                hamhock

Dionne Thornton       front left foot, butt edge

Robert Wuilfe            da booty

Gina Ching                front foot

Jordan Juel               front foot

Anne Ingraham         front foot

Michelle Waters        butt

Elizabeth Addison     foot

Lydia Nakashima Dagarod        shoulder

Linda Joy Kettwinkel                 snout

Peggy George          butt

Maryly Snow            scales

Zelisa                       back end

Scott Partch            back end

Chin Cox                 head

Hada Marshall Booth            head

Eduardo Arenas       leg

Luna Gomez            head

Sauita Patel             gog (back)

Brian Lease             back leg

Islonia Hasbrim       frente

Guadalupe Portillo             espalda

Queen Krubally       back

Bridget McCraken             back

Margaret Coston     back

Kathleen Murphy     belly

Julie Grigoryan        ear

Joyce Subel            border

Yatit Maidorh          head

Omer                      head

Alon                        head

Rooek                     head

Eli                           head

Posja Mahushwai            neckline

Talia                        nose

Ella                          ear

Jonathan                nose

Nancy Brunn          back

Sabina Brunn         ears

Judith Fast            back

Lindsey Stoll          hoof

Emily Marks           head

Victor Vargas          chin

Britt-Marie Alon      horn

Al Bloch                  horn

Alyssa Flores          horn

John Hoffmeyer     border

Madison Cockrum             head

Anthony Murillo      border

Sheri Simons          front legs

Emily Matherson     face

Hana Jones             hoof (back foot)

Angela Kirchebel     bottom left corner border,

                                 small area of right foot, scales

Adele Etcheverry Sheets        upper border rear and rear of Rhino

Leslie Jurado            back leg, hoof scales

Jaime Muñoz            shoulder

Aiden Ginn                back leg

Sheecid Lopez          border and back leg

Sophy Hock              shoulder

Nancy Scott Patton            rump

Hana Beaty                  shoulder, back leg

Eric D’Alessandro        lower jaw

Betsy Copeland          leg and hoof

Kylie McCloskey         horn

Dellanira Carrillo          butt

Jose Llamos                hoof (back foot)

Timothy Clancy           forehead

Kobley Benjamin Mona        shoulder

Alicia Ramirez              foot

Kim Green                    upper thigh/butt

Francesca Figone        left back

Josette Stokes             shoulder

Mercedes Yatta            foot

Luis Medina                 booty

Shane Geoge               face (under eye)

Ellen Baird                    foot

Daria Booth                  shoulder

Adria Davis                   backside

Johnny Bruno               back foot

Brianna Warren             leg

Adrienne Glatz              forehead

Mallory Frucha              bum

Kelly Weber                  front and back legs

Carissa Duggan            booty

Jasmin Gonzalez          foot

Francis Newsom           rear end

Shari Maxson Hopper        shoulder

Veronica Brenck            butt

Marie Fox                     rump, front foot, back foot

Chloe Taylor                 root

Marissa Winslow         rump/tail

Shai Porath                 head

Linda Bea Miller          tummy

Tom Seoul                  rump

Kathleen Ritchie         unknown

Sue Bottom                front leg

Lisa Chu                     forehead

Anne Ingraham           hind foot

Chris Voisard              rump

Jane McLaughlin        front foot

Malinda Thompson    rear leg

Mallory Nomura Saul        tusk and back

Judy Shintani             tummy and rump

Kevin Austin               top of nose, bottom of horn

Claudia Molley           top of head, behind ear

Kate Oltmann             butt

Amanda Bosma         wrinkle on face

Xittaly Vasquez           back leg

Emily Murray               torso wrinkle

Julia Albo                    border

Miriam Hassman         neck/face

Ryan Patton                back left leg

Alexa Weber                chin and left front leg

Jiovanny Soto             forehead

Jenny Harp                 lower back

Steven Garen              nose/head

Tallulah Terryl              leg

Johanna Arnold          back

Sean Olson                 muzzle

Emma Spertus            back

Chris Challans            loin, belly

Susan Kanowith-Klein        rump

Christina Aumann       eyelashes and forehead

Ruth Souza                 misc dorsal area

Phuong Pham             booty

Laurie Crogan             shoulder-scales

Lorna Turner               armpit

Eva Hausam               chin wavy lines

David Reiman             shoulder

Lanqin Wang              forehead

Camryn Travis            belly

Jennifer Munnings     eye/cheek

Brooke Sommers       belly

Katie Gallagher          ribs

Sariah Gonzalez        forehead

Anthony Isenhour      shoulder

Berenika Boberska    the bottom!

Taylor Hoogsteden    hip

Carmina Ellison         sideburns

Nicole McHale           shoulder blade

Preeva Tramiel           back leg

Jessica Bernhardt     front leg

Milldrid Thompson    ear

Sharon Robinson       front leg

Timiza Wagner           back leg

Bobbie Jeffery            rear of body

Joanne Landers          ear

Sylvia Stanger            front leg

Paula Landers            back leg

Charlotte Jacobs        front leg

Mavis Brown               front shoulder

Cheryl Batrato            haunch

Kathy Goldmaker        shoulder

Liz Matthews              back leg above the foot

Sailee Pawar               back leg

Andrea Fleiner            belly

Marina Taniform         leg

Andres Taniform         leg

Rose Nguyen             ribs

Marco Chavez           ribs

Lily May Larson         cheek

Rachel Williamson    back leg

Cheryl Zuur               above the eye

Kathy Willis               hindquarters

Martha White            hindquarter

Artemis Koren          head

Anika Sykora            tummy

Irene Floyd                hindquarter

Ming Zhou                head

Max Koren                front leg

Dinah Irino                 ear

Maya                          leg

Morgan Carter            head

Ava Kasim                   the hinney

Isabella Anderson       back

Ian Kussi-Gillu            shoulder

Viyada Satyapan         upper front back

Mahvash Salehpour    back hip

Christina Bayley          back foot

Pam Schwartz             left leg

Lynn Koolish                back leg

Sandra Duncan            front hoof

Emily Rosenberg           right leg

Gina Dixon                    back leg

Tamara Sommerfield     neck

Diana R. Reton              rear leg

Candace Kling               shoulder

Cindy Jacomette            head

Nicki Hitz Edison            front leg

Toru Sueto                     front left leg

Jeanne Sueto                under eye, along lower jaw

Linda Goss                    rear hip

Kim Meuli Brown           back ribs

Michael Chin                 chin

Kasla Melton                 right back leg (pierna derecha)

Vanessa Herrera            right back thing

Wendy Brown                back leg

Jack Fleig                      front leg

Amanda Fleig                front leg

Shobitha                       belly

Sasha                           back

Marilyn                         rear haunch

Caden Jo Hartdegen            head/neck

Yolanda Araujo            unknown

Meredith Payn            unknown

Tiffany Hartdeger        unknown

Richard                       cheek

Hanna Peacock          shoulder

Juan Manuel Gutierrez        rear hip

Paola Valencia             head

Jesus Castillo              head

Diego Barregan            shoulder

Hernandez Irvin            belly

Cindy Simmons            cheek

Ginna Sierra                  upper leg 

Carole Walters-Cook     face

Angela Etsey                 back leg and thigh

Victor Navarro IV           V neck

Elizabeth Finkler           ear

Jennifer Lu                   lower tummy

Kylee Dougherty          neck

Jada Wong                  stomach

Kerwin Azores             back knee

Hugo Jimenez             head

Becca Wong                neck

Breanna Estrada          unknown

Candaces Perrault       shoulder

Kevin Liu                  ��   belly and front of leg plates

Michael Huang Mil      back leg

Natalie Diazza             chin hairs

Eliza Villa                     dorsal neck

Steve Dellicalpini        in that neck tho!

Michelle van Eyken     right flank

Leslie McLaughlin       shoulder circles

Angela Acosta            front leg

Allison Acosta            front shoulder circle

Rebecca Bui              upper back leg

Barbara Post              back foot

Irene Caravajal           back leg

Gabrielle Koizumi       neck

Clayton Bavor            front leg

Ava Eui                      front leg

Judy Diamond           upper shoulder

Mhanna Kutras           front leg

Liam                           neck

Leona                         neck

Leana Olliffe                stomach

Patti Samuelson          right leg

A. Manley                     neck plates

Donna King                  right shoulder

Becky Leech                right hindquarters

Raymond Mueller         front left leg

Timmy                           shoulder

Asher Fleig                    front leg

Julia                               back leg

Nicole B                        chest

L. Hum                          hind leg

Alice Schwegman        shoulder

Gail Blackmarr             unknown

Christina Truong          neck

June Dao                     scale

Ellie Reese                   a rear leg

Susan L. Goranson     left rear leg

Marci Ariagno             breast shield

Maya                           unknown

Diane Mestu               head

Claudia Havah            back leg

Mickey Guffin              right upper hind leg

Annalise Sailen            unknown

Jennifer Schaeffer       front right leg

Mia                              rear leg

Joe Ranish                  right shoulder

Ann Ranish                 rear leg

Anthony                      left leg

Leslie Nobler               neck

Anne Trickey                back leg

Maris Kaplan               neck fold and front shoulder

Paula Bohan                neck fold

James Brooks              neck

Amanda Briggs            back right foot

Andrew Briggs             back right foot

Miriam Briggs              back right foot

Willow Yamaden          cheek

Sarah Bartman            neck

Bridget McMahon       flank

Amy Brown                jowl

Vanessa Dion Fletcher        jowl

Denera Gains             unknown

Justin Gains               unknown

Kurt Salinas                stomach/inner thigh

Randall Harrison         upper mid bicep

Ivy Moya                      back foot

Pam Lonero                 breast plate

Molly Olsen Roush      shoulder/neck area

Brook Olsen Roush     shoulder/neck area

Susie Miller Roush      shoulder/neck area

Reyhon Ertekin            unknown

Torres Leck                  shoulder

Anna Banancks           shoulder

Emily van Engel           front leg

Silvia Eckert                cheek

Davis Watson              breastplate

Debachree Ghosh       breastplate

Jessica Jane Jennings       cheek

Kimberly Ann Piper      shoulder

Alisa Murray                cheek

Jennifer Hill                 breastplate

Susan Ady                   cheek

Chris Washburn          neck

Janet Ady                    flank

Louise Horkey             border

Nupur Kamat              front shoulder

Tamela Holmes            ear

Tameyah Holmes         cheek

Ruth Tabancay            upper leg

Teddy Midler                shoulder

Jerry Majors Patterson        cheek area

Susan Afell                  eye area

Elaine Todd                 neck

Senator Jordan           cheek

Meadow                     unknown

Lori Chambers            neck

Josephine Tumova      neck

Fynn Tuma                   chest

Diana Dominguez        chest

Jason Godeke             neck

Cristina Mathews        belly and front right leg

Jody Alexander           neck, chest

Elaine Todd                 belly circles

Raquel Marquez          belly

Josslyn Robles            chest

Rhea Rynearson          shoulder

Valerie Frey                  shoulder

Aidan Parker                shoulder, right shoulder

A. Parker                      right shoulder

Seraphine Ries            belly

Lid. C.                          belly

Jamelie                        whiskers

Carolyn Schneider       upper shoulder

Josh Morsell                lower front shoulder

Lia V. Wilson                middle breast

[clexacon]

#ClexaCon2019 PANEL SPOTLIGHT . Researchers Brianna Dym and Elaine Venter team up with author Rae D. Magdon and moderator Wendy Armitage to explore the ways in which femslash fandom has been a space of safety and support for LGBTQ people. In this panel, we explore how this community has helped those in need while coming out, different careers people have jumpstarted from femslash fandom, and ways in which we can continue to improve the femslash community. Speakers & Panelists: https://clexa-con.com/programming/2019-speakers-and-panelists/ Panels & Workshops: https://clexa-con.com/programming/2019-panels-workshops/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BtlxcP5A922/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q3auk3rbtqnn

[daily-snitch]

The Daily Snitch – Weekend Edition, December 8, 2018

Joanne K. Rowling – Life and Books: • Joanne Gray wrote Fasten Your Seat Belts—Strike Book 5 Could Be A Bumpy Ride. (The Hogwarts Professor) Harry Potter – Actors and Movies: • Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) set to appear on television screens this Christmas in BBC's The ABC Murders. • First look at Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) in new limited series 'Miracle Workers' where he plays an angel. Fantastic Beasts – Actors and Movies: • The @daily-snitch's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' Poll is still open. Do come over and take the poll. • Nicolas Flamel and Eulalie Hicks: Forerunners of the 'Order of the Phoenix'. • Videos: 'Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald' cast on fan theories, Obscurus, more. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: • 'Cursed Child' extends its London run to September 2019. Prompt Challenges: • hogwarts365 posted Prompt # 272 (due on or before December 15): "Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word." ― George R.R. Martin, Portrait and Cookbooks. Advent Challenges: • slythindor100 is hosting the 25 Days of Draco and Harry Advent Challenge. • dracoharry100: The Christmas Challenge 2018 is ongoing. • adventdrabbles: The 2018 edition of Advent Drabbles is ongoing. Communities: • The following fests are currently posting: hd_erised, hd_owlpost Fest, mini_fest, snape_potter' Secret Snarry Swap, rs_small_gifts, dhr-advent, sshg_giftfest, smutty_claus, newyearcntdown, hpjoggersfest's Festive DrarryMini Fest, daily_deviant's Kinky Kristmas Coment Kink Edition • snapecase posted URGENT: Snapecase's current pinch-hitters needs. • wolfstarbigbang posted It's Time for the WSBB Artists' Sign-Up. • yuletide_admin posted a reminder that 3 days to default deadline; 10 days to deadline; misc. (all rare fandoms) Masterlists and Weekly Round-ups: • snape_potter posted the Wrap-up for Week One of the Secret Snarry Swap. • hd_owlpost posted the Week 1 List of Owl Gift Deliveries. • hd_erised posted the Weekly Roundup # 1. • hogwarts365 posted the Prompt # 271 Masterlist. Editor's Choice Rec: • [podfic] Cake written by @astolat, podficced by @lazulus (Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy | R | 24:24 minutes) Summary: Harry tried not to care when after the war, everyone he knew seemed to have made an agreement to stop paying attention to birthdays. Fandom Recs: • themightyflynn recced a Harry Potter/Severus Snape fic (PG-13). • toblass recced a Hogwarts nativity scene. (art, G). • melodyssister recced a Hermione Granger/Severus Snape fic (NC-17). Resources: • hd_prophet posted Editions December 6, December 7 (with a huge list of all Drarry Advent Series being written atm) and December 8. Archive and Platform News: • OTW Spotlight on Legal Issues: Tumblr’s TOS Changes, AO3, and You. • Aja Romano (@bookshop​) wrote Tumblr is banning adult content. It’s about so much more than porn. • @yayroos wrote On the 17th, dead silence. (tumblr protest) • Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym wrote Fandom’s Fate Is Not Tied to Tumblr’s. Discussions: • McKay wrote Why I Will Never Read 'Cursed Child'. • Megan wrote Yes, I'd Join Grindelwald. (MuggleNet) Essay/Meta: • Taylor K. Nugent wrote Snake Women: A History of Women as Snakes and the Future of Nagini in “Fantastic Beasts”. (MuggleNet) • The Hogwarts Professor wrote Is Vladimir Nabokov['s short story 'The Aurelian'] Credence's father? General Fandom News: • Deck the Halls with 'Harry Potter Hogwarts Mystery' video game. • Review and Giveaway: Geek Gear’s November World of Wizardry Unboxing. • 'Crimes of Grindelwald' merchandise released at Universal Orlando Resort. • (Fannish) Events Roundup: Brew Some Potions or Attend a Magical Banquet. (MuggleNet) Searches: • accio_hd_fics posted a search for Gryffindor Draco fics. (Drarry only) Please send your fandom news to the Daily Snitch. Our tumblr hashtag is # dailysnitch. We check the hashtag for each edition; please tag tumblr posts you want us to see and/or include in the Daily Snitch.

[thelesbiantalkshow]

Brianna Dym: Tumblr's Death and Fandom's Future

[briannadym]

[Update - RECRUITMENT CLOSED] Calling All Activists in Fandom!

We are no longer recruiting for this study. We’ll circulate research once it’s published!

Hello everyone! My name is Brianna Dym, and I’m a researcher with the Internet Rules Lab at CU Boulder. This summer, I want to talk to people about participating in activism as part of a fandom!

I would love to interview you if...

1. You are involved in fandom in some way, even if it’s just lurking. By fandom, we mean online communities where people are creating and sharing fanworks like fanart, fanfiction, cosplays, things like that.

2. You have participated in some kind of activism as part of your involvement in fandom! This might look like getting involved in a hashtag campaign, raising awareness for specific issues, getting involved with a non-profit that grew from fandom, giving to or organizing donation drives or charity campaigns. There’s a lot of examples, so if you’re not sure your experience qualifies please reach out through the google form linked below!

We can conduct the interview on any platform you want – either text-based chat or voice. Interviews typically last one hour. You will be compensated with a $20 gift card for your participation. Whether you participate or not, please consider sharing this call for participants with your social networks! And if you’d like to find out more about previous research I’ve conducted with fan communities, check out these published articles: https://briannadym.com/research-publications/

To volunteer to participate (or if you have any questions), please fill out this google form [link removed]. I would absolutely love to speak with you.

Sincerely,

Brianna Dym

[briannadym]

[Recruitment Completed, Call for Participants Closed]

tl;dr - I’m interviewing people about computational projects they get involved with in fandom, including activism, data science, modding, or website building. I want to talk with more BIPOC and other minority fans in the US to represent a broad range of experiences and uplift your voices as best I can. Fill out this google form if you want to talk! https://forms.gle/CGYSXiiwFQNf1Ca2A

The Full Explanation: My name is Brianna Dym, and I am a PhD student at CU Boulder researching ways to broaden participation in computing (I’m also a longterm member of fandom and still contribute under my pseud). Fandom is a really cool community where people rely on complex technical skills to participate! Sometimes people learn to code, do data science, or other fun things in order to work on a project in fandom. If you are able to, I’d love to hear from you about your experiences working on computational projects in fandom. What is a computational project? It could be building a webpage, customizing templates, running a data advocacy project, helping out with activism efforts using social media campaigns, modding a video game, designing your own video game, or any other nerdy kind of technical thing!

I’ve been running interviews since February and have talked to a lot of fabulous people already. However, a lot has happened since February and we’ve all been focusing on causes far more important than research for the time being. If you’re able to spare some time, consider lending your voice to this study.

To participate, fill out this google form and I’ll contact you with follow-up if you’re a good fit for the study. This study features one interview that typically runs from 30 minutes to an hour. You will be compensated with a $20 gift card for your time. All interviews are fully anonymized, and you will have access to any research write-ups during the publication process.

[briannadym]

[Recruitment Complete, Call for Participants Closed]

Hi! We’re Brianna Dym and Casey Fiesler, researchers and aca-fans at the University of Colorado Boulder. We want to talk to folks in fandom about modding video games! In particular, we’re excited to talk to people who are modding video games to be more inclusive. For example, you might be modding a game to have more accessibility features, or to do away with those pesky “heterosexual only” romances. We want to hear from you about what you are working on and the details of how your project relates back to fandom and your fan community.

To participate in this research study, please fill out this Google Form.

We’ll follow up with you and let you know if you’re a good fit for the study! If you agree to participate, you will interview with a researcher, which should last between 30 and 90 minutes and will be conducted remotely via voice, video chat, or instant messaging according to your preferences.

Whether you participate or not, please consider sharing this study with people who might be interested! Also, if you would like to learn more about this research study and our research in general, please check out our research page online: https://caseyfiesler.com/fandom/. You can email me at brianna.dym@colorado.edu if you have any questions or comments.

[briannadym]

[Recruitment Complete, Call for Participants Closed]

Hi! I’m Brianna Dym, a researcher and aca-fan at the University of Colorado Boulder. I am inviting folks in fandom to participate in a research study on computational projects in fandom. In particular, I’m excited to talk to people of color, women, and members of the LGBTQ community who might be working on projects that impact their community in some way. Whether you started your own project or are working on something with a friend, I would love to schedule a time to talk with you about your experiences. What is a computational project? Why, it could be modding a video game, making web plug-ins, working on a social media site, building indie video games and visual novels. If it involves making or coding, we want to talk to you. Ultimately, we hope to understand the different ways people use projects like these to make their communities a better place.

If you agree to be in the study, you will participate in an interview with a researcher which should last between 30 and 90 minutes and will be conducted remotely via voice, video chat, or instant messaging according to your preferences.

To participate in this research study, please fill out this Google Form.

Whether you participate or not, please consider sharing this study with people who might be interested! Also, if you would like to learn more about this research study and our research in general, please check out our research page online: https://caseyfiesler.com/research/ You can email me at brianna.dym@colorado.edu if you have any questions or comments.

[transformativeworksandcultures]

TWC No.28: The Future of Fandom

Editorial TWC Editor, TWC, past and future

Theory Paul Booth, Framing alterity: Reclaiming fandom’s marginality David Peyron, Fandom names and collective identities in contemporary popular culture Bonnie Ruberg, Straight-washing "Undertale": Video games and the limits of LGBTQ representation Eric Andrew James, Using rhetorical criticism to track Twitch Plays Pokémon fans' attachment to sacrifice Sarah Elizabeth Lerner, Fan film on the final frontier: Axanar Productions and the limits of fair use in the digital age

Praxis

Naomi Jacobs, Live streaming as participation: A case study of conflict in the digital and physical spaces of "Supernatural" conventionsSky LaRell Anderson, Extraludic narratives: Online communities and video games Melissa A. Hofmann, Johnlock meta and authorial intent in Sherlock fandom: Affirmational or transformational? Dorothy Lau, Donnie Yen's star persona in amateur-produced videos on YouTube

Symposium Casey Fiesler, Owning the servers: A design fiction exploring the transformation of fandom into "our own" Nicolle Lamerichs, The next wave in participatory culture: Mixing human and nonhuman entities in creative practices and fandom Bridget Kies, The ex-fan's place in fan studies Brianna Dym, Casey Fiesler, Generations, migrations, and the future of fandom's private spaces Shannon K. Farley, Further future fandom: A conversation with middle school-age fans Robin S. Rosenberg, Andrea M. Letamendi, Personality, behavioral, and social heterogeneity within the cosplay community Bri Mattia, Rainbow Direction and fan-based citizenship performance Megan Vaughan, Theater criticism, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," and online community Deborah Krieger, Jewish identity, fan representation, and Yehuda Goldstein in the Potterverse Cody T. Havard, The impact of the phenomenon of sport rivalry on fans

Review Melanie E.S. Kohnen, "Old futures: Speculative fiction and queer possibility," by Alexis Lothian Lorraine M. Dubuisson, "The fanfiction reader: Folk tales for the digital age," by Francesca Coppa J. Caroline Toy, "Participatory memory: Fandom experiences across time and space," by Liza Potts et al. Louisa Ellen Stein, Roundtable with Paul Booth, Melissa A. Click, and Suzanne Scott

[briannadym]

Call for Participants: Exploring Fandom Privacy and Ethics

Do you ever think about the issues of privacy in fandom? Have you or a friend ever been “outed” as a fan? How do you feel about academic research on fandom? Do you just have a lot of feelings about ethics in fandom? Most importantly, do you want to talk about these critical topics?

My name is Brianna Dym, longtime fan community member, and also researcher in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. I’m looking for people interested in talking about privacy and ethics in fandom! If you’ve been involved in fandom for a while, I would love to have you participate!

We can conduct the interview in the medium of your choice – either text-based chat or voice. You also don’t have to answer questions you don’t want to, and can stop at any time. We will ask for some basic demographics (any of which you can decline to answer), but won’t require any identifying information.

Whether you participate or not, please consider sharing this call for participants with your social networks!  And if you’d like to find out more about previous research our lab has conducted about fandom, see this Tumblr post: http://cfiesler.tumblr.com/post/171831912875/survey-results-fan-platform-use-over-time

To volunteer to participate (or if you have any questions), please email brianna.dym@colorado.edu!