In Episode 192, “Death, Mourning, and Fandom,” Elizabeth and Flourish talk about the complicated dynamics around death within fandom, where our connections to each other can be deep but transient. Jumping off an article Elizabeth recently wrote for WIRED on the AO3’s Fannish Next-of-Kin feature—which lets you leave your fanworks to a fellow fan if you die—they talk about the failings of other digital death policies, disconnects between peoples’ fandom personas and regular lives, the differences between losing a fandom friend and a favorite fanwork creator, and how rarely the subject of death is talked about—in fandom or more broadly.
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I need to share how the IT guy at work greeted my department on CrowdStrike Blue Screen Friday. Never have I seen a man so shocked by the sight of perfectly functional computers
Ship trope I'd love to see more of: "Are we in love? I mean, yeah, probably, but that's a problem for future us. Right now we're just trying to make it through the Plot."
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You don't understand how important to me it is that Dick and Jason both wore the original Robin suit, panties and all. Firstly, it heavily plays into the themes found with Jason's time as Robin (he fells like he's replacing Dick) bc he's literally wearing Dick's suit. And then when Jason dies, so too does Robin. The suit is retired, and even when Tim steps in, the suit is redesigned to be more protective than Jason's. So when I see images of Dick and/or Jason wearing a "more protective" suit, I am just reminded that the point of Tim's suit (pants with a black cape exterior) is to show how Bruce has changed how he handles sidekicks.
It is also very funny to think of Dick as 19 and wearing his panties Robin suit. I probably should've started with this.