A Fannish History of Fandom

Here's the thing about me and blog post, I'm admittedly not great at them. Not because I think they're hard to write but because I feel like with social media sites like twitter everything that is in a blog post is just a rehash of what that was said on Twitter. The benefits of the blog post, however, is it's everything I've said on twitter but longer and more detailed. In my continued revising and updating of the scope of this project, I hope and plan on using this blog as a place to expound on whatever recent tweets and updates I've made over the last week or two depending on the time between post. Thank you to everyone who has been patient with me as I work out the kinks in this project. And off to the update, we go.

If you've seen the last few twitter post from me, you'll know that I've been messing around with a discord bot. I'm trying to set it up so that anything I tweet gets, post you dreamwidth or anywhere else that isn't discord gets announced to the server. Unfortunately, that means learning new bits of code for me and messing around because the simple ifttt webhook method isn't working for me. Sorry to everyone who's seeing those tweets and is wondering what exactly is going on. Nothing exciting but it will be pretty cool when I get it up and running because I haven't found a discord bot that does what I'm trying to do. So yahhhh new things.

Speaking of Discord, feel free to come hang out on the server. Outside of Twitter, it's basically my social media platform of choice. I'm also messing around pretty passively with Mastodon. I haven't quite got the hang of that one yet, but I'm giving it a whirl.

Discord Link: https://discord.gg/QHFxrPa

The next major update that I've talked about a little on Twitter and I told several people who have filled out the interest survey is the scope slash set up of this series is changing. It was pointed out to me, and I realized as well not everyone is okay with linking their face and voice to fandom due to various reason but that doesn't mean I don't want to hear from them. Personally, I'm too far gone (?) in fandom to put the rabbit back in the hat to mix metaphors here. Basically, I'm shameless when it comes to my love of fandom and, and anyone who knows me "In Real Life" already know this or very quickly learns this. So I'm okay or getting to be okay with putting my name and face to this. And I understand and respect that not everyone can, does or wants to do the same. Because of this I'm switching up the format of this series and having it be less documentary style and more video essays style. In explaining this change to people, I've referenced Nerdwritter videos and Brian David Gilbert Polygon series "Unraveled." In the end, I hope this series will end up being me, talking to everyone about various topics based on the information and research I've gathered. So that's it, that's the update on the current format of the series. It should still be the same two weeks for turn around I planned for so nothing has changed there. Now to just get the first video up and running.

Which brings us to the topic of our first video, What is Fandom? Where else would one start a series about the history of fandom without talking about what is fandom, it's essay writing one oh one. As always, the more people who fill the survey out, the better.

Survey Link: https://forms.gle/eDHV9MrdN9EpimiB7

Second to last update, the general interest survey! Same as the Defining Fandom survey, the more people who fill it out, the better. And unlike the defining fandom survey, this one will be open forever and ever as long as this project is going. If you're interested in participating, please fill it out. If you know someone who you think would be interested in this project, please forward it along to them and finally share this with as many people as you can or would like to. The more eyes on this, the better.

Survey Link: https://forms.gle/bjkfs7vzJDix3Mir6

And finally here's a plug for my patreon. Right now the concerning cost I need to cover somehow is getting better equipment, primarily a better camera than my laptop webcam. Because of who I am and my incessant need to "future proof" thing I want to shoot the video in something better HD so in the future, it still looks good.

Right now this project is being built in google docs, google slides, adobe audition, adobe premiere, and adobe after effects just because they're the tools I know and there are only so many new things I can learn at once.

Patreon Link: https://www.patreon.com/FandomHistory

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A Fannish History of Fandom | Episode 00: Pilot, Hello it's me! A stranger on the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwwysPOhAfY
Twitter: lilredalchemist | fannishdoc
Discord Link: discord.gg/QHFxrPa
Patreon: www.patreon.com/FandomHistory
Dreamwidth: https://fannishdoc.dreamwidth.org