Fandom 50

Final batch of posts

Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:44:08 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

All reviews of movies for my NOIRVEMBER challenge and a random Kpop performance :P

58. Sleep, My Love

59. Fallen Angel

60. Blind Spot

61. Smooth as Silk

62. I Wake Up Screaming & Vicki

63. CORTIS and stage presence.

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A new batch of posts!

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:51:33 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

44. Comparison between two TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Towards Zero.

45. My fave YouTube beauty channel (that does video essays on all kinds of makeup and skincare brands.)

46. My fave YouTube fashion channel (that does video essays on all types of fashion labels from fast fashion to couture.)

47. Alexander McQueen, his genius, and his disastrous life (two excellent video essays on McQueen's label/brand AND his personal life. Trigger/Content warnings at the post.)

48. NOIRVEMBER entry: Niagara review.

49. Jin and his special brand of magic! (Squeeing abt some of the amazing surprises (including videos) during BTS' Jin's encore shows on October 31st and Nov. 1st at Incheon.)

50. NOIRVEMBER entry: Suspense (1946) review. (Huzzah at completing the challenge! :DDDDDD. I do plan to continue posting.)

51. NOIRVEMBER entry: The Big Sleep review. (This is for the 1978 version with Robert Mitchum, btw.)

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Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:10:40 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

39. A 2-part episode in which Kpop group Le Sserafim takes care of 5 doggies - It's an extremely gentle and funny episode of their variety show. The dogs are the true stars, NGL.

40. Le Ssearfim sings in Spanish - And they do a wonderful job for their cover of a true classic.

41. Chinese Dramas I've DNF'd Part 1 - In which I talked abt Under the Moonlight.

42. Chinese Dramas I've DNF'd Part 2 - The Story of the Minglan was a nope for me. :(

43. Chinese Dramas I've DNF'd Part 3 - I had v. high hopes for The Princes Gambit and yet. . . :|

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Posts: Fanwork Recs #23-27

Thu, 02 Oct 2025 01:05:53 GMT

Posted by: delphi

My July-September posts (five new recs):

Rec #23: Art - Untitled Daisuke and Monty (Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho!, Daisuke Bucklesby/Monty LaMontgomery)

Rec #24: Vid - Until It Doesn't Hurt by CATastrophy (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands)

Rec #25: Vid - Long Live by Llin (Star Trek, Ensemble)

Rec #26: Fic - Legacy by SpaceCadetGlow (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands/Benjamin Hornigold)

Rec #27: Art/Gifset- Untitled Kyouji Portrait by yas (Karaoke Iko! / Famiresu Iko, Narita Kyouji)

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Latest Posts

Tue, 09 Sep 2025 14:30:11 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

A few more BTS-centric posts plus a girl group!

32. BTS Vlogs (which inclulde travels, work, and arts & crafts (including woodworking!).)

33. Ranking BTS documentaries (covering the time span from debut era up to 2023.)

34. Jin and his unique tour (plus two live performances.)

35. Killin' It Girl x 3 (Hobi at his hottest!)

36. Hobipalooza Redux! (a behind-the-scenes vlog + his full, hour and a half performance at this year's Lollapalooza Berlin.)

37. Is Jin a good liar? (Jin vs. Vanity Fair's Lie Detector test = LOLs a-aplenty!)

38. ILLIT, Magical Girls & You!. (A soft rec for Illit's music and their creative MVs.)

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Posts: Fanwork Recs #16-22

Tue, 01 Jul 2025 23:34:12 GMT

Posted by: delphi

My May-June posts (seven new recs):

Rec #16: Art - Untitled Narwhal!Merman Izzy by MegaDucko (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands + referenced Izzy/Ed Teach)

Rec #17: Art - Untitled Cobel/Reghabi by genderfeel (Severance, Harmony Cobel/Asal Reghabi)

Rec #18: Art - Untitled Chibi Jim by StarBramble (Our Flag Means Death, Jim Jimenez)

Rec #19: Art - Untitled Modern Spy AU by Irene (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands/Roach)

Rec #20: Art/Gifset- Untitled Ouizzy Neighbor AU by derekstilinski (Our Flag Means Death, Frenchie/Izzy Hands)

Rec #21: Art/Gifset- Untitled Ouizzy Vampire AU by derekstilinski (Our Flag Means Death, Frenchie/Izzy Hands)

Rec #22: Fic - Day by Day by surprisepink (Our Flag Means Death, Stede Bonnet/Izzy Hands)

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#1 - Has fandom changed?

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:52:34 GMT

Posted by: alexcat

Fandom 50

Kind of late for a first entry but here is one.

Has fandom changed or have I?

I was never in a fandom until the 2000’s. I did not know what a ‘zine was. I did not know what a con was. I never heard of fanfiction. I was a Star Wars fan from way back.

I got into the LOTR fandom right after the first movie came out. It was quite hostile, to be honest. There were wars between character writers and real person writers, between shippers of different pairings, between hetters and slashers. It was ugly. There was gatekeeping then, too.

I decided early on that I came into this not to fight but to enjoy and I did. I had my own website and ran a Yahoo group that hosted at least 100 stories a week in its heyday. I welcomed all. It wasn’t perfect but it was good.

Is today different?

I think so. I think we have a reflection of our divisive society in fandom. There are things we’re not ‘allowed’ to write now because they might upset someone. There are people who want to police Ao3 to make sure it doesn’t hurt their feelings and that it does reflect their ‘moral’ codes. An example is someone once complained because characters were eating meat and I did not warn for it.

Ao3 was born to combat gatekeeping and censorship in fandom. Other sites caved. Fanfic dot com made their site completely shite when they kicked all the adult stories out. I never bothered with them again. Livejournal was sold once then again to some Russian oligarch who decided to purge all adult anything, because there were rumblings of kiddie porn, and by that, I mean stories with underage fictional characters. Ao3 was born out of frustration over these events and others like them.

So what do you do about these things?

As of today, we do still have freedom of speech here in the US, where Ao3 is based. I say let people write what they will, as long as they are not inciting specific violence. Writers write violence, rape, child abuse out of a need for catharsis many times. Or maybe they are angry and rather than take it out on a real person, they write something violent. Let it be. We write for our own reasons and we don’t owe any explanations of those to anyone.

Oddly enough, the young seem to be the ones who want to gatekeep. Life is hard, kids. If you don’t want to read certain kinds of fiction, then DON’T CLICK ON IT. It’s that simple.

Fandom has changed but not that much. There will always be those who want more rules and to control others. That’s life. We must guard against that and keep fandom and fans free to express themselves.

*Crossposted at alexcat

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Most Recent Fandom 50 Posts

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:31:02 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

In which I talk abt latest releases from female Kpop soloists and girl groups

No. 20 - CHUU as the queen of good vibes

No. 21 - STAYC and growing older

No. 22 - FIFTY-FIFTY, and a good bop

No. 23 - NMIXX does it again!

No. 24 - Kep1er keeps getting better and better!

First BTS post for June

No. 25 - Kicking off BORAMONTH celebrations with Jin and his promotional vibessss

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A New Batch of Fandom 50 Posts

Thu, 22 May 2025 18:50:18 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

No. 13 - Charli XCX and Complicated Female Friendships

Chinese Drama posts:

No. 14 - Empresses In the Palace, Ruyi: Love in the Palace, and The Story of Yanxi Palace

No. 15 - The Imperial Coroner

No. 16 - The high bonkers factor of "The Double" (2024)

No. 17 - Love Like The Galaxy and my general side-eye of it, LOL

No. 18 - Blossom (2024), or a FANTASTIC DRAMA

No. 19 - A Dream of Splendor

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Posts: Fanwork Recs #12-15

Thu, 15 May 2025 04:16:45 GMT

Posted by: delphi

My April posts (four new recs):

Rec #12: Vid - Squish That Izzy by lordess-dickery-doof (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands & Fang)

Rec #13: Art - Untitled Jim/Oluwande by cliopadra (Our Flag Means Death, Oluwande Boodhari/Jim Jimenez)

Rec #14: Icons - "Tender as Hell" by magnavox_23 (Our Flag Means Death, Roach)

Rec #15: Fic - The 2025 "Be the First!" Collection (Multifandom, 41 fics in ultra-rare fandoms)

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Posts 1-10

Sat, 03 May 2025 01:36:37 GMT

Posted by: senmut

My fandom50 is the 50 years of my life in film. I was going to do favorites, started on that track, but even limiting to just American releases, I couldn't. So there's lists with commentary.

1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984

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Next Batch of Fandom 50 posts.

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:08:10 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

No. 8 - Two hourlong videos abt Kpop boygroups' dance rankings (Gen 3 and Gen 4).

No. 9 - A gay comedian revisits three MTV shows from the early '00s (True Life, NEXT, and Undressed) featuring Pedro Pascal in one of the shows...OJO!

No. 10 - Two fancams of BTS' Jin performing "The Astronaut" and "My Universe" with Coldplay during the latter's last concert in Seoul (which happened this weekend.)

No. 11 - Le Sserafim doing a short medley of their title songs alongside Beatpella (an acapella group)

No. 12 - Reccing a YouTube channel that does fun analysis of (mostly) bad movies (in this instance is movies airing on Lifetime with v. specific themes.)

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March Posts: Fanwork Recs #8-11

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 01:57:12 GMT

Posted by: delphi

I got a head start in January and February, and I made an additional four recs posts in March:

Rec #8: Gifset - Untitled Ed/Izzy by cbsjaneeyre (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands/Edward Teach)

Rec #9: Art - Untitled Ed/Izzy by fleethall (Our Flag Means Death, Izzy Hands/Edward Teach)

Rec #10: Vid - You Belong with Me by sisabet (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Clark Kent/Lois Lane)

Rec #11: Fic - His Look by house-afire (Our Flag Means Death, Wee John Feeney & Izzy Hands)

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March fandom50 posts

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:37:43 GMT

Posted by: taichara

March turned out to be some poking at fandoms, some grumbling, some returning to other fannish activities and a bit of navel-gazing and planning, all things being equal.

* Ever Crisis in a crisis (of writing). or something. -- a far-too-long post in which I both praise the writing of the first year of Ever Crisis: FFVII and then detail how boy howdy how that has changed

* zines and FF and zines and -- in which I gaze at my navel about making zines and get at least halfway to maybe committing to a Final Fantasy-flavoured (per?)zine

* fire and emblems and pixels and time -- some babble about Fire Emblem hacks and fan translations on the one hand, really ~~needing~~wanting to get back to learning to code PICO-8 games on the other

* collecting Marfs; filling fannish suitcases and going home -- more on Fire Emblem and my Marth acquisitions, with a side-order of eyeing the Granblue Fantasy 11th anni with baleful expectations

* okie, so *pulls up britches, takes breath, tightens tinhat* Granblue -- a lot of words spilled about the state of the game as seen by me

* *has straightedge, needs nippers* -- getting back into gunpla building with a side of GWing anticipation

* the hunt for great white Wing whales -- kind of about Wing, mostly about print material scarcity and getting your fannish interests while you can

* blue plastic bits, blue sword-swingers -- building my first Master Grade gunpla, yet more Marfs, and a plush Pac-Man

Iiii ... am surprised by this number and don't really expect to repeat it often >.>;;

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First seven Fandom 50 posts

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:32:09 GMT

Posted by: glitteryv

Like delphi, I started posting for this challenge in January. Behold the first batch:

Comparing 3 versions of Witness for the Prosecution (1957, 1982, and 2016)

which segued into several Alfred Hitchock movies:

Shadow of a Doubt (1943 and 1991)

Dial M for Murder (1954 and 1981)

Psycho (1960 and 1998)

Rear Window (1954 and 1998)

Pivoted to

A long post abt The Matrix: Resurrections and 2022's The Batman

The latest post is ANOTHER comparison

A Letter to Three Wives (1949 and 1985).

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Pics and Rambles

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:33:51 GMT

Posted by: kalloway

Hi all! I'm using fandom50challenge to remind myself to post about what I'm doing and working on.

As such, here are four posts about getting back into gunpla/plamo, the Fate/ series, nerd purchases, and more. There are pictures but I've tried to keep them fairly small.

Hopeful future topics include more on zines, writing and archiving, and more random fun.

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3 & 4 of my fannish50challenge posts

Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:30:19 GMT

Posted by: merryghoul

3) Review of the Big Finish audio story The Death and Life of River Song: Ace and Tegan

4) Looking at bookmarking services

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Audio Book Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:06:10 GMT

Posted by: prisca

This is my seventh post for Fannish 50 / Fandom 50.

An audio book review for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Book 4 of the Hunger Games Series)

Go here to check it out.

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Movie Review: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:27:05 GMT

Posted by: prisca

This is my 6th post for Fannish 50 / Fandom 50. (The older ones were posted for Fannish 50 exclusively, but you can find them under this tag.)

A short movie review for Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.

Go here to check it out.

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Trillion Game

Tue, 11 Mar 2025 04:15:45 GMT

Posted by: yelp

Hello! It's my first time doing a fandom50-type challenge! I hope to get as far as I can as possible, though 50 sounds far out of reach. My first post is about the Netflix show, Trillion Game.

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1 & 2 of my fannish50challenge posts

Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:15:56 GMT

Posted by: merryghoul

1: Scandal (TV) fic roundup
2: unused idea for a Black Panther (MCU) fic

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#1-7 of Fanwork Recs (January + February catch-up)

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 01:14:51 GMT

Posted by: delphi

I jumped the gun by starting on January 1st, so here's a roundup of my first seven posts (as I up my goal to 57):

Rec #1: Art - Untitled Drag Scene by Polyhmnia (Our Flag Means Death, Wee John Feeney & Izzy Hands & Jim Jimenez)

Rec #2: Vid - XXXhibitionist by carbonshrimp (Interview with the Vampire [TV], various solo and shippy combinations of Louis de Pointe du Lac, Lestat de Lioncourt, Armand, and Daniel Molloy

Rec #3: Vid - rollercoaster by Elektra (Sense8, Wolfgang Bogdanow/Kala Dandekar/Rajan Rasal)

Rec #4: Fic - A Body in Heaven and a Mind Full of Dirt by DisasterShipBlonde (Our Flag Means Death, Benjamin Hornigold/Izzy Hands)

Rec #5: Vid - Symbiosis by inimitablereel (Scavengers Reign, The Planet Vest + Ensemble Human Cast)

Rec #6: Art - Untitled Archie/Jim by Rysiooozaur (Our Flag Means Death, Archie/Jim Jimenez)

Rec #7: Fic - Your favourite perk by TwelveLeagues (Severance, Irving Bailiff/Dylan George)

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