Fandom Resources
- The Three Laws of Fandom - If you wish to take part in any fandom, you need to accept and respect these three laws.
- Fandom Coders - a community where tech professionals and coding hobbyists alike can share and discuss their coding projects. This community gets the blame for my v2.0 complete redesign and restructure of this site by simply existing.
- Fanlore - a comprehensive wiki of fandom history, covering canon and fanon.
- Yes, you are allowed. - You are allowed to write the fic you want, rather than the fic you feel obligated to write.
- posting, sharing, and saving fic outside of Ao3 - a DW post by Satsuma:
it might be beneficial for us all to work on our abilities to find & share fic via avenues other than Ao3 tags
- tikli's Fandom Resources - fandom rules, PSAs, and vocab as plain text and shareable infographics.
Where to post your fic ↑
- AO3 - I think we all know Archive of Our Own
- SquidgeWorld - a general fic archive running on the same software as AO3
- Ad Astra - a Star Trek fanfiction archive - also runs on the OTW archive software
- Neocities - with a little html and 10 Easy Steps, you, too, can have your very own personal fic archive!
Events ↑
- Yuletide - the annual rare and obscure fandoms fic exchange.
- Fan Flashworks - an all-fandoms multi-media flashworks community, posting a themed challenge every ten days or so.
- Supernatural Kink Community - a long-running kink meme of the Supernatural fandom. Recently moved from LiveJournal to Dreamwidth 🥳
- Fancake - a multifandom thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted.
- Bro Bone Bang - an SPN fandom event focused on Sam/Dean smut fanworks (and it's a whole lot of fun).
Social Media ↑
Fandom-friendly social platforms
- Dreamwidth - an LJ clone with all the good stuff from that platform and none of the bad.
- Pillowfort - fan-run and fan-funded platform with the best parts of Tumblr and LJ baked in.
Mastodon/Fediverse Instances ↑
It is very important to do your own due diligence in regards to the choice of a fannish Mastodon1/Fediverse2 server. Different instances can have very different rules and cultures. Hit the 'explore' and 'local' options to check them out in advance, and ask friends for recommendations. Check out A Super Simple Guide to Fandom Masto by asya.
- fandom.ink - the original fandom Mastodon instance, est. 2018.
- fandom.garden - a cosy Mastodon server for queer fans.
- blorbo.social - a community of fandom nerds.
- federatedfandom.net - a fandom instance run by imp and kate.
- fanglitch.space - a fandom instance running the glitch-soc fork.
- supernatural.fans - a Supernatural fandom specific instance.
- gaypirates.club - a Mastodon instance for fans of Our Flag Means Death.
- easymode.im - a Calckey instance for gaming (especially retro and indie), game dev, game music, tabletop gaming, anime, culture, books, TV, movies, weirdness, photography, esoterica, creative stuff, etc.
- urusai.social - a wholesome community for anime, manga, and other otaku subjects.
- Miruku - a Misskey instance.
- Sakurajima - a Mastodon instance for the English Japanese-media and Anime blogging community.
Know of a fandom instance that should be on this list? Hit me up @bloodwrites@fandom.ink
You can also use tools like Fedi.Garden to find an instance to join, or check out Migrating Servers for an easy guide to moving house.
Tools ↑
- PostyBirb - a desktop app that can help you crosspost your content to a crapton of sites including Twitter, Mastodon, Tumblr and Pillowfort.
- Color Designer - various colour and palette tools.
- Mastofeed - embed your Mastodon feed on your website
- The Other MastoFeed - automate sending your RSS content to your Mastodon account.
- fediverse.info Directory - a growing list of people and topics that can help you discover users with mutual interests on the fediverse.
- Zonelets is a nifty tool that can make a blog out of your static Neocities (or whatever) site.
- Not Bionic Reading - Bionic Reading, but free
- Free Banner Ads on Improbable Island - free banner advertising for hobby websites.
- Randoma11y - Get random, accessible color combinations.
Writing Tools ↑
- novelWriter - a markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents.
- Manuskript - a free and open source writing app (like Scrivener) that works with markdown files, which means your files can be edited with any editor that can handle plain text. Futureproof and no vendor lock in.
- Obsidian - imagine a combo notes app, personal wiki, file organiser that works with markdown files, and can be as straightforward or as complicated as you want it to be. I use it to keep track of the vast number of writing snippets, WiPs, plot bunnies, and outlines on my hard drive. There's a desktop and a mobile app, and all your stuff stays within your control and can be edited with any other app that can handle plain text files. NO VENDOR LOCK IN. FUCK YEAH.
- Markdown Reference @ daringfireball.net
- ThiefMD - my current writing app of choice, it occupies a space halfway between Scrivener and a plain text editor, uses markdown, and works with plain text files so no vendor lock-in. It's my new favourite thing!
- JustWrite - Focus only on writing, forget about spelling or grammar. Don't edit or delete what you write. Just keep writing.
Writing Reference ↑
- A DIY Guide to Writing a Four Chapter Casefic - How to write a four chapter casefic in the setting of Supernatural
The Static Web ↑
- The Yesterweb - dedicated to the internet and how it's changed
- Finding the Old Web - de-commercialized and personalized internet experiences
- ichi - a tiny internet community where people can create their homepages for free
- I'm a fucking webmaster -
Back in 1993, you weren't a designer, developer, copywriter or in devops. You were a fucking webmaster, and your name was at the bottom of every page.
- Feed Creator - Generate RSS and JSON feeds from a set of links or other web page elements. Perfect for sites which don’t offer their own feeds.
- neowiki - where I finally found the answer to why the Neocities CLI wasn't working for me
The Fandom Static Web ↑
- fogsrollingin - Alex has a vast collection of recs, meta, and other projects.
- The Sweetest Thing - an anime/manga shrine for a property I know nothing about but I love that the site owner revived and recreated the site design 20 years later.
- The Fanfiction Webring - a webring for small fic archives.
Credits
Fonts:
Silkscreen
Noto Sans
Tools:
Feed Embeds: RSS 2 HTML
Static Site Generator: 11ty
Read time plugin: Emoji Read Time
Mastodon Share Button: Tootpick
Comments: Cusdis
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- Mastodon is a decentralised, federated, community-owned, ad-free microblogging software. Different mastodon servers (aka instances) can talk to each other, so you only need an account on one to interact with the entire network (aka 'the fediverse').
- Mastodon is only one of many different software packages to make up the entire network (aka 'the fediverse'). Others include Pixelfed, Calckey, and Akkoma.