Boost! great local-to-DW reading

fancake is an open themed fanwork rec community. Follow the excellent organization of tags by theme or fandom, and it's a great place to make baby's first rec post.

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siderea asks "So are there 'canonical' SF movies that are romances?" and gets more than 50 answers

https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1476828.html

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muccamuk provides some history as to how people found friends on LJ, then transferred them to DW, and why "finding friends on DW" is a lot harder for newbies than it is for those of us who have been here all along.

(  a taste and a link  )

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Pillowfort issues

kalloway gathers info from Twitter and fail_fandomanon documenting Pillowfort's willingness to ban a user over their TOS violation before Pillowfort published the relevant TOS

Who-what-where-when in https://kalloway.dreamwidth.org/1628277.html

jamethiel discusses Why I Won't Be Doing Fandom on Pillowfort https://jamethiel.dreamwidth.org/397510.html

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melannen in general is just great—her December posting meme has been delicious. https://melannen.dreamwidth.org/tag/december+meme

Let's Read A Scientific Paper: Is Social Media Bad For You? is a coherent step-by-step deconstruction of a recent psychology study which has generated a bunch of headlines. From her summary: ( learn about the results that could have been with a link )

Dive into the 221B Baker Towers open metafic

Let it be known that Tumblr did support awesome creativity! Particularly the 221B Baker Towers headcanon universe, where all the reboot characters are marginalized folks living in a poor housing estate. A delicious improvement on the class-bound glaring-white BBC version.

I've seen most of the creative art and writing on 221b-baker-towers Tumblr

…but just in case…

The original art manip and headcanon post, safe on AO3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/428754

Tagged Tumblr posts https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/221b+baker+towers

And on the Archive https://archiveofourown.org/tags/221B%20Baker%20Towers/works