The Rec Center #57
HELLO. Perhaps this is how you are feeling? The good news is that you have once again survived the week! And in other good news, Femslash February has begun!...
The Rec Center #56
Hello! Congratulations: you’ve survived this week. Have some fannish distractions! We’ve got our usual mix of articles and Tumblr stuff, plus Gav’s explainer...
The Rec Center #55
Hello! Let’s talk about something else—anything else. How about fanfiction? :-D (My official plan for today has been...75% successful so far?) We’ve put...
The Rec Center #54
It’s taken us a while, but this week we’re sharing our first set of Rogue One fanfic recs! They’re mostly about Baze & Chirrut. Elsewhere on the internet,...
The Rec Center #53
Happy new year, Rec Center readers! We’re back with some traditional post-holiday fare: multifandom Yuletide recs. For those who haven’t heard of Yuletide...
The Rec Center #52
#52!! That’s a newsletter for every week this year, since we started The Rec Center in the first days of January 2016. Next week we’ll resume our regular...
The Rec Center #51
Welcome to the second half of our holiday fanfic recs! Next week’s newsletter will be a little different, but for now we’ve got an end-of-year book...
The Rec Center #50
Hello! Welcome to another newsletter from the same side of the Atlantic. I’ve encouraged Gav to do a THIS WEEK IN YURI ON ICE rather than slipping in 16 YoI...
The Rec Center #49
A warm welcome to the new subscribers who joined us from Yuri on Ice fandom last week! We hope you stick around. :) Along with our usual selection of fandom...
The Rec Center #48
IT’S ALL YURI ON ICE ALL THE TIME, BABY. Or, uh. Most of the time. I watched all eight (now nine) extant episodes last week and am O B S E S S E D. So, this...
The Rec Center #47
Happy “you survived a meal with your extended family” to some of our American readers! And kudos to the rest of you for putting up with our complaining about...
The Rec Center #46
Another grab-bag of fic recs this week! :) Along with some badass Furiosa fanart, a rather mixed review of Fantastic Beasts, and more. — Gav new stuff “Why...
The Rec Center #45
Hi guys, I have to start with a confession: I’m finding it pretty hard to think about fandom right now. Frankly, it’s hard for me to even care about fandom...
The Rec Center #44
Who’s ready for some multifandom recs? We’ve got a grab-bag of gen, dude/femslash, and het this week, along with articles about Star Wars fandom, political...
The Rec Center #43
Hello! Happy Halloween/less than a fortnight until this godforsaken election is over. (Hooray to all of you early voters!) This week’s Rec Center a longish...
The Rec Center #42
This week we’re reccing fic on a political theme, in the hopes it will provide a nice distraction from US election coverage, rather than... exacerbating the...
The Rec Center #41
Please take a moment to picture your 90s-era self (or if you’re too young, try to imagine it), because this week we’ve got a classic pre-millennial fandom on...
The Rec Center #40
Greetings from The Rec Center ~in transit~. Gav’s at the London Film Festival and I’m running back and forth between New York Comic-Con and The New Yorker...
The Rec Center #39
Welcome to Luke Cage Weekend! We’ve got a whole Luke Cage section in celebration, but for folks who aren’t so interested in superhero franchises, we have...
The Rec Center #38
Hello! This week we’re doing a bit of a ~crossover~ with my podcast, Fansplaining, because Gav was our most recent guest. My co-host Flourish grilled us on...