The Rec Center #235
Hello! This week we have yet more coverage of the current K-pop media conversation (so many great, nuanced pieces!), IT: Chapter 2 fanart, and a multifandom...
The Rec Center #234
Hi everyone! We’ve got an unusually long newsletter for you today, for no other reason than the fact that there’s A Lot Going On. Among other things, we have...
The Rec Center #233
Hi everyone! This week we’ve got coverage of The Flash fandom and Lil Nas X’s history on stan twitter, along with some multifandom short fic recs, an amazing...
The Rec Center #232
Hi folks! After last week’s shorter newsletter (which included links to various BLM-related fundraisers, you can check it out here), today’s is extra long...
The Rec Center #231
Hi all, In light of recent events, we’re changing the format a bit for this week’s newsletter. We want to use our platform in a constructive way, so we’re...
The Rec Center #230
Hi folks, it’s been another difficult week out there, and we hope you’re all staying safe and prepared if you’re going out, and taking steps like donating to...
The Rec Center #229
Hi folks! This week Elizabeth has put together a rec list of fics with accompanying remixes. We also have some cute She-Ra fanart, some cosplay news...
The Rec Center #228
Hello! This week Gav came on Fansplaining to talk about social media fic, so to complete this Ambitious Crossover Event she’s written a rec list of her...
The Rec Center #227
Hello! One more week completed! This week we have writing about missing the communal elements of music fandom, some gorgeous Hannibal fanart, and the first...
The Rec Center #226
Hi everyone! We’ve got plenty of lockdown content this week (including a new Good Omens audio story!), along with some cute Harry Potter fanart, a rec list...
The Rec Center #225
Hello! It’s Friday! (Truly, you might need a reminder.) This week we’ve got a ton of stuff—virtual cons, a fascinating longread about the “stockbrokers” of...
The Rec Center #224
Hi folks! This week we’ve got an amusingly specific fanfic rec list for you (stories where characters get magically transformed into pets) along with more...
The Rec Center #223
Hello! This week we’ve got a rec list of canon-divergent AU fanfic, some Animal Crossing fanart (inevitable!), an article about that recently-viral “which...
The Rec Center #222
Hi folks! We’re back in your inbox with some multifandom recs for the ~found family~ trope, some links to lockdown-related activities, an oral history of...
The Rec Center #221
Greetings from this incredibly strange and sad time to live in New York City. Since a lot of far-off friends monitoring the news this week have written to...
The Rec Center #220
Hi folks! This week we’ve got a Harry Potter larping scandal, some (inevitable) coverage of fanfic in the age of coronavirus, some cute fanart for MDZS/The...
The Rec Center #219
Well. Well!!!!! There is literally nothing of use I can say at the end of this particular week! We do have some distracting fandomy content, including some...
The Rec Center #218
Hi folks! This week we’ve got soulmate AU fanfic recs, coverage of China’s AO3 ban (the biggest fandom news story of the week), Zelda fanart, and more! — Gav...
The Rec Center #217
This week we’ve got an article about Spotify fandom, some essential Tumblr coverage, excellent Tessa Thompson fanart, the second part of our femslash A/B/O...
The Rec Center #216
Hi everyone! We have a great rec list for this week’s instalment of Femslash February: Guest reccer queersintherain wrote an f/f-centric primer for a/b/o...
The Rec Center #215
Hello all! Femslash February continues this week with another multi-fandom fic list, plus some delightful Harley Quinn fanart from the equally delightful...
The Rec Center #214
Hello everyone, and greetings to all our new subscribers! This week we have our usual mix of articles and tumblr posts, but more importantly, it’s the start...
The Rec Center #213
Hi folks! This week we have some Little Women meta-fic, a piece about One Direction fandom, some INCREDIBLE fanart inspired by the Grammys, multifandom...
The Rec Center #212
Hi folks! This week we’ve got an interview with the new Star Trek showrunner about his fanfic history, some Finn/Poe fanart, a delightful Witcher AU set in a...
The Rec Center #211
Hello, all! This week we have some interesting research on fic writing cultures, our usual mix of tumblr & twitter stuff, and Gav has blessed me by including...
The Rec Center #210
Hi all! This week we have our second batch of multifandom Yuletide fic recs, along with posts about wannabe YouTube kidfluencers, Star Wars, Star Trek, and...
The Rec Center #209
2020, eh? It might be worth starting the new year with a message that we’ve included periodically over the years, but perhaps not one that our most recent...
The Rec Center #208
Continuing our annual tradition, we’re taking a break from our standard format for the final newsletter of the year with recaps of our respective 2019s in...
The Rec Center #207
Hello all! Welcome to the final regular Rec Center of 2019. This week, amongst other things, we have the “Folgers incest ad” oral history that I personally...
The Rec Center #206
Hello, friends. (A special and sympathetic hello to our readers from the UK...there’s not much I can say here but that I’m thinking about all of you today.)...
The Rec Center #205
Hi folks! This week week we have a She-ra explainer and fanfic recs from guest reccer sparrow, along with our now-typical glut of Baby Yoda content, some...
The Rec Center #204
Hello! If you are in the middle of the holiday weekend, hope things are...going well. If you are not based in the U.S., well, happy Friday! :-)) In honor of...
The Rec Center #203
Hi everyone!! This week we’ve got articles about BTS and Real Housewives (!?), along with some vintage Werner Herzog coverage, and a puzzling Baby Yoda...
The Rec Center #202
Hi folks! This week we have multifandom rarepair recs, some coverage of LGBTQ communities in fandom, some Adventure Zone fanart, and more! — Gav new stuff...
The Rec Center #201
After last week’s reader Q&A issue, we’re back to our regular programming! We’ve got fanfic for Stephen King’s IT, recommended by yours truly! We’ve got...
The Rec Center #200
Instead of our usual newsletter, this week Elizabeth and I answered questions from you, our dear readers. We covered a lot of topics here including political...
The Rec Center #199
Hello all! This week Gav granted my request for a His Dark Materials explainer in advance of the BBC/HBO adaptation premiering next week (including, also by...
The Rec Center #198
Hi folks! This week we have fall-themed seasonal fanfic recs, an article about how Tumblr legitimized queer fandom in mainstream pop culture, an important...
The Rec Center #197
Hello everyone! This week we have a surprising amount of audio fandom coverage (well, two things, but still), some delightful Star Wars fanart, and multi-...
The Rec Center #196
Hi everyone! This week we’ve got an interesting article about how fanfic improves writing skills, along with an Aristocats fanvid, some more of the...
The Rec Center #195
Hi everyone! This week we’ve got multifandom fic recs, a DELIGHTFUL piece of fanart for the universally-beloved Untitled Goose Game, and more. — Gav new...
The Rec Center #194
Hello all! This week we have our usual mix of articles & tumblr posts and some beautiful Black Sails fanart (hope you celebrated “Talk Like A Pirate Day”...
The Rec Center #193
Hi everyone! This week we’ve got an article on stan culture, a comparison between fandom and political campaigning, some delightful Korrasami fanart, and the...
The Rec Center #192
Hello! First of all, pour one out for the Jeremy Renner app—and yes, we’ve got coverage of the death of this cultural touchstone (and other ill-fated...
The Rec Center #191
Hello all! This week we have a piece about Seinfeld fanfic, a look at The OA fandom’s rather unusual campaign to save the show, a rec list of fusion fanfics,...
The Rec Center #190
Hello and congratulations to AO3 on this momentous occasion of winning an actual, for-real Hugo Award! This week we’ve got posts about cosplay squads and the...
The Rec Center #189
Hello all! Greetings at the end of an exhausting week of explaining to people who last logged onto the site in 2013 that yes, Tumblr still exists! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯...
The Rec Center #188
Hello all! This week we have multifandom kidfic recs, an article about the language of online fandom, some gorgeous retro Killing Eve fanart, and more. — Gav...
The Rec Center #187
Hi folks! This week we have a fandom primer for the Chinese web drama Guardian, some cute LOTR fanart, an excerpt from Philip Pullman’s new His Dark...
The Rec Center #186
Hello all! Greetings from the depths of the post-SDCC plague. This week we’ve got multi-fandom OT3 (or more!) fic, plus articles on corporate media, ~queer...