The Rec Center #162
Hello Rec Center readers! Femslash February continues this week with our first guest list, GingerTodgers with an excellent-looking selection of Harry Potter...
The Rec Center #161
Welcome to Femslash February!!! We’re posting femslash-only rec lists all month, this week accompanied by Killing Eve fanart, some interesting LARPing...
The Rec Center #160
Hi folks! This week we have some very cool Bulbasaur fanart, multifandom hurt/comfort recs, a look behind the scenes of vintage LiveJournal, and more. — Gav...
The Rec Center #159
Hello! Hope everyone’s hanging in there as we approach the ~scientifically-determined Most Depressing Day of the Year. This week we’ve got the return of Star...
The Rec Center #158
Hello beloved Rec Center readers! This week we have multifandom slow burn fic recs (one of fandom’s favorite tropes), some cool Good Omens fanart, and more....
The Rec Center #157
Happy New Year! We’re back with our annual tradition of multifandom Yuletide recs, mostly supplied by you guys because, well, some of those fandoms are...
The Rec Center #156
As we’ve done for the past two years, we’re taking a bit of a break for the final Rec Center of 2018 to talk about some stuff we liked / loved this year....
The Rec Center #155
Hello and happy holidays! IDK about you guys but I’m exhausted and ready to just, like, lie face-down on the floor for a while maybe. But even if you’re...
The Rec Center #154
Hi folks! Welcome to our first week of holiday fanfic recs, accompanied by plenty of other delicious non-holiday-related content including a post about My...
The Rec Center #153
Hello, welcome, and congratulations on surviving Tumblr Hell Week! And if you don’t use Tumblr, double congratulations because it turns out you dodged a...
The Rec Center #152
Hi folks! We’re back this week with another round of fanfic series recs, some of which are over a million (!) words long. We’ve also got news about the...
The Rec Center #151
Hello! Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who celebrates it, and happy final-weekend-in-November to everyone else. If you’re working today, particularly in retail,...
The Rec Center #150
Welcome to all of our new subscribers! You’ve arrived just in time for REC CENTER #150!! This week we have series recs, part one of approximately nine...
The Rec Center #149
Hi there! This week we have a multifandom rec list of excellent, recently published fanfic, Elizabeth’s new feature article on free speech ~discourse in...
The Rec Center #148
Hi folks! This week we have historical AU fic recs, some highlights from the Fan Studies Network North America con, an article about wheelchair accessibility...
The Rec Center #147
Happy kinda-sorta Halloween, everyone! We have a moderately spooky theme for you this week: A primer and rec list for the videogame/book series The Witcher,...
The Rec Center #146
Hi folks! This week we’ve got Black Panther fanfic recs, a piece on toxic fandom (and how not to do it), a hilarious It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia...
The Rec Center #145
Hello! This week we have the first of our guest videogame explainers + fic recs: Qkat on Dragon Age! Plus our usual mix of articles and Tumblr posts,...
The Rec Center #144
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, that was… yet another week. If you’re looking for some distraction, we have some of Gav’s finest work ever (she...
The Rec Center #143
Hello at the end of...this week. By chance, we decided this would be COFFEE SHOP AU WEEK, with fic recs in conjunction with Gav’s big piece on the trope....
The Rec Center #142
Hi folks! This week we’re here with video game fanfic recs, a coming-out story, some beautiful Black Sails fanart, and more. — Gav new stuff “How Fanfiction...
The Rec Center #141
Hi folks! This week we have a grab-bag of fanfic recs for you, along with an article about YouTube stars, some cute Adventure Time fanart, and more. — Gav...
The Rec Center #140
Hello all! This week we’ve got more poly fic, courtesy of the many, many submissions we got when we put out the call a few months back. We also have our...
The Rec Center #139
Hello! This week, in honor of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, we’ve got a multi-fandom fake relationship AU list. Plus our usual mix of articles and...
The Rec Center #138
Hello and welcome to our SUMMERTIME REC LIST!! Thank you for sharing your faves, everyone. Plus we have an oral history of iconic Harry Potter fandom works...
The Rec Center #137
Hello all! This week we’re bringing back the fan-favorite “That One Fic” challenge: the stories people would recommend to anyone checking out a new fandom,...
The Rec Center #136
Hello everyone! Gav is, I believe, now halfway through her 100,000 panels at Nine Worlds (JEALOUS OF EVERYONE THERE) while I have been at home, completing my...
The Rec Center #135
Hello! This week we have everything from “horse girls” to cyberpunk to MCU crossovers, plus a multifandom poly fic rec list. (And after being flooded with...
The Rec Center #134
Hi folks! With Elizabeth back from her arduous Comic-Con adventures, we’re here with multifandom fanfic recs, some articles about Fortnite and vintage Sailor...
The Rec Center #133
Greetings from the Goofiest Place on Earth, San Diego Comic-Con. I have been here for 48 hours and have cried multiple times during the Doctor Who panel,...
The Rec Center #132
Hi folks! This week we have some Wynonna Earp coverage, some reporting on THEATER TEENS, an unfortunate update on The State Of Star Wars Fandom, a very...
The Rec Center #131
Hello! If you’ve been lucky enough to have time off this week, I hope you had fun cooking food outside or chilling by a body of water or, like me, visiting...
The Rec Center #130
Hi folks! This week’s letter is a little shorter than usual because we’ve been a little busy. Some Detroit: Become Human fanart, some fluffy multifandom...
The Rec Center #129
Greetings from the UK! (Which is, to be clear, the place Gav is generally greeting you from...but now I’m here too haha.) This week we’ve got articles on...
The Rec Center #128
Hello! This week we have a deep dive into the BTS fandom, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey fanart, and Gav takes over the fanfic section with a perennial favorite:...
The Rec Center #127
Hi folks! This week we’re back with more “That One Fic” recs, featuring fanfic that readers deem ~the ultimate starting place~ in their favorite fandoms....
The Rec Center #126
Hello! So: it seems a number of you did not receive last week’s email?? Either because it went to spam (which happened for a troublingly large number) or...
The Rec Center #125
Hello! You may still be working way through our longest list ever, last week’s collection of royal AUs, so this week to balance things out we have a single...
The Rec Center #124
Hello! Welcome to Royal AU Week at The Rec Center. Somehow a casual suggestion from a reader last week turned into the longest rec list we’ve had in a single...
The Rec Center #123
Hello to all of our new subscribers! This week we’ve got a wonderful essay on The X-Files (amongst other things), sexy cartoon characters, Detective Elliot...
The Rec Center #122
Hi folks! This week we have a smattering of post-Infinity War post-mortem, along with a new fandom-influenced YA novel, our second batch of pre-AO3 fanfic...
The Rec Center #121
Hello! Looks like spring might finally have also arrived on my side of the Atlantic? (Apologies if you’re still stuck in winter, she says after a childhood...
The Rec Center #120
Hello! Has summer finally arrived in the northern hemisphere? Please? Let’s hope so. In the meantime, here’s this week’s delivery of multifandom fic recs,...
The Rec Center #119
Hi folks! This week’s we’ve got a cool story from theater fandom, pre-AO3 fanfic recs (readers over 25 will remember this prehistoric era), Shape of Water...
The Rec Center #118
Hi folks! This week we have college AU recs, an article about Atlantis, and an end to the Dumbledore vs Gandalf debate. — Gav new stuff “Of Mice and Men” by...
The Rec Center #117
Hello! This week we’re breaking out of our comfort zone: guest reccer Courtney brings us our very first doujinshi list, for the long-running manga (amongst...
The Rec Center #116
Welcome! We have a bunch of articles this week, some important analysis from Shakespeare fandom, some Yuri Plisetsky fanart, and the return of “That One Fic”...
The Rec Center #115
Hello! This week we have some Ready Player One ~commentary (/roasting), info about both the Hugos (we’re eligible) and our recent Black Sails podcast, and a...
The Rec Center #114
Do you know how many people send us fic recs for slow burn romance? SO MANY, is the answer. So that’s our rec theme this week! We also have a look at fan...
The Rec Center #113
Greetings from Blizzard Britain! We really can’t handle snow over here. This week we’ve got time travel fic recs for you, as well as some more Black Panther...