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...
The Rec Center #112
Welcome to the final week of Femslash February! Celebrated additionally by these two awesome new songs and videos by Janelle Monae. We have multifandom f/f...
The Rec Center #111
Hello! Greetings from the same side of the Atlantic (where I’m learning that British Olympic coverage is far superior to NBC, I’m so jealous, folks). This...
The Rec Center #110
Welcome to week two of Femslash February! We’ve got Supergirl recs from guest reccer Queersintherain, plus your usual assortment of fandom news and Weird...
The Rec Center #109
Hello! Welcome to FEMSLASH FEBRUARY. This week we have our first f/f list of the month: fic, vids, and podfic from our submissions. Plus articles on ‘toxic...
The Rec Center #108
Welcome to the end of the week! We’ve got new Harry/Draco recs (from H/D Erised 2017!) from guest-reccers 1degosuperego & Helenahjay, Devilman Crybaby...
The Rec Center #107
Hello! This week we’ve got our second “that one fic” multi-fandom rec list, fanzines new and old, a comic about trans themes in The Matrix, and more! —...
The Rec Center #106
Thank you to everyone who submitted “that one fic” recommendations this week! We now have enough for several rec lists, which is awesome. Along with the...
The Rec Center #105
Welcome to 2018! This week we have multifandom fic recs from Yuletide 2017, an incredibly astute Tumblr post about General Hux in The Last Jedi, some advice...
The Rec Center #104
As we did last year, we’re breaking format for the final newsletter of 2017. Which means [get excited and/or brace yourself].... the year in fandom: ⚓⚓⚓ Gav:...
The Rec Center #103
Welcome to our penultimate newsletter of 2017! We’ve got a list of mostly Christmassy recs this week, plus an intensive post-TLJ analysis from me (I’m very...
The Rec Center #102
Why yes, it is Star Wars Week, how did you guess? We’ve got multi-ship Star Wars fic recs this week, plus Gav will give us some of her (spoiler-free)...
The Rec Center #101
This week we have multifandom friends-to-lovers fic, Overwatch coverage, Star Trek cosplay anecdotes, and more! — Gav new stuff “The Overwatch Videogame...
The Rec Center #100
Thank you Elizabeth for catering to my whimsically specific theme this week: Fandoms aged 100 years or older, to celebrate our 100th newsletter! Our recs...
The Rec Center #99
Hi there! We’re here with a grab-bag of fic recs, a chat with a fandom historian, a cute Doctor Who fan comic, and more. — Gav new stuff “A Hannibal...
The Rec Center #98
Hi everyone! This week we have your Thanksgiving and family holiday meal recs, our usual mix of articles and Tumblr posts, and, importantly, Gav explains why...
The Rec Center #97
Hello! This week, aside from our regular mix of articles and Tumblr/Twitter stuff, we have a multi-fandom collection of modern AUs, ie source material set in...
The Rec Center #96
Hello! Thank you for your patience with our technical difficulties: VITAL IMAGES NOW EMBEDDED. And greetings at the end of this roller-coaster of a week!...
The Rec Center #95
We have an unusually short letter for you this week! Elizabeth was visiting me in Scotland so we were too busy Having Fun to provide you with a full menu of...
The Rec Center #94
Welcome! We have multifandom recs this week (including two fan-comics!), Neo Yokio fanart, some thoughts on baseball fandom sexism, and more. Have a great...
The Rec Center #93
Hoooo boy, this week. There’s not a lot that we can add right now, so we offer up this newsletter like we do during other hard weeks: as something that’s...
The Rec Center #92
Happy Friday, Rec Center readers! This week we’ve got multifandom casefic recs, some thoughts on Harry Styles and Tolkien (not connected, although we’d love...
The Rec Center #91
Apparently we’ve never done a general/multi-ship Harry Potter rec list before, which seems impossible? And yet! So here’s a multi-pairing list of HP fanfic...
The Rec Center #90
After a long, sad-pirate-filled summer, we finally—FINALLY—have a proper Black Sails rec list for you: I’ve teamed up with my friend Pamphilia for a...
The Rec Center #89
Hello! This week we have articles on Homestuck, One Direction, and Mary Sues, plus some beautiful Avatar: The Last Airbender fanart. Next week we’ll have a...
The Rec Center #88
Welcome! This week we have Narnia recs, an answer to one of fanfic’s greatest mysteries, and a truly unique moment from Supergirl comics canon. — Gav new...
The Rec Center #87
Greetings! It looks like, sort of by accident, we have a lot of Game of Thrones things this week! But we also have a *very* long fic list for our very...
The Rec Center #86
HELLO. Greetings to all of our new readers! Many of you are probably here because of Stephanie Burt’s fantastic New Yorker piece on fanfic (thank you,...