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,...
The Rec Center #85
Hi folks! It’s been a difficult week so hopefully we can give you a bit of a break. :) Marie’s here with Good Omens fanfic recs because of the casting news,...
The Rec Center #84
Welcome to the weekend!! We hope everyone at WorldCon is having an awesome time, and that everyone else isn’t experiencing FOMO too badly . (Neither of us...
The Rec Center #83
Hello! Why yes, things are going just fine over here, thank you for asking. For those of you we’ve dragged into Black Sails Hell™, next week we’ll be able to...
The Rec Center #82
Welcome back after our semi-hiatus last week! Elizabeth is back from SDCC, Gav is back from Spain, and we’re here with fandom news and an extensive primer...
The Rec Center #81
Hello! This week both Gav and I have been traveling—she’s in Spain learning about 400 years of Spanish military history, I’m in San Diego finding everything...
The Rec Center #80
We have a rare video game theme this week! Basia kindly offered to write an Overwatch primer for us, introducing one of the biggest gaming fandoms around...
The Rec Center #79
Hello! We just got a big batch of new followers: welcome, everyone! :-) This week we’ve got articles on K-pop, old VHS rental fandom, and That Football...
The Rec Center #78
Hi, folks! This week we’ve got fanfiction about found families, an interesting podcast about Livejournal and Russian politics, some Harry Potter nostalgia,...
The Rec Center #77
Welcome to a special—no, VITALLY IMPORTANT—Black Sails edition of the Rec Center! Along with our usual selection of fic recs and fandom news, Elizabeth & I...
The Rec Center #76
Hello! It’s been a while since we said it, so a reminder: you survived the week. We’ve got a mix of articles and tumblr stuff (including Gav’s reporting on...
The Rec Center #75
Phew! It’s been a long 24 hours. I stayed up very late following the UK election results and am now a reanimated corpse, which is unfortunate because I’m...
The Rec Center #74
Hello! Greetings from ~the very depths~ of New Fandom Land, where you could ask me literally any question and somehow I will drag the conversation towards a...
The Rec Center #73
This week we have rec-ception: a rec for another rec newsletter, from 1D fan Allyson Gross. Also, some dystopian fic recs, some Twin Peaks nostalgia from...
The Rec Center #72
Hi folks! This week we have Haikyuu!! recs from guest reccer Marina, some wonderful Korrasami fanart, Justin Timberlake fanfic reminiscences, and something...
The Rec Center #71
Hello! Well, it sure has been an...interesting (/horrifying) few days. If you’re looking for a little distraction, we’ve got the usual mix of articles,...
The Rec Center #70
Hello! It’s been...quite a week. Perhaps you are like me, worrying about the future of your ACA health insurance and tagging various members of Congress on...
The Rec Center #69
#69. Nice. new stuff “Fan Fiction vs. Fanfiction” by Flourish Klink at FansplainingElizabeth’s podcast partner takes on Merriam-Webster—which puts the...
The Rec Center #68
OMG you guys we have A LOT of stuff for you this week! Elizabeth has put together a whole section of boyband fandom articles in honor of Harry Styles, and...
The Rec Center #67
Hello and welcome to our new followers! This week we’ve got everything from Fast & Furious appreciation to boyband defense to some amazing Storm fanart. Plus...
The Rec Center #66
Hello! So we have a general “this newsletter is here for you in times of strife if you’re looking for a distraction” policy that we’ve reiterated a few times...
The Rec Center #65
Hello! Our guest reccer this week is a real Rec Center success story: 1degosuperego was led back to Harry/Draco after more than a decade away by this very...
The Rec Center #64
Hi folks! This week Elizabeth has put together a list of fix-it fics (a very necessary genre) from our reader recommendations. Plus, we have some important...
The Rec Center #63
Happy Friday! This week we have plenty of cool stuff for you, including a webcomic celebrating Harry/Draco fandom, an examination of Garfield the cat’s...