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...
The Rec Center #62
This week seems to be a convergence of fandom anniversaries and birthdays: we’ve got segments on Buffy and Bucky, two of our respective fannish loves. :-) We...
The Rec Center #61
Hello! Another week and you’ve made it through. It’s been a while, so this week we’ve got an explainer: guest reccer Ravelqueen is back, this time with...
The Rec Center #60
Greetings from a beautiful summer day here in late February in New York City. :-/ Yes, once again, it has been A Week, but you made it! We have John Wick...
The Rec Center #59
CONGRATS! YOU SURVIVED THE WEEK. :-) It’s still Femslash February, and we have multifandom guest recs from nolongerwolfalice. Plus a link to Bruce...
The Rec Center #58
It may feel like it’s been a hundred years since our last newsletter. IT’S ONLY BEEN A WEEK. That being said, we made it through this week! We’ve got Chris...
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...
The Rec Center #37
Welcome to our first ever newsletter featuring an article about a 65-year-old British radio play about farmers. (We also have some Harry Potter recs, though!...
The Rec Center #36
Happy belated Star Trek anniversary! We don’t have a Star Trek rec list this week because we did one recently, and also I’m obsessed so we’ll definitely do...