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Get to Know my Shipping Preferences & Ships

original prompt So, on BlueSky the other day, I saw THIS prompt, and figured 'what the hell'. I got to 11 out of the total 15, and as I started to answer them, I realized I could write it up as a fandom thing for my Dreamwidth.

So, here we go.....

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Getting to Know You - Fandom Edition of 'About Me'

An Intro to Me

Name: Kylara Ingress is my AO3 pseudonym, but am fine with being 'publicly known' as Angie Fiedler Sutton.

Age: just turned 50 in May

Location: Los Angeles now, but was born and raised in the Midwest
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Current Mood: accomplished

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December 2021 Update: I'm Going to Make It Through This Year if it Kills Me

December was actually pretty uneventful personally, for the most part. More under the cut.
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G33K Out Episode 40: Roundtable — The Politics of Shipping

There are parts of fandom that have problems -- because, surprise, fandom is made up of people. My first roundtable, episode 35, dealt with the toxicity in the Star Wars fandom. A side conversation in that podcast led to this episode, wherein we (very broadly) talk about some of the more taboo aspects of shipping.

screencap of a Tumblr post asking 'What is shipping?' with the image of a cartoon viking holding two unicorns together

See the full show notes and listen to the episode here.

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Welcome to the Dark Side: Dark Fic, Why We Write and Read It

I wrote this piece back in 2002-ish for the Zendom mailing list website. It's no longer on their page, but I think this is still relevant - and especially relevant considering what's been going on in the Sherlock fandom.

Yin and yang, love and hate, peace and war, life and death, light and dark. Some believe (including myself) you can't have one without the other – in order to define light, you must have knowledge of the dark. And while fluffy / comedic stories have their place, they are also almost a requirement as an opposition to dark fic.

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