I'm in a hunter x hunter zine

[sub_divided]

Yes... Seven years after I drifted away from fandom, working way too hard as a long term sub and then new teacher at various urban schools to have the energy for anything besides going home and watching YouTube bullet planner videos and maybe commenting on omonatheydidnt.. I'm officially back in fandom, *and* involved enough to be a moderator on a fandom exchange!

The zine I'm in is an all-ratings Killugon (Killua/Gon from Hunter x Hunter) zine, so we are right in the eye of the fandom culture wars, haha. I liked a bunch of the contributors from AO3 and figured it would be a good way to make fandom friends on tumblr, and it worked :D It's actually my first zine in 15 years in fandom, unless you count the Death Note doujinshi telophase drew based on a script we wrote together back in 2005, so that's exciting too.

Anyway, I know you guys being from the old school of nonjudgmental fandom will not give me grief for this. If you have a little extra cash, you can show support by buying a copy at https://gumroad.com/milestoneszine.

Speaking of old, nostalgic fandoms though... did you guys realize that in this Year of our Lord 2020, there's a new chapter of Death Note out???

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[marej]

wait wait what? people are judgemental about...sexy stuff? I mean of all things to be judgemental about. jebus. And by this I mean good to see you Subdee :) I'm not at all following anything fannish, but my now (oh god) 9yo just mainlined my DeathNote volumes so I looked at the new one and just no. no no no no. There's only so much Trumporama I can take in my life. *hugs*

[sub_divided]

Ohhhh yeah, the new trend among the teens is to uncritically repeat/reblog rightwing talking points about how fans who do sexy fanworks of teen characters are pedophiles. I miss fandom wank man, there's no central place now to expose these people as trolls :P.

I actually haven't read the new Death Note chapter yet, hearing that Trump is in it makes me sad :( Though Obata being a supporter(?) - if that's what's in the chapter - is somehow not surprising, because he's always been a crazy mofo.

[marej]

how strange. and sad i guess...

i flipped through scans and judging by how T is drawn and written Obata is indeed a supporter.

[superborb]

y.i.k.e.s. I was never super into DN, but...

[sub_divided]

:(

But totally in character, also. Crazy attracts crazy.

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Also... you have a 9yo??? Time really does fly, gosh.

[marej]

Yup. And I actually feel incredibly vindicated that after mainlining Death Note, Jake said that it got ridiculous and derivative (well, he actually said annoying, truth be told) after L got killed off. So yeah, it's not just the fandom hive who thought that it was completely pointless to reinvent the same characters over and over. Also! Jake said that girls in Death Note were way more annoying than they are in real life and that was making the story a lot less interesting. I personally chose to take it as a step forward from his current girls (with the notable exception of me (ha!) and his buddy F.) have cooties stage towards ...dare i say progressive thinking?

[sub_divided]

Woah that's awesome. Sounds like you are doing a great job as a parent :D And Thank You Obata for being such an obvious misogynist that even a 9yo who thinks girls have cooties can see the problem with the representation, I guess XD.

And to talk a bit about the reactionaries on tumblr, these are exactly the conversations that they don't trust parents to be having with their kids. We can have "bad" representation in media as long as the parents are involved, you know?