#BrittaLundin

[yourfaithwasstrong]

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@brittalundin @ras get on this oh my god

[bookgyalmagic]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, nice little refresher for the semi-dark lit I’ve been getting into lately. 💗💗

[onceuponamirror]

@brittalundin replied to your post “also listening to the podcast, especially the episode about the...”

I’m glad you like it! I’m not sure what’s going on with it this year though. Haven’t heard anything lately.

thanks for the response! if there’s anything we the fans can do over here on the tumblr void to get it going, i’ll be happy to rally it up. it’s a lot of fun to get all into the production process and i hope it comes back! 

[saltywriteralex]

So I’ve noticed a severe lack of book!porn on my Instagram, given that I’m a writer. So here’s a peak a what I’ve been reading, this little gem I picked up a couple days ago at the #londonreviewbookshop. 📔 As SOON as I read the title, I knew I had to get it! I absolutely love #fanfiction and the fanfic community I belong to and this book is so cute and witty and RELATABLE AF! Seriously, the entire thing is quotable. 📔 For anyone looking for a great read that’s fun and funny and relatable, please please go pick this up! You will not regret! 📔 📔 #currentlyreading #amreading #ShipIt #ShipItNovel #BrittaLundin #writinginspo #writinginspiration #Instinct #Instinctnovella #romancenovella #romancewriter #romanceauthor #romancewritersconnect #romancereader #booklover #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #selfpublishing #selfpublishedauthor #indieauthor #debutnovel #bookstagrammer #bookstagrammers #allisonblackwood https://www.instagram.com/p/B1fk2L2oU8O/?igshid=8l128dfx4oej

[fayfya]

Kena is channeling Claire by writing fanfic in at the beautiful Fayetteville Public Library!

[laynemorgan]

brittalundin replied to your post: Hey - so i noticed you like personality quizzes a...

I agree with the above. 16personalities.com is great and has cute illustrations!

I shall check that one out!

[youdasnacc]

sis this is extremely important

@brittalundin 

please make jughead and archie get together theyre my otp and there has been multiple scenes of jughead clearly liking archie and vice versa they would be the cutest boyfriends

also a kiss would be extremely helpful for editors [both videos and photos]

thank you. jarchie being together would be a dream come true

sincerely, someone who would like jarchie to happen bc jug clearly is admiring archies abs 

p.s please tweet me about this @peachydorito on twitter if you see this, i love you although riverdale s3 was terrible

[fansplaining]

fansplaining 101

We’ve gotten A LOT of new followers on Tumblr and Twitter over the past week because of our SHIPPING SURVEY. (If you haven’t taken it yet, please do!) And maybe you’re just here for those sweet, sweet shipping stats, but maybe you are interested in checking out the rest of our work! We are well aware that with more than 100 episodes, articles, and analysis of our previous surveys, it is *a lot*, so we wanted to put together a little “where to start” post. 

So! We’re @elizabethminkel & @flourish, and we have been creating the “Fansplaining” podcast for nearly four years (!!), since we met on a panel at San Diego Comic-Con in 2015. Elizabeth is a fan culture journalist, Flourish works on fandom-related stuff in the entertainment industry, and we’ve both been in fandom—especially fanfic/transformative fandom—for more than two decades.

(Image by the increeeedibly talented @redgoldsparks) 

Everything is over at Fansplaining.com; each episode has audio, show notes, and a full transcript—you can find the entire back catalogue here. Our articles—on subjects like Mary Sues, works in progress, corporate-driven fandom, the etymology of fannish words, and the patriarchal affordances granted to the creators of sanctioned add-on works that people still manage to (pejoratively) label ‘fanfiction�� :-))—are found here.

You can certainly start listening from the beginning, but if you want some jumping-off points: 

1) THE DISCOURSE TRILOGY™

Last fall we did a trio of episodes on some ~fraught topics~ in the broader fandom sphere: 

1a) Purity Culture

Perhaps the messiest of all discourse topics, we try to untangle anti culture, conversations around shipping and morality, and the way it intersects with—or clashes with—stan culture.

1b) Age and Fandom

We look at a lot of different aspects of age and ageism in fandom, from what’s deemed acceptable fannishness past a certain age, what isn’t, and the way those ideas are gendered. 

1c) The Money Question

One of our very favorite topics!! On the monetization of fanfiction in particular, from the explicit anti-monetization policies on AO3 to Wattpad’s experimental models connecting fic writers to the pro publishing space. 

2) Kenyatta Cheese

One of the founders of Know Your Meme, @kenyatta currently runs Everybody at Once, the company behind the social media accounts for Doctor Who, Orphan Black, and more. HIGHLY recommended for anyone interested in fan/creator interaction, particularly the moment when he politely drags Marxist frameworks in fan labor discussions.

3) Shipping and Activism

Is shipping activism? No—but it’s complicated. Dr. Rukmini Pande and Dr. Lori Morimoto (@tea-and-liminality), both fan studies scholars, come on to discuss the thorny intersections between representation, activism, and shipping, especially around conversations about race and queerness. 

4) Stephanie Burt

Stephanie is a poet, Harvard professor, and longtime X-fan, and every time we asked her a question, she said, “Well...I have a two-part answer,” which meant we soon found ourselves with a two-part episode. We especially recommend her discussion of taste cultures and situating your criticism in part one.

5) User-Generated Content

Fandom is full of people creating things for free. The media and entertainment industries benefit from that labor—but does that mean fans are at fault for creating and sharing their work? What is exploitative—and what is just fans having fun?

6) Fangirling Through Time

An early favorite (in more ways than one): fan studies scholar Evan Hayles Gledhill discussed their research on Victorian sentiment albums—a sort of proto-Tumblr—and other types of gendered fannish expression from the period.

7) Race and Fandom

Probably our biggest episode(s) to date! In this two-parter we hear from ten fans of color about race and racism in fandom. Featuring: Dr. Rukmini Pande,  @clio-jlh, @harlequinn823, Shadowkeeper, @ninemoons42, @stitchomancy, Jeffrey Lyles, @rozf, Traci-Anne Canada, and @zvilikestv.

8) Javier Grillo-Marxuach

@okbjgm has been a television writer, producer, and showrunner for decades (from Lost to The Middleman to The 100) and has been on both sides of the fan/creator divide. (He also liked being on the podcast so much that he was our first special episode guest! We discussed his Downton Abbey & Indiana Jones crossover fic :-)) 

9) The Truth About Toxic Fandom

There have been no shortage of hand-wringing articles in recent years about “toxic fandom.” We try to unpack myth from reality—is any of this new? And is any of it unique to fandom? 

10) A Fangirl Goes to Hollywood

We’ve had many fantastic guests talk about navigating the fan-to-pro transition, but @brittalundin, a writer on Riverdale and the author of the fandom YA novel Ship It (which she discussed on a later episode) is an excellent place to start. 

[bugheadjones-the-third]

@brittalundin Thank you for this amazing episodes and for all the others!! You're a huge part of this beautiful show that is called Riverdale! Thank you!

[novelnoviceya]

Apparently, I'm really in the mood for books about geek girls and fandom right now. This weekend, I binge read Geekerella and Chaotic Good, and am now #currentlyreading Ship It. . . Do you ever read a bunch of thematic books like that? Any other geek girl/fandom book recs for me? . . #amreading candle from @threeknockscandles - see my girl @paperrdolls for a rep code . . #bookstack #whatimreading #geekerella #chaoticgood #whitneygardner #shipit #yalit #brittalundin #ashleyposton #bookrec #booknerds #lovebooks #bookishlove

[thoughtsickles]

brittalundin replied to your post “.”

"Have you tried girls????" <-- also good advice

tru tru

[lifeascaty]

I’m so proud of @brittalundin and SO excited to see her name appear on my TV screen!

Three years ago she messaged me through tumblr and I’m incredibly glad she did, because I��d never have had the courage to say hi to such an amazing person (seriously - I’d have been way, way too nervous). Since then it’s been my total honour to watch her reach new heights and she’s honestly inspiring.

I know you probably all follow her already, but if you don’t then you should. She’s a brilliant screenwriter. 💖

[oracleofmania]

Shit It

@brittalundin

In Britta Lundin’s disastrous YA novel Ship It, readers see how a ravenous fandom can devastate a creator’s vision while destroying the show itself in order to gain a modicum of their goals (those goals being their fetishistic homosexual ship become canon), even when it is at odds with the creator. The author flukily achieves this with the shown symbolic perspective of Claire Strupke, the protagonist, and the unseen view of Jamie, the creator of Demon Heart. 

At the start of the novel, Claire is given a humble, relatable background of a small town lonely girl who nerds out over her favorite TV show, Demon Heart, a generic, Supernatural-esque production about a demon hunter and his tumultuous relationship with a helpful demon. Naturally, since the two have presumed chemistry with each other, it leads to Claire shipping them. To elaborate, shipping is the act of pairing two characters together in a relationship, usually due to various factors such as on-screen chemistry, similar personalities, fulfilling a kink, etc. With shipping in mind, this calls into question Claire’s reasons for even enjoying the show. The book unintentionally portrays her reason as wanting the protagonists Smokey and Heart to end up in a homoerotic relationship rather than the plot of Demon Heart. The author only furthers this assertion with her vague descriptions of the episodes and the plot, with the details of some only being highlighted because Claire wrote fanfiction on it,  and more emphasis on the ship. Symbolically, with Claire acting as the fandom, it shows the emphasis the fandom puts on the relationships they create instead of appreciating the content already created for them. Claire continues to exemplify the concept of fandom as she drags those outside the fandom into her imaginings with innocuous comments as demonstrated with this exchange with Kyle Cunningham ( a normie by the book’s standards):

“So Kyle does, apparently, ‘Why do they look like they’re about to kiss?’ 

Andrea snorts and punches him. ‘Be nice,’ she says.

‘I’m serious that’s the gayest thing I’ve ever seen,’......

It’s too much. I suppress a snort, then I catch Kyle’s eye and the dumb expression

On his face makes me really belly laugh. Andrea leans away from me, confused 

and a little afraid, but Kyle just gets mad. ‘What?’ he demands. ‘What’s so 

Funny?’

‘You know there are people out there who think we’re crazy? That we see stuff 

that’s 

Not there, that the show’s never gonna make it cannon. But I just wanna state for 

The record that Kyle Cunningham. Kyle Freaking Cunningham sees it. We’re not 

Crazy.’” (13-14)

This wild reaction to Kyle’s comment, albeit a demeaning comment, shows that Claire/the fandom presents readers with her self-fulfilling sense of reality; naturally, the feeling she presents at the start carries on throughout her perspective and the novel.   

After the introduction, the conflict of the novel is presented. While at a convention, Claire asks the Demon Heart panel if her ship is canon. The event brings the creator, Jamie, directly into the perverse side of his show’s fanbase. This question is fetishistic and not in good faith for the LGBT+ community, since throughout the novel the author (whether intentionally or not) has Claire lust over the idea of her ship reminiscent to a fujoshi (a Japanese derogatory term used to describe women who enjoy male x male relationships for the sexual value/’sinfulness’ aspect). The author accomplishes this by starting off the novel with Claire’s fanfiction of Smokey and Heart, the lead characters, fornicating with one another. Lundin continues to further this characteristic by revealing more of Claire’s provocative fanfiction and have her go on a one-woman mission to get her ship cannon despite the protests of her love interest, Tess, and the insistence of it not being canon by Jamie and an actor of the show. She continues this crusade, getting more and more radical with each act, such as making Q&A panel attendees “silenced” (233), to trying to teach one of the actors about shipping so she can have him on her side, and so on until she does something completely reprehensible. In chapters forty and forty-three, she hijacks the creator’s twitter and threatens to post a photo of Jamie “wearing a Spider-man costume...smiling sheepishly at the camera,” (282-283). All these events occur and yet Claire triumphantly declares all of her efforts in the name of progress. Her excuse mimics real-life fanbases. Many members scream about the representation of minorities and other under-represented demographics in media, all as a Trojan horse to get their ship cannon for whatever reason they have. If the ship is shot down by the creator, the once beloved maker of their ship is now a villain that actively works against the community that loves their work, or worse. Yet there are some who do honest work for the community; an in-book example of this would be Tess. 

Tess is a young queer black woman who represents the positive side of the fandom. While she enjoys the show Demon Heart, she also has the ability to understand that her ships will most likely never be canon, and the representation she desires will most likely never arrive in Demon Heart; she even understands that the fandom life is taboo and tries to keep it separate from her social life. Yet, the author and Claire find the balance between interests abhorrent and not true to herself. So naturally, Claire, upon meeting her friends, believes that they are not up to snuff, even confusing their names with “Jillian/Augusta” (241). Eventually, this leads to her outing Tess to her friends, causing possible social ruin, something a black queer woman cannot have. But it toxically works out in the end and Tess ends up supporting Claire in her crusade against Jamie and his creative endeavors despite it going against her own morals.

On that note, from the creator’s perspective, the entire novel is a horror story. Jamie spends hours on end trying to craft a show he wants only for executives to shoot him down and force him to make it “NCIS not Mad Men,” (271) while having to work with actors that barely fit his vision only to learn that his creative child is sinking ratings-wise and may not even get a season two. Therefore, he goes out on a con run in attempts to get ratings up so he can continue doing what he wanted to do, only to have this interrupted by a teen girl asking about a relationship that is obvious fan conjecture. So he shoots it down along with an actor, but this only causes the PR department to get mad and harm his show even more. Now he’s forced to take this girl along with him and all the while she badgers him and even stalks him over something he does not want happening. Then, she finally snaps and does something illegal and instead of getting the repercussions she deserves in her stead he is the one getting the flak. The one actor on his side has turned on him and he is still not sure if he has another season after the hard-earned season two. If he were to give in to the demands of the audience he would be indulging in some sinful sexual fantasy that was never a part of his dream. Yet he gets cast as a villain for standing his ground and finally snapping after weeks of physiological torment. Jamie suffers while Claire flourishes, thus showing that the personification of the fandom presented by the author is nothing more than a self-fulfilling antagonistic group that turns on creators when their vision does not fit what the fandom wants. 

[nadjaofstatenisland]

its actually really cute that they're plugging @brittalundin 's book

[i-want-your-bones]

petition for brie larson (as captain marvel) and tessa thompson (as valkyrie) to recreate page 360 in @brittalundin ‘s book Ship It to rebel against markus & mcfeely & the russos for being cowards about lgbt representation

[thezipzap]

I feel like we all should take a moment and thank @brittalundin for 3x12.