"I’d call my #fanfic writing years a creative career of itself, right down to making no money from it but getting plenty of fulfillment."

"In a way I’ve lost fanfic and #fandom, but in another sense I haven’t lost them at all. I simply moved on and found people and spaces that better fit the shapes I’ve come to take, that allow me to stretch out in ways that make sense to me."

From the thoughts of a (mostly kinda) ex-fan on the #SnowflakeChallenge2025 prompt, "Tell us how fandom has helped you." https://ljwrites.blog/posts/fanfic-writing-history/ This retrospective is fond and personal, but is also critical of Anglophone fandom and takes particular aim at fandom racism. #LjBlogs

People who think homosexuality was invented in the 20th century by white people can feel free to contemplate my writeup on 1,000 years of recorded homosexuality in premodern #Korea . https://ljwrites.blog/posts/queer-premodern-korea/ And a lot of these records are by people who did not even remotely like what they were reporting.

My 13th-century ancestor Yi Gyubo, on the other hand, celebrated the hell out of his learned monk friend's romantic relationship with a young man because dude was cool that way. Neither he nor contemporary record-keepers found the idea of dudes in love with dudes anachronistic or irrelevant, I guess no one gave them the memo that gay people weren't supposed to exist yet. #QueerHistory #history #LjBlogs