1. I saw a link to this acafandom survey for Fandom Olds about how fandom migrates between platforms on tumblr yesterday and it was really fun to fill out and could use some DW voices! (Yes, I did answer the survey that I quit tumblr last year. ... I *mostly* quit tumblr last year okay.)

Have you been part of fandom for at least ten years (even non-consecutively)?

We’re Casey Fiesler and Brianna Dym, longtime fan community members, and also researchers in the Department of Information Science at University of Colorado Boulder. We’re conducting a survey about how fan communities migrate across platforms! So if you’ve used multiple platforms in that time (Livejournal, Tumblr, AO3, Usenet…), we would love to have you participate!

more details on the tumblr post...

Whether you participate or not, please consider sharing this survey with your social networks! And if you’d like to find out more about Casey’s previous research about fandom, see this Tumblr post: http://cfiesler.tumblr.com/post/139029976190/an-archive-of-their-own-a-case-study-of-feminist

Click here to take the survey!

...it took me a long time to fill it out because apparently in my time in fandom I have done ALL OF THE THINGS on ALL OF THE PLATFORMS, but I suspect I'm not the only one on DW who has.

I also appreciate that the link text for that post is "have you been in fandom a long time help us", it sounds like a cry of despair.

2. con_txt is looking for panel ideas for this year! They aren't getting many so far, I think because in this round they want people to agree to mod, and most people's panel ideas, let's face it, are "I would like to attend this panel as modded by somebody else". So if you're a con_text person you should go offer some. (I promise modding con-txt panels is SUPER EASY.)

3. Purimgifts happened! I really love the format - having the posting spread over several days, having it be themed but only very loosely, the *max* wordcount rule, the art requirement that practically includes a permission slip to make bad art if you need to, and, of course, the blanket crossovers permission.

So anyway I did the series I just renamed to Lots of Planets Have A South Downs, which is three ficlets and three comics panels about Crowley and Aziraphale from Good Omens living in the future of the Saga comics, and it was super fun to do, and inspired me to pull out my wacom tablet for the first time in years. (Also I need to stop doing multiple-small-fandom crossovers for fests and then getting sad when they don't have a huge readership.)

And I got The Ankh-Morpork Vampire Ball by RobberBaroness, three ficlets about the women of the Watch at a vampire masquerade ball, with costume images, which was also super fun!

In sum, why did I wait so long to start doing this fest.