Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I have seen so much of this kind of thing over the years--but this in a different category. It´s completely egregious. 050
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Our latest is live! ⚖️ @bookshop.bsky.social reports on the criminalization of creativity around the world, esp queer and/or erotic works. Recent rulings re: an Australian erotica author and a Russian fic writer signal just how worrying the current climate is. Read our listen to an audio version:fansplaining.comThe Global Crackdown on CreativityGovernments around the world are censoring—and criminalizing—the currents in which fanworks flow. 01613
Reposted by Anne JamisonEbony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 17/06/2026WE DID IT! The Handbook of Research on Diversity in Children's and Young Adult Literature is officially at the publisher! Here's a look at the numbers... (1/2) #AcademicSky #literacies #kidlit #MGlit #YAlit 1520447
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Happy Vampire Lestat day! Starting from today's installment, which will go up when the embargo lifts tonight, @gavia.bsky.social's recaps will be locked to subscribers for the first week. We're running a special vampire sale: $5 a month for the next two months with the code BITEME 🩸fansplaining.comFansplainingReporting, criticism, and more, all by, for, and about fandom. 151
Reposted by Anne Jamisonstitch 🔞 @stitch.bsky.social · 10/06/2026There are things you don't tell your boss/coworkers, but I don't think "I write fan fiction for Heated Rivalry sometimes" is the worst thing to tell your boss/coworkers or be proud of and, TO ME, it is WORSE to try to connect your employee to their NSFW fic + involve HR slate.com/advice/2026/...slate.comMy Employee Is Very Open About Her “Hobby.” Well, I Googled It and I Think Need to Go to HR.I had no idea the stories were explicit! 3234
Reposted by Anne JamisonMel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 08/06/2026why do some reuses of other people's songs seem creative and others seem like stealing? how does the race of the artist reusing or being reused matter? what's the law got to do with it? find out in Rock This Way, 50% off with code SPRING26 through the end of June. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Rock...press.umich.eduRock This WayAny and all songs are capable of being remixed. But not all remixes are treated equally. Rock This Way examines transformative musical works—cover songs, remixes, mash-ups, parodies, and soundalike so... 051
Reposted by Anne JamisonBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Copying what the Utah state legislature did with the leadership of the University of Utah to remove power from the Senate. 3129
Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I think you mean “spurning.” Kerning is when you vigorously agitate cream to produce a solid for baking or spreading on toast. 110
Reposted by Anne Jamisonstitch 🔞 @stitch.bsky.social · 16/05/2026"Classic" Fandom Did This Too: Being "Weird" About Fic/Fic Writers In modern fandom, the fan writer delivers the product and that's it. I guess... most people don't pal around with their plug, huh? #fandom #mywork #fanficstitchmediamix.com“Classic” Fandom Did This Too: Being “Weird” About Fic/Fic WritersIn modern fandom, the fan writer delivers the product and that's it. I guess... most people don't pal around with their plug, huh? 3178
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Final reminder for folks who don't check Patreon: after tomorrow (Friday June 5th) we'll close the account, and it's the last day you can use your discount codes to sign up for the new site! 077
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 29/05/2026We've got so much more in the works, including: - Thai GL fandom - Conlang enthusiasts - Fandom stats - Covering Game of Thrones - Negative comments vs bots on AO3 - Homestuck's fanworks - Gay pirates And, of course, @gavia.bsky.social recapping The Vampire Lestat over the next two months! ✨ 171
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 29/05/2026And @elizabethminkel.bsky.social on depictions of tech on television, and how we read these characters in light of our shifting feelings about real-life tech.fansplaining.comToo Big To Fail (On Television)TV was perfect for tech’s failure narratives—but in Silicon Valley “post-failure” era, will audiences still tune in? 132
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 29/05/2026@prof-anne.bsky.social on the Good Omens series finale as a metatextual commentary about fandom and fanfiction—and one that gave the characters back to the fans.fansplaining.comGood Omens’ Final Love Letter to FanfictionThe author is dead. Long live the authors. 121
Reposted by Anne JamisonElizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 28/05/2026I wrote about depictions of tech on TV—esp around themes of failure—and how these show read in the current climate. "Tech titans used to proudly tout their ability to get back up after being thoroughly knocked down; now, the slightest hint of critique prompts a full-blown billionaire tantrum."fansplaining.comToo Big To Fail (On Television)TV was perfect for tech’s failure narratives—but in Silicon Valley “post-failure” era, will audiences still tune in? 182
Reposted by Anne Jamisonstitch 🔞 @stitch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026@adrierising.bsky.social and I have been dropping some bangers on #pagesandprejudice this season! In this episode, we talk about the evolution of reader inserts and what sets the modern Y/N apart from Mary Sue's of the past. open.spotify.com/episode/1H2x...open.spotify.comE64: What's Your Y/N? 055
Reposted by Anne JamisonStarfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 25/05/2026As a PhD student who has to both write her dissertation and grade papers, I would like to express my resentment at the addition of unprompted "Hey sis, wanna cheat?" messages from Gemini to Google docs. 752857
Reposted by Anne JamisonBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2026NIH funded peeps: This is insane and coming for us. 45365177
Reposted by Anne JamisonCourtney Tanner @courtneyltanner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Here’s how much your Utah public university president has spent on travel — and where they’ve visited www.sltrib.com/news/educati... 011
Reposted by Anne JamisonSherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...time.comThe Forgotten Black History of How Memorial Day StartedHistorians like the Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight have tried to raise awareness of freed slaves who decorated soldiers' graves in 1865 184126955870
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Are you still a Fansplaining Patreon supporter? When you have a moment, please log on and cancel—we'll be closing the account soon, and we're trying to get an accurate sense of who, if anyone, might still subscribe on the new site. (Paying supporters, the discount codes to switch expire soon!) 🙏🏼 165
Reposted by Anne JamisonDr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026I've lots of reading this month. I'm starting 2 new courses and I like to re/reread a lot before/as I teach. Keep it all fresh! So, I'm setting really ambitious but specific targets: 3 novels, 3 novellas, 1 non-fiction, 60 articles, 20 pieces of Bronte juvenilia, 10 short storiesmedia.tenor.coma picture of a baby yoda with the words i can do this behind himAlt: Tiny yoda concentrating with 'I can do this' at the top 2404
Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social · 23/05/2026if I click on queer writers will I get news about … Tulsi Gabbard or Texas? 000
Reposted by Anne JamisonElizabeth Minkel @elizabethminkel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026The timing here is perfect for your vampire-loving friends—gift them a month as a sort of free trial just in time for @gavia.bsky.social’s recaps of The Vampire Lestat. 😉 044
Reposted by Anne JamisonDr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Universities are for the conservation of knowledge-& the generation of new knowledge thru study & engagement with that knowledge conservation-& their current managers up to & including governments are failing universities’ core function in pursuit of short term fads & they should be shamed & reviled 191
Reposted by Anne Jamisonhedgelord2.bsky.social @hedgelord2.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Oh I see that trans rights is trending, which of course highlights any post with the word London in it. Good job bluesky, never change. 0153
Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social · 22/05/2026When I first encountered Rise of the Novel I definitely thought Alan Watts had branched out from pop philosophy 010
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Exciting news: Fansplaining now offers gift subscriptions! Is there any better way to support a fandom-related project than by sharing it with your friends? 💞 Purchase access at any tier for a month or a year, and we'll send a link to pass along to whoever you want! fansplaining.com#/portal/gift 195
Reposted by Anne JamisonAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 22/05/2026Finally switched to DuckDuckGo and it’s nice to not have LLM summaries anymore 1152060186
Reposted by Anne JamisonDr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · 22/05/2026There are still a few tickets left for my book launch on Friday 5 June, apparently. It's taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland and also online. See you there? 📚🎉 022
Reposted by Anne JamisonCourtney Tanner @courtneyltanner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The U. has spent thousands on travel for President Taylor Randall’s wife, including pricey trips with him to South Korea and Spain, Tribune finds www.sltrib.com/news/educati... 011
Reposted by Anne JamisonACLU @aclu.org · 20/05/2026BREAKING: The House of Representatives just voted to require teachers to forcibly out transgender youth against their will. Censoring "gender ideology" does nothing to advance the basic promise that every child deserves the same opportunity to thrive, and that includes transgender students. 15630251180
Reposted by Anne JamisonNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about. 5136701193
Reposted by Anne JamisonYuri Goddess | mentally still at TIC7 @youryurigoddess.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Good Omens fandom sauntering vaguely downwards the Finale spiral, away from Amazon Prime and in the general direction of AO3: 616835
Reposted by Anne JamisonMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.boulderreportinglab.orgCU delays ChatGPT rollout after backlash over $2M OpenAI dealAfter announcing a systemwide ChatGPT partnership, CU delayed student access following backlash over governance, academic integrity and transparency. 6689235
Reposted by Anne JamisonDr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 20/05/2026CFP Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh (8/1/2026) silly-old-bear.blogspot.com/2026/05/cfp-...silly-old-bear.blogspot.comCFP Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh (8/1/2026)Silly Old Bear? A Companion to Adaptations, Appropriations, and Transformations of Winnie-the-Pooh Organized by the Monsters & the Monstrous... 064
Reposted by Anne JamisonSpooKey 👻🐈⬛ @keyrex.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I don't know about immortality, but this person found some amazing details that point to Crowley and Aziraphale landing in the snowglobe. It has to exist or a reason. "From their home to yours"?? bsky.app/profile/shad... 1101
Reposted by Anne JamisonEllieCub 📝🍫 @elliecub.bsky.social · 20/05/2026My first post-Good Omens finale fic and my first GO fic in a while. I'm going to be away from my laptop now for ten days as I'm going on holiday and I wanted to publish this before I go. Just a little something. archiveofourown.org/works/85194791archiveofourown.orgpaved with stars - TeaCubOx - Good Omens (TV) [Archive of Our Own]An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works 011
Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social · 20/05/2026#GO3Spoilerstatic.klipy.comReeses Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups OopsAlt: Reeses Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups Oops 041
Reposted by Anne JamisonEmily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 20/05/2026The Boys is deeply unpleasant & gets off on that unpleasantness, but it does perfectly dramatize what a lost cause it is to show “loyalty” to Trump. Also, it was a nice treat to see Musk get drop-kicked into space 3763
Anne Jamison @prof-anne.bsky.social · 20/05/2026I have been a fan of @elizabethminkel.bsky.social since back then too! And of @fansplaining.bsky.social the original podcast and new...incarnation? resurrected form? Journalistic AU? Please support Fansplaining in all its forms! They even let me do source-appropriate footnotes. 130
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Our latest piece is live! The great @prof-anne.bsky.social writes about the Good Omens series finale as a sort of metatextual gesture to fans—and especially fanfiction. "Good Omens’ final scenes are not subtle about their allegory of fanfic empowerment." Read or listen to an audio version:fansplaining.comGood Omens’ Final Love Letter to FanfictionThe author is dead. Long live the authors. 07129
Reposted by Anne JamisonHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’” 505159604150
Reposted by Anne JamisonFansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Enjoying the work we've published since our relaunch? Become a subscriber! 🎉 We've been thrilled by the enthusiasm around this project, but we have yet to reach a baseline of subscriber revenue to pay writers each month, let alone editors. Help us get more smart fandom writing out in the world! 11811
Reposted by Anne JamisonG. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 15/05/2026Good news, everyone www.cnn.com/2026/05/14/h...cnn.comEngaging with arts and culture can slow biological aging as much as exercise, study suggests | CNNWhen it comes to slowing down our biological aging, engaging with arts and culture is as beneficial as physical activity, a new study suggests. 422236644
Reposted by Anne JamisonDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 13/05/2026There are stories from all over about universities' dismantling of the humanities. I have a small but dismaying data point from my university to contribute to the discourse. Harvard University now has NO assistant professors of English. That's how long it has been since we were allowed to hire. 19561170