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A still from Twilight shows Bella Swan surprised the person she's speaking with could even think such a thing. She's too cool for school!

Mary Sue

By Amanda Hudgins • February 2nd, 2024

She is you, a teenager who is stuck in a small town with no friends, with cruel acquaintances who don’t love any of the things that you do, who has been told for years that boys bully you because they like you.

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Mafia

By Amanda Hudgins • September 5th, 2023

KinnPorsche is probably the best example of the mafia alternative universe aesthetic. Everyone is beautiful and darkly dressed and prone to drinking and smoking in dark rooms.

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Cisswap

By Amanda Hudgins • May 2nd, 2023

Known under many tags (including Rule 63, genderbending, gender swap, Always a Different Sex), cisswap is an fandom device most commonly used to make male characters women.

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A top-down view of several thread spools, most with colorful labels on top.

Thread Fics

By Amanda Hudgins • March 28th, 2023

In a lot of ways, Twitter is the home of the thread fic and when it goes, so will they.

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The full cover art from the dust jacket of the American release of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, featuring Harry, Ron and Hermione being carried to safety from a dungeon by Fawkes the phoenix.

Elevating Trash

By Amanda Hudgins • November 30th, 2022

If you, dear reader, are someone who loves Harry Potter, do yourself the service of rereading the series as an adult. Interrogate it. Be prepared to actually know what you’re talking about.

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A still from Breaking Dawn shows a close-up of Bella Swan at the end of her pregnancy. Her face is gaunt and skeletal.

Monstrous Pregnancy

By Amanda Hudgins • October 28th, 2022

Birth is one of the few acts of love that can kill you, a messy, bloody affair that demands everything of the birthing partner.

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A shot of Jacob in wolf form from the movie Twilight.

Hybrid Shifters

By Amanda Hudgins • September 29th, 2022

Ultimately you see in hybrid shifter fiction a desire to create people who are closer to their “natural instincts” over reason, a call back to nature. Is the reason usually sexy? Of course it is.

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In a still from NBC's Hannibal, Hannibal Lector holds the back of Will Graham's neck, the two men's foreheads almost touching.

Hurt/Comfort

By Amanda Hudgins • August 2nd, 2022

Hurt/Comfort is what it says on the tin – a character is hurt, so they must be comforted.

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A still of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, stands in thick woods and readies a bow and arrow to take a shot.

Berklie Novak-Stolz Is Happy to Be “Cringe”

By Amanda Hudgins • June 15th, 2022

An interview with the TikTok creator and fandom enthusiast.

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Four people in casual clothing stand in a hallway, two of them have guns drawn and pointed out of frame.

Ultra-Long

By Amanda Hudgins • December 31st, 2021

Long fanworks are interesting both for their clear amount of dedication to the craft and how much of an outlier they actually are.

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