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So runpunkrun did a Q/A for the OTW about running fancake recently, and she linked to this 2013 hilarious and deeply moving talk/essay about fandom from the guy (Maciej Cegłowski) who created the tagging site Pinboard. He helped fandom migrate there from Delicious when Youtube bought and basically destroyed Delicious. I never used Delicious, but I knew about it and wondered what happened to it. I only got halfway through this talk before I started sobbing from joy. Sometimes that happens to me; I read or see something that makes me feel too much for my dry, shriveled heart. It's like the Grinch at the end of the movie. I have a lot of feels about fandom as a community and how generous and giving everyone is, and this talk just hits it dead on, from an outsider's perspective. Probably none of it will be surprising to anyone here, which is part of what's so remarkable about fandom. I mean *fanfic* fandom specifically (which of course includes other fanworks) vs other media fandoms which have historically been different.

https://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm

(also, the OTW Q/A here: https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-guest-post-runpunkrun/ )