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I was just blasted with a divine vision of hatsune miku but her twintails are fishhooks with comically large teal fish hanging from them
Do you see the vision.
Might I present to you alteraa.cosplay on tick tock
[ID: Hatsune Miku at the beach with a hairstyle as described and a t-shirt that says, “women want me, fish fear me.” Second image: A cosplay with the hairstyle as described, a pale blue work overall, and a fishing rod. /end ID]
Femslash February Editing Chat
ALTAre you loving Femslash February as much as we are? Continue the celebration by joining our Discord for a monthly editing chat! On February 28 @ 4:00AM UTC and March 1 @ 6:00PM UTC, you’ll get the chance to collaborate with other editors on femslash-related Fanlore pages. We hope to see you there!
ALTToday’s Featured Article is Why I Can’t Trust You With The Term “Purity Culture”, which covers an essay by osteophage posted in 2019. The essay outlines the origin of “purity culture” as a term, and critiques its modern usage in fandom spaces, especially on Tumblr.
“Purity culture” was coined to describe a cultural movement led by conservative Christians in the United States. This movement encouraged young people to strive for “sexual purity” by following a set of practices, such as abstaining from sex until marriage. Although it rose to prominence in the 1990s and 2000s, some Christian circles still promote it today.
Osteophage argues that in Tumblr fandom spaces, the term has been divorced from meaning, with broad definitions that contradict what it stood for in the first place. Osteophage writes that the comparison of “fandom ship wars over erotic fanfic to purity culture doesn’t make sense because purity culture would condemn the whole lot of you for writing erotica in the first place.” Among the alternative descriptors to “purity culture” that osteophage lists, “ship wars” is one of them. Others include absolutism, punitive morality, and ignorance. The essay cites Fanlore’s Purity Culture in Fandom article to demonstrate how the “repurposing of the term” has taken root.
Responses to the essay were mixed. Some commenters were unfamiliar with the term’s fandom usage, while others were unfamiliar with its original definition. Some agreed with the essay’s message, while others—especially on AO3—argued the fandom definitions of “purity culture” were appropriate.
Would you like to learn more about this piece of meta? Come explore its Fanlore page!
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ALTUpdates to “No Fandom” Additional Tags, February 2026
AO3 tag wranglers have canonized some new “No Fandom” additional tags and revised subtag and metatag relationships of existing “No Fandom” canonical tags. Check out the latest news post for details: https://otw-news.org/ex7cfk3y
