Love to you! Did you ever see bironic's multifandom SF/F/H characters of color extravaganza vid The Greatest? It came out in 2018 drawing on ~75 (!) sources, and I keep coming back to it. More of this: let's have a hundred thousand more new sources for joy in this.
It's odd to think there were people on the internet in 2009 who weren't active in RaceFail. (Was that 20 years ago? 12 years? The last two years feel like a whole decade between them, certainly.) RaceFail was so formative for me personally - reading that fanlore summary is like an instant warp right back into that period, college, midway through the grimmest year. I'm glad it's being taught and remembered now; I found it one heck of an education at the time, more rawly important than anything in my assigned classes. I swear it aged me at least a year in a month. So many important people, so many friends, who I first met then. It was the last big anything I participated in on LJ; Dreamwidth opened in beta that May.
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It's odd to think there were people on the internet in 2009 who weren't active in RaceFail. (Was that 20 years ago? 12 years? The last two years feel like a whole decade between them, certainly.) RaceFail was so formative for me personally - reading that fanlore summary is like an instant warp right back into that period, college, midway through the grimmest year. I'm glad it's being taught and remembered now; I found it one heck of an education at the time, more rawly important than anything in my assigned classes. I swear it aged me at least a year in a month. So many important people, so many friends, who I first met then. It was the last big anything I participated in on LJ; Dreamwidth opened in beta that May.
I'm so glad we're still here. <3