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March Meta Matters Challenge banner by thenewbuzzwuzz

March 1 is just weeks away, so that means the kickoff to this year's March Meta Matters Challenge will be taking place soon! The challenge involves locating and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation, plus there will be some prompts for creating new meta.

Feel free to ask questions here about the challenge, locations, etc. Otherwise subscribe to

marchmetamatterschallenge and look for our opening post on March 1!

full_metal_ox

In the process of researching a post for

fancake, I discovered that MakeupAlley, long the go-to beauty product review site and social media platform, shut down on 27 September 2025.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250917105135/https://www.thecut.com/article/makeupalley-to-shut-down-in-september.html

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full_metal_ox

Heads up: Typepad is shutting down on 30 September 2025; back up and/or port anything you’ve got posted there.

https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

Current Mood: disgruntled

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yourlibrarian

This Valentine's Day, we're inviting everyone to "join the couch... and the conversation" in our

tv_talk friending meme! Are you a binge-watching pro or casual viewer? There's a spot for everybody on our

tv_talk couch! Get ready to cozy up and share your love for television.

To join in just subscribe to

tv_talk and when the meme is launched, comment with some answers to the prepared prompts. Let us know at our announcement post if you have any questions.

yourlibrarian

Have you watched new TV shows or discovered older ones that you really enjoyed in 2024? Let others know about them in

tv_talk's Rec Fest, kicking off on January 12.

There will be posts made each day from the 12th through the 18th, each day a different genre with the 18th for any ones we didn't cover earlier in the week. Help others find new things to watch!

For more details and if you have any questions, visit our announcement post.

full_metal_ox

Anyone out there who still cares about MIDIS should know that another Internet media repository is gone; Vanbasco was not only a source of karaoke download software but the site of a massive MIDI search engine, with each entry listing mirrors.

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yourlibrarian

It's less than a month until the kickoff for this year's March Meta Matters Challenge! As usual, the challenge involves locating and copying over meta you've created to a second site in order to ensure its preservation. There will also be several prompts for creating new meta.

Check out our FAQ or ask questions about how to participate. Or just subscribe to

marchmetamatterschallenge and look for our opening post on March 1!

full_metal_ox

https://www.themarysue.com/gfycat-shutting-down-one-of-the-internets-biggest-gif-hubs

And there goes yet another major media hosting platform. The Gfycat site has a notice that reads, “The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com.”

And if you don’t have an account, this is the time to get your favorite GIFs downloaded/backed up.

Current Mood: disgruntled

yourlibrarian

March Meta Matters Challenge banner by thenewbuzzwuzz

The March Meta Matters Challenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history. Join us in March to start archiving your work!

Participants will be locating past meta work and copying it over to a secondary location to ensure its preservation and improve its access. Everyone will work at their own pace and set their own goals for the month. Prompts for new meta will be offered and check in posts will encourage participants to keep going with their older work.

Visit the community for more information and join in on March 1!

yourlibrarian

Buffyverse Top 5 Classic Recs Angel Cast

It's time to pick out your costume, start carving those pumpkins, and decide on goodies to share because it's almost time for the 2022 session of Buffyverse Top 5!

That means recs for fics, vids, graphics, anything and everything fandom has produced in all the Whedon fandoms and crossovers are very welcome! We'll be reopening on October 22 at midnight UTC (what time is that for me?) and running through midnight November 2.

For more information check out details on what to post and how the posting session is organized.

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yourlibrarian

...for year 3! The

marchmetamatterschallenge is focused on not just new meta, but making sure older meta gets a chance to be read and remain a part of fandom history.

While new meta is also encouraged, the priority for Meta Matters is to make sure meta doesn't vanish with sites or personal accounts when those get closed or moved. That's also why the challenge will be using the Archive of Our Own as a destination site and collection host.

This will be a month-long event kicking off on March 1 with bi-weekly check-ins. March Meta Matters will close on April 1.

Find out more about the challenge through our introduction or the FAQ. Feel free to leave questions on either post.

full_metal_ox

My apologies for not giving advance warning, but I only happened upon the notice today: be warned that if you have more than 1,000 photos on a Flickr Free Account, stuff is going to start disappearing:

https://blog.flickr.net/en/2018/11/01/changing-flickr-free-accounts-1000-photos/

Current Mood: listless

olivermoss

( Spoilers for Venom, Pacific Rim and 80s-90s era Mercedes Lackey Novels )

olivermoss

After long years of people complaining they wanted off of Tumblr, people are actually leaving. Will it last? Did fandom already leave Tumblr and a lot of people didn't notice until now? Does Discord leave you in the cold because of timezones? Or are you sitting here wishing other people would set up the communities you want to be in?

A surprising amount of the Tumblr blogs I followed deleted this week.

yourlibrarian

... of recs for all fanworks in the Whedon fandoms! We are 13 days away from the kickoff of the first annual all-in-one

buffyversetop5 session which will open at Midnight GMT on October 24 and run until Midnight GMT on November 2. As in the past, this Halloween session will be open for Classic Recs. But we're also going to have a new event -- FlashForward Weekend, October 27 and 28, for your 2018 recs!

For more information see our earlier post discussing this year's events. Don't hesitate to drop us a comment there if you have any questions. We hope to see you and your recs soon!

tptigger

We have a Discord Here is a non-expiring invite.
Apologies for not thinking ahead!

tptigger

So a friend had a great idea: a Cranky Old Fangirls Discord.
~~Have an invite!~~
That one expired. This one won't!
Come, tell us what about fandom is making you cranky! Or excited! Have fannish conversations that don't involve the word problematic! :)

It's not Imzy, but it's better at conversations than Dreamwidth, IMHO

full_metal_ox

This may admittedly be hoary gray-whiskered news to a lot of you, but in the process of going through my virtual junk drawer, I noticed that the Reocities archives of some of my favorite old Geocities haunts have evaporated. I seem to recall that Reocities was one person's labor of love; did he get socked with C's-and-D's, run out of funding, die, or what?

Current Mood: melancholy

klangley56

Posting this for a friend.

Charity zine sale. Zines donated to be sold to assist two older, long time media/zine fans in financial hardship.

Two, Teri White GEN Starsky & Hutch zines from 1979. Bound together in a two hole punch report cover, otherwise in good condition with only expected wear from age.

Promises to Keep: This was Teri’s FIRST S&H story after extensive writing in Star Trek. Illos by Paulie Gilmore (this is the Paulie later known as PJ Alexander, or Paulie Morvant Alexander of The Presses.) It’s 76 pages.

CopKiller: 168 pages. The title page is autographed and personalized to the original owner (who wants to be anonymous, but who is also a television writer and fan writer with a long history in fandom.)

Information on both is on Fanlore.

Requiem Publications is planning to put these on auction. Interested parties can email ReqPub@gmail.com to be notified when the auction page is up, or to submit prebids. Tentative closing date for the auction is August 31, 2018 Midnight EST. Please note our auctions are NOT ‘autobid’ like eBay. If an item is currently $5 and you tell us $100, THAT is your bid. The item will then be marked $100, and payment within 48 hrs or arrangements made will be expected.

klangley56

Maybe "off topic" for this group, but in case there are fans (old, new, whatever) who are interested . . .

RED ALERT! ST zine sale (not mine) at:

https://tinyurl.com/yd5h63m9

The zines are going fast (she had a bunch of other great titles, and they are *gone* already!

Galactic Discourse #3 -- $20 Another high-quality issue--great fiction and art. (Some wear, especially along the spine. Perfect bound.)
Galactic Discourse #5 -- $20 Another beautiful production by Laurie Huff and all of her contributors. Fantastic art and fiction.
Insatiable Curiosity -- $20 Tribute to Leonard Nimoy from 1983--some really gorgeous portrait art.
Menagerie #12 -- $6

Stardate: Unknown #3 -- $20
The Third Verdict -- $10
Two-Dimensional Thinking -- $25.00 Includes the HILARIOUS Dubyah T. DuBois (That's Dew-boys!) stories by Rayelle Roe.
Vault Of Tomorrow #2--$25 (some wear and some damage (tears) to the spine; perfect bound)
Vault Of Tomorrow #4--$25 (some wear, a diagonal crease on the front cover. I didn't notice it until the light was shining on it at an odd angle.) Perfect bound.
Vault Of Tomorrow #9--$25 Comb binding
Vault Of Tomorrow #11 -- $30 Perfect bound.

Adult zine (het)
R&R #12 -- $7 (zine shows a lot of wear, front cover has tears near the bottom that does not affect readability or art)
R&R #15 -- $8 (bottom left corner of the zine curled up; clear tape on all four corners of the cover; front and bacover show slight wrinkling and wear)
R&R #18 -- $8 (zine shows some wear)
R&R #21 -- $8

Adult zine (slash)
Broken Images -- $40 (Definitely was read often, shows its age in the resultant wear and , but still in reasonable condition.)