DIRECTORY

A directory, like a fanlisting, is fairly intuitive: it's a list of things within a particular category. I do hope to produce a few directories and cliques in the coming year, because, a bit like fanlistings, those offer services to fellow hobbyists. It helps augment one's web presence, sure, but it's also a way to give back something in a way that you enjoy. I'd like to do that, because I've been quite touched at how warm this corner of the web is.

FANLISTING

A fanlisting is exactly what it sounds like: a listing of the fans of a particular subject. These are curated by TheFanlistings.org, and their approval is seen as a kind of official stamp. These sorts of projects are approved by that organization, and will likely be nothing further than a fanlisting. That's not a bad thing — in contrast to a shrine, which involves immense work but does not offer a 'service' beyond thoughtful commentary and intensive research, a fanlisting is a great way to discover others interested in the same items you are, particularly if they're esoteric.

My interest has always been in producing shrines, but there are a few things (like dear Slime Rancher) that I love so much that I just want to be a part of the fan community for it somehow, and give back a bit.

SHRINE IN PROGRESS

Projects of this kind are things that I am working on ... in a very vague sense. That means that I am satisfied with its current web presence as a fanlisting — or, in Spinster's case, as an incomplete collection of essays — but that I also hope to slowly build on this. This is a combination of two things: first, I tend to just simply really like the subject; second, there may be very little information on their background. (For whatever reason, I like big women of mystery!) And since what I am feeling is a vague sense of love, it feels like enough to have a fanlisting, where my life is tending to an outpost of similar fans — rather than a many-thousand word examination of my emotiions.

So the items on the project list are technically at a higher urgency than these, and you may very well see completed versions of them first. Do feel free to bug me about that! Or if you're interested in any sort of a collaborative project (I'd love to co-shrine something), please reach out. ♥ Nothing motivates me like another person looking over my shoulder at what turns out to be trashy techno remixes and a blank document.

SHRINE

Turns out what a shrine is ... is complicated. The term itself connotes something more spiritual than its usage here intends, but a shrine is about something that the maker deemed important and wanted to direct attention to. Since this is a small corner of the world-wide-web, the motivation has to be intrinsic: this is something important to you, enough that the project's public placement amounting to nothing would still be acceptable.

Shrines, for me, a general a response to a hmm reaction, rather than pure love. In fact, the projects motivated first and foremost by adoration of the subject tend to stagnate for me, personally. For me, the most interesting thing to write is an interrogation or a record of my thought process — hence the high premium on a hmm. I can't promise that it's interesting for anyone else, but it's fun enough for me to design something and fill it up with my writing, even if nobody else reads it.

COMING SOON

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