Writing about digital communities, books, and fandom. Editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨ elizabethminkel.com // fansplaining.com // https://buttondown.email/the-rec-centerhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3ml7coga3mk2cIt was a true delight to edit this by @mldavies.bsky.social on THREE BAGS FULL, the beloved mystery novel that's now The Sheep Detectives film. It's exactly the kind of smart book writing I wanted to publish at the expanded @fansplaining.bsky.social!! Also I'm reading the novel rn—SO GOOD. 🐑🐏🐑🐏🐑 https://fansplaining.com/three-bags-fulls-faithful-flock/06 May 2026 18:16 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7coga3mk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mkyflcetoc22Every day I see complaints about what's frame as a unique crime of "The Pitt fandom" that's been widely documented as a dynamic/behavior across all sorts of audiences, communities, platforms, etc for *years*. Did these people somehow miss all of that? Or is the problem that it's around The Pitt.04 May 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyflcetoc22https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mktbivj2w22nOne second every day, April 🌸01 May 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktbivj2w22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mksctew7fs23How do they actually sleep like this? 😭01 May 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mksctew7fs23https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mknz3bnwqk22You gotta check out those footnotes!! (Also please note that like 15 more bad Pitt articles were published while we were closing this piece. It felt futile to link to them all. 🫠) [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mknz3bnwqk22https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mkni7bhvns2r🥰 🥰 🥰 I am very tired but VERY excited to get this out in the world. A million thank yous to @bookshop.bsky.social & @lincodega.com for all their work getting this off the ground. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 16:07 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkni7bhvns2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mkebtxquk22vGlamorously working on the @fansplaining.bsky.social migration on a Saturday night (the deadline looms!) and I shared a deeply stupid fandom 101 article from the show notes of a 2016 episode on Slack. 5 minutes later, @bookshop.bsky.social shared a deeply stupid fandom 101 article published TODAY.26 Apr 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkebtxquk22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mk6ikcejh226I'm in the portion of this where I feel overwhelmed by the remaining amount of work so it's just like 😬 SO 😬 EXCITED 😬 TO 😬 ANNOUNCE 😬 but I actually am very excited too!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6ikcejh226https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mk4qf3ki7c25In 2026, if your article assessing "fandom" is mostly sourced from Twitter, you'd better frame the article as being *about* Twitter fandom specifically. That is a verrry narrow and intentional subset of fans today. That's not to say it's not worth covering—but that framing needs to be prominent. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Apr 2026 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4qf3ki7c25https://bsky.app/profile/elizabethminkel.bsky.social/post/3mk3xyqx6qk2eWith every new ~Pitt toxic fandom article~ that one of us shares to the Fansplaining Slack I fear by the time we launch, our first article will just consist of incoherent screaming. 🥲22 Apr 2026 17:01 +0000at://did:plc:uu26ecm7z5m55b26mape6cnp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk3xyqx6qk2e