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Ever wanted to learn more about a piece of media without risking spoilers, written by a fan for a prospective new audience? jellyfishlover recently wrote a primer for the series Petscop (both here on Dreamwidth and Neocities) and I think it is the coolest thing.

The page itself covers Petscop’s deal, so I’ll let that end speak for itself; but I also want to add, the very concept of a page like this intrigues me! Sometimes I just wanna know what’s up with XYZ thing that someone’s talking about, but wiki-trawling is a spoiler minefield—and half the time it’s incomprehensible anyway, written with the assumption you’ve already seen/read/watched/played/[insert other form of media consumption here] the thing. But behold, the primer: Here’s what the thing is about! Here’s why you(-general) might find it interesting! And if you do give it a try, and want to get more deeply invested, here’s some stuff you can check out, both official and fanmade!

I Just Think It’s Swell. It makes me want to make something similar for my current pet fandom, and check out other pages like it. (Closest thing coming to mind is a fanshrine, which preceded my internet time so I have no idea if they were/are made with the intent to inform/intrigue the canonblind.) At any rate, while I am notoriously slow at getting into things, reading this definitely nudged Petscop up a few hypothetical tiers. Like, look at that funky little cursor guy. What a face :3

user has not been paid for this post, just wanted to do a linkshare and the rest got out of hand!

This was supposed to be a short post (“some reads, some writes”) and then the reading rec section turned into like, four-ish (not-quite-)book reviews in a bigass trenchcoat. Cut cut, motherfuckers.

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Random recs from recent, all of which made me Think for some reason or another: ( ✂️ )