Fandom resource masterpost
Because culture is what you make of it
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Here's a list of places to go for fandom culture and history online. As usual, this is not going to be comprehensive, and I think I'll split each thing into its own post and use this as a sticky. It may, I hope, be interesting. Fandom culture is very generational, and currently it's a bit isolated according to what places a person may encounter other fans. That could be socially in realspace, at localized conventions, online in particular sites, and now dependent on things like social media walled-gardens or what material someone may access or thinks to look for.
Because of all this, it can be wonderful to go looking for fan works from other times and places. I always liked reading about behind-the-scenes things for, say, Star Trek, but I adore finding out even now how people were taking part in fanworks projects not unlike those on Tumblr or in Discord now. It's hilarious seeing a song about mary-sue writing from the early 80s. It's surreal to see what people were doing on Usenet while I was a kid. It warmed my heart to learn that there are zine scans on archive.org that were printed in the town near my childhood home. I wasn't alone! And we've never been. We've only been isolated by circumstance and the way our society is built. Only commercialism makes things universal--save that we go seeking, and we should.
Not all of these will remain accessible (I'll try to maintain links). In that sense, it's important to support (actively!) sites like the Internet Archive and Fanlore. Access to information is not a constant, and it can be taken. Some people save digital files themselves, or print and bind their own collections of fandom history material. That can include fanfic (I personally would prefer that people get permission), zines, and personally made rebindings and reproductions.
Wayback Machine
Jargon File (this is not https, but has previously been ok)