Fandom Snowflake 2020 - Day 11

[elrhiarhodan]

Challenge #11

In your own space, recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Yeah, these are probably the most common resources, but they are the ones I use the most.

Wikipedia - At nearly six million entries, it's always a shock to discover that there isn't an article about something or someone.

Archive of Our Own - The number one reason why fandom continues to exist. It is free from censorship and through its parent organization, OTW, actively seeks out and rescues fansites from oblivion.

Dreamwidth - It doesn't have the cachet with fandom that LiveJournal did in its heyday, but it is the best place for fannish discourse on the internet. It's where adults can talk and share ideas freely. It is truly one of my favorite things about fandom and the internet.

Pinboard - When Delicious was trashed by its new owners, Pinboard rose from the ashes and gave fandom a place to mark what it liked for everyone (or no one) to see.

TV Tropes - Wikipedia for fandom content. I don't use this too often, mostly because I'm afraid I'll just get lost in my research and die of starvation. It used to be that you warned for links to TV Tropes because of that risk, don't know if it's still the thing.

Duck Duck Go - Yes, "Google" has become the verb for searching the Internet, but you don't HAVE to use Google. I prefer Duck Duck Go because, unlike Google, it doesn't track you or your search history or filtered for the benefit of advertisers.

Comments

[vaysh]

About half of those are my most-used resources as well. :D I didn't know Duck Duck Go, thank you for including it.

[elrhiarhodan]

Duck Duck Go is my default search engine in all of my browsers, and while I do use Gmail and occasionally Google Docs, it helps me keep as low of an on-line and advertiser-unfriendly profile as possible.

[gracerene]

Haha, yes! All excellent resources!

[fairyniamh]

I adore Duck Duck Go for the exact reasons you stated

[tjs_whatnot]

Oh, I'd never heard of Duck, Duck, Go before so thanks for that! I hate Bing so have always relyed on Google. But, will definitely check out this new (to me) one. ♥ ♥

[silveradept]

DuckDuckGo is a great search engine. Have you tried out the bang operators?

[jenab]

I'll have to try Duck Duck Go. I've only just started hearing about it.

Thanks for the links.

[lilly_c]

Duck Duck Go is my default search on all of my devices and I also use Brave browser because that blocks all trackers.