Snowflake day 5

[obstinatecondolement]

In your own space, tell us about 3 creative/fannish resources, spaces, or communities you use or enjoy. (One or two is fine, especially if you're in a smaller fandom or like many people at the moment, fannishly adrift right now) Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

—snowflake_challenge

I would like to rec DW-specific resources, but I'm not really on here frequently enough to have many unique insights in that sphere, sadly! However, here are a few resources that have been helpful for me in Trek fandom:

• TrekCore is, in its own words "The Web's largest and most frequently updated Star Trek multimedia resource" and it is an invaluable resource for screencaps, episode guides, sound effects and news about new merch, etc. I once planned out a whole DS9 vid using screencaps that I sourced from TrekCore as storyboards. It is resources like these that make me realise how lucky we Trekkies are when I feel the absense of them in other fandoms!
• Memory Alpha is the fan wiki for all things (canon) Trek! Again, a truly wonderful and comprehensive resource that makes other fan wikis pale in comparison (I certainly feel very wistful about Memory Alpha whenever I'm contending with the Karate Kid wiki, which literally just makes things up and editorialises constantly). Its sister site, Memory Beta, covers beta canon (i.e. novelisations etc.).

I'm listing these resources specifically because from time to time I have seen proponents of transformative fandom dismiss "curatorial" fandom that "simply" catalogues canon and is therefore "not creative" and, honestly, this makes me very uncomfortable. I understand that some people in more mainstream parts of fandom are often very rude about transformative fandom and that defensiveness in the face of this is probably natural, but I dislike the idea that we need to prop ourselves up by putting down another way of being fannish. And, as I've said, these resources that curate canon information have been invaluable to me for creating fanworks! I really don't think this is or should be a "us and them" issue and, besides, lots of people like both ways of particpating in fandom, so the binary is a false one in the first place.