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Record Crash
| Recommendation Website | |
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| Name: | |
| Reccer(s): | Makin |
| Dates: | 2018 (or earlier?) - present |
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| URL: | https://recordcrash..com/ https://recordcrash.substack.com/ |
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Record Crash is a reccomendation website and blog run by Makin. It covers both fanfic and original fiction (though that original fiction is mostly webfiction in the vein of Worm, Rational Fic, and related webfiction communities. Makin's Shills List is a frequent point of reference for readers in these online communities.
The blog (hosted on substack) does reviews of specific works, retrospectives of genres, and fannish history. See Makin for examples.
History
Long ago, I started maintaining a fiction recommendation list at the Homestuck Discord, after the original comic ended in 2016. We were all desperately looking for more stories like it, because with that awful ending, it hardly felt like we had finished anything.I made the list with a specific design philosophy in mind that totally didn’t emerge organically:
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The list was initially textual, a pin in a Discord channel, but it had turned into an image by June 2017:
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Eventually, after a few iterations, it became a fully featured Vue website5 in 2021, recordcrash.com.[1]
Example Posts
- Reviews for October 2023
- 28(+3) Reviews: The Pokemon Fanfiction Zeitgeist, Archived version published March 2023
- "Systematic Fiction", Jumpchain, CYOAs, the Celestial Forge and (You)!, Archived version, published July 2024. About Jumpchain and related styles of webfiction that Makin has grouped into a genre and named "Systemic fiction".
Fandom Responses
Other people have made their own shills lists organized in similar ways inspired by or in repsonse to Makin.
Examples
- #shills-list-shills-list, Archived version, a meta-list maintained by shillseekers of shills-lists that came out of the Homestuck Discord. Contains 18 lists.
- Shills List, Archived version by tetraspace, who explicitly credits Makin for the format.