Snowflake Challenge 2026 #4

[bedes]

Challenge #4: Rec The Contents Of Your Last Page

Any website that you like, be it fanfiction, art, social media, or something a bit more eccentric!

The last website that I was on was TheFanlistings.org! You might recognize it, as it's been around since 2000 as a directory of approved fanlistings.

What's a fanlisting? In the words of the site itself: "A fanlisting is simply an online listing of fans of a subject, such as a TV show, actor, or musician, that is created by an individual and open for fans from around the world to join. There are no costs, and the only requirements to join a fanlisting are your name and country. TheFanlistings.org is the original (but not only) web directory for fanlistings, dedicated to uniting fans across the globe."

Basically, it's an old-fashioned way to connect with other fans of a subject, by listing all fans who sign up in the same place for easy searching! They were popular in the early internet, when social media wasn't as prominent, so fellow fans were harder to find. They're making a comeback, thanks to the revival of the indie web, though!

If you want to join some fanlistings, I recommend browsing the approved fanlistings of TheFanlistings.org (as previously mentioned), and their partner site, AnimeFanlistings.com. You can put your Dreamwidth journal in the "website" space, so other fans can find your journal!

If you want to look through some fanlisting collectives (which is a website where somebody hosts their fanlistings), I recommend browsing through EPHEMERAL, which is a directory for exactly that! I have a fanlisting collective myself, as well. It's very small for now, and I aim to keep it that way.

I really like fanlistings, because it means that I don't have to put my stake in search engines and unreliable algorithms to find other fans. Plus, it doesn't have any requirements that you sign up to anything, unlike social media! You can find any fan across the whole, wide internet.

Comments

[dustbunny105]

OMG, FANLISTINGS MENTIONED.

This is going to sound silly but I had no idea they were still kicking. I'd sort of mentally grouped them in with the legion of smaller fanshrines that got eaten by the void.

[bedes]

I hear a lot of people that I re-introduce them to say that, so you're definitely not the only one!

Fanshrines/fansites are definitely still around, too! I have a number of my own (each word is a different link -- a small selection of my shrines, best viewed on desktop!). I recommend checking out sites in The Fandom Webring and the Fansites Webring, too.

[dustbunny105]

Yes, I found out recently that there are still a bunch kicking! Though I'm still coming to terms with just how many there still are. I think I must have tricked myself into thinking that they were part of time bygone because so many I remembered from my earlier fandom days were gone. And fanlistings in particular seemed to me such a product of pre-social media days that it simply never came into my mind that they were still being maintained, never mind that new ones were still being created. I'm very glad to have been proven wrong!

I'll for sure be checking out those webrings-- thank you for linking them! I'm relearning HTML/CSS as part of my personal curriculum this year and the "final project" I've assigned myself is to create a website, probably a fansite, so directories are very relevant to my interests. And I love your websites, especially the Celebi shrine!

[bedes]

Thank you!! Also, I'm super excited to hear you plan to make a fansite! Good luck and have fun!

[catgiri]

i loooove just browsing fanlisting websites and seeing which interesting ones people have made. like what do you mean there's a whole online phonebook of people who are fans of flamingos? the world is a beautiful place.