Sarah Z

@sarahz.bsky.social

Sometimes I make YouTube videos. Right now I play a lot of chess!!! Tomorrow, who knows?

I know every cat owner thinks their cat is the best cat in the world but guys, I think Cardamom might really, legiterally, be the best cat in the world

I'm sure this is explained in the manga, but I really like how in the Hunter x Hunter anime, Leorio just discovers nen and develops his nen powers completely offscreen. I like to imagine he just figured it out from reading a bunch of medical textbooks

The funniest thing about nostalgia is that it'll have you be nostalgic for things that weren't remotely good or interesting. Was just sitting here like wow..... I remember filling out surveys in my first year of university in exchange for iTunes gift cards...... wow....... <3 <3

As always-Sarah & co produce such great videos I know literally nothing about any video topics covered by this channel Yet i’m always entertained & left with random knowledge about fandoms I wish I knew exsisted back when If I was in Seattle still, I would 💯% go see her live show in a couple weeks

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4d ago

IT'S UP!!! A brief history of the illegal hunger games a generation of teens ran on Fanfiction dot net, and the insane and complex economics thereof. NEW VIDEO now on YouTube. youtu.be/PH3U77KeT00

huge for me bc in 2011 i helped a friend write her syot fic. it’s gone forever now & all i remember is we were VERY proud of the humor (?) & it was gonna end with a proto-rebellion which the capitol makes everyone forget & sends the rebel tributes to districts 11 & 12 to become katniss, peeta & rue

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4d ago

IT'S UP!!! A brief history of the illegal hunger games a generation of teens ran on Fanfiction dot net, and the insane and complex economics thereof. NEW VIDEO now on YouTube. youtu.be/PH3U77KeT00

Sarah's last few videos have included some incredibly powerful history and journalism and this one is in large part her reading her own childhood fanfic and it is still absolute top tier videoing. A true polymath, a modern DaVinci.

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4d ago

IT'S UP!!! A brief history of the illegal hunger games a generation of teens ran on Fanfiction dot net, and the insane and complex economics thereof. NEW VIDEO now on YouTube. youtu.be/PH3U77KeT00

Incidentally I think about all the folks who are recovering/reframing the Bronte juvenilia or other collective writing/home performance as part of the history of roleplaying, & also how many of the Actual Players I spoke to had experience in forum RP and/or fannish circles like this.

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4d ago

IT'S UP!!! A brief history of the illegal hunger games a generation of teens ran on Fanfiction dot net, and the insane and complex economics thereof. NEW VIDEO now on YouTube. youtu.be/PH3U77KeT00

I was there. I threw my little guys to be slaughtered in the woodchopper. Usually little guys who already existed on RP forums or the stories I wrote. And I loved and cherished them, so, obviously I wanted to see them suffering. It was great.

Sarah Z@sarahz.bsky.social · 4d ago

IT'S UP!!! A brief history of the illegal hunger games a generation of teens ran on Fanfiction dot net, and the insane and complex economics thereof. NEW VIDEO now on YouTube. youtu.be/PH3U77KeT00

Nothing I revealed in that video about my teen OCs is more embarrassing than clicking onto my old fanfiction dot net profile and finding this.

My "favourite stories" tab on fanfiction.net. The top result is fucking Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. By Big Yud. Eliezer Yudkowsky. It's his fucking lesswrong/MIRI recruitment fic

Back in the 2010s, a generation of teenagers built elaborate death games hidden deep inside a website that banned them. NEW VIDEO, a brief history of the most illegal thing you could do on fanfiction dot net in 2011. Up early on Nebula!! nebula.tv/videos/sarah...

Me, Sarah Z, wearing a lace top and skirt, holding a mic in front of a tv that is displaying, in comic sans, "happy hunger games"