Remember how LiveJournal let you have several icons (or avatars or "pfps" as you might call them now)? And you'd carefully choose an icon to fit the subject matter, your tone, and the blog on which you were commenting or posting?

And it could make your argument look that much snarkier if you used a rude one? Or you could use it to add a multiplier to a joke?

And icons, alongside banners and wallpapers, were a whole genre of fanwork with its own design language, conventions, and norms, including carefully crediting people for them?

That was neat.

AU where My Immortal was the fanfic that broke into the mainstream instead of 50 Shades.

I’ve said multiple times that I consider White Collar to be one of the most feminist friendly shows on TV. It’s not perfect, but it has multiple woman characters, with different personalities, desires, and goals, and it doesn’t demonize any of them or pit them against each other. And nowhere, I think, does White Collar earn its feminist cred more than with the character of Sara Ellis.

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