Robin

As a Princess Tutu fan, I've found that a lot of potentially useful information and announcements (such as new merch or events) are not only in Japanese with no English version, lately they're only on twitter. I have no plans to make a twitter account in this day and age, so i have to use alternate front ends like nitter.poast just to read a single thread and look at the concept art posted in it.

If I try to view the account's main page through the actual twitter (or "x") front end, it's several months behind the actual most recent posts. I only learned about a few events like pop-up shops long after they'd ended due to this. And twitter is a very badly formatted site for archival deep-dives into the account's earlier tweets... there's one tweet that talks about how Rue/Kraehe was originally going to be a comedic villianess with rat sidekicks in a sort of Time Bokan inspired setup with Rue as the Doronjo figure, but I can't figure out how to pull it up easily.

I'm wondering if any other fandoms have developed means to properly document and translate information from social media - especially as conventional socmed grows increasingly hostile to people who don't have accounts. Most wikis seem to fall horribly behind with documentation, and the kind of fansites that would document obscure trivia just don't seem to exist in the way they used to. If twitter still allowed the formation of RSS feeds, I would happily inject one into my feed for some of my more obscure shows, but as it currently stands... I can't even read Japanese, I use machine translation or pass individual tweets to friends who can. But even without translation, sometimes there's official and production art I can't find anywhere else.

I know the kind of fandom that dominates dreamwidth has always tended more "transformative" than "curative", but curation is and has always been very important to me as a fangirl - I constantly cross-reference whatever official materials I can get when I'm making art or writing fic, even if I'm intentionally going against the work's original intent or themes. I feel really lonely in this struggle, so I'm wondering if anyone has any advice.