Frills of Justice

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.

Wechselbalg (732 words) by Malymin
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Princess Tutu
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Ahiru | Duck (Princess Tutu)
Additional Tags: warning for discussion of infanticide, Pre-Canon
Summary:

There's obvious Doylist reasons why Duck looks and acts less like a "real" duck than the other animals in the show. She's the relatable audience-viewpoint protagonist; she needs to be cute, appealing, not too inhuman. The other animals, with more naturalistic features, are either ordinary beasts without human intelligence, or they're framed as offputting and unsettling in their bestial forms and habits, as befitting animal bridesgrooms in fairy-tales. Duck can't be a real duck because a real duck is unpalatable, unrelatable; she's the idea of a duck, cute and sanitized.

What if there was a Watsonian reason for that, too?

What if she wasn't a real duck at all?

I feel embarrassed making two posts in a row in here, but... I've been wanting somewhere to share my Princess Tutu fanfics. I've actually got several Tutu fics on my Ao3, but my most recent series is a collection of postcanon one-shots focusing Rue and Mytho's perfect fairytale ending going awry, and that's probably too niche for most people? Honestly, this one is probably too niche, too. ^_^; I hope it's interesting despite that. I hope the footnotes are educational, as well.