Reviewer Blurbs

TO HELL + BACK: A DESTIEL ANTHOLOGY IS NOW LIVE ON INDIEGOGO.

As we have mentioned, in the planning stages of To Hell + Back: A Destiel Anthology, we were specifically interested in featuring artists and writers whose works aren’t as well known in the fandom. Since all eight of us mods consume fanfic and fanart for Destiel at a frankly alarming rate, we worried about recognizing contributors’ samples from creators’ specific styles even when anonymized. To help prevent this kind of name/style recognition bias, we turned to some of our friends and family to help us out!

The first round of selections will be done by reviewers who are either content creators themselves or have been consuming content for ages online! Some have been in the SPN fandom previously, some create content for other fandoms, and some are a part of the general audience who have little experience with fanworks themselves, but are most definitely nerd-critiquers of canon! Take a look at our lovely reviewers who are volunteering their time to give us a hand!

@doekent
Poetry writer, anime connoisseur and BTS enthusiast @doekent used to be part of the SPN fandom, but has since given her body and soul to K-Pop. When she’s not writing her thesis on K-Pop fandom, she can be found writing fic or sending @casthewise dank memes. Sometimes she does both at the same time.

@Xue_Lang
Xue_Lang has spent years as a fandom lurker, art learner and beta reader. She remembers the old SuperWhoLock days with equal fondness and disbelief at what everyone got up to. She enjoys drawing random Pokémon and yelling about experimental theater performances at the same time. Check her out on AO3!

@crankysunflower
@crankysunflower (they/them), has been involved with fanworks since 2008 when they first fell in love with the range and depth of emotions that fan creation could elicit, and the collective conscious that emerges as a result of that process. They can usually be found yelling about open access in social science and academia on their twitter when they’re not spamming @dusky-rambles with art or memes.

Bryan
Bryan is @justholdingstill’s partner—he loves comics and graphic novels, stans the MCU, and has seen the whole series of Supernatural three times! He does a great Dean Winchester impression, but doesn’t (yet) have his own tumblr url, and has only recently started dipping his toes into deeper fandom waters. Just yesterday he learned what A/B/O is, and now he won’t stop using the phrase “self-lubricating asshole”—*eyeroll*. Transformative works are relatively new to him, but as a lifelong reader, we are confident that he knows how to identify great storytelling.