Fanwork Recs - October 15, 2015

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Fanwork is awesome and sharing fanwork is even more awesome. Join us as we keymash and squee over our favorite fanwork, from fic (both written and podfic) to art to vids and meta and back again.

Recommendations included:

• Agent Carter — art (1)
• Hotel Dusk — fic (1)
• JX Online 3 — cosplay (1)
• The Lord of the Rings — art (1)
• The Losers — fic (1)
• Marvel — art (2)
• Mass Effect — art (1)

( On to the recs! )

Review: Library Wars: Love and War Volume 1 by Kiiro Yumi

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The Library Freedom Act:
Libraries have the freedom to acquire their collections.
Libraries have the freedom to circulate materials in their collections.
Libraries guarantee the privacy of their patrons.
Libraries oppose any type of censorship.
When libraries are imperilled, librarians will join together to secure their freedom.

In the future proposed by Library Wars, the Japanese government passes strict censorship laws, enforced by a military group (the Media Betterment Committee), who are authorised to remove books from libraries and book shops by force. The Library Defence Force is a paramilitary group committed to defending libraries from the laws, and Iku Kasahara is the first woman to attempt to join it.

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