Flourish

Flourish is a fanfic writer, conference organizer, archive administrator, most notably in the Harry Potter fandom (having written stories for that fandom prior to the establishment of FFN's category section), and former co-host of the podcast Fansplaining. Their pronouns are they/them. Flourish is also an aca-fan who has frequently worked with Henry Jenkins.
One notable contribution to fandom includes co-founding FictionAlley, being on staff at FanFiction.Net at the age of 12 or 13.Fandoms, the Internet, and Harry Potter: An interview with Flourish Klink, co-founder of FictionAlley and CMS lecturer (2013)
* playing in the RPGs Nocturne Alley and That Was Then/This Is Now
* secretary of the board of HP Education Fanon, Inc. in 2009
Flourish also co-authored the classic Harry Potter fanfic "Alternity." Though the story has since disappeared from the internet, they resurrected it as an RPG in 2008. The RPG is also entitled Alternity.
== List of Primary Fandoms ==
* 1997-1998: X-files
* 1998–present: Harry Potter
* 2007–present: Vorkosigan
* 2010s–?: One Direction
==Online Presence==
A member of the internet and fannish since 1998, Flourish has numerous online accounts, some where they maintain great activity while others have no apparent updates. 
Many of their first fannish activities are no longer available due to the crash of various fan community sites, or because the activies were deleted by Flourish themself.
Flourish has been on LiveJournal since 2001, and created an account on Dreamwidth in mid-2009. According to their Tumblr they migrated to the platform as many previously did after the LJ turmoil.
Their DW account has been closed exclusively to friends since 2016, and their LJ has no updates since 2014, but Flourish has been active on Tumblr as of July 2021.
==Bio==
==Autobio==
===2002===
===2018===
==Interviews ==
* A Short History Of Me In Fandom, (not an interview but a short self-recap) (2002)
* Acafandom and Beyond: Week Three, Part One (Kristina Busse, Flourish Klink, and Nancy Baym), Acafandom and Beyond: Week Three, Part Two (Kristina Busse, Flourish Klink, and Nancy Baym) (2011)
* Fandoms, the Internet, and Harry Potter: An interview with Flourish Klink, co-founder of FictionAlley and CMS lecturer (2013)
* Mini Interviews: Wesley Chu and Flourish Klink (2015)
* Fandom is My Fandom, panel discussion with Flourish and others at ComicCon (2015)
* An Interview with Elizabeth Minkel and Flourish Klink from fansplaining with Angela Yuen at Margins (2016)
* The Multiplicity and Diversity of Fandom: An Interview with Fansplaining's Flourish Klink and Elizabeth Minkel (2017)
* The Verge 2017 Interview with Flourish Klink (2017)
==Essays==
* How to Make a Good First Impression (2001)
* The Radical Idea that Children are People (June 10, 2009)
* OTW Guest Post: Flourish Klink (2014)
* To Ship or Not To Ship: An explainer about the terms “ship” and “slash” (2016)
== List of Conferences & Conventions (Presenting or Organizing)==
* 2003: Nimbus 2003, panelist for "Once Upon a Time-Turner: The History of Harry Potter Fandom." Moderated "Slytherins, Smoke and Shadows: The Secret Life of Severus Snape."
* 2009: Azkatraz 2009, co-chair of formal programming. Moderated "Ten Years On," a discussion of the history of Harry Potter fandom.
* 2010: The Digital Media and Learning Conference 2010: Diversifying Participation, co-presented "From Fan Activism to Political Activism: Participatory Democracy around Popular Media Affinity Groups."
* 2010: International Conference for the Fantastic in Arts 31: Race and the Fantastic, panelist for "Antifans: What Fans Love to Hate." Presented "Fans, Anti-Fans and Sparklepires: An Examination of Current Definitions of ‘Fan’ with Reference to Twilight."
==References==
Category:Fansplaining
 Category:Fans
Category:Commentators
Category:Fanwriters