15% off your Timeless Ship 💌 + 🍋 CitrusCon Q&A now Open

Meet us @ CitrusCon — Send in your Q&A

This Sunday, March 1st 2026, we’ll be (once again) haunting the virtual halls of CitrusCon—not with a talk, but with a “Q&Ad-lib”, an innovative panel format where Ms Boba attempts to prepare in advance, runs out of time, and is then forced to improvise live. Luckily, she’s good at that! …or is she?

If you want to help her—or, you know, the opposite—send in your questions here. We’ll be focusing on the future of the fandom web and how we can build it together.

✨ FREE ✨ Registration closes Thursday, February 26th 2026, so be sure to grab your tickets now!


And with this...

Valentine's Day Promo: Time-Crossed Lovers Edition

Rejoice, Shippers! Come hither and feast your eyes on the new, improved RobinBoob, featuring a week-long, 15%-off-all-ships Valentine's Day bonanza.

Now, some naysayers might cry: "but how can you have a Valentine's promo, when February 14th was more than a week ago?" Irrelevant! What is time to real love? And what are other powerful, terrifying forces like, you know, launch deadlines?

So whether you're a budding investor claiming exclusive ownership of your special rarepair for the first time, or a seasoned trader saving yet another timeless couple from fans who "don't get them like you do", head forth to RobinBoob.com and use code LOVE_IS_TIMELESS to kickstart your very own VC (Valentine Certificates) fund.


And now, the weather updates:

• In Top Shipshape: What better way to spend New Year holidays than to revisit one of our most beloved moneymakers April 1st jokes? RobinBoob came out the other side of 2025 with a serious "new year, new me": we added PayPal (our longest-standing request), braved database optimization so searches aren't painfully slow, and snuck in a handful of quality-of-life improvements ready for you to discover on your own. The short version: everything's faster, smoother, more featureful—and, of course, ready to take your hard-earned money in exchange for meaningless JPEGs (...or are they?).
• Certified Gift-Giver: In true Valentine's spirit, you can now officially gift ship certificates to other people. No more putting in your bestie's email at checkout and hoping Stripe won't forward your credit card details (it wouldn't): we've built a proper gifting flow, complete with a notification email and personal note, so your giftees will always know you're thinking of them thinking of fictional characters smashing. If you haven't sent a proper Valentine's yet, this makes the perfect gift for your partner, your best friend, or even just yourself. Already sent one? Well, you know what we think: time means nothing when you're sharing some love.
• Return of the Ship-Watchers: Remember when the RobinBoob Twitter account used to post every ship purchase, uniting us in celebration of each other's excellent taste, or (for some), in the pleasure of inflicting our questionable palate upon others? Unfortunately, having fallen to "imperscrutable business acumen", that tradition was lost...until now: starting today, Ship-watching is back on all our store socials (tumblr, mastodon, and bluesky) except Twitter. Subscribe, spectate, and judge celebrate accordingly—and obviously, buy some ships to add to the feed.

FujoCoded General Company News [Omakase]

• Cookies Complete: The Fandom Cookies digital pack is out at last: head to our store right now to learn to build your own fortune generator website! This pack includes a ton of content, featuring a full set of wallpapers and digital goodies from fannish artists, alongside our HTML/CSS/JavaScript learn-along “with heavily commented code for beginners stepping up”. And if you buy it now, you’ll also get a discount for the ✨fancy edition✨ (for future release), which builds upon the regular pack to help you master ~even fancier~, more advanced CSS, JS, and HTML techniques.

• Cleaning Up Our Mart: With the digital pack buyers at our doors, we carved up the time—and adrenaline—to tidy up the FujoCoded store. In record time, we’ve added a ton of missing stuff like card backgrounds that help stickers pop, on-click image magnification (so you can see what you’re buying), and even made it much, much faster to load! While these changes improve our store for everyday visitors, they've long been in our to-do list for the launch of FujoGuide Issue 1—that table of contents would be hard to read otherwise👇👀

FujoCoded Backerkit Update

FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Recent

• Workshopping Writers: Our friend and article writer Rie took our existing learn@ style guide into their own hands (and wisdom). After giving our existing guidelines a very-needed coat of polish and clarity, they used their experience to concoct a better article writing AND review process—all this so we can spread our (free) knowledge faster and more sustainably! If that was not enough, they’re now test-driving this same process, guiding a kind volunteer in reviewing the Terminal series you funded (🙏) and upgrading it to fit our latest guidelines.
• Amicable Divorce: Ms Boba’s been breaking up marriages again, this time splitting up our NPM articles into more focused and approachable (not to mention less scary) chunks. Hand-on exercises—like Running NodeJS programs and Learn and Practice NPM—are now cozily settled in their single-occupancy home(page)s, so you can head directly to your preferred learning avenue, or more easily link your friends to the exact skills they seek.
• Shoot for the Stars: Behold the outline of our Astro learning path! As the last newsletter foretold, the collective hive-mind gathered forth in our Astro stream to ponder the missing pieces in the existing Astro docs. The verdict? While they’re excellent for people starting a website from scratch, Astro's docs lack guidance for those wishing to upgrade their handcrafted sites—a significant portion of our own target audience! We have, alas, not yet placed this “jump on the Astro rocket without leaving your site behind” series in our schedule, but we’re eager to start as our current articles (and other assorted obligations) wind down.

FujoCoded BackerKit Fulfillment Progress: Future

• NVM Extras: We’ve had your first batch of NPM articles, yes, but what about a second batch? In the very first partnership of its kind, the BobaBoard Docs Bubble—aka, sociocratic circle—collectively drafted an installation guide for NVM—aka, Node Version Manager—which is our recommended avenue of getting access to NodeJS—aka, JavaScript but outside the Browser. Next up, we’ll add this guide to learn@ to help people install NodeJS the proper way by not installing it. A huge thank you to “The Docs”, our doc-torly bunch who all prefer the cover of anonymity, for their much better write-up on this complicated relationship!
• Governance and You: With community@ up and ready, we can start filling it up with some currently-internal guides on Sociocracy, the collective governance system FujoVerse™ projects are working to adopt and evangelize. This “working in communities” learning area is also where the “Dealing with Interpersonal Conflict” article this campaign funded will live… as soon as we’ve set up our existing writing commitments up for success, and we’re ready to tackle more writing—in both quantity and ambition.

Intermission — A Word to our $ponsors

Around the FujoVerse [Omakase]

In the Git(hub)

• Autorelease of Our Own: As the FujoVerse™ grows, so must our ability to keep up with its pace—which means we’ve started adding autorelease to our libraries! This process automatically keeps track of code changes, builds a list of new features, and lets us quickly release new versions into the wild. You can witness our first such release on @fujocoded/ao3.js (formerly @bobaboard/ao3.js). Among the latest features: tag search, fetching work content, non-AO3 archives support, and download URLs!
• Astrolabe’s Blasting Off (Again): Long-time friends may remember Astrolabe, the “universal rich text editor for multi-platform content” we’ve been chipping away at since, well…almost our origins! Now, with our ATproto connections bemoaning the need for something Astrolabe-shaped, we’re once again set on making “fetch” happen: Ms Boba has been slowly publishing her private plugins while polishing the Astrolabe repo (check out the new README and latest Storybook), upgrading libraries to the latest version, and experimenting with loading posts from other socials (like Leaflet) or decentralized ATproto emoji. Alongside her, fellow BobaBoard Builders Bubble member Sel has been working on making Spoilers accessible to screen readers as he familiarizes himself with the codebase. Want to join ‘em? Read on 👀👇

• Join the Cult: What’s better than us adding new functionality to our open source projects? Helping you—yes you!—do the same! The BobaBoard Builders Bubble recently banded together to open contributor-friendly issues for both AO3.js and Astrolabe, so people like you—yes you!—can come show (or learn) how it’s done! So look around, swing by, throw some code at the wall, and come ask for help if lost! These’ll look great on your resume, portfolio, and Hinge profile, we swear.
• A Plethora of Plugins: While the aforementioned autorelease will (eventually) help communicate our changes in an efficient and orderly manner, we unfortunately aren’t quite there yet, so…here’s a quick roundup of updates *deep breath*: haetae has been working doubletime to add README and examples to authproto, we’ve been prototyping friends-only Astro page functionality, cross-posting to Bluesky from your very own blog, and fetching your latest social contacts from your own PDS; we’ve also been pumping our Guestbook full of moderation goodness, like blocking users, hiding submissions, and deleting guestbooks! At this stage, it is almost ready for launch, awaiting a final deliberation on text formatting while our sysadmin Kat sets it up to run on our server); and we’d be remiss not to mention tools built for our own use, like syncing our collaborators repository with our website’s “contributors” folder (making it much easier to credit appropriately), or centralizing and standardizing our deploy scripts.

FujoStore Highlights: Restocks, Sales, and Limited-Time Offers

Are you up smut’s creek without a paddle? If you’re on our Patreon, we can fix that! Whilst scavenging for snacks, loose change, and good ol’ Christmas ornaments, Ms Boba found a bunch of the Fujoboard seconds, which means…

…all our Patreon $upporters are cordially invited to FujoCoded’s First Garage Sale! These back-of-the-closet paddles may have small flaws (such as scratches, nicks, and prominent wood patterns), but are still a classy and refined choice for your kitchen and bedroom needs! They’re up to $20 (+ 20% $upporters discount) off, so get them whilst they’re hot!

Our stock includes:

• Hime boards stamped with the vintage BobaBoard logo—$10 off!
• Utterly unique Hime, only slightly scuffed, with minor marks, colour difference, or wood grain—$20 off!
• Chibi boards, for those of you who aren’t size queens (hey, we don’t judge)—$15 off!

Collaborate with Us!

• [🙏] Who’ll Wrangle the Wranglers?: Our origin project, BobaBoard, is looking for a “Volunteer Wranglers” coordinator! Do you have experience recruiting, organizing, and directing volunteers? Are you excited by the meta-challenge of recruiting, organizing, and directing the volunteers who’ll do this alongside you? And most importantly—are you willing to do what’s needed to get fandom people working together in pursuit of a better fandom web? Let us know by filling BobaBoard's Volunteers Coordinator application form.
• [🙏] Betas seek Alpha: FujoGuide is looking for a beta readers coordinator! The task, for those who choose to accept it, is to sit patiently in a Discord group DMs with other 6-7 fannish beginners as they brave our GitHub issue of FujoGuide and (with your guidance) surface unscathed! You don’t need deep expertise of GitHub to take on this challenge, just be familiar enough with branching, merging, and the pull request process to help people get unstuck. Ideally, we’d like to keep this a volunteer position as it’s traditionally been, but we’d be happy to barter zines, knowledge, or other merch for payment in kind! DM us or write us at [email protected] to apply.
• [💰] Technical Procyon Manager: Sun Tzu said, “if you know not yourself, [...] you will lose half your battles”. Luckily, we don’t just know our weaknesses, we know how to fix them. So we’ll be starting 2026 getting Ms Boba some Project Management support: have experience wrangling milestones in legible dashboards? love pestering (and guiding!) people who owe deliverables? Apply here and come help FujoCoded move away from project charts only Ms Boba can read, while freeing her brain from the woes of keeping folks on track! This is a temporary, part-time position to help us regroup and set up a working system.

That’s All, Fujin!

Imminent Release: a lucky digital treat for Black Friday ✨🥠 

Greetings, fujin and friends,
This is not the newsletter you've been waiting for… yet.

Our next edition is currently being edited and re-edited, and will land in full in your inboxes in the next couple of weeks, pinkie promise! 🤞

In the meantime, we're writing because we didn't want you to miss the soft launch price on one of the items you've heard so much about: our Fandom Cookies Digital Pack. Right now, this pack is only $9.99 until its official launch on Friday, November 28th!

Inside you'll find website goodies, wallpapers, a store discount, and—above all—an HTML/CSS/JavaScript learn-along built with the knowledge, experience, and fortunes we collected as part of our work. Once again, this is an extension of all you've helped fund with your support during our campaign, and we're excited to put one more learning tool in one more format in your hands and WAY beyond.

[ 👉 GET THE DIGITAL PACK HERE ($9.99) 👈]

Read below for more!

What’s in this learn-along?

Our learn-along is a fully functional interactive web project inspired by the April 1st event you all loved and (hopefully) tasted: Fandom Cookies.

This project features a single page with a responsive single-column layout, a "flavor selector," and a button to randomly select a fandom fortune with that flavor—exactly like the ones in our cookies!

But here’s the twist: unlike our physical cookies, the code that makes this page is heavily commented and thoughtfully put together so you can learn modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript just by reading and playing along.

Most importantly, this learn-along features clear explanations to the struggles we've seen code adventurers face over and over:

• How to create responsive layouts
• How to control the flow, position, and spacing of page elements
• Effective styling with advanced CSS selectors
• Getting started with interactivity in JavaScript

• bsky
• mastodon
• twitter
• tumblr

[ 👉 GET THE DIGITAL PACK HERE ($9.99) 👈]

What’s _not_ in this learn-along (yet)?

• Price it fairly based on the content, which would make it too expensive and less accessible to our public
• Price it low, which wouldn't do justice to the months of labor we put into these materials

• The Standard Version, the one you can buy today and that officially launches this Black Friday
• The Fancy Version, which will follow later in 2026, containing more advanced, deep-dive content—that is, a full second version of this site with even more lessons—that just needs to be reviewed and polished!

• Get the Standard Version for just $9.99…
• ...and an even bigger discount for the "Fancy" version—early preview access too!