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Incest tropes in danmei stories

Incest stories (including so-called selfcest) appear significantly in danmei circles. Recent research has highlighted some recurring motives in these stories. In these fan-made webisodes, it is much more desirable for the new DFFB to experience love among the subcharacters (brothers

Szabo Dorottya 18/09/202024/09/2020 5 Comments Read more

Spaces for danmei fans in the age of Internet

Early danmei forums and websites were usually run by students, who had neither money nor experience, and often suffered from funding shortage and unstable servers. After the rise of big commercial websites like Jinjiang Literature City (jjwxc.net, 2003- ), Liancheng

Szabo Dorottya 07/08/202007/08/2020 No Comments Read more

RPF and the student activists of the Umbrella Revolution

Alexter is the fan name for the fictional pairing of two actual Hong Kong Umbrella Revolution student leaders, Alex Chow Yong-kang, 24, and Lester Shum, 21, a relationship that has an ardent following on popular social media sites like Twitter,

Szabo Dorottya 27/06/202027/06/2020 No Comments Read more

The concept of “quality” fan communities

It is assumed that fans of poorer works will automatically be low-quality fans (…) but in 3n5b’s case, the belief is reversed—the quality of the community dictates the quality of the fandom. As a female-oriented community within the male-dominated field

Szabo Dorottya 15/05/202015/05/2020 No Comments Read more

Issues of copyright within female ACG fandom in China

Even though the concept of fanfiction is so often defined by the concept of copyright, Xianwei Wu proves in their paper on female ACG fandom in China how the relationship between the two concepts is beyond a simple opposition. The

Szabo Dorottya 17/04/202017/04/2020 No Comments Read more

[META] New TWC issue on boys’ love fandom is live

Transformative Works and Cultures has published its twelfth issue, entirely devoted to boys’ love fandom around the globe (full press release). There are some excellent articles on Hetalia, the politics of BL in Germany, character bots on Twitter, BL in

fanhackers staff 16/03/201321/11/2019 No Comments Read more

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