Happy new year! Hopping on this long dormant account to say that I’ve opened the Chat for AF on Substack: open.substack.com/chat/posts… where you can let me know your thoughts.
Also accidentally started this thread in @niubi ‘s chat window instead of my own just now (IM SO SORRY i am technologically challenged) but hey check out both!
✨Many thanks to Nathanel Amar @nathanelamarHK, Emily Liu @emwritingnow@FaultsActive and the Shanghai shoegaze quartet RUBUR for taking the time to chat with me. 多谢!🙏💕 (2/2)
And we're live! @FaultsActive and the BL Canon!
We discuss #BL dramas, Xiao Zhan and Zhang Zehan's PR fiascos, #EstherYi's incredible "Y/N" and whether #Taemin is the inspiration behind Moon, the most compelling idol in the world, and so much more!
theidolcast.com/podcasteps/e…
Why would I not block someone who calls me a stalker out of nowhere and refuses to follow up on that when I pointed it out? You’re earning another block on this account too, I’m sorry
Just recorded a fun episode with @FaultsActive on BL, fanfic, Esther Yi's excellent novel Y/N, what goes on in idol fandom in China, being a global K-Pop fan, and much much more!
.@FaultsActive and @emwritingnow on the "teeth-grinding and ambivalent dynamic between Chinese K-Pop fans, other non-Chinese fans and Korean celebrities," and the one weird metric that functions like the GDP of idol fandom: activefaults.substack.com/p/…
a belated thank you to @happeningchina for the shout-out 🎉 check out this weekly digest of news in the motherland and this list of newsletters on China! most provide more useful information than yours truly. :p
whatshappeninginchina.com/p/…
Two weeks of #wip in one update - this is a good one: career fans, dreamgirls, shippers vs. solo stans and private life enthusiasts. Enjoy!
activefaults.substack.com/p/…
Completly agree that fan studies are sidelined as an academic discipline - particularly because of the whole "fangirl" media associations with - screamers since the 1950s. So, it's time to overcome the "misrepresentation of #fanquan as a space of neurosis and irrationality".