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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I had a lovely opportunity to talk about #BL, fan fiction, and fanworks in Japan and Southeast Asia on the BBC's The Conversation. I shared my own fanfic and scholarly journey, showcasing the transformative power of fanworks. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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BBC World Service - The Conversation, Fan fiction: a writer's playground

Two women creating stories based on their favourite characters

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I did say mpreg and the bbc kept it.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Salty over our uni's travel moratorium since I just saw @transasianfan.bsky.social program this week, and there were some really interesting papers. I hope some of these get some publications someday. GIVE ME THAT BUS FANDOM PAPER!!! ; w; 9:38 AM · May 23, 2026

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I did just say mpreg to the BBC last night.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

There was one established local journo team that approached me to talk about fandom. It took a good afternoon, and somehow I didn't hear about its posting. It was never posted. I sometimes think about whether it's because they didn't hear the narrative they wanted to hear. More work to do.

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TheOASG @theoasg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

A free preview of Battan's Secondhand Sisters (Chapter 1) is up on Kodansha's site kodansha.us/series/secondhand-siste…

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I am like running through emotional extremes and my friends have been good at tempering at least my seething anger over this neverending shitshow surrounding BL.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The beauty of the genre is that it has always given its artists this range. The diversity in BL narratives makes the genre amazing and exciting. Policing it to conform to some "standard" rips the power of this highly transformative genre.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

There's a part where @redstringtl.bsky.social made an interesting point at the space about the quality of manga printing in Japan and the heavy export costs that come with it. The ways different publishers navigate printing for such a limited resource (paper!) is often overlooked by consumers.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Listening in on a space on Twitter on the Media Do acquisition, and while I have a number of things to say, I am of the saddest hearts to think that whatever good Seven Seas will do in the next few months, Media Do's actions will screw them over.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Laughing at someone talking about a convo at Kuma's Citrust Con panel and how their editor's choices to be too niche to sell. I think their editor's doing a great job but I guess readers who share the same taste (like me) have always occupied the bad side of the BL hell 🤣

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Ending the day with that one thing that has been keeping me alive.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Somehow, in my lecture on local revitalization, I had an opportunity to talk about Iwami and Free!. Then I missed the days when things were fun and simple. ; w; I also missed KyoAni.

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lalage @lalage.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

belated happy horse year

pastel drawing of a piebald palomino shetland pony with a white star and suspiciously blue eyes running under pink pear blossoms, its gloriously billowing mane engulfing its lalafellin rider

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

My box is finally here but now I just want to roll around my books and read. 🤣

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I will migrate to Malaysia if animateKL hires me as their procurement officer for BL manga. LET ME MAKE A FLOOR FILLED WITH BL MANGA like how it is in every animate all over asia.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

The body forced me to be a potato yesterday and I am happy I did. Felt bad that I had to cancel my classes but I was really out of it yesterday.

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billie snippet @billies.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Part 2 of a double blog post update~ I talk about the reviews I got on my BL doujinshi from actual BL manga editors from publishers Homesha and Takeshobo . It was super helpful and a great learning experience! breezebl.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/m...

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My First Encounter with The Traveling Editorial Department

Please check my Intro to the Traveling Editorial Department post before reading this entry for context! I’ve been wanting to get some feedback on my work for a while! So mochikomi has been on the b…

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

People at work have been telling me to slow down. I want to slow down badly, tbh. I have been telling people to get me more sick so that I can slow down and finally devolve into a potato.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The way Asada Nemui's rambling has now spiraled to salty men about the loose regulations surrounding BL. *popcorn.gif*

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Luggages are in the clear! i didn't buy more books 🥹 but one luggage threatened not to close.

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Maru is tired 🫩🥊🚬 @marureviere.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

New Filipino BL comic!!! I’ve been anticipating this one for a while, and wow, the high school nostalgia hit me hard while reading lol. It’s an academic rivals-to-lovers story, available in both English and Tagalog, and the artist is planning monthly updates 🫶

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Maru is tired 🫩🥊🚬 @marureviere.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Being Filipino feels extra special right now. Seeing Filipino creatives gaining international attention for their queer works makes my heart so full 🥹💞 This kind of representation truly matters to us. Here's to more in 2026!

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Got to put on my socks and get that DaVinci BL issue

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saba sabaton @ gateway fate 501 @sabato-n.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

i made a guide on how to write, draw, and print a doujinshi/fanzine/whatever you want to call it. this is a crash course on literally everything i know about making doujinshi. it's over 40 pages long. i hope you like it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Some things I love about NDL: being able to borrow weekly/monthly manga magazines. It is one thing to do it for research (😘👌) It is another to see regular people just read the month's issue to update themselves without having to buy the series.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I was today years old when I discovered Harada had a collaboration with Tenga last year. 😭 Harada. The eroerobl god that she is. x.com/i/status/189...

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

I love how asada nemui is just as unhinged as her stories on twitter.

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idledee @idledee.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

lets go karaoke!

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This is triggering my trauma. 😂 Love the birbs but the cockatoos!?! 2am knocking on my door and just trolling me!? No thank you!

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Closing these boxes are the closest I have to sending children out on a journey. Except these children are manga and doujinshi that I have cherished throughout this fieldwork, bottles of soy sauce, and my cast iron wok.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

What a day. Just sealed box one. About to seal box 2. I know my friend would scold me as to how I did these all but teaching my classes on top of buying things from ikebukuro and kagurazaka while packing my box is the level of sidequests i did not imagine i'd be finishing today. I also did laundry

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Geezus, i was out to buy soy sauce and I bought maple syrup and more nabe packs instead. 😭 Kaldiiii why you do this!!

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Jocelyne Allen @brainvsbook.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Finally reading this great essay on what translators do and what language is! This part in particular hit home for me.

Translators read to decide what’s important and what’s less important, then re-create what they’ve decided is important; the debates about whether to translate literally or for the overall sense, whether to domesticate a term or leave it foreign sounding, whether to translate rhymed and metered poetry with rhyme and meter, and all the rest are pointless, because – obviously – it depends.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I got my spicy gift from @brainvsbook.bsky.social when she told me she spotted a book I had been looking for FOR WEEKS! Finally have a copy of TaroNige!! 😭💕 BL is the gift that keeps on giving!

Khursten is losing it while holding mememe's BL manga taronige!

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New box finally arrived and I'm like... Why is it so small. Orz.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Got to clear these teary eyes. Got crazy errands today.

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kViN @yuyucow.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Knew Ikoku Nikki was going to be good because the source material rules and the staff's good, but goddamn what an amazing first episode. So far brilliant structure to bypass pacing issues, direction that really understands the core of the series, and waaaay better animation than it'll get credit for

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Chiaki Mitama 🐾🌭 @terrible.moe · 04/01/2026

The two genders: Woman working on her computer Girl running to school

A woman hunched over on her laptop working facing one way.
A school girl running the other direction with her bag on her back in the other.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Graphic novels are a legitimate form of expression and communication with word (and of course images). In the Francophone world and East Asia this is not news. Check out this q and a with @horbinski.bsky.social, author of a new @ucpress.bsky.social book on Manga! www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/q...

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Q&A with Andrea Horbinski, author of "Manga's First Century"

Author Andrea Horbinski talks about her manga and anime interests and why the first century of the most popular form of storytelling is vital for fans and non-fans to know.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I didn't want to face snow in these last two weeks but here it is, mocking my tropical ass.

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笹倉（絵用） @sasakura3434.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

今年の4枚 🎤🍽️

『カラオケ行こ！』のファンアート
聡実と狂児の目元、マイク、げんきおまもり、煙草などのモチーフを組み合わせたイラスト

『ファミレス行こ。』のファンアート
食事をする聡実と狂児、豚まん、貯金箱、焼肉、後ろからハグをする聡実の手などのモチーフを組み合わせたイラスト

『ファミレス行こ。』のファンアート
ドーナツの穴を覗く聡実穴の向こう側には狂児が見えている

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A fun moment yesterday was getting my last stamp at the corporate hall. The area was so packed that I was just a lemming that was eventually led to the kadokawa booth, Getting giveaways for i dunno how. 🙃 At that moment, I realized that I am but a sardine at sea.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Reading Hoshino Lily's GegeMizu doujinshi and 👏my👏god👏 the lore this woman lays! And the art is so beautiful. And i cry thinking you started with nasty sasunatu. 🥹💕 You have grown so well! I didn't expect her in this fandom but my god the stuff that I have bought from this ship have been VERY GOOD.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The shop guy at eslite kindly said "Has it been a tiring year for you? Don't worry, a bright new year will come." The comiket impact is that bad huh. 🙃 I did keep on yawning all day.

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khursten is here too @khursten.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

What a day. So grateful that I was with a friend who had a circle and I was able to escape the hellish lines around fuyucomi. Got all my goods from the usuals and then the pretty stamp from Hoshino Lily and Miwa Shiro! Yes. I have become that person who likes stamps.

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