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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14

@theswordwizard.bsky.social
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
especially while the Cornell case is CURRENTLY being litigated, so many people who present themselves as leftist thought leaders immediately falling on their face as soon as it's someone they like instead of an 'other' is just disappointing. could have just waited literally 5 days.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
it has also been really really really fun seeing so many people focus on instead chastising the vast minority of people who have even given a shit about any of this for being too aggressive or scary when geller was always going to be fine and protect himself. its the same playbook every time.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
its been really crazy over the past few days seeing so many supposed leftists sharing their 'radical' perspectives on 'restorative justice' which amounts to: dismissing past sexual assault because it makes them uncomfortable and sad
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
graph & dot grid paper >>>>>>>>>
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Been in the mines to finish getting this ready: we now have the @flamecon.bsky.social panel ready in zine form for download! 🔗👇
American* Fujo* & Glimm*r Present: 'Working Together: Organizing Queer Anthologies of Writing and Comics'
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s simply not true that “no one has a good answer on what to do with rapists.” In fact, there is a depth of feminist scholarship on exactly this subject. It’s just that people won’t engage with it seriously since none of it says “nah you gotta be nice to the rapist cause that’s your buddy.”
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
its also fascinating that this is one of the few cases where its confirmed without the survivor themselves speaking up or being known at all. we'll hopefully never know how they feel but its interesting how people make certain assumptions that are convenient to the rapist.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The disproportionate concern with “rehabilitating” abusers and rapists (nearly always code for maintaining their position and recovering their social status) is actually part of the problem.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Followed by Frank's "Just Give Them What They Want: Bilingualism, Performance and Power in KinnPorsche The Series"
In Thai BL mafia drama Kinnporsche, the usage of English functions as a symbol of power and privilege. Bilingual code-switching is a signifier of the characters’ deliberate, performed roles within the larger-than-life urbanity of the show’s Bangkok underworld. At the same time, Kinnporsche blurs the boundaries of truth and performance: the show subverts the norms of minimal, symbolic bilingualism in media, depicting a rich spectrum of usage that is both dramatised and nuanced. This essay examines the role and features of Kinnporsche’s bilingualism as an element of the show’s narrative, intertwined with its themes of class and capitalism.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Next is another comic: "FRAGMENT EATERS" by Max Banshees!
Why do fandoms exist, how do fans socialize with each other in global online spaces, and what different purposes do fanworks serve? The comic-essay “FRAGMENT EATERS” introduces readers to concepts from philosophy, linguistics, and fan studies that are relevant to these questions, and then uses them to make sense of how a game's fandom changed after a popular video essay was made about it.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This section kicks off with roland lennox's "Between Fujos"!
Despite slash and BL fandom’s pop cultural infamy revolving around its fans' fixation on fictitious queer desire, little existing commentary focuses on the way these spaces incubate and facilitate expressions of desire amidst and between fans. According to conventional wisdom, these spaces are gatherings of straight women whose collegial partnership with one another is secondary to each fan’s libidinal enterprise regarding the male characters in which she vests her desire. Despite this, online fan spaces have long served as a dating pool for queer participants, and this essay lays a theoretical groundwork for understanding online transformative fanwork communities as containing sexual cultures that go beyond relationship to the fictional. The piece takes cues from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Samuel R. Delany's work on male homosociality and public sexual cultures while noting their the limits for understanding these erotic cybercultures. By drawing connections with early Hollywood fan girls' movie scrapbooks as sites of homoerotic desire and queer exchange, this essay contests the canonical view of slash and BL fan spaces as a discrete phenomenon from the lesbian* archive of feelings.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our next section is about YAOI SPACES!
YAOI SPACES contains analysis of both virtual and physical spaces in which we consume yaoi.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Finally from YAOI BODIES, 'Dude, Is That an Alien?' a comic by Calliope Neurotoxins!
"I made a pornographic comic [and essay] about emasculation, intimate relationships and also getting throatfucked. Do you like halo? The guy from halo is in it, kind of."
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🥹🥹 OF COURSE! the anthology was such a labor of collective love, sharing everything we've got is par for the course 🙂‍↕️
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ACCCC thank you 🥹 it was an honor working w you!!
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A.C. Esguerra @blueludebar.com · 28/09/2026
GREAT read on how to self-publish the niche queer comic/writing anthology of your dreams. finding your people, editing and curating submissions, dealing with marketing and censorship, being real and kind. genuinely: this is the kind of attitude and work that will keep interesting art alive.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
of course, thank you for your interest!!
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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American* Fujo* & Glimm*r Present: 'Working Together: Organizing Queer Anthologies of Writing and Comics' by TheSwordWizard
The transcription of the panel presented at Flamecon 2026!
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Been in the mines to finish getting this ready: we now have the @flamecon.bsky.social panel ready in zine form for download! 🔗👇
American* Fujo* & Glimm*r Present: 'Working Together: Organizing Queer Anthologies of Writing and Comics'
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Followed by: "to have it when you have it not: fantastical possibility and the symbol of the anime girl" by simk skolomorphic!
anime is a cultural export from the east to the west, and in the west, due to its audience’s lack of contact with what it represents, it has evolved to take on new meanings. this is an examination of how the “anime girl” as a concept has become intertwined with the fantasies and ideological projects of the west. 
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
And then the fascinating read by angel: "SPECTRAL SAVAGES & SETTLER FETISHES : on fandom, fujoshis, & frontier psychosis"
western fandom bears an ideological similarity to the untamed frontier — lawless factions engage in shoot-outs, missionaries are ceaseless in their struggle for purity and order, and the open digital landscape looms as a reminder of the participant’s isolation. amidst the joy and sexualized madness of fandom’s frontier, however, one wonders — where did all the indians go? using the theoretical framework of sociological haunting, “spectral savages” goes looking for the sublimated ghosts of a missing people in fandom’s most beloved and depraved archetypes.  
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Next, "Against Interpretation of the Body & Its Genders/Labors" by K. Lee!
“Against Intrepretation of the Body & Its Genders/Labors” plays off Sontag's canonical essay with a modern framework around Lee’s personal transitions from "fan of cartoons" to a professional "creator of cartoons" as well as the FTM transition that allowed them to go from being a consumer of gay erotica & sexuality to being consumed by men in practice ("fujo" to "faggot"). These transitions, further complicated by their racialized/feminized position as a diasporic Asian American and socialized lesbian, lead them to examine contradictions of artistic and emotional labor, as well as the instability of interpreted and idealized genders.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The first essay of section 2 is ""I've never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him, or, an Autotheoretical Account of Forcemasc Fantasy in Season One of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal" by Elliot Asher
"I've never known myself as well as I know myself when I'm with him, or, an Autotheoretical Account of Forcemasc Fantasy in Season One of Bryan Fuller's Hannibal by Elliot Asher:
This essay uses psychoanalytic theory to theorize through the fantasy of forced transition, deconstructing what we might mean when we say or feel that "yaoi made me trans."
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The second section of American* Fujo* is YAOI BODIES!
The next cluster, YAOI BODIES, takes on how queer bodies are figured in and through yaoi and yaoi-inspired fandom.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
WE REALLY ALL PULLED TOGETHER FOR AN AMAZING THING......
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹
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A.C. Esguerra @blueludebar.com · 01/09/2026
THE PRINCE comic simply would not exist without AMERICAN* FUJO* anthology, now back for a second print run 👯 preorder: americanfujo.bigcartel.com/product/amer...
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Read the full introduction on our neocities, and make sure to grab your copy now on our bigcartel! 🔗📖 americanfujo.neocities.org/introduction 🔗🛒 americanfujo.bigcartel.com/product/amer...
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And to top off our "Why Yaoi?" category, the first comic in AF: "The Prince" by A.C. Esguerra!
"The Prince" is an experimental ink + collage comic-memoir about how Laurent of Vere from C.S. Pacat's Captive Prince transformed me from a sexually repressed queer youngling into an out, nonbinary artist, a mid-2010s YaoiCon veteran and, in the BDSM community, a Dominant/top/Prince.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The third piece is "death in the chrysalis: asian/american fujoshi ft. akimi yoshida's banana fish" by CEL!
death in the chrysalis: asian/american fujoshi ft. akimi yoshida's banana fish:
“death in the chrysalis: asian/american fujoshi ft. akimi yoshida's banana fish" explores the racialization of fujoshi identity and the contradictions of Asian American womanhood through an irreverent and idiosyncratic look at Asian American abjection in gay manga.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
best fwends.... #HSBCSpoilers
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Next: "Oh Boy! Male Idols and Beating Fantasies" by the fantastic tshirt!
Oh Boy! Male Idols and Beating Fantasies:
“Oh Boy: Male Idols and Beating Fantasies” analyzes the appeal of yaoi for theoretical types of fujoshi as well as historical subjects ranging from Anna Freud to Lou Sullivan to the author themself, ultimately arriving at a nonbinary transmasculine fujoshi sensibility.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Our first essay is "don't you miss it yaoi girl: homosociality and butch (trans)womanhood" by Max F!
“don’t you miss it yaoi girl: homosociality and butch (trans)womanhood” is a personal essay which catalogs the author’s relationship with yaoi over her life, and interrogates the genre as a site of female masculinity which enables both transfem butch readings and life.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Introducing the essays in our first section on the American* Fujo*: WHY YAOI?
Our contributors answered our questions in the following ways, which we grouped into the following clusters: Part 1:
The first cluster, "WHY YAOI?" surveys just that: what attracts queer people to yaoi. The essays in this section attempt to theorize the authors' own respective experiences and encounters with the art form and with gay male sexuality:
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Read the full introduction on our neocities, and make sure to grab your copy now on our bigcartel! 🔗📖 americanfujo.neocities.org/introduction 🛒✳️ americanfujo.bigcartel.com/product/amer...
americanfujo.neocities.org
AMERICAN* FUJO*
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Gender & Sexuality:
How has being a fan affected your gender or sexuality? 
Who is a fujoshi, who wants to be one, and who doesn't get the choice?Power:
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POWER
In America-centric fan spaces, what is necessarily suppressed? 
How can we trouble the category and dominance of "American" from within and without? VIRTUAL SPACE:
Finally, what does it mean to be in a community that's overwhelmingly virtual, as reliant on digital social platforms as it is on fictional media, both owned by another party? 
And what affects or acts are uniquely enabled by these virtualized desires and sexuality? 
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
While the pre-order period for our second run is open we're re-introducing ourselves and all the fantastic pieces of American* Fujo*! The FULL introduction written by @tshirt.bsky.social is now available on our neocities page, but here's a short snippet for bluesky:
AMERICAN* FUJO* is Alexis Rippen & tshirt3000's premier anthology on fandom culture, trans identity, and general overanalysis. Our project tries to asterisk and complicate its categories of both "American" and "Fujo" as much as possible, interrogating gender and sexuality, power of all kinds, and the virtual communities we call fandom.
AmericanFujo.BigCartel.ComOur contributors range from actual self-identified American fujos to writers who are emphatically neither. They answer these questions through illustration, comics, essays, and autotheory, developing creative ways to capture fandom and its discontents. The anthology surveys a wide range of topics, from transgender fujoshism (in any direction) to race and belonging within theoretically progressive fandom. We want to make the full vibrancy of fandom as accessible as possible, and theorize both its possibilities and its limits through this anthology.

The following clusters and questions structure our anthology:
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
OHHHH very awesome... i wish we had more bookstores like that in virginia...
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
ohhh that was not! my list is mostly NY places so far
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Aaaand last but not least, we now have a few leads on shops that might be selling it in person next year 👀 any recommendations for more queer book shops that you'd love to see selling American* Fujo*?
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We're also so thankful to everyone that stopped by to grab a copy of AF, we sold out of all the copies we brought!! We also had a mini zine with the introduction, table of contents, and a link to our pre-order that a lot of people picked up! americanfujo.bigcartel.com/product/amer...
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American* Fujo* Print Pre-Order
Get ready for the second run of American* Fujo*! We organized 17 skilled creators, with 13 writers and 5 comic creators to take part in this expedition. With our initial Kickstarter goal at $5,000, we...
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Thank you so much to everyone who came to our Flamecon panel!! We have a recording that we're currently working on making into a full zine about self-publishing that we'll be releasing soon.
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tshirt @tshirt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
one last bump of our panel this evening at flamecon! come say hi and peek behind the scenes of making a beautiful queer anthology
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kmbrlei @ NYCC C38 @kmbrlei.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
hello!! I'll be tabling at flamecon this weekend with @theswordwizard.bsky.social at table c14! come by and say hi!!
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kmbrlei @ NYCC C38 @kmbrlei.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
also, if you like GLIMM*R or American* Fujo*, come check out the panel we and our collaborators will be on this saturday at 6:30pm. Join our queer astericks themed talk on self-publishing anthologies! bsky.app/profile/thes...
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OF △ Sprinkle Trinkle @tncts.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
✷ FEATURED ARTISTS PT 1 ✷ [2/4] @theswordwizard.bsky.social | C-14 @lodrws.bsky.social | F-21* @bizarropizarro.bsky.social | B-13* @capseoule.bsky.social | G-14 @cherrysodas.bsky.social (C-01 @corviday.bsky.social | E-28* @daifei.bsky.social | O-10 @vitamincharm.bsky.social | C-01
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OF △ Sprinkle Trinkle @tncts.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
❤️‍🔥🥵 MONSTER F*CKER RALLY 🥵❤️‍🔥 [1/4] This weekend at @flamecon.bsky.social ! I'll be hosting a stamp rally, and this year’s theme is for all the monster...enthusiasts. Start at any table. Tip, purchase, or follow each artist to earn a stamp! Collect all 16 stamps to receive a prize pack at Table D-12.
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In addition to the panel, I'm also splitting a table with the wonderful @kmbrlei.bsky.social and will have a last few copies of American* Fujo* available for sale, along with mini preview zines for the pre-order. Make sure to stop by table C-14 and say hi!!
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Alexis Rippen *️⃣ Flamecon C14 @theswordwizard.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In addition to the panel, I'm also splitting a table with the wonderful @kmbrlei.bsky.social and will have a last few copies of American* Fujo* available for sale, along with mini preview zines for the pre-order. Make sure to stop by table C-14 and say hi!!
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