Fan Riot

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PowerWash Simulator: How a UK cleaning game became a huge hit

It's been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games like PowerWash Simulator 2 become so popular?

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Invisible string(s): Exploring conspiratorial participatory practices among Swifties

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Fanformance art: the practice of making fanfiction real - new chapter in #Theatre Fandom, Uiowa Press

Get in touch if you’d like a pdf x

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A film review

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Fandom as Dramaturgy - upcoming talk in Ghent, Belgium

tumblr it's been a while </3 Booking required: https://event.ugent.be/registration/event/7ef58a71-94d7-40ff-8fee-2fe676b26114

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girl museum

https://www.girlmuseum.org/project/what-she-said-girls-transforming-texts/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIN-b9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHTjKFYd9CEJ2S8MgCGBZiLQ3qPDsE1ie9AWowbF85GPm-kLKgI_LsCz-Rg_aem_ZJ7Uf8GgLwQ6mlkilGoySA

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internet culture writing

What Is Internet Culture Writing?

Two new books attempt to examine how platforms and their algorithms vine into our desires, preferences and self-conception – and the answer

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lookalike?

A Harry Styles lookalike contest is taking place in London this weekend

The doppelgänger contest is the latest in a string of similar events dedicated to actors Timothée Chalamet and Paul Mescal

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tomorrow night 🧙⭐️🎂🚀🧜‍♀️😵‍💫 Tix here

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Social media have blurred the boundaries between fans and celebrities – with disturbing results | Hannah Ewens

If entitled fans treat famous people as fodder for their Instagram feeds, they risk losing a connection to them altogether, says editor and

When I started the Fan Riot project back in 2015 I was interested in the curious possibility of fans upstaging artists. I was thinking more along the lines of fan content being often richer, more politicised, more subversive, weirder and sexier than the official content around which it manifested… but I didn’t think we were heading for this!!

“The whole circuitry of fandom has been disrupted since the pandemic. It used to be artist, fan and fandom in a Venn diagram, which held the shared world the artist and fan created together in the overlapping centre. Now it’s artist, fan, fandom and online audience – and in the middle, a nebulous space that no longer feels like a shared secret, but a battleground over the narrative of that artist.”

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How Sharing Recipes Brings Fans Together

Making fictional food can be both a creative and communal activity.

My newest column for Atlas Obscura is live! This one—on food and fandom—was so fun to report. 🍰 Beyond official cookbooks and screen-accurate representations, I talked to nearly a dozen fanfiction writers and readers about including and cooking from recipes in fic!

Many thanks to everyone who shared their experiences with me for this piece—and especially @aimmyarrowshigh, who sat down for a full interview to talk about the broader food-in-fic topic:

“From my very earliest understanding of fiction, it always had this component of what is now my favorite canonical tag on AO3, ‘Food As A Metaphor For Love’” says V. Arrow ... “That’s such a part of how I think about building character and building intimacy and building relationships,” Arrow says. “I always joke that the only thing I know how to write is two people having a heart-to-heart while cooking together.”

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The BL dating show the world’s been waiting for?

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"Eight poor Copies (electric speech)" – my article on the work of Beth Emily Richards in new special issue of Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Edited by Lucy Sames.

"A gossipy piece, emerging from a series of phone calls with the Devon based artist Beth Emily Richards in anticipation of her show "Poor Copy" at The Northern Charter and Jerwood Arts in 2018. It draws lines of connection between telephones, telepathic cats, urban legends and ‘King of Pop’ Michael Jackson’s apparent visitation to Devon in 2003. This visit which, as lore goes, is also contested forms the basis for Richards’ subsequent show and sustained engagement with contemporary mythmaking. Calling up lovers of the telephone Jacques Derrida, Hélène Cixous and Avital Ronell, celebrity impersonators and television illusionists, this article writes in and through the mystics of ‘electric speech’. The outmoded phone call is engaged as both a ‘conduit for thought’ and a poor copy – the line is cut or stalked, or a story is interrupted or interfered with – revealing a forensic fascination with the sinister and the unknown."

Get in touch if you would like a poor copy!

This article emerges from a series of phone calls with the visual artist Beth Emily Richards in anticipation of her exhibition Poor Copy at

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fan riot workshop at QMUL

it’s been a while but still love making fanformance happen! And always love a shipping diagram ‼️

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Fandom, the highest stage of capitalism?

Siyang Wei reflects on fandom as consumer identity

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Freedom is a Performance Hangout* (*Click on this fake sweat distraction technique to release infinite scroll)

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Fanatic Heart - Para Site

Haneyl Choi, BuBu de la Madeleine, Guhit Kulay (Maria Christina Castillo Anire, Cristina Balao-as Cayat, Jonalyn Macalalad Molina, and Marilyn Santiago Lopez), Ho Tzu Nyen, Yuree Kensaku, Dew Kim, Lu Yang, Green Mok, Yasumasa Morimura, Diane Severin Nguyen, Yoshiko Shimada, Sin Wai Kin Para Site is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘Fanatic Heart’, …

Para Site is delighted to present the group exhibition ‘Fanatic Heart’, a search for an alternative approach to reimagine the political potential of celebrity culture through the lens of fandom. The fifteen artists in the exhibition locate the impulse of fandom culture in socio-political happenings that have taken place across Southeast and East Asia by drawing new connections between celebrity worship, drag, postcolonial and post-socialist identities, religion, and the rise of various social movements. Within this intersection, the exhibition repositions the concept of fandom to explore its evolution in relation to shifts among media, technology, and geopolitical change.