#wk 12

[reignxmaker]

Bullet Club taking mad L's this morning...

[machomanwrestlinghistory]

05/11/2017 - NJPW: Chris Jericho vs. Kenny Omega in Wrestle Kingdom 12

[losingrobernablesdejapon-blog]

Our tickets have arrived! WK 12, Pro Wrestling NOAH and NJ Fantastica Mania! Picking up our new years dash tickets in Tokyo!! 4 weeks!!!!

[hiromutakahashl]

[machomanwrestlinghistory]

04/01/2018 - NJPW Wrestle Kingdom 12 Match Card N°2:

Loser hair cut and no seconds deathmatch for the NEVER Openweight Championship: Minoru Suzuki (c) vs. Hirooki Goto 

Four-way match for the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship: Marty Scurll (c) vs. Hiromu Takahashi vs. Kushida vs. Will Ospreay 

Singles match for the IWGP Intercontinental Championship: Hiroshi Tanahashi (c) vs. Jay White 

No DQ match for the IWGP United States Heavyweight Championship: Kenny Omega (c) vs. Chris Jericho 

Singles match for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship: Kazuchika Okada (c) vs. Tetsuya Naito

[queeringintotheunknown]

Week 12: Creative Product + Social Media Response = A Dual Authorship

[queeringintotheunknown]

A Deep Dive into the World of Popstar Fanfiction: One Direction

Fanfiction is a fan-created phenomenon that has long made its way into the various canons of pop culture products. With the rise of social media, fanfiction has taken on a new, more widely accessible form. But what exactly is fanfiction? Fanfiction is a piece of fiction written by fans, for fans, which feature characters from TV series, movies, or even real-life people. My personal introduction to fanfiction was through WattPad, a website and app that publishes user-written stories, which is known for being the world’s largest provider of fanfiction. From ages thirteen to sixteen I was fully immersed in the world of One Direction fandom, spending my days scrolling through the depths of Tumblr and Twitter as if my life depended on it. Because of this, I was thoroughly exposed to my fair share of fanfiction. One of the most popular and widely known One Direction fanfictions is Larry Stylison. If you were a One Direction fan in the year 2012 there was no escaping the phenomenon that was Larry Stylison. Larry Stylison was the “ship” name given to the pairing of Louis Tomilson and Harry Styles. This idea that Louis and Harry were secretly romantically involved took the internet by storm and teenage girls everywhere fantasized about the two popstars’ forbidden love affair. Countless fanfictions were written about Louis and Harry’s queer relationship, most of which explicitly detailed their sexual encounters. Fans would also grasp onto any inkling of evidence that this relationship might be real, pointing out a brief adoring glance Louis gave Harry, picking apart interviews, or decoding One Direction song lyrics, hoping to find anything remotely queer. The Larry Stylison frenzy among One Direction fans was so widespread that it has become a permanent part of their canon and cultural history, queering both One Direction and their fandom. This fanfiction has even made its way into other forms of media. For example, the hit HBO drama, Euphoria, details one of it’s main character’s rise to fame as the internet’s most prolific Larry Stylison fanfiction writer (scene linked below). In 2020, this queering of popstars through fanfiction can easily be seen in K-Pop fandoms all over the world. Although fanfictions have become more ingrained within the cultural zeitgeists of recent years, the queer popstar fantasy has been a mainstay throughout pop culture history.

[queeringintotheunknown]

Kat’s Introduction, Euphoria (dir. Sam Levinson, 2019)