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  • Room801 is flying mile high this weekend

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    So the awesomesauce organizers of last year’s awesome yuri and yaoi convention are back and they’re flying mile high for this year’s Room 801!! I am totes excite to spend the weekend with this lovely crew as they’re holding their event on 28-29 March at Holiday Inn, Paramatta! 

    You can check the Room 801 schedule here and yes, I’ll be there to give some talks on Fujojosports and Fujoshibait. A great colleague of mine, Thomas Baudinette, will be talking about bara and gei manga. I’m totally excited to hear this as lines are blurred between yaoi, bara, bl, and gei manga in fandom outside of Japan. Kittyhawk will also be there to talk about yuri! There’s also the fun Igiari! Debate, a preview of a DMMD fan game, and a film showing of Free! and Yurikuma Arashi!  

    If you’re in town and want to fangirl with us this weekend, feel free to join us! It’s one of the loveliest BL-related events I’ve been in! 

  • Room 801 totally happened and it was awesome

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    I have actually reached that age where I realize that am far too old for conventions. Last year, I went to SMASH and it was just much too big and too crazy. And while I did enjoy meeting my new friends in Australia as well as seeing that muscled Portgas D. Ace at the con, I couldn’t say that I felt at home with Australia’s anime and manga community after SMASH.

    So I’m happy to have participated and be a part of Room801. I was quite set to living the isolated fujoshi life in Wollongong, but Room801 really delivered in connecting not just fujoshi but fans who have an appreciation for fictional non-normative sexual relationships. Surely, there were tons of yaoi but even yuri, queer, and pigeons were well represented in this convention.

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  • Fujojocast #3 – Holiday Gift Guide & Upcoming Cons

    Hi everyone! Fujojocast is back! 😀 YAAAAAAY!

    So happy to do another Fujoshicast. This time, my guests are Rotch from Magnetic-rose.net and Blush, Ebichuu making weird sounds and murmurs, and Pirotess from Room801!

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