Anyone can access manga now. Here’s why that’s good. - Lauren Orsini explores the rise of manga's popularity and accessibility. The recent Wordle upset got her thinking about how the medium's push into the mainstream changed the ways we interact with it, often for the better.

Link: https://hera.fyi/access

Looking Back at Anime-Zine with Robert Fenelon - Red Bard talks with Robert Fenelon, a founding fan and head of early anime magazine Anime-Zine, about his experiences in fandom, his work in the anime community, and more.

Link: https://hera.fyi/animezine

#history #anime #manga #fandom
https://hera.fyi/animezine

W niedzielę, 6 lipca o 17.00 w "Ursynowskim Centrum Kultury Alternatywy" będę miała przyjemność wygłosić prelekcję "Poprawność historyczna nie istnieje. O kostiumach w adaptacjach „Dumy i uprzedzenia” 1940–2005"

Będzie o kostiumach, sukniach, halkach i gorsetach i odrobinkę o #JaneAusten. Przybywajcie licznie! <3

Info o całym konwencie: https://fb.me/e/2BDaAO2ri

Exploring Viola Davis’ Investments In Anime Production, and Afro-Anime’s Potential: Gabriel Leãoexamines Viola Davis' recent investments in anime production, and how afro-anime works like Mfinda can impact the greater anime industry.

Link: https://hera.fyi/viola

If you have been wondering how fascism took over Italy & Germany so easily, there’s one group of people that shows you how it happens:

The slice of Star Wars fandom currently dunking on Andor Season 2 for including depictions of how an evil fascist empire treats illegal immigrant workers, and how their goons consider them as highly potential targets of extracting forced sex ”in payment”

These people would have thrown the roman salute with pride in the 1930’s.

Here's a more comprehensive list of every major #fandom I'm in (ordered by when I became interested in them):
-Sonic the Hedgehog
-Super Mario (& related sub-series)
-Five Nights at Freddy's
-Undertale/Deltarune
-Mega Man
-DOOM
-South Park
-Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss
-Life is Strange
-Smiling Friends
-Half-Life/Portal
-Poppy Playtime
-The Amazing Digital Circus
-Lackadaisy
-Silent Hill
-Resident Evil

Feel free to share some of your current fandoms below.

Supporting Women’s Wrongs (Just Not Like That): Fandom misogyny and the flawed women of NANA

Renewed discourse has shown recurring double standards on what kind of flaws are considered "okay" for female vs male characters

https://www.animefeminist.com/supporting-womens-wrongs-just-not-like-that-fandom-misogyny-and-the-flawed-women-of-nana/

Meet The Next Generation of Anime Fans: Lauren Orsini talked with nearly 60 Gen-Z anime fans to see how things have changed with the passing of time, and where we have common ground across all generations.

Link: https://hera.fyi/genzfandom

Disturbing and funny at the same time
(slightly modified by me)

Exploring Viola Davis’ Investments In Anime Production, and Afro-Anime’s Potential: Gabriel Leãoexamines Viola Davis' recent investments in anime production, and how afro-anime works like Mfinda can impact the greater anime industry.

Link: https://hera.fyi/viola