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This journal is personal, fannish, and academic, because I am apparently incapable of extracting the three. There might be filters set up at some point, but I honestly don't post enough to warrant. Content here includes my fannish obsessions, thoughts on branding, consumer social imaginaries, transnational media ( Read more... )

Finally getting around to re-watching Hana Yori Dango in order to actually, you know, write about it and I'm marveling at how carefully considered the formal and structural elements of the drama are. Because, of course, in the process of viewing, you get caught up in all the wackiness ensuing, the cookies of deep symbolic meaning, the outfits and ( Read more... )