- Like everyone else in the fandom-blogosphere, I just found out about CONsent, a photo journalism project about treating cosplayers with respect. As research my Sexism in Anime Fandom panel, Patches and I collected anonymous horror stories from male and female cosplayers alike. It’s great to see people coming forward with their stories.
- This week, somebody found Otaku Journalist by Googling “anime characters who are journalists.” I didn’t know the answer, so I decided to look it up myself. Voila! Here’s an exhaustive list of reporters in anime, courtesy of Anime Planet.
- Why aren’t journalism students interested in journalism? I don’t quite agree with Steve Faguy’s title. I wasn’t very interested in the political reporting classes I had to take in J-school, for example, but I loved my class on community and niche group reporting. The third section of this post, “Experience > Grades,” is gold. There’s no barrier anymore. In fact, I just taught a class at American that included a few students who had bylines in some of the same new outlets as I do!
- There’s a series on Something Awful that imagines modern, often mundane publications as if they were written in the style of the world’s great authors. Here’s one that pictures Ayn Rand promoting anime culture for J-List.
- You can go to a lot of different sites to find out the lineup for the next anime season, but I just found AniChart and think it’s extremely well designed. And let’s be honest, when’s the last time you visited an anime site and said, “Wow, that’s some really clean, minimalist Web design!”
- And finally, Reddit discovered the highway nearby where I grew up in Fairfax County, which just happens to be adopted by the Dark Capital Domain of the Camarilla. People are quick to suggest it’s a fake, but I’ve driven by it millions of times! Here’s the Camarilla chapter’s charity page, too.
(Photo by Sushi Killer.)