As part of a continuation of work on transcultural fandom begun in my dissertation, I've been thinking about yaoi (primarily in the context of 'derivative' (二次創作 niji sousaku; i.e. 'transformative') doujinshi) in terms of how we talk about it in a fan studies context, as well as how it reflects some of the ways we think about fandom itself, and I wanted to play a bit here with an idea that made it as far as a footnote in the final dissertation.

( What does meaning mean? )