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A photograph of dozens of Final Fantasy VII cosplayers, including several Clouds, Aeriths, and Tifas as well as Sephiroth, Barret, a Moogle Mandelorian and more, all posing together in a concrete convention floor

Meeting Your Imagined Community on the Show Floor

By Gianna Mulvey • June 10th, 2025

The only Final Fantasy fans I know personally are two of my friends and my brothers, and I’m pretty certain there are more than five Final Fantasy fans out there in the world.

Self-Insert
A still of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, stands in thick woods and readies a bow and arrow to take a shot.

Berklie Novak-Stolz Is Happy to Be “Cringe”

By Amanda Hudgins • June 15th, 2022

An interview with the TikTok creator and fandom enthusiast.

On “Pooping Themselves with Anger”

By David Shimomura • November 13th, 2018

It isn’t always about you. And that’s OK.

Here's the Thing

The Fandom is Trash

By Rob Rich • March 14th, 2018

Rob rants about people taking their “love” of something way too far.

The Burnt Offering

A Miscellany

By Stu Horvath • November 7th, 2017

This month’s column is the equivalent of a clip show – horror movies, criticism of toxic fandom, fretting about fatherhood and more inside!

HUD: Tension of Fandom

By Andrea Ayres • July 21st, 2016

Time to dig real deep into the ever evolving world, and dangers, of fandoms.

If You Build It They Will Come: Mark Oshiro on Trolls, Fandom, and Community Management

By Megan Condis • July 18th, 2016

Megan Condis got to chat with the titular Mark of Mark Does Stuff on how to avoid fandoms becoming cesspools of trolls and bigotry.

Women Abroad – Theme Recap

By Harry Rabinowitz, Cara Ellison, Dina Abou Karam, Hazel Monforton, Vikka Perez-Puelles, Krista Grothoff and Elaine Reynolds • February 2nd, 2016

Six women share their experiences of living and working far from home.

The Burnt Offering

The Tyranny of the Fan

By Stu Horvath • March 9th, 2015

Stu Horvath unearths the horrors of fandom.

Unwinnable Weekly Issue Nine

By Stu Horvath • August 8th, 2014

Did the Editor in Chief just call Boba Fett a moron? Read Unwinnable Weekly Issue Nine to find out!

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