Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com
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period as well as engaged in constructing websites online for her favorite<br />
characters and/or series, so-called “shrines.” She was connected to other fans<br />
on- as well as <strong>of</strong>fline. Whereas, I lurked online, and interacted through club<br />
events with other fans <strong>of</strong>fline, she was always very active in both realities.<br />
The most recent example for these online interactions has been discussed<br />
already: Yuri’s connection to members <strong>of</strong> her HP RPG, is based on a certain<br />
mix <strong>of</strong> “fictional identity” <strong>of</strong> Harry Potter, and Yuri’s personality. She<br />
interacts with some <strong>of</strong> her roleplay friends outside <strong>of</strong> the reality <strong>of</strong> the game,<br />
i.e. outside <strong>of</strong> IC or OOC chats, and has formed online friendships with them.<br />
I have only recently felt more open-minded about online-connections<br />
and friendships, adding a couple <strong>of</strong> LiveJournal users, <strong>who</strong>m I do not know<br />
<strong>of</strong>fline, to my LiveJournal friends list and have been added to their lists in<br />
return. A friends list, though it may be called so, is really, essentially, a list <strong>of</strong><br />
journals that one reads, a very long webpage listing the posts made by the<br />
journals one has added to their friends list. In the process <strong>of</strong> adding these users<br />
to my friends list, I have given myself access to their journal posts to be<br />
displayed on my friends page; I do not have to specifically search out their<br />
LiveJournals, but can see them on my list. Furthermore, I have given these<br />
users the access rights to those posts on my journal that I do not make openly<br />
public, and which are coded to be viewable by my friends list alone. In this<br />
way, I willingly form a further connection to others online. Though in the past,<br />
I utilized this tool to allow myself further online connection to <strong>of</strong>fline friends,<br />
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