o_O

So I'm cataloging a book just now--Queer Popular Culture published by Palgrave Macmillan (major U.S. publishing firm). In checking the table of contents against the record, I note one chapter, "Identity Unmoored: Yaoi in the West" by Mark McHarry. Just because it mentions yaoi, I decide to give it a read.

And now I am stunned on multiple levels. It is, as I expected, an analysis of yaoi/shounen-ai/boys' love/slash, but one of the areas of focus is the Gundam Wing fandom. It mentions the Gundam Wing Addiction site and Tyr, and one of the illustrations is artwork by Kitsune. And...this is the one that just *floors* me. It has several pages discussing Chasing the Crown. Including paragraphs of quotations of it, mentions of the Mission: Arcadia and Beyond series, pages of *analysis*. I just...my brain can't bend around that. To see analysis of something that touched my life (through my friendship at the time with Ravyn, Bonne, Von, Nix, and such) and that I even participated in and helped write in a small way...discussed in detail in an academic-oriented published book...truly mind-boggling. "RavynFyre et al." is not a phrase I'd ever in my life expected to see, or to be connected to.

Serious psycho-social queer/gender theory analysis and discussion. I just...wow.