How Japan’s Internet Culture Borrowed Characters from Around the World — and Had Fun with Them

Algorithmic oracles, haunted media and the politics of remembering.

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Popular fanfiction site Archive of Our Own went down for maintenance early this morning. Now, the website is claiming it may take up to a month to come back online.

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