{"id":21953,"date":"2025-01-03T03:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=21953"},"modified":"2026-03-07T01:33:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:33:40","slug":"the-fangirl-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=21953","title":{"rendered":"The Fangirl Diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To be cringe is to be free<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After 20 years of writing convention reports and operating the longest running and active source of anime and pop culture con reports, so I wrote a book about it!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fangirl Diaries&#8221; is a non-fiction book about the intersection of girlhood and anime fandom. Recording <em>Sailor Moon<\/em> at 7:30am, discovering anime through the early internet, trading tapes with strangers online, pixelated anime photos on our school binders &#8211; because to be cringe is to be free. This is my personal account as a teenager living their best otaku life in a time before streaming and social media. I hope you enjoy reading this!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?page_id=22298\">Where to Buy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?page_id=22704\">Upcoming Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?page_id=22096\">The Fangirl Diaries in the press<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/50667754.Erica_Victoria_Espejo\">&#8220;The Fangirl Diaries&#8221; on Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/\">&#8220;The Fangirl Diaries&#8221; Playlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?page_id=22578\">Follow Me on Social Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact: scarlet.rhapsody@ymail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be cringe is to be free After 20 years of writing convention reports and operating the longest running and active source of anime and pop culture con reports, so I wrote a book about it! &#8220;The Fangirl Diaries&#8221; is&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/?p=21953\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-fangirl-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21953"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22303,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21953\/revisions\/22303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scarlet-rhapsody.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}