Max Dosser is a PhD Candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. When he isn’t researching speculative fiction, fandoms, music communication, or animated media, he’s writing about heroic blueberries, raven knights, and long voyages in outer space. He is the co-founder and editor of Flash Point SF. His research analyzes the affective economy of fan-driven controversies in the speculative fiction community to ask: What is the relationship between the affective attachments fans have to speculative fiction media and the logics of violence/exclusion so prevalent in reactionary movements at large?