This thesis examines the figure of the fujoshi in contemporary Japanese media and media fandom as both a greater entity within the media fan ecology and as individual parts of a collective. I take a two-part approach, examining first the affectionate portrayals of fujoshi in three fan-centric Japanese manga and their related adaptations, before moving onto analyzing the different strategies by which fujoshi involved in dōjinshi creation negotiate different states of being and belonging as they dually inhabit spaces as both fans and professionals. The particularly permeable nature of the fan/professional boundaries in Japanese manga/dōjinshi culture and the enduring quality of rotten imagination come together to enable continuities of fujoshi imaginations that in turn are subsumed into the collective feedback loop between readers and creators that sustains the perpetual motion apparatus that is fujoshi community.