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DC comics and whatever else I guess
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samaburime.bsky.social
🎉My @citruscon.bsky.social panel is LIVE!🎉

"A core 'anti' argument is that real world Propaganda is comparative to narrative fiction. This panel deconstructs this misleading argument by consulting academic sources to show how and why this comparison is harmful"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ku2...
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The false equivalency of Propaganda to narrative fiction in the “Fiction Affects Reality” debate
YouTube video by Citrus Con
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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mintaii.bsky.social
at the heart of it all

#art
an illustration of jason todd and bruce wayne from under the red hood. batman is depicted as statue against a rainy gotham landscape. his statue is split in half to reveal gorey interior which frames jason todd as the central figure. his red hood helmet is partially broken away to reveal his left eye. his torso is an open cavity with exposed ribs and his younger self as robin nestled within, swathed in shades of red, curled up in the shape of a heart as he looks up.
July 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
thanapo.bsky.social
DC fandom remove the stick up your ass challenge: failed
June 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Tub and Blue. They simply cannot figure out how to get their tennis ball that fell in the pool. Still 12/10 because they really are trying
June 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
thanapo.bsky.social
I can’t help but be excited for the Red Hood series but I don’t have hope. I can feel another lecture by DC about preserving peace and oh don’t you know your assaulter had a future.
June 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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soaziglebihan.bsky.social
"Some estimates suggest every $1 spent meeting clean air rules has returned $10 in health and economic benefits."
theconversation.com/americas-cle...
America’s clean air rules boost health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s new deregulation plans ignore
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
theconversation.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
"The AVMA never recommends raw diets for dogs or cats because of the risk of multiple pathogens..." and the spread of H5N1 makes raw feeding riskier than ever. "The strain that’s currently circulating has a near 90 percent case fatality rate in domestic cats” www.popsci.com/health/how-t...
How to protect your pets from bird flu
H5N1 continues to circulate in wild animals, cows, and poultry–cats and dogs aren’t immune.
www.popsci.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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adamtots.bsky.social
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March 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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samaburime.bsky.social
This article is fantastically interesting 👀📚

'Fictosexuality, Fictoromance, & Fictophilia: A Qualitative Study of Love & Desire for Fictional Characters'

I think this discussion is what a lot of young fans may confuse when arguing 'fiction affects reality'

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy... 🧵
Ultimately, the analysis of 71 online discussions related to fictophilia can be summarized into five key themes that describe fictophilia. (1) Fictophilic paradox. Fictophiles do not ‘confuse fiction and reality,’ but overtly address the parasocial nature of their relationship. However, their genuine emotions and feelings toward the characters may generate discomfort since they cannot interact with the characters in the same way as they do with their human peers. (2) Fictophilic stigma. Fictophiles often experience a stigma, which can possibly be lessened by their search for peer support. (3) Fictophilic behaviors. The related behaviors often tangle around various fan-like activities that contribute to interacting with the fictional objects of love or desire. (4) Fictophilic asexuality. For some, fictophilia seems to be connected to asexuality, and although the phenomenon cannot be considered specific to adolescents, it may reflect liminalities of development and growth. (5) Fictophilic supernormal stimuli. Fictophilic relationships resonate with supernormal stimuli effects, i.e., fictional characters appear more competent or otherwise better than their human counterparts. In the following subsections we unpack each theme qualitatively. Selected forum citations are used to exemplify the themes respectively. A recurring feature in fictophilic behavior is that the individual is fully aware of the love-desire object’s fictional status and the parasocial nature of the relationship. The below post is a case in point: In this section we briefly address the five themes analytically. The final section then looks at fictophilia in cross-cultural theoretical perspectives and Japanese media psychological literature in particular. Fictophilic Paradox Our results included few indications of those experiencing fictophilia to ‘confuse fiction and reality’. Rather, they were fully aware of the fictional nature of the characters to which they were attached. Unlike in mental disorders like erotomania where the individual has an imaginary belief of a mutual relationship that does not exist (e.g., Kennedy et al., 2002), fictophilia does not usually entail such hallucinations but consists of the person’s self-aware feelings toward a non-organic construct that they know to be ontologically diverse (e.g., Livingston and Sauchelli, 2011; Karhulahti, 2012). At the same time, however, the intensity of emotions and feelings in fictophilia may lead to fantasies of the character in question ‘loving back’ or ‘becoming an actual companion.’ Evidently, such a genuine relationship is practically impossible and cannot materialize – and being aware of this, as fictophiles tend to be, constitutes a fictophilic paradox in which the coexisting awareness of fictionality and a wish to deny that produce emotional confusion. The above echoes Cohen’s (2004) earlier work that found attachment styles to be linked to the intensity of parasocial relationships by the measure of separation distress from favorite television characters, thus “parasocial relationships depend on the same psychological processes that influence close relationships” (p. 198). Adam and Sizemore’s (2013) survey study produced similar results, indicating that people perceive the benefits of parasocial romantic relationships similarly to those received from real-life romantic relationships. The genuine emotions and feelings that surface in fictophilia support and advance the above earlier findings – in fictophilic relationships, [cuts off] The otaku, Saito argues, are in fact more conscious and analytical of the nature of their (potential) romantic-sexual emotions or feelings than those who problematize them. This analytical consciousness allows the otaku to cope with their fiction-related emotions and feelings in elegant ways that may be difficult to grasp from the outside: while they do not in any way ‘confuse fiction with reality,’ they are uninterested in setting fiction and reality up against each other … This means not just falling in love and losing oneself in the world of a single work, but somehow staying sober while still indulging one’s feverish enthusiasm … ‘What is it about this impossible object [that] I cannot even touch, that could possibly attract me?’ This sort of question reverberates in the back of the otaku’s mind. A kind of analytic perspective on his or her own sexuality yields not an answer to this question but a determination of the fictionality and the communal nature of sex itself. ‘Sex’ is broken down within the framework of fiction and then put back together again (pp. 24–27). We may recall here those online discussions that dealt openly with questions of ‘naturality’ or ‘normality’ related to fictophilia, i.e., whether longitudinal romantic-sexual emotions and feelings projected on fictional characters should be considered abnormal, unnatural, or even unhealthy (‘It’s just so weird to me and I don’t think this is normal?’). From Saito’s viewpoint, such concerns for ‘naturality’ or ‘normality’ in fictophilia and the emotions and feelings involved may be calibrated as follows: how does the individual understand ‘real(ity)’ and where is their object of attachment (fictional character) located within that understanding? Saito’s perspective forms an integrated context within which ontological distinctions are considered irrelevant in total. If an individual understands their fictophilic orientation as a prolonged unsuccessful attempt to build a bridge between two [cuts off]
March 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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sam-animeherald.bsky.social
Confirmation from a reliable news source

Pretty much every anime publication in the USA will be harmed by this as we all publish stories about queer media

Utena, Aoi Hana, Sailor Moon, Yuri On Ice... I can think of about a hundred titles we all publish stories about that would get us up shit creek
March 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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lisatellstruth.bsky.social
spot on, Shaggy

#RealMonsters

#MonstersInc
February 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
It is very validating when the world class specialist with experience in your weird-ass genetic disorder just says, wearily, "I hate this disorder, it's the worst" in that weary voice of commiseration when you describe your symptoms
February 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
thanapo.bsky.social
I don’t get what the hubbub about Tim stans is. They’re fine? They stick to themselves. Whenever I come across some bullshit drama post it’s always been a Dick stan who started that shit.
February 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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prchovanec.bsky.social
I’m not saying we should all panic. But maybe the government shouldn’t shut down all the systems we have for monitoring this situation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Avian flu ‘would dwarf the COVID pandemic in terms of impact,’ researcher says
For scientist Dr. Richard Webby, the biggest ‘uh-oh’ moment was when the virus infected cows
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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lincolnproject.us
Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.
February 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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chcowgirl.bsky.social
February 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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sarahquaint.bsky.social
This is also the political result of prosperity theology. If you’re good and virtuous, you’ll be rich and healthy. Poverty and disability are your own fault

This is fifty-plus years of Christians using the Republican party to legally impose their poisonous doctrine on everyone
erinbiba.bsky.social Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Feb 17
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
February 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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2tone4real.bsky.social
If dogs bought smelly candles...

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February 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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rahaeli.bsky.social
Drama kids stay winning
stephenblackmoore.com Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · Feb 16
School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content".

In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival.

www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...
After Censorship, Santa Rosa Students Write Their Own Play — and Take the Gold | KQED
A state festival awarded top honors to ‘REDACTED,’ which ruthlessly lampooned district officials.
www.kqed.org
February 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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samaburime.bsky.social
Some of the most heavily censored years in media during the 1930s-1950s were some of the most violent domestically. US culture/society was training everyone to be good little moral citizens & they forced media of the time to reflect that agenda while everyday abuse still happened behind closed doors
February 16, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
me buying an egg with the money i get back
February 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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superluminous.bsky.social
This is a pretty good summary of fandom wank
Ghoul cowboy tweeted on October 18, 2021: 90s-2000: all fanfic is bad 2000-2005: slash fanfic is bad 2005-2010: female characters are annoying 2010-2014: if you prefer a male character to a female character you are sexist. 2014-2018: your fave is problematic 2018-now: if u like kink or dark fiction Ur a predator
February 4, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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samaburime.bsky.social
GOOD fucking video with delicious media literacy and appropriate application of a framework to two wonderful games and their unique ability to explore unreliable narrators, abusers and abuse by putting you in the shoes of the abuser www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-Fs...

#SH2 #silenthill2 #mouthwashing
What Silent Hill 2 and Mouthwashing can teach us about Abuse
YouTube video by SableStew
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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nowhere.bsky.social
I had a relative compelled into service to the enemy. He mistranslated all the manuals for captured equipment so that The Thing Don't Work.

Mistranslate the manuals, whatever that means for you.
faineg.bsky.social Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · Jan 21
a key take away from reading a lot of history for me:

the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”
January 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM