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Late-Stage Fandom Is Following Your Faves off a Cliff
It was last week after "The Life of a Showgirl" proved to be her most poorly written, thematically vapid, and woefully unrelatable album (IMO) that I…
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Catherine Mhloyi
The Gayest Thing You Can Do Is Have an Archenemy
Lex Luthor's discomfort with Superman’s very existence, his belief that Superman is an abomination he must be rid of, reminds me of the first time the…
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AJ
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A Deep Dive Into the Connective Power of the Public Restroom
The unique thrill of bathroom camaraderie at Bad Bunny’s historic “No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí” residency.
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what it actually takes to make a k-pop song
No one is able to discern what qualifies as artistic identity from the stars they pay money to hear and what is the product of a publicity team’s focus…
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Steffi
video games are fanfiction's next frontier
If fanfic is the horny nationals, then fan games are the horny Olympics.
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sims-maxxing in the apocalypse
inside the complicated world of custom content mods in the Sims 4, which offer both rebellion and escape.
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Faye OD
is AI dating the new frontier of impersonal connection?
A drastic shift is happening in how people relate to each other in our digitized world, and it's deeply influencing how we date and connect. Society is…
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would you pay for fan service?
how cosplay created a system of "participatory parasocial connection."
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RIP TikTok, which made us gay
TikTok may be "back," for now, but the future of the app feels uncertain — especially for queer users. Writer Malavika Kannan explores what the new…
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malavika kannan
to all the tiktok mannerisms we've loved before
an ode to how much creators on the app have shaped culture over the years
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kate lindsay
the fanfic-to-real-fic pipeline
Despite fanfiction being some of the most popular “pull-to-publish” phenomena of the 2010s, these books — "Fifty Shades of Grey," which was once a…
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our magical girl comic is here 🥺 💓
In our inaugural comic (hopefully the first of many), mixed feelings art director Logan Tsugita put girlhood into five panels that speak volumes. "What…
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