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Brittany

@academicfan.bsky.social
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Mostly screaming into various fandom voids ✨. Lawyer ⚖️. Chemical engineer 🧪. Still figuring it out. (She/Her) 🌈

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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
*record scratch* What do you *mean* the Final Fantasy 40th Anniversary concerts are also next year? *checks cities* *sees DC, in December 2027*
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CJ: Ah Shit, Here We Go Again
Alt: Ah Shit, Here We Go Again gif. The player character in a video game, a Black man in a white tank top, is walking down an alleyway and bemoaning a reoccurring thing. The caption of his dialogue reads “Ah shit, here we go again.”
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They 100% need to add more shows to this Zelda concert tour. Dallas Symphony has the worst website, with zero queue function. The box office phone rings once, there’s no answer, and then it tells you the voicemail box is full. I’ll keep trying because I would like to see my friend.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Man, it hasn’t even been 2 weeks. Will this add a few minutes? Yes. Could I stomach waiting a few minutes more on the more crowded platform? No. At least this moves.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Okay, I needed this today, actually. *adds to cart and checks out so quickly the app lags*
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My apartment complex has switched to an AI chatbot over an app to handle maintenance requests, and I fucking hate it. The reference numbers it gives are meaningless. There’s nowhere to check them. It can’t tell me who from the maintenance team has been assigned to the request.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
God of War soundtracks maybe not the best choice when trying NOT to cry at my desk at work, but alas. I wanted to go “home.”
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No, you were up until 2 am trying to rewrite Wolverine to keep essentially the same plot, but in a way that made connected sense and didn’t sacrifice all depth of basically every character. While also incorporating game mechanics Insomniac has used before. Why aren’t they here. Sigh.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
6.5/10. That last hour of writing. Woof. What the actual fuck happened, Insomniac. This cannot be the game they wanted to ship like this. This is…why has the narrative writing in games this year been such dogwater.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Fuck it, I’ll just take the Blue Line.” - Ancient Virginian at L’Enfant Proverb.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 17/09/2026
New cat just dropped. Landed on its feet, it’s fine.
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Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Essentially spoiler free thoughts on Wolverine, now that I’ve played a good chunk of it: 1) Insomniac is way too married to their superhero games narrative formula and three-act structure. The cut content here makes for some strange pacing here and there. 2) I want the game this should have been.
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Rachel Dempsey @racheldempsey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I fucking hate this patronizing bigoted bitch.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Work mantra: “Do you want to be sane, or do you want to be right?” (I want to be right.)
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every game showcase event since Summer Games Fest this year has had weird vibes and been between very disappointing and exceptionally mediocre. Lots of remakes and remasters and definitive editions. Lots of nostalgia being invoked and marketed to.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I like the little automatic thread count numbers on threaded posts now. That’s a nice little QOL thing. I wonder if it’ll help with threads breaking. It definitely saves on character count if you were numbering your own threads before.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Summer storm with the kind of thunder and lightning that set off car alarms. I didn’t want to sleep tonight or anything, Arlington.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I am now booked on video games from now through early April. Cool. Time for NG+ runs!
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
DC has decided to drop a thunderstorm that wasn’t in the forecast on us. Good times.
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Call Me The Brie-ze @briesmith.xyz · 25/08/2026
When you argue that we should abandon the South, or that they somehow deserve to be mistreated for voting a certain way, you’re saying we should write off Dolly Parton. Look at how everyone is responding right now and understand there are so, so many who believe in the same things she did.
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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I think everyone should see this incredible picture of Dolly Parton: it’s by Stacie Williams (asterosperma on Instagram) and it’s called The Queen of Appalachia
A stunning screenprint image in a style which is part folk art, part religious icon. Dolly Parton sits on a throne-like wooden chair, surrounded by garlands of flowers and leaves. Orange butterflies (I think they are monarchs?) hover around her head. Her hair is huge and golden, and she is wearing a long, sweeping orange gown, which is turned up over her knee to show off her brown knee length high heeled boots. Two black bear cubs play around her, one on the floor and one in her lap. Dolly stares calmly at the viewer. Her right hand is raised in benediction, and in her left she holds a ripe strawberry which she is feeding to one of the bear cubs. 

The original post is here https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rvBpTlRxZ/?igsi=Z2x5aTB5aHp5NXFp
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Mo Ryan @moryan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
every billionaire & tech mogul, they all want to be adored & celebrated without doing the things Dolly did with a fraction of the power & money. What she had, she gave away. I'm sure she was comfortable (& that's good!). But she just relentlessly helped. It's not that difficult. Love. Care. Help. 💚🌸
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m not going to name them because they name search, and I’m sure they’ve been yelled at enough today, but Area Metro Transit System…B R U H. 20 minutes of waiting for one train on one side of the line while trains came every 30 seconds to 1 minute on the other. Mathematically…how. Sigh.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16/08/2026
A lot of people don't know this, but when you brush a cat, you are legally required to show them the wad of cat hair that came off of them and tell them "this is enough for another whole cat"
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I can’t believe I didn’t start going to the county fair until last year. This is so much fun. My community is so fun and talented.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 13/08/2026
I was literally JUST doing a talk about this with @mcmanlypants.bsky.social an hour ago! The thing is that the Rockies are so much bigger than you that they don’t notice if you exist. But the Appalachians are so much older than you that if they notice you, bad shit’s about to go down.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
*glances askance at one particular ongoing strain of discourse* Some of you are going to crash out when Epic: The Musical gets its animated movie, and I’ll enjoy the show.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh, I hate this new Bluesky feature where, when you open a post, if anyone you follow has liked it, it tells you “this post was liked by so-and-so.” Messy UI and just unnecessary info.
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earend | making 🐻🛡️⚠️ @earend.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The "Jason figured it out meme" from the Goodplace, but the captions are:

LinkedIn figured it out?

LinkedIn?  This is a real low point.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Fandom was better when it was a niche hobby that was either never acknowledged or mocked by the mainstream. The commercialization, commodification, and reliance on fans for free (and paid) marketing just…kills my desire to interact with fandom most of the time anymore. *salts and burns the NYT*
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We got special summer stickers! (Which means the Halloween one has to come back this year, right?) I feel like this is partially @maureencoffeyva.bsky.social’s doing, and I love it. One more week of early voting before the August 4th primary!
A zoomed-in picture of an “I Voted” sticker on a teal blouse. The sticker is circular and has three sections. In black print, the words “I VOTED!” take up the entire middle of the circle. The top hemisphere is an overhead photograph shot of the blue water of a swimming pool, with a beach ball and yellow duck floating ring on the upper right part of the hemisphere. The bottom hemisphere has a red background with the word “Arlington” printed in white font in a repeating pattern.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Sorry, sorry, I was screaming about a pretty woman in a video game. This post is amazing, and so is the alt text 🙂‍↕️
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
*adds to “Reasons to Keep Going” list* Time to plan my NG+ runs here. And plan to take time off work.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A February 29th primary in Virginia. So, 45 days of early voting. If we stick with 4 weekend days, and skip over the 2 holidays, that puts us at, I think, Wednesday, December 29, 2027, as the start of early voting. If the holidays aren’t skipped, it’s Friday, December 31, 2027.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I know that there’s a train with a mechanical issue, but can we get some single-tracking, WMATA? I’ve been waiting almost half an hour for a train here.
A sign at the Navy Yard-Ballpark DC Metro station showing all three upcoming Green Line trains to Greenbelt are delayed.
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VenomousGoatTV @venomousgoat.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Me in 2017: I dig the premise and the gameplay is fun but man, this villain is truly just an irredeemable shitbag in a way that I think is a *little* cartoony Me in 2026: Guerrilla Studios is built over a fissure that grants them the gift of prophecy. Amsterdam is the new Delphi
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
*pinches bridge of nose, eyes closed, takes a deep breath* so do we have ANY idea how many living US Senators there are right now?
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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Purrberus
A digital pencil drawing of a fluffy, dark gray cat with three heads, sitting with one forepaw up and its fluffy tail wrapped around its feet. The head in the center is giving kind of a menacing look and showing some teeth outward to the viewer. The head on the left is just looking leftwardly in a contemplative way. And the one on the right is looking upwards like it just saw a bug on the ceiling. Hand lettering below says 'Purrberus'
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Mahut and Isner coming on as subs for the penalties
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𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍄𐌰 @delicate-prey.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Happy 102nd birthday to the Caesar Salad
The salad was created on July 4, 1924, by Caesar Cardini at Caesar's in Tijuana, Mexico, when the kitchen was overwhelmed and short on ingredients. It was originally prepared tableside,[1] and it is still prepared tableside at the original venue.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Horizon Zero Dawn and Night in the Woods.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Sony really saw everyone ready to go at Microsoft with torches and pitchforks and decided they wanted some of that attention. I got a digital-only PS5 because it was all that was available at the time, and I figured that I have good enough internet for it to work for my wants.
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Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
It’s weird to feel like, “of course it’s no surprise the Supreme Court overruled a hundred year old precedent that Congress had relied on to build the modern state.” But here we are.
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 24/06/2026
I’m going to do a brief rundown of today’s SCOTUS opinions: We live in an unyielding hellscape of 6-3 decisions. Look upon the slip opinion, ye mortals, and despair.
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I knew this was going to wind up over $1,000. *screams into the void*
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
On this day in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating US Department of Justice. Two primary reasons for DOJ’s creation: protection of formerly enslaved people’s civil rights & to oppose domestic terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Image: Thomas Nast, “Halt.” Public domain.
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SaraAAAGHH A GHOST!!! Ford 🐍🎨👻 @angeloslh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
DO YOU WANT A TULPA THIS IS HOW YOU GET A TULPA
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Brittany @academicfan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
*glances at gaming news/speculation and Fox/Roku and WBD/Paramount wanting to merge* Microsoft never should have been allowed to buy up this many studios. Monopolies are fucking BAD. The others need to be slowed or stopped if at all possible. Media needs more than just one voice and viewpoint.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 11/06/2026
today in dystopia watch: all your pokemon go scans helped train a system for killer drones
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