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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love (x♾️) Son Ye Jin and Ji Chang Wook, and The Scandal is beautifully shot. The frustration and bitterness of the lives and era the characters are caught in are wonderfully expressed, but I have to say I’m underwhelmed by the character of Hui Yeon. I guess that’s the point?

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The puritanism of Asian fandom is fascinating. I’m loving and thoroughly enjoying The Scandal as I see the “controversy” unfold.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

How did Ji Chang Wook not get nominated for anything for The Worst of Evil?!

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Dr. Acafanmom @acafanmom.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Let's try this again, since I forgot I don't actually give my name on this account and not everyone knows me by my acafanmom username: I'm Lori (Hitchcock) Morimoto, I do media fan studies and dabble in Japanese popular culture. If you use any of my academic work on your syllabi, can you ping me?

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Na Hong Jin’s Hope doesn’t take itself too seriously but the emotions hit you when you least expect it. Which is something Korean filmmakers and shows do very well. It’s one of the best sci-fi films I’ve seen in ages!

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4 is back on form. I thought season 3 got too bogged down with the whole Batel storyline and I’d much rather it focused on the core characters, which this season is doing again.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The End of Oak Street was fun. Loved the dinosaurs in suburbia concept.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Catching up with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 4. Please don’t let that be a foreshadow for La’an’s fate. Of the new additions, she and Una are my favourites.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It feels like it's been forever and a day since I last read Stuart Hall's "The Work of Representation", but using it for one of my classes, and re-reading it as I write the lecture. I feel like I should move the reading to Week 1 of class rather than Week 4

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There’s so many unnecessarily prolonged scenes in Agent Kim Reactivated.

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Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My new edited book is out today! And it's open access so you can all read it for free! I'm so excited to share what all these amazing authors have to say about work that crosses design research and fan studies. I'll be highlighting chapters over the next few days. www.emerald.com/books/edited...

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Bridging Design and Fandom: Fan Studies and Design Research in Conversation

Fandom studies and design are both relatively young disciplines both of which are familiar with interdisciplinarity, and with co-production and participati

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday has been found dead. The obsessive media focus on this one man - as if it was one of the biggest scandals in history - was disproportionate beyond belief. Push notifications, top headlines, constant investigations. And now he is dead.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Apparently the director’s cut for The X-Files’ I Want to Believe is not for Asia? 😒

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

No matter how seasoned of an academic one is, or how long one has been teaching, the first week of a new semester, meeting new students, is always nerve-wrecking. #ThisAcademicLife

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Late post, but so glad I managed to snag the last few tickets to The Odyssey at the BFI IMAX before I left London. So beautifully shot, and it brought back memories of reading about Odysseus as a child.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#Tunnel appears to be one of those highly recommended Kdramas, and the premise is interesting, but I don’t know, the cops are all very clueless. Like, in terms of cop shows, they’re just bad cops in comparison to shows like Stranger or Through the Darkness. Or even Signal.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Went to watch #DearYou in the cinema in London, mostly due to the controversy it courted in Singapore due to the language issue. It was an endearing tale of Chinese migrants to Southeast Asia; I think people who have closer ties to China and these narratives would find it more personal.

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

New issue of Fandom | Cultures | Research is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/issue/vi...

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Making sure you're not a bot!

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

When people lament about how good Kdramas are circa 2016, all I see are toxic female characters and so. Much. Gaslighting. They were the reason why I resisted watching Kdramas in the first place. I think right around 2019, they start to get a bit more enlightened…

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

So, Tracker seems to have moved away from the missing persons case-of-the-week format into X-Files territory…where is Mulder when you need him?!

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 16/06/2026

The U.S.–Israeli war of choice may be remembered as the most pointless war in modern history: a conflict waged not for security or principle, but to prop up two politically weakened leaders struggling to maintain their grip on power.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The one irk I have whenever I read articles from TWC is the inability to download the file as a pdf. I mean, I’d like to highlight and make notes, not put the article via AI to summarise it. 😑

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If you’re shopping around for a PhD studentship and approaching potential supervisors, DO NOT, I repeat, for the love of God, DO NOT write that email using AI. We can tell!

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Of course people are always looking for the easy answers and obvious scapegoats. 🙄

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I forget how whimsical Park Chan Wook’s films are

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“Its central idea is the "evolved zombie," a concept Yeon connects to questions about the collapse of individuality in the age of artificial intelligence.” www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainmen...

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'Colony' director seeks experimental turn in AI era - The Korea Times

“It has been 10 years since I started making commercial films,” director Yeon Sang-ho said. “During that time, I spent years collaborating within c...

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I enjoyed #Colony more than I did #TrainToBusan, to be honest. It was the Jun Ji Hyun factor for me, but I also enjoyed the origin story.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Scarecrow is intense and so dark but so good. And Park Hae Soo is so great in it.

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

A great pleasure to host the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social symposium at NUS yesterday; generously supported by @cnmnus.bsky.social. So many interesting projects being done in the field of #transculturalfandom! We need to continue the conversation! #FanStudies

Pink poster with the words Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

And of course, we can’t do without our stellar group of presenters! #FanStudies #TransculturalFandoms

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A few more days before our event featuring our plenary speakers Wikanda Promkhuntong, Anthony Fung and @acafanmom.bsky.social #FanStudies #TransculturalFandoms

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

What should we make of Hollywood’s turn toward microdramas, as well as TikTok’s heavy investment in them? How is any of this different than Quibi? @krystenstein.bsky.social and I answer those questions in our latest op-ed for The Conversation. theconversation.com/tiktoks-popu...

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As TikTok invests in short-form scripted series, it’s leaning into the same storytelling, advertising and viewing habits that defined television.

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Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Meet the folks behind the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium 🫶 Have you signed up? 🔗 tinyurl.com/tatf2026 or scan the QR code 📲 💌 Follow us for updates! #Fandom #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #KPop #kpopfandom #fandoms #asianfandom

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Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Announcing the lineup of presenters for the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium 🫶 Our event is free and open to all 🆓 Sign up today ▶️ tinyurl.com/tatf2026 or scan the QR code 📲 💌 Follow us for updates! #Fandom #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #KPop #kpopfandom #fandoms #asianfandom

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Have accepted the fact that when I'm here, somehow my name gets pronounced as 'Berthe'....

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This came from SOS/Emergency alert due to the insurance from UoS, who funded my trip to China. It's 'hilarious' that all the warnings are about Asia, and this is literally a music fest. In a country that doesn't allow protest! Unless you have a permit! Hello, imperialism. 🙄

Announcement on music fest in KL on 1-3 May long weekend

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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

In Suzhou, China for the next few days as a discussant for the Gender, Celebrity and Fandoms in Contemporary China PhD workshop at the courtesy of University of Sydney. #FanStudies

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Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

We’re excited to announce the lineup of speakers for our Plenary, Anthony Fung, Wikanda Promkhuntong, and @Lori Morimoto🫰 Coming for our symposium? Sign up today🔗 tinyurl.com/tatf2026 or scan the QR code📲 #Fandom #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #KPop #kpopfandom #fandoms #asianfandom

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