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What does it say about my writing/analysis/brain if I frequently have to flip my arguments back to front over the course of editing them?

I can tell my adhd brain is getting fed up with all the “finishing” work of the PhD bc I’m currently thinking about adding new analysis to the last chapter, when it’s due in 10 days and my last draft was only 6 words under the word count…

Zohran Mamdani isn’t going to end capitalism but god is he exemplifying the “puppies and ice cream for everyone” vs “leopards eating people’s faces” party lines… Maybe someday party democrats will stop trying to also eat people’s faces and realise how profitable free ice cream is

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Baby’s first real citation 🥹🥹🥹 doi.org/10.1386/ajpc...

A screenshot of the journal article cover page: The Swift Shift - promotional marketing (Taylor's version): How social media and fan engagement shape album release strategies

A screenshot of page 59 that includes citation to my article:

'Cultivating Connection': Parasociality as participation
Historically, discussions of parasociality have tended to pathologize fans, framing emotional attachment to media figures as symptomatic of delusion or dependency (Horton and Richard Wohl 1956). However, Hills (2015) and Bucy (2024) argue that such readings overlook the productive, affective and communal dimensions of fan engagement. Within digital marketing ecosystems, parasocial relationships function not as distortions of reality but as participatory mechanisms through which fans perform identity, belonging and creative expression. Bucy (2024) observes that fans are generally aware that the sense of intimacy they share with a music artist is an illusion; yet, this awareness does not diminish its signifi-cance. Instead, it establishes a framework for appropriate fan behaviour, defining how fans relate to the multiple personas of an artist such as Swift, and how they negotiate the emotional 'distance between themselves and the figure of their admiration. In Swift's case, these connections are not only acknowledged but also actively cultivated by her and her team, positioning intimacy as both an emotional bond and a deliberate strategy within the promotional process.
Although the curated dataset did not include instances of direct fan recog-nition, the wider corpus included public examples from the same promotional period that demonstrate how Swift and her team, particularly through Taylor

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Nothing like a visa application to make a girl with ocd (and left wing politics) panic (and rage) 🙃🫠

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Very me-core to have figured out the narrative of my 100,000 word PhD thesis 12 hours before I’m meant to send it to my supervisor while it’s still 4000 words over and already a week late

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Hey google, 8 hours will def be long enough to cut 23,000 words from a thesis draft, right?

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I so desperately want to feel solidarity with the other postgrads working in the computer lab into the wee hours of the morning but then I walk by them and see ChatGPT open split screen on their computer and I want to start a fistfight

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Hey google, 2 days will def be long enough to cut an (estimated) 20,000 words from a thesis draft, right?

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Journal article just accepted with minor revisions after revise and resubmit process ☺️☺️☺️ Job application submitted literally this morning with this article discussed and having to be labelled as “revisions submitted” 😠😠😠

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As someone who has been desperate to see the big picture of my thesis this whole time, I’m finding the process of turning my 117300 word document of messy drafts with notes and red text and frankensteined together chapters into my final thesis draft, moving from top to bottom, incredibly satisfying

Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

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When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

In the most recent of # just hypermobile girlie things, my PhD work is being interrupted this afternoon bc my shoulder feels so loose and ouchy that I’m having to use my cardigan as a sling, which is in turn making my neck hurt 🙃

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Should I order a roll of tape with a custom “if the poster is AI I’m not coming” design that I can slap on terrible posters around town?

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

No marking was done today… I am incredibly behind… better luck tomorrow?

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Thinking about the doubled experience of being an ECR/PhD student, zillennial where 30s isn’t automatically “old”, and single (all thus still “young”) vs my role as a module lead, supervisor, etc to students (thus “old”), esp bc in normal (non failing HE) circumstances, I’d prob still only be a TA…

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

How am I meant to grade papers on a day like today?

A photo of Ava’s things sitting on some turf in the sun with her shadow cast over them: a green cardigan, a nearly empty iced coffee, the book Staging Femininities (with a black cover, pink text, and a woman in an elegant dress on stage pictured), and a tote bag with a black and pink alien laying on the floor amongst a pile of books labelled “smut” and the text “Silver Sprocket Rules Ok?” And the comic stores address under it (1018 Valencia at San Francisco, CA)

A photo of Ava vaguely visible in the reflection of a building, she’s laying down on turf in a white shirt and black shorts, the turf is visible in the foreground of the photo.

Dr. Shelby Judge @shelbyjudge.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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I’m a 1st gen uni student. My mum, nan & godfather sat in Canterbury Cathedral on my graduation day, waiting to *hear my name called out* It’s such an important, human moment. This college tried to automate and dehumanise it & in doing so, ruined one of the most important days in their lives.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/05/2026

I gave up after ten questions with three I simply couldn't answer The options were all limited to the status quo in slightly different shades Radical change of one kind or another is upon us whether we want it or not and this is indeed leaving us wallowing in the past

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Neil @neilforreal.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The oligarchs want us to blindly accept AI's societal destruction, with them as overlords doling out crumbs. Young people are having none of the bullshit they're selling.

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Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I have been thinking about this a lot recently re: cultural studies and "media literacy". So much of the discipline was built on the belief that reading *and* thinking were both radical and valuable. I never fully understood the urgency of Williams and Hoggart on these points, but I get it now.

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

TWC revisions sent 🥰 FSNNA panel submitted 🥰 Lit Review rewrite restarted 😬 Marking…. is… due soon 🫣

Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

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“‘The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution,’ she said. The crowd booed.” This is what universities get for their willful ignorance of how students actually feel. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/s...

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Graduates Boo Commencement Speech About A.I.

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Every time someone says “it should be studied, honestly” about something in pop culture, a fan studies scholar loses their wings

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Podcasts about reading and discussing “am I the asshole” Reddit posts are such an interesting case study of morality negotiations on social media, like how celebs function for morality discourse, but also so different…… if someone’s written that paper hit me up

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Fyi I’m in search of really nice gifts ideas for my supervisors for putting up with me for four years… except rn I’m off to bed

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So it took ~46 hours (minus 6 I was watching student presentations) but I did write/adapt around 16000 words… except, it was about 23 hours late and about 5k of those are incomplete and bad and also too long

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Taking bets on if I can write/adapt approx 15000 words within the next ~33 hours

Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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Maybe this Canvas hack should be a cautionary tale for AI implentation into teaching aside from the 1000 other reasons why we shouldn‘t normalize it but what do I know

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have so much one sided beef with a particular academic and it started out on vibes but now I’ve got a list of actual reasons and just keep finding more which is great for my own feelings of vindication but also I have no chance at winning the beef

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Perhaps the most academic coded feedback I’ve ever seen outside of academia… I too would frame this (Lambert is Harry Styles’ stylist, among others)

An instagram post by Harry Lambert, which shows a black picture frame on a brown table, framing the following text:

Lambert’s work is not 100% loved. ‘He’s good at what he does,’ one stylist told me. ‘I just hate it’

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Have spent the week nagging some of my undergrad students to submit to @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social so I can pretend that the Centre for Participatory Culture exists for a little longer 🥲 They appreciate the extended deadline and I encourage other folks to submit!! FSNNA is delightful!

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I always start my marking on work I think is gonna piss me off to get it out of the way. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised, most of the time I spend the first few hours of marking miserable enough that it makes me not want to finish the rest of my marking… it’s not a perfect system

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I want to teach a class on analysing children’s media but I’d end up sobbing every class period because what the fuck was going on in the 80s 90s and 2000s that made children’s animators and authors do that to us

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On the one hand planning for an examiner who has written approximately 1million things is a lot of work, on the other had it justifies a lot of time sat reading in the sun, which I’m never mad about

The books Controversies in Digital Ethics and Poaching Politics sitting on some fake grass with a Portico Library tote bag and a red leather backpack

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

For some godforsaken reason (probably electric bills), the university computers are programmed to auto-shut down every night at midnight and I am shocked and infuriated by it every every single time

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I wonder which university will be the first to realise that marketing itself on a specifically anti AI stance could be really profitable

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Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Was talking about the 2008 financial crisis and its lasting impacts today in a lecture to first years, and one of them went “yeah I think I’ve heard of that” 🥲🫠

Ava Bucy @fangirlresearch.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Was reading my module evaluations, in which students consistently praised my marking and feedback, and then received a department email requesting staff to volunteer trialling an ai-marking assistant…. I think I’ll pass, thanks