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Yoinked from www.tumblr.com/sundaysnowday, wanna make sure @no-detective.bsky.social has seen these...

Friend do I have a rec for you. Not BL though! But Takoi and Shiono so obviously inspired by THE Easygoing Detective/Uptight HQ Elite OTP of all time: Aoshima/Muroi from 踊る大捜査線 | Bayside Shakedown. If the DFKL mangaka did not imprint on them at an impressionable age I will eat my favorite beanie.

Presenting Aoshima Shunsaku, detective at a small podunk station in Tokyo. PLEASE NOTE THE TIE. He's not a manga character, so he does wear other colors, but his trademark color is red. It's in all the promo material and everything. And yes, tied Like That.

Muroi Shinji, HQ Elite aiming for the top. Please note the three-piece suit and the stern expression. (Fandom is obsessed with his little frown. You can SEE the migraine growing at Aoshima's hijinks.)

Muroi grabbing Aoshima by his trademark green coat, trying to shake some sense into him. Aoshima is THE most infuriating man and Muroi cannot keep his hands off of him. (Okay it's because he keeps breaking the rules and Muroi is all about rules but still.)

This show came out in the late 90s so it was legal for them to show that lost art of one man homoerotically lighting another man's cigarette.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 23/10/2026

Currently this! (It sings Twinkle Twinkle.) When I lived in Japan I bought the cheapest I could get, left it with friends when I went back home, had it returned when I did and it was still going strong when I left it to my successor at my job + apartment.

Zojirushi Micom Rice Cooker & Warmer NL-AAC10/18.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 22/10/2026

The sky did a thing when I was out for my reluctant little run for my demanding physical and mental health. #NayePhoto

Gray clouds dyed sunset pink behind trees - some already bare, the rest a yellow that is hard to see in the half-light.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 19/10/2026

Behold: NORA.

$Rainbow refractions from a sun catcher casting colorful rays on the wall around where Nora cat is sitting in her very small cardboard box. It's very much like a colorful halo. Nora is white with gray markings and a pink nose, sitting with paws together facing the camera.$

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Little Women (작은 아씨들) continues to be riveting! I'm so impressed with the direction and cinematography - this is a show that has a lot of people talking and looking at screens and not doing much else, and it's still BEAUTIFUL to look at. Director Kim Hee Won is so great at building tension!

Family portrait style photo of the Oh sisters, played by Kim Go Eun (sitting down in a beautiful pale blue-gray suit and murderously high cream stilettos), Park Ji Hu in a fancy dark jacket over a light dress standing in the left, and Nam Ji Hyun in a black sleeveless dress on the right. There are fiery orchids out of focus on the foreground.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

October is at its most beautiful today. #NayePhoto

Melting frost on long grass glittering like crystal, the low sun shining through dense yellow foliage, leaving the front of a red house in shadow.

Yellow birch and aspens against a perfectly blue sky.

Golden leaves overhead and ahead, the sky empty of any clouds between them.

Red spindle berries! Description from Wikipedia: The capsular fruit ripens in autumn, and is red to purple or pink in colour and approximately 1–1.5 cm wide. When ripe, the four lobes split open to reveal the orange seeds.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 18/10/2026

Very very very glad I took the dahlias in yesterday - we had our first frost tonight! #NayePhoto

The top of a browning fern frond covered in frost.

A single yellow maple leaf landed on a red Japanese maple, their leaves all lightly frosted along the edges.

A pink rose coming apart, petals heavy with frost crystals.

A small orange maple leaf on bare earth, coated in frost.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

My seven dahlias are ready for winter! The tubers are in the cool, dark basement, snug in paper bags with wood shavings to keep them dry. And the flowers are all over the house, for the last time this year. Which means: Festivids time!

A huge bundle of tubers dwarfing my hand.

A peek into four paper bags with sawdust and the plastic flower tags the tubers came with so I know which is which next year. (The bags were closed for storage!)

A bunch of pale yellow and bright pink dahlias in a bucket.

A collage with nine squares showing dahlias in shades of apricot and pink in various vases and floating in a big bowl.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

First episode of Little Women (the Kdrama that doesn't feel anything like that book MDL says it's "loosely based on") was very intriguing. Deadly secrets, awful rich people, illegal slush funds, scheming politicians, a suicide (?) and three poor but proud sisters... This is definitely going places!

Poster for the Kdrama 작은 아씨들 (Little Women) giving off strong psychological thriller vibes with a shot of the three sisters from above and behind something - a balustrade? The eldest sister, played by Kim Go Eun, is looking up, but not directly at the camera, more as if she heard a strange noise.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 12/10/2026

I suppose one of the benefits of the follow-spam accounts is that you can automatically block anyone following them back! ...I really hate that blocking people doesn't make them unfollow you. I know, I know - AT protocol and your account can't force action from other accounts but it bugs me!

A spammy post from an account with 5 followers. They're following me. Their only post includes a nsfw tag and link I'm not copying and the text:
"first skeet here!! 18, faceless, looking for moots ♡ ↻ / ♡"

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 11/10/2026

Another little #embroidery project done! Used a pattern bought from shop.vikasspacetohang.com. I really struggled with the negative space lettering, but the overall impression from a distance isn't too bad...

Embroidery of an abstract line of mountains in solid colors in silk stitch, a space in the stitches spelling "Wanderlust". The top is third is in burnt orange and browns, while the rest is in shades of blue. The embroidery is in a round frame.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

It's been so fascinating to see it change colors over the past month or so.

Red leaves with a hint of lighter orange.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Fascinating how this research confirms a hunch I think many of us have had. I've been forced to use some AI tools at work, which has made me more determined to stay away from chatbot shortcuts, "AI assistant" searches & machine translation. Especially when I see how they impact people around me!

A graph from the linked article that shows two groups solving problems. One has AI tools, one doesn't. At first the AI group solves more, but then the researchers take away their tools and their rates plummet to under the control group. The skip rate over time rate shows the same thing. Once the AI group lose their AI tools they skip way more than the control group Text:
"There was a significant drop-off in the solve rate for the group that had access to an AI tool, represented by the orange line, after the tool was removed. There was also a sharp increase in the rate at which participants skipped questions, shown in the lower graph."

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 09/10/2026

Spooky ghost caught on camera!!

An out of focus flash photo of a dark room by a staircase where a blob of fluffy gray (ghost! ...or our cat Meenie) sits on the floor with huge glowing eyes.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

Cats who were DEFINITELY NOT about to fight over the armchair.

Fluffy gray Meenie cat and her white and gray sister Nora on a yellow armchair covered in quilts and cushions. Meenie is on her back looking up at the camera (her fight move is "lie back and kick"). Nora is sitting cutely and innocently.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026

And since I'm on mu.social I've got custom accent colors and a little cat companion. (And an edit button!)

A little black cartoon cat sleeping next to the post button.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

I got myself this one. 😆

"No colon still rollin'" with a smiling cartoon colon by Itsmezoeee on Redbubble.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

... OMG it's true! Eurosky has EDITS! (1 per post if nobody has replied, I think.) I'm not even on there yet, just posting from Mu, and I edited the above post! Amaze.

Menu detail: Edit post, Edit interaction settings & Delete post.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026

Meenie made herself comfortable on my lap the way only a little cat can be comfortable!

Fluffy gray Meenie cat with one front paw on my chest, and her two hind paws sticking out like she's a lady riding side saddle except it's my lap. I don't know where the other front paw is.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

We talk about the literacy crisis and how some people don't believe in science anymore, but I genuinely don't know what to do about guys like this asshole, and the commentator blaming Big Search Engine for hiding the TRUTH about life-extending radiation like how everyone's healthy in Chernobyl.

wesley.burwell1 in an Instagram comment: Not saying that I'm going out to buy Radium water to drink but I am interested in doing some research. Radioactive materials can produce high levels of deuterium enriched water and foods which when consumed actually increased lifespan in rats by almost a third and tumor free. You won't find it on google, but on non mainstream search engines. Farmers were given lots of free land on the outer regions of Chernobyl and the government thought they were all going to die from radiation sickness. They did this as a test on their own people. What they found is that no one got sick, everyone was healthy and tumor free. Their crops were also abundant without mutations. This study was conducted over years as they couldn't believe they were thriving.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

Textile art in the hospital MRI waiting room!

Looks like a painting of a small, white lighthouse on abstract kind of rocks, but it's actually made with fabric scraps sewn together. A few lines of stitches make ripples in the taupe silk water.

A red lighthouse with metal struts on a cliff overlooking a purple blue sea and distant clouds and islands - all fabric of different textures. A flock of birds flying past the lighthouse is made up of tiny stitches in an < shape. The artist's signature is GC.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I have created a MASTERPIECE (?) of fan #embroidery! Using this great PDF of a #KnightFlower screenshot I traced the pattern, and then attempted embroidering in the vein of the original painting... That is to say, like an enthusiastic amateur. (NOT doing things properly is weirdly hard??) BEHOLD:

Monochrome embroidery in an oval frame. The pattern is a pastiche of a typical Korean "Tiger and Magpie" motif, only the fierce tiger looks like a cranky tabby cat sticking its tongue out. It's arching its back under a pine with two funny looking birds in the branches. Most of the stitches are rather uneven, some in black floss (1-6 strands depending on the lines). The tiger's stripes are in dark gray. It's got a ponderous aura l, depicted as rough black flames on either side. There's some scraggly grass where is paws are, and a lumpy rock in the foreground.

Extremely messy back of the embroidery. It looks like something sketched by a drunk. A lot of the short lines on the front (blades of grass and pine needles) are just dots.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

All the dahlias are still blooming! As are both David Austin roses, the ground cover roses, and the Peach Melba. The Thor Heyerdahl has buds, which will hopefully bloom before the frost kills them. #GardenPosting

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

My October activity is gonna be to post a bunch of seasonal Mushishi gifs over on Tumblr: www.tumblr.com/naye-et-cete... Because Mushishi is gorgeous and I love this time of year!

Screenshot of a set of four gifs from the anime Mushishi: a happy girl in a plain kimono dances under falling bamboo leaves, Ginko in his coat stands barefoot in an autumn clearing, a girl in a fancy kimono in a sunset forest, and a man helping a woman over a fallen tree in the woods.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

The way Meenie crosses her little paws. 🥺

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

When I say that I needed to watch 🦑 Game for "homework", this is what a search for the show name in my Zotero library returns. I have read like... three... of these 21 sources. 😅 Much reading to go, but at least now I have context for what the authors are talking about!

A bibliography with 11 sources:
Berbiguier, M. (2023). When they say they are a K-drama fan, but their first drama is Squid Game: What is an authentic K-drama? Journal of Fandom Studies, The, 11(2), 117–132. https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs_00077_1
Cho, J. M., & Roberts, L. M. (Eds.). (2025). Korean culture in the global age: K-Pop, K-Drama, K-Film, and K-Literature. Routledge.
Jin, D. Y. (2025). Cultural production of Hallyu in the digital platform era: Industry perspectives. University of Michigan Press.
Jin, D. Y. (2026a). Localization of cultural production in the New Korean Wave Era: A case study of reality programs. International Journal of Asian Studies, 23(2), 469–485. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479591425000087
Jin, D. Y. (2026b). Misunderstanding the Korean Wave: Ten Debates on the Hallyu Mythology (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003657361
Kiaer, J. (2024). The Language of Hallyu; More than Polite. In Urn:isbn:9781032130910. Routledge.
Kiaer, J., Kim, L., & Calway, N. (2024). The Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003285274
Kim, K. A., Park, J. H., Yoon, S., Wang, Y., Bae, H., & Luc, K. T. (n.d.). Duality of K-Content in the Era of Netflix: An Investigation of Korean “Netflix Original” Characteristics.
Kim, M., Lee, H., Kim, S., & Choi, L. (2024). The role of attachment to K-celebrity from a destination marketing perspective. Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality, 19(2), 221–236. https://doi.org/10.1108/CBTH-08-2023-0109
Kim, T. (n.d.). Reconceptualising the Genres of K-Drama in the Streaming Era.
Kim, T. (2025). Cultural policies in the era of the Korean wave: The South Korean government’s instrumentalisation of popular culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003560876

A bibliography with 10 sources:
Lee, S. (Ed.). (2026). From Koreanness to K-ness: Contemporary Korean culture and society. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003615286
Moon, M. (2024). Media Representations of K-pop: A Comparative Study of South Korea, the UK, and the US. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 45(4), 756–771. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2024.2311122
Oh, I., Brassier, P., & Lopes, P. (2026). Hallyu marketing from Korea: Female universalism as an alternative performing myth among global fans. Asia Pacific Business Review, 32(3), 475–501. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602381.2024.2426713
Park, C. S. (2026). Four dimensions of transnational resonance of K-Drama: Focusing on issue, narrative, emotional and genre resonance. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 34(3), 527–541. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2025.2564222
Samosir, N., & Wee, L. (2024). Sociolinguistics of the Korean Wave: Hallyu and soft power. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003379850
Sarkar, A., & Yang, X. (2025). Streaming K-dramas and C-dramas: The Different Paths of Korean and Chinese Online Television Distribution Overseas. Television & New Media, 26(4), 453–476. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241281689
Valijärvi, R.-L., & Kahn, L. (2025). A semiotic analysis of humor in K-drama memes. PUNCTUM. International Journal of Semiotics, 11(1), 221–240. https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2025.0011
Yoon, H., & Lee, J. (2025). Genre in Transnational Television: A Case of Netflix Originals Korean Dramas. Television & New Media, 26(2), 243–258. https://doi.org/10.1177/15274764241265040
Yoon, K. (2023). De/Constructing the soft power discourse in Hallyu. Communication Research and Practice, 9(3), 341–357. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2023.2237811
Yuan, Y. (n.d.). Third-Space K-Drama: Netflix, Hallyu, and the Melodramatic Mundane.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

Use a vid, GIF, or pic to describe your mood today!

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026

Daggerbound by @tkingfisher.com is so extremely my jam I'm torn between not being able to stop listening and needing to immediately go back to my favorite bits so I can properly kick my feet and make delighted dolphin noises as I bask in the feels. The characters! They're so...!! And THE SHIP?? !!!!

Daggerbound by T Kingfisher, narrated by Jesse Vilinsky. Chapter 11 - track 13 of 44, 11 hours 30 minutes left.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

Cat love is very sweet but also OW.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026

These are games where just hearing the name brings a rush of memories. The joy of renting a Nintendo (later PS1) and playing all weekend with my little brother, or giggling over FF8 fic ideas with my BFF, or having my mind blown by the ME trilogy Skuld talked me into playing...! 9koma.com/en

My 9 Games:
Snake Rattle n Roll
EntoMorph: Plague of the Darkfall
Final Fantasy 7
Final Fantasy 8
Battle Area Toshinden
Soul Calibur 3
Mass Effect Trilogy
Dragon Age 2
Ghost of Tsushima

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

I love biking to work on a misty morning. #NayePhoto

Seen from above, an empty train track stretches straight into fog, disappearing along with the trees on either side.

The arch of a pedestrian bridge with the sun rising in a fog bank behind it.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026

IDK I always forget every single show I've ever seen the second I'm asked about favorites, and 2000 was half a lifetime ago, but this is a list (if not THE list) of shows I've liked...?

Nirvana in Fire, Andor, Beyond Evil, Signal, The Good Place, Yuri on Ice, Son: The Guest, Abbott Elementary, Mushishi & Under the Queen's Umbrella.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Our mossy tree stumps with mushrooms makes me think of you! 💚

Tree stump with the top covered in moss, a little spruce sapling growing on it, and brown mushrooms wandering up the side to the top.

Clusters of yellow mushrooms growing in the side of a mossy stump.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Wow going from Kdramas in the fluffy entertainment genre to DP sure is. A thing. Not only the mood whiplash what with the whole "welcome to the toxic masculinity factory we're all doing terrible here" but also: These characters get to smoke, hold unblurred knives, and say "fuck" SO many times.

Poster for D.P. with the main character turning around to look at the camera in the middle of a crowd of young men saluting.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

After spending three weeks recovering from our wildly intense, completely spontaneous Korea trip (+ double antibiotics + start of term + misc) I finally had the executive function to pick a tree for the free spot in the front yard, and go to the autumnal plant nursery to pick it up. #GardenPosting

A very small potted apple tree standing by a gray wall. It's actually classified as a bush, as its final height won't be much over 2m. It's a "green cultural heritage" Aroma on an M7 trunk.

More plants: two skinny, tall autumn raspberries (one will give yellow berries, one purple!), two leafy hosta plants, a silver grass, and some mini plants for indoors.

A gorgeous arrangement of red and purple flowers and bushes on display in the nursery.

A yellow-orange rose with raindrops on the petals.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

Fascinating article - even though I wasn't in Untamed fandom, I saw a lot of the "genre shock" happening on social media. I also saw it with Guardian, where people lauded the censored show over the novel for exactly the reasons Rogers identifies. Great read, and a banger of a concluding sentence!

In this case study, genre shock evolved into fans decrying the original as bad queer representation and uplifting the adaptation—which, censored due to Chinese government prohibitions on representations of homosexuality and pornography, contains no overt queer characters or relationships—as good queer representation. Calling an overtly queer novel disgusting and homophobic and celebrating an adaptation that deliberately removes overt queerness as so-called pure romance not only contributes to intrafandom conflicts but also activates racist frameworks of power.

One fan claimed that "it would have been easier to have them kiss, but this relationship is more powerful," while others felt that even a kiss scene would have ruined the portrayal of the relationship. Thus, beyond appreciating the way that the show conveys intimacy and closeness between the main characters despite censorship, some fans were "actually grateful for the censorship," while another quipped, "at some point we gotta thank censorship for this." As Abby Springman (2024) similarly argues, Anglophone fans' discussion of censorship is thus framed as if it made the show "gayer" than the novel. In one sense, these fans are not wrong to consider censorship productive in a Foucauldian manner (Leung 2024). However, this slippage—from appreciating The Untamed's queer representation despite its censorship to because of its censorship—reveals the messy entanglement between discourses of fandom purity culture and racism. Thus, the shocking encounter with queer representation in the danmei genre, specifically around unmet expectations of intimatopia, twists into support of a regime that limits and eliminates any queer representation at all.

but such discourse has the same effect regardless. Inflammatory language—rapey, twisted, creepy, disgusting, immoral, ignorant, and garbage—is applied not just to the novel but also to the author and its fans. These are not neutral expressions of preference for a different genre; they are moral and ethical judgements that rebound onto the novel's author, readers, and genre. Springman (2024) argues that fandom purity culture's roots in American Evangelical Christian culture results in a "fear of contagion" where bad or problematic fictional content could infect those who interact with it. Bad queer representation, then, must be controlled and eliminated. Genre shock is channelled into covert xenophobia and racism, designating a merely unfamiliar genre of queer representation as dangerous and wrong.

However, the way that some English-language fans extend moral judgement on the validity of more explicit forms of queer practices and representations reveals the uneven power logics inherent in transcultural contact zones. Within transcultural fandoms, fans must learn to disconnect moral judgements from unfamiliarity with interpretive conventions. When we can recognize and expect genre differences, transcultural fandoms can begin to live up to their potential as spaces of cross-cultural connection rather than as places where epistemic violence simply becomes reiterated.

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naye🕸️ @naye.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026

A cool thing happening next week!! youtube.com/@maschpits

An event poster for "clipping. splendor & misery 10 years away" using elements from the album cover. It reads: a conversation with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes moderated by Haley Masch, 6:30pm September 22nd 2026. YouTube.com/Maschpits

@maschpit on Instagram:
Hi evervone, we had to push back the Splendor & Misery 10th Anniversary Discussion to Tuesday, September 22nd at 6:30pm PST. Sorry for any inconvenience, and we're excited to see you there.
Happy 10th anniversary to "Splendor & Misery", Eclppng's afrofuturist masterpiece of loss, Ionging, and long ways away.

I am very excited to announce that on Tuesday, September 22nd at 6:30pm PST, I'll be moderating a conversation with the band to discuss the album and its legacy, a decade after its release.

The conversation will conclude with an audience O&A. Ouestions can be posted in the channel currently open on the Clipping Discord. The Discord can be ioined via the link in my bio, or with the invite code "ECeZNhv".
1 hour ago

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