Ava Bucy
@fangirlresearch.bsky.social
Final year fan studies PhD student studying fangirls @ University of Huddersfield, girlhoods, popular music, fan activism, celebrity etc
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
Queer autistic disabled
Uni of Leeds and Emerson College alum, from LA now cozying up in the Yorkshire countryside.
Queer autistic disabled
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Ava Bucy
@fangirlresearch.bsky.social
· May 23
Things are out so new pinned post!
I’m Ava, I’m a media studies lecturer and final year phd student studying fangirls. I have two publications out — theorising the fangirl & fan discourses of parasocial relationships — and I’m big into qualitative method development!
Links are in the thread 💖👋🏻
I’m Ava, I’m a media studies lecturer and final year phd student studying fangirls. I have two publications out — theorising the fangirl & fan discourses of parasocial relationships — and I’m big into qualitative method development!
Links are in the thread 💖👋🏻
I initially panicked when HS4 was announced bc I am too busy for this (and I still am) but now that the first single is out I think it’s actually going to revive me and get me through the next six months
January 23, 2026 at 12:59 AM
I initially panicked when HS4 was announced bc I am too busy for this (and I still am) but now that the first single is out I think it’s actually going to revive me and get me through the next six months
I’ve semi accidentally amassed a collection of adhd-panic students and I love them but they also make me want to email all my former professors to thank them for their service lol
January 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM
I’ve semi accidentally amassed a collection of adhd-panic students and I love them but they also make me want to email all my former professors to thank them for their service lol
Wait Harry’s House came out in 2022 right when I started my PhD and Kiss All The Time is coming out 2026 at the very end of my PhD that’s kind of cunty for me (and also Harry that’s been so long)
January 15, 2026 at 6:27 PM
Wait Harry’s House came out in 2022 right when I started my PhD and Kiss All The Time is coming out 2026 at the very end of my PhD that’s kind of cunty for me (and also Harry that’s been so long)
Harry Styles announced his album and in doing so put more things on my PhD edits to do list 🥲
January 15, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Harry Styles announced his album and in doing so put more things on my PhD edits to do list 🥲
Listen I generally don’t love celebs knowing about fic things but this is the only Heated Rivalry image that’s made me at all interested in watching the show
December 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Listen I generally don’t love celebs knowing about fic things but this is the only Heated Rivalry image that’s made me at all interested in watching the show
I hate that hideous fucking ai coke ad so much it’s ruining my Christmas more than being sick
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I hate that hideous fucking ai coke ad so much it’s ruining my Christmas more than being sick
Sick and half dead but finally submitted to the TWC music issue woooo, now just an analysis chapter to finish before the new year 🙃
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Sick and half dead but finally submitted to the TWC music issue woooo, now just an analysis chapter to finish before the new year 🙃
I made it thru 99% of term and international travel without getting sick, and then 2 days before break a student coughed through a supervision meeting saying “I don’t think I’m infectious, no one in my flat has gotten sick”, and now I’m dying :(
December 22, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I made it thru 99% of term and international travel without getting sick, and then 2 days before break a student coughed through a supervision meeting saying “I don’t think I’m infectious, no one in my flat has gotten sick”, and now I’m dying :(
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🎅 Santa has looked much the same on the page for generations. Preserving periodical covers like this one helps connect how the season ❄️ was pictured then with how we recognize it now.
See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#HolidayArt
See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#HolidayArt
December 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎅 Santa has looked much the same on the page for generations. Preserving periodical covers like this one helps connect how the season ❄️ was pictured then with how we recognize it now.
See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#HolidayArt
See more vintage images in our Holiday 2025 Periodical Art collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias...
#HolidayArt
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.
December 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This quote is rich and verbatim confirms that Iger and Disney literally don’t see artists as creatives or creators.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
lol remember when we thought Disney’s litigious nature was gonna maybe possibly hopefully save us from AI even a tiny bit?
December 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
lol remember when we thought Disney’s litigious nature was gonna maybe possibly hopefully save us from AI even a tiny bit?
There’s a dog up for adoption from the rescue I got my dog from, and she looks the same as my dog with the same silly personality but she’s half the size, and my dog would love a friend oh my god I want her so bad but I cannot have a second dog yet
December 11, 2025 at 11:46 PM
There’s a dog up for adoption from the rescue I got my dog from, and she looks the same as my dog with the same silly personality but she’s half the size, and my dog would love a friend oh my god I want her so bad but I cannot have a second dog yet
Realising Grey’s Anatomy did a “keep a brain dead woman alive as an incubator” subplot all the way back in 2005, except in the show it’s a white woman and her family is the one asking to keep her on life support, to everyone’s horror, and hospital bills go completely unmentioned…
December 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Realising Grey’s Anatomy did a “keep a brain dead woman alive as an incubator” subplot all the way back in 2005, except in the show it’s a white woman and her family is the one asking to keep her on life support, to everyone’s horror, and hospital bills go completely unmentioned…
Can someone write/has anyone written something on Cameo, celebs, the powerless elite, etc…. It’s a baffling subindustry that I want to read about but don’t want to write
December 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Can someone write/has anyone written something on Cameo, celebs, the powerless elite, etc…. It’s a baffling subindustry that I want to read about but don’t want to write
Last year I taught first year ideology content and 3rd year gossip and morality content with Kendrick/Drake beef and the halftime show, and it was great loved it went so well and I was planning on using it again this year… but now the 50 Cent Diddy documentary is out and I’m… considering…
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Last year I taught first year ideology content and 3rd year gossip and morality content with Kendrick/Drake beef and the halftime show, and it was great loved it went so well and I was planning on using it again this year… but now the 50 Cent Diddy documentary is out and I’m… considering…
If there’s one thing about me it’s that I love stuff and I especially love lining stuff up
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
If there’s one thing about me it’s that I love stuff and I especially love lining stuff up
Writing about a fangirl wave incoming….. (inspected and signed off by Esther)
December 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Writing about a fangirl wave incoming….. (inspected and signed off by Esther)
All my modules this week and next week are focused on gender and representation, and after that they’re all basically about ideology and morality — I love it when things like up (aka that I’ve designed it that way) very much teaching from my happy place until the end of term 🥰🥰🥰
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
All my modules this week and next week are focused on gender and representation, and after that they’re all basically about ideology and morality — I love it when things like up (aka that I’ve designed it that way) very much teaching from my happy place until the end of term 🥰🥰🥰
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Cambridge dictionary's word of the year is parasocial which gives me an excuse to promote this episode where I explain why I think it's a silly word that obscures more than it reveals and significantly fails to capture the messiness of modern audience/celebrity interactions.
Are you friends with Chappell Roan?
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December 1, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Cambridge dictionary's word of the year is parasocial which gives me an excuse to promote this episode where I explain why I think it's a silly word that obscures more than it reveals and significantly fails to capture the messiness of modern audience/celebrity interactions.