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Your research focuses on news updates, and there’s so much history beyond that (20+ years of abuse and coverup). Endless.
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Your research focuses on news updates, and there’s so much history beyond that (20+ years of abuse and coverup). Endless.
We’re still in it, and likely won’t ever have it resolved. While the Q-Anon parts are their own planet, the outrage at the class (and gender) divide revealed by the case is revealing in its own way.
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We’re still in it, and likely won’t ever have it resolved. While the Q-Anon parts are their own planet, the outrage at the class (and gender) divide revealed by the case is revealing in its own way.
At the start of this project, I guessed that information would showi up variously, and that the political upset would form a large percentage of that information. Didn't know this topic would become so layered and fraught and aggressively and visibly corrupt (shutting down the federal government).
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
At the start of this project, I guessed that information would showi up variously, and that the political upset would form a large percentage of that information. Didn't know this topic would become so layered and fraught and aggressively and visibly corrupt (shutting down the federal government).
Your research shows a deep history, and i appreciate that you looked at international background. We have so many iterations of Nosferatu (and Dracula, and Buffy, and all of them: we can probably find folklore elements in each of these texts).
Your memes and images are very helpful, too.
Your memes and images are very helpful, too.
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Your research shows a deep history, and i appreciate that you looked at international background. We have so many iterations of Nosferatu (and Dracula, and Buffy, and all of them: we can probably find folklore elements in each of these texts).
Your memes and images are very helpful, too.
Your memes and images are very helpful, too.
The Paranormal Activity films fit the parameters too, introducing recording technologies into the ways that stories are handed down (maybe R=the Ringu films too).
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The Paranormal Activity films fit the parameters too, introducing recording technologies into the ways that stories are handed down (maybe R=the Ringu films too).
Some movies address these sources directly, as you note. Midsommar is a good example, and so is The Witch (or any Eggars movie, really), or Blair Witch Project, which became a kind of folk horror object in its promotion campaign.
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Some movies address these sources directly, as you note. Midsommar is a good example, and so is The Witch (or any Eggars movie, really), or Blair Witch Project, which became a kind of folk horror object in its promotion campaign.
Thank you for researching the connections between folklore and horror. These seem intuitive, but they’re not always obvious. Folklore is broad, in Wytovich’s definition.
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Thank you for researching the connections between folklore and horror. These seem intuitive, but they’re not always obvious. Folklore is broad, in Wytovich’s definition.
Still, misinformation is everywhere, as are the risks it poses in and as media that are built to deceive and exploit. Thank you for your work: it’s enlightening.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Still, misinformation is everywhere, as are the risks it poses in and as media that are built to deceive and exploit. Thank you for your work: it’s enlightening.
Nat’s question as you observe, is a good one, and Monkey Man is an instance: what gets lost in the dissemination? We can hope that more information is good, and will spark interest in more information after that.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Nat’s question as you observe, is a good one, and Monkey Man is an instance: what gets lost in the dissemination? We can hope that more information is good, and will spark interest in more information after that.
Monkey Man is a useful case study, for its problems (using action movie conventions and popularity to make a much broader case about belief and morality) and for its effectiveness.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Monkey Man is a useful case study, for its problems (using action movie conventions and popularity to make a much broader case about belief and morality) and for its effectiveness.
(Bagger Vance is a perfect place to start the essay, as the film is so vexed and vexing for so many reasons: we tend to forget the centrality of the Bhagavad Gita to that film’s vexatiousness!)
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
(Bagger Vance is a perfect place to start the essay, as the film is so vexed and vexing for so many reasons: we tend to forget the centrality of the Bhagavad Gita to that film’s vexatiousness!)
Given the social and ethical turmoils frequently and currently ignited by arguments over religions as institutions and belief structures, the background on Hinduism, and also, on how this (and other religious storytelling) are shared and shaped in film, is a good focus for this project.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Given the social and ethical turmoils frequently and currently ignited by arguments over religions as institutions and belief structures, the background on Hinduism, and also, on how this (and other religious storytelling) are shared and shaped in film, is a good focus for this project.
A fascinating, timely, and significant topic.
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
A fascinating, timely, and significant topic.
Directing is a good example: her choices for subject matter, as you say, indicate that she’s self-aware, using both music and music video to clarify, repeat, and explore her interests.
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Directing is a good example: her choices for subject matter, as you say, indicate that she’s self-aware, using both music and music video to clarify, repeat, and explore her interests.
The hugeness of Taylor Swift can be daunting every time she speaks or wears a sweater while she walks on the sidewalks is an event, for Swifties and everyone else.
This hugeness is part of what makes her compelling: how does she use that platform, how does she stretch or keep doing the same thing?
This hugeness is part of what makes her compelling: how does she use that platform, how does she stretch or keep doing the same thing?
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
The hugeness of Taylor Swift can be daunting every time she speaks or wears a sweater while she walks on the sidewalks is an event, for Swifties and everyone else.
This hugeness is part of what makes her compelling: how does she use that platform, how does she stretch or keep doing the same thing?
This hugeness is part of what makes her compelling: how does she use that platform, how does she stretch or keep doing the same thing?
Good topic, well-researched and beautifully presented. Appreciate the chronology (development) as well as the focus on themes, politics, and reach.
December 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Good topic, well-researched and beautifully presented. Appreciate the chronology (development) as well as the focus on themes, politics, and reach.
Checking: Is this post the start of the essay? These connected posts seem like your thoughts in a series of posts, not an argument.
December 1, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Checking: Is this post the start of the essay? These connected posts seem like your thoughts in a series of posts, not an argument.
Evergreen topic when thinking about how creative artists (and people generally) do their work. Good to connect ego and ethics: how does your research connect them?
December 1, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Evergreen topic when thinking about how creative artists (and people generally) do their work. Good to connect ego and ethics: how does your research connect them?
So, if we're not interacting, what are we doing? What are we asking of that relationship? How do we measure parasocial,, fictional, real, and dishonest relationships? And why do we care? Who benefits (who makes money, who feels safe)? And who is harmed?
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
So, if we're not interacting, what are we doing? What are we asking of that relationship? How do we measure parasocial,, fictional, real, and dishonest relationships? And why do we care? Who benefits (who makes money, who feels safe)? And who is harmed?
AI is "supposed" to be helpful, and yet it has bad judgment (no judgement), instructing people who ask how to harm themselves. It may be that the fictional character, pre-written, has less capacity to interact.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
AI is "supposed" to be helpful, and yet it has bad judgment (no judgement), instructing people who ask how to harm themselves. It may be that the fictional character, pre-written, has less capacity to interact.
if the fictional character is “written” with an “I, Robot”-like rule not to hurt the human who’s using it, that adherence to the rule might or might not be true, consistent, or honest.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
if the fictional character is “written” with an “I, Robot”-like rule not to hurt the human who’s using it, that adherence to the rule might or might not be true, consistent, or honest.
And, a so-called real relationship can be fictional, in that people can be dishonest. So the question might be, how are we defining “safe”?
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
And, a so-called real relationship can be fictional, in that people can be dishonest. So the question might be, how are we defining “safe”?
Appreciate the research and the argument. Good memes, too. The question is perennial, as you suggest, and not likely to be resolved as the fictions become more difficult to identify as such. That said, a fictional relationship can feel real.
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Appreciate the research and the argument. Good memes, too. The question is perennial, as you suggest, and not likely to be resolved as the fictions become more difficult to identify as such. That said, a fictional relationship can feel real.
Given the ongoing lawlessness regarding copyright, free expression, and "likenesses," it might be hard to trust that AI’s corporate/profiteering and other excesses will be contained by legal means.
December 1, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Given the ongoing lawlessness regarding copyright, free expression, and "likenesses," it might be hard to trust that AI’s corporate/profiteering and other excesses will be contained by legal means.