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Ava Bucy
@fangirlresearch.bsky.social
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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
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Loser behaviour of my undergrad uni having an AI filmmaking class, less loser behaviour that all the alums hate it
A screenshot of a Facebook post by a professor at Emerson college, marketing a new module on AI Filmmaking he’s teaching to the alumni page. The post has 22 reactions, mostly angry and crying ones, and 51 comments. The poster is ai generated, with a robot holding a poorly film generated camera standing amongst city buildings. The course description in the poster says “this production course explores the rapidly evolving role of generative artificial intelligence (ai) in the filmmaking process. Students will learn to use ai tools to transform pre production, production, and post production workflows, including scriptwriting, visual effects, animation, editing, and even distribution! Through a combination of lectures, hands on workshops, screenings, and collaborative projects, students will gain practical experience using AI-driven tools while critically examining their creative, ethical, and industry implications. Contact: prof pillis - Daniel.pillis@emerson.edu for more info. Fridays 10am-1:45pm, register for VM331-04 CRN 24205” Screenshot of a Facebook comment section. One comment says “go to film school kids, and maybe you’ll learn to hold a camera like this! Or even better, you’ll learn how to tell a computer to hold a camera like this” with a photo from the flier of the incorrect film camera. Others say “gross”, “deeply embarrassing if Emerson is actually offering this and changing people to take this class. I continue to regret my diploma and connections to my Alma mater 🤮”, and “this has better be a joke. If not, go fuck yourself” A screenshot of a Facebook comment section. One comment says “I checked the course catalogue and there doesn’t seem to be a course with this name/number, so this is either a joke or troll folks”, an anonymous comment replying to it says “afraid it’s legit. He’s 2.5/5 on rate my professor and most reviews bash him for only talking about AI. There are actually some pretty wild reviews on there I hope the school investigates it. Exhibit A from an April 2025 review: ‘he is OBSESSED with ai and told us multiple times that nothing we make will come close to what AI can. He even took a kids assignment and put it into chat gpt and claimed it was so much better (it wasn’t). You won’t learn anything’ 🤮🤮shameful”
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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The vibe Ill be bringing to the function (my presentation on fangirls, methods, and TikTok at #FSNNA2025)
A collage of TikToks submitted by fangirl participants about Harry Styles, with Charlie from the red string meme from It’s always Sunny in Philadelphia edited into it. Several images have Harry shirtless and glistening on stage, a video in the center shows a girl talking about explicit wattpad fan fiction, one is at the eras tour, and one is a girl green screened in front of an @pop base tweet about Harry.
October 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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There are two taxidermy foxes inside you…
A screenshot of a TikTok showing a poorly done taxidermy fox puppet, wearing pearls and a scarf, against an illustrated background with script text that says “enable yourself” The meme of the taxidermy fox looking uncomfortable sitting on a metal chair
October 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Ok I’m waiting, full of anticipation
The meme of the uncomfortable looking taxidermy fox sitting on a metal chair
October 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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University printer made for a slightly misaligned zine but I’ll never pass up an opportunity to procrastinate work via unnecessary crafts and physical media 🥰 Thanks @fsnnorthamerica.bsky.social 🥰
(catch me there on Thursday, assuming I actually stop procrastinating)
Ava holding a small zine of the Fan Studies Network North America Conference programme, which is tan with black imagery and lettering that says Reputation: Influence, Power, and Capital October 23-26 2025. Ava has red nails and silver rings on, and in the background is her computer and desk Ava holding a small zine of the Fan Studies Network North America Conference programme, open to a page in the middle with the Thursday 23 October conference schedule. Ava’s paper title “Fangirls’ TikToks and Fangirls on TikTok: Methods, Platforms, and Analysis” is listed under section B2 Methods, Pedagogy and Disciplinary Directions. There’s also section B1 Gender and Representation and C1 Queering Fandom. Ava has red nails and silver rings on, and in the background is her computer and desk
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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First week of teaching done, relatively smooth, students seem great, office cute, feeling less terrified
A tan corner desk set up. The wall has some posters and postcards hung up, there are trinkets, a calendar, a coffee cup, and keys on the desk, along with two off monitors, a laptop, a box tv and dvd player. On the ground is a red leather backpack and a red chair half off-screen The opposite view of the office, four large tan bookcases that are around half filled with books, CDs, magazines, journal issues, and trinkets. In the corner of the room is a coat rack.
October 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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There are two wolves inside me
The heads of a black and a white wolf staring at each other in front of a moon. On one side is an inserted illustration of Icarus falling from the sun, on the other is a photo of the “I can’t help myself” robot
September 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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If you give a girl an office she will try to make it cute (even if it has the ghosts of permanent staff past lingering in the walls)
Two tan bookcases, half-filled with media studies books, cd cases, old print journals and student work, and Fan Studies Network swag
September 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Anyways 🤭🤭
A computer with the book chapter “How do you respond when you feel under threat? A reflexive exploration into my experience with the far right online” by Alice Sibley open, with Twilight playing on a small TV in the background, showing Dr Cullen (Peter Facinelli) on screen smiling
September 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Oh man… my PhD work, it’s really just… so taxing, so challenging… why have I subjected myself to this… the horrors, they just flash before my eyes constantly……
A photo of my word document, with a screenshot of a TikTok video of Harry Styles inserted, where he’s wearing brown leather trousers and a blue beaded vest without a shirt under (and is slightly wet and glistening) and a video description provided: a video of Harry on stage at his Barcelona Love on Tour show in July 2023. He steps towards the crowd and motions for them to scream, nodding and smirking as he does. He then quickly drops his hands as the stage behind him goes dark, and the crowd likely stops screaming at his command. The on screen text of the TikTok says “oh he KNOWS he’s hot”
August 19, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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I’ve also (obviously) anthropomorphised the bean by naming it after my fav cousin Jean (but Jeen bc it’s exciting to see them in my phone, Jeeeeen!)
A screenshot of the Focus Friends app: a pinto bean is yawning in a mostly empty house, with one pink potted plant. The text at the top of the photo says Jeen needs help focusing
August 19, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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…………….
vm.tiktok.com/ZNdxLFdcA/
August 6, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Am I making American food bc Im sad about being too poor to go on a yearly holiday w my extended family? Yes. Does the American food slap? Also yes
A green dinner place with a pulled pork sandwich, mashed potatoes with a butter well, corn bread, and a bowl of seasoned corn. Next to it is a jar of gin and tonic with a lime wedge and glass straw that has a glass dragon fly on it. The countertop is light wood, and there’s a yellow napkin holder at the edge of the frame.
August 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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If 13 year old me knew I was such a visible fangirl she’d have a panic attack
A photo of Ava’s desk, with her keys and small purse, with AirPods and a heart shaped mirror compact with Dean Winchester on it, spilling out by her computer and books. The keys have many fannish keychains, including a flame with the words “Hot to Go”, a pink heart with “We’ll be Alright” in Harry Styles’ handwriting, a Supernatural pentagram, and a rainbow wristlet.
August 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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She was a fairy
🐞🦋🍃💐🐾🧚🏻‍♂️🪺💖
A photo of a medium size black dog sniffing flowers in a sloping field, with tall purple flowers and lush green trees in the background. It’s sunny and the sky is bright blue with white clouds.
July 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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My favourite hobby is including thinly veiled threats of insanity in emails to my supervisors… coffee table book of the collection incoming
#AcademicSky
Screenshot of part of an email: Attached new part 2 draft! It’s a bit of a mess still but it’s much less of a mess than it was on Monday, and it’s not 40,000 words like it was on Sunday!
July 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Email from my mother so crazy it’s making me want a cigarette (I do not nor have ever smoked)
Ben Affleck standing outside with his eyes closed smoking a cigarette and looking miserable. He wears a blue sweater with the sleeves pushed up and dark jeans. Ben Affleck standing outside on a balcony smoking a cigarette and looking miserable. He wears a black T-shirt.
July 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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My shirt does say *screams* though so maybe it could count as celebratory?
A mirror selfie of Ava, she’s a mid 20s white woman with shoulder length brown and blonde hair, wearing a white T-shirt that says *screams* in blue lettering, and distressed low rise blue jeans. Her yellow iphone covers her face, its case covered in stickers of Chappell roan and Harry Styles, with a pink and orange phone charm. Her other hand shows a peace sign, with tattoos visible on her arms.
July 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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If anyone is inclined to donate to the vet bills of one of my favourite cats for my favourite person, I’d appreciate 💖 They’re already going through a lot right now and I’d love to see Juno back in his single brain cell orange cat ways 🐈💙🐈‍⬛
gofund.me/c40ef9e4
A photo of Jean, a young non binary person wearing corduroys and a green jacket, holding their orange tabby cat Juno, who looks awkward and very cute A gofundme page titled Help me cover my cats hospital bills, with a photo of an orange tabby, and $217 out of $6k goal raised My sweet cat Juno is at the vet hospital, he has been limping and in pain for a week with no improvement. He has lost 2 pounds in 2 weeks from a lack of appetite. Tests have already cost over $2000 to try and figure out what's going on and his prolonged illness has led to a urinary blockage that he is being treated for now. His overnight stay at the emergency vet hospital is estimated to cost between $3000-4000, and that is just to treat the complications of his mysterious illness. To find the root of his pain and treat it will likely take more tests and more money. Please help in any way you can.
July 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Ft the only method of notetaking that has ever worked for me: in a tiny notebook (so I feel like Im making progress + can bring it everywhere), not worrying about being aesthetic (or legible lol), using diff colours to accommodate my adhd-ass thought process, and a bookmark that makes me smile
A photo of Ava’s open notebook with very messy handwriting. The writing at the top is in pencil, in the middle is in a pink pen that is running out of ink, and the bottom is in a new pink pen, with scribbles and things crossed out and multiple arrows or bullet points. The two pink pens from the quoted photo (one empty one new) hold open the notebook, a mechanical pencil is above the notebook with an AirPods case, and there’s also a Santa Monica beach parking pass which is used as a bookmark.
July 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Changing of the guard 🫡
Two pink Muji ballpoint pens on a wood table, one is almost empty and has a yellowed finger grip and entirely faded sticker, one is brand new
July 5, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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V into this stack rn (/hints at where my politics chapter is maybe going to end up)
A photo of multiple books on Ava’s desk. Feminist Fandom by Briony Hannell is in the center, with some pink pens below it. To the right is a small notebook with classic literature book spines as its cover design, and above it is a stack of three books: Fandom is Ugly by Mel Stanfill; Gender, Metal and the Media by Rosemary Lucy Hill; Participatory Culture Wars, edited by Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones, and Ben Litherland.
July 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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So many articles I’m reading just use terms without tracing or defining or citing them and 1 my supervisors would never let me get away w that and 2 it has this post in my mind constantly
A screenshot of a tumblr post that says “people b saying things so definitively. Like man I think it depends” by user gerardwaist on December 30 2023, with 16394 notes
June 30, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Also worth noting that my dog is named Arrietty after another delightful children’s book, The Borrowers, and of my other tattoos is inspired by another Michael Hauge illustrated book I loved as a kid (I am a deeply sentimental person)
A photo of The Borrowers by Mary Morton, a hardback copy illustrated by Michael Hague, open to an illustration of Arrietty and the boy laying in a garden (eBay listing, not my copy) A photo of Good Night Fairies by Kathleen Hague, illustrated by Michael Hauge. The cover has a child sleeping in a forest with fairies and woodland creatures watching over them. (eBay listing photo, not my copy)
June 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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My babies lol
An illustration of Beatrix Potter’s Jemima Puddle Duck, wearing a red and blue shawl dragging on the floor and a blue bonnet An illustration of one of the mom cats from Beatrix Potters books, she’s wearing a dress, apron, and shawl and carrying a pitcher and some butter
June 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM