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On fictivity, interpretation, realness, and who you are.

There's two big gripes I have with fictivity - or, rather, how people treat or engage with fictivity: assuming what that means as far as connections (or lack of) to a corresponding fictional media, an...

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I Got Traumatized And It's Fine!

...Forgive the clickbait title, I seriously couldn't help myself on that one. Note: this essay mentions guns and robbery, but it's not very explicit. So… we have a bit of a strange opportunity here. A...

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Trauma pathology: A bear in a forest is not a mental disorder.

(Real quick - this essay mentions multiple types of abuse, psychiatric mistreatment, self-harm, and suicide. Nothing's graphic, I'm just giving you a heads-up.) So - I don’t think trauma is medical, w...

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