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Dr Alena Cicholewski
@alenacicholewski.bsky.social
Academic writing instructor who should follow her own advice more often
Sherryl Vint spricht hier auch über den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit Science Fiction-Narrativen und ihrem affektiven Potential: „Es geht darum, die Realität selbst narrativ umzudeuten, darin einen Sinn zu finden angesichts ökonomischer und kultureller Marginalisierung.“
October 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
As much as I dislike rainy autumn days, being greeted by a rainbow on my way to work is pretty nice
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Had a fantastic time at this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung @jlugiessen.bsky.social - so many fascinating talks and I got to share my love for indie games and polar bears 😊
August 31, 2025 at 9:38 AM
There’s no better way to spend the weekend than enjoying @tinybookshopgame.com 📚 being reminded of all the awesome books I read and sharing the joy by recommending them to cute little NPCs (also: there’s a dog that can be petted 🥰)
August 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Me and my book project
July 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
@dateeverythinggame.bsky.social‬ is an excellent game! I just wanted to have a quick look at it yesterday and ended up spending several hours clicking through one hilarious dialogue after another (some many furniture-related puns!) and enjoying the great voice acting
Finally, the package you’ve been waiting for has arrived! 📦👓

🥰 Sandbox dating sim
😍 100 dateable characters
🔥 Fully voice-acted
🏡 Set in your own home
🎙️ An ENORMOUS cast

It’s time to Date Everything! 💝
dateeverything.com

youtu.be/v2Rv9zX3K24?...
Date Everything! Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Team17
youtu.be
June 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Had a great time talking about enfreakment in R.F. Kuang‘s Poppy War trilogy with my friend Krutika at what is probably the fanciest venue I’ve ever presented in @unileipzig.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:56 PM
How can horror media help us cope with crises? This is one of the questions my recently published chapter in "Coming to Terms with a Crisis" discusses using Christina Henry's "The Girl in Red" as an example. You download it for free here: www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...
March 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Celebrating the publication of my first co-authored academic article (while stuck in an overcrowded train): journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/ge...
"There is no better place for friendships than Canton": Painting Canton as a Queer Space in Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke (2011) | gender forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies
journals.ub.uni-koeln.de
January 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
January 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Join me later today at #VICFA for my presentation on "Unsettling Canadian mythmaking in The Pixel Hunt‘s 'Inua - A Story in Ice and Time'"
October 25, 2024 at 7:36 AM
In diesem Thread sind so viele spannende Empfehlungen!
Okay Bluesky, Indie-Orakel-Zeit!

RT und antworte auf diesen Skeet und ich empfehle dir ein mehr oder weniger obskures Indiespiel, das zu dir passt!

#IndieOrakel
a man says let 's go do what we do while talking to another man
ALT: a man says let 's go do what we do while talking to another man
media.tenor.com
October 18, 2024 at 7:54 PM
First day back in the office after a two week vacation...
October 4, 2024 at 8:42 AM
I had a great time at this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung 🥰
September 8, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Auf geht’s nach Kassel zur Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung!
September 4, 2024 at 7:32 PM
My mood today:
August 21, 2024 at 7:06 AM
"Writing has become a mirror in which we come face to face with our own flaws, grotesquely distorted by the expectations of those who judge us" (Sword, Trofimova & Ballard, 380).
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Frustrated academic writers
This paper aims to start a conversation about a common yet under-examined emotion experienced by academic writers worldwide: frustration. What is frustration, exactly? What are its causes and effec...
www.tandfonline.com
August 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Enjoying the final day of #DGfA2024
May 25, 2024 at 6:27 AM
@midnightpals.bsky.social inspired me to finally read Meg Elison’s "The Pill" and - wow - what an intense reading experience, so relatable and bittersweet
May 22, 2024 at 7:46 PM