The Bitter Medicine of Unhappy Endings
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\\nHorror writer G. Emerald, who has a background in the medical system, joins us to talk about the healing power of stories that leave us with a bad taste in our mouths. Audiences like happy endings, but do we really need every story to end on a high note? Are we being pacified? Why did the Hays Code require movies to have uplifting endings? Do happy endings sublimate the revolutionary energy that we should be putting into activism instead? Why are horror fans handling the pandemic better? What does it mean to have a Cronenberg day? Why is KA Applegate the Chad to JK Rowling\\u2019s Virgin TERF? We also touch upon Apocalypse hunks, the inevitability of death, and the nightmare that is the human body.
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\\nThe Unknown: A Covid-19 Charity Anthology
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\\nPandemic Practice: Horror Fans and Morbidly Curious Individuals Are More Psychologically Resilient During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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\\nToxic Positivity
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\\nThe Just World Fallacy
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\\nKA Applegate\\u2019s extremely badass letter to fans disappointed about the ending of the Animorphs series
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\\nVietnam\\u2019s Success in Containing COVID-19 Offers Roadmap for Other Developing Countries
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\\nRent: Look Pretty and Do as Little as Possible
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\\nOn Writing about Trauma and So-Called \\u201cMisery Porn\\u201d
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\\nSelf-Care Won\\u2019t Save Us
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\\nThe MCU\\u2019s relationship with the military
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\\nThe Far-Right Coup in Bolivia
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\\nThis TV movie about nuclear war depressed Ronald Reagan
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