#zhen x abby

[starrmagician]

[gunkmusher]

proud to be one of the 4 people who read psycholonials

[juni-203-dibujos]

Hello Psycholonial Fans, I call this ship Zhabbyn.

[mmmmalo]

The Xi angle is tempting because it would turn Z into this like reactionary nightmare vision of Communist China Infecting America in a way that would resonate with the concurrent spread of Covid, termed by certain spin doctors as "the China Virus".

One alternative/supplement to the Xi angle though: given that Z is a Chinese-American hiphop fan and Abby's into a Korean hiphop group, I wonder a bit if Psycholonials is continuing the whole ninja/n-word switchup that started with Dave and came to a head with Damara (nevermind that the focus has migrated away from Japan itself). If you read 'Z' as a signifier of sleep (and not even a snore, just of null speech) if might even align with the motif of "silence" contained in Damara's name. ("Damare" means "shut up")

The "ninja" angle's also tempting because it would align with a further resonance between Z erasing their given name of Zhen and a certain African American political activist who negated his family name with an X -- which was probably the more recognizable reference in the first place.

Was listening to some people stream Psycholonials and one of them carried the initial sounds of Zhen over to Z, so I kept hearing something like Xi for a while, and now I’m half wondering if that’s where the RPF references with Abby become relevant… no clue how I would even begin to verify that, but ‘what if Xi Jinping was clown-loving American e-girl’ is still a lovely question