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    "pk": 65638,
    "title": "It's All Fun and Games ‘Till Somebody Loses an I: Ethnomethods of Bleed",
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    "abstract": "Players face psychological risks when improvising in fictional worlds in which they may witness, enact, or be subject to danger, violence, violation, and dehumanization. In this article, we argue that there are limits to relying on conventional safety tools and protocols to ensure players are protected from emotional harm and trauma of bleed-out experiences during tabletop role play. We argue that actual play can reveal the limits of conventional TTRPG safety tools like the X card or lines and veils. We analyze a case study of an in-game sexual assault that precipitated the cancellation of the Far Verona stream. We examine the accounts given by players and GM after the event but zoom in on the sequential action of the live-streamed play itself. Adopting an ethnomethodological orientation to TTRPG play as accountable action, this article identifies four ethnomethods of bleed play through which character and player frames are acted upon by GM and players, and therefore, we call for a higher standard of care-oriented accountability than that embodied by existing safety tools.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "TTRPG"
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        {
            "word": "actual play"
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            "word": "bleed"
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        {
            "word": "frame theory"
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            "word": "ethnomethods"
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        {
            "word": "sexual assault"
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        {
            "word": "safety tools"
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        {
            "word": "Far Verona"
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    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1hg3g193",
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            "first_name": "Sarah",
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            "last_name": "Klein",
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        {
            "first_name": "Gerald",
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            "last_name": "Voorhees",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2024-12-16T09:03:00Z",
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