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Feelings Can Be Real, but the Limerence Structure Was Not

Real feelings can exist inside unsafe weaponized limerence, ambiguity & intermittent reinforcement.

/ 29 May 2026

Feelings Can Be Real, but the Limerence Structure Was Not

Weaponized Limerence

If Revenge of the Nerds went up against Dark Triad-style workplace behavior, the Nerds would bring their tap-dancing shoes and a fond wish for the future of humanity. The other side would bring weaponized limerence.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 29 May 2026

Why Do I Write Uncanny Fiction?

Trauma blindness and hypervigilance shape the way some stories must be told. I write uncanny fiction to give form to memories that arrive years late—quiet, precise, and colder than expected. Pattern recognition, not escape.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 19 May 2026

TRIANGLES: A Field Guide to Workplace Mobbing & Power Harm

TRIANGLES is a field guide to workplace mobbing, scapegoating, and structural harm. Learn how power organizes through pressure, silence, and survival behavior.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 9 May 2026

TRIANGLES: A Field Guide to Workplace Mobbing & Power Harm

TESTS: How Systems Decide Who Stays and Who Goes

Based on documented cases of workplace mobbing, TESTS was written to how workplaces quietly evaluate, escalate, and remove people through early psychosocial testing behaviors.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 8 May 2026

TESTS: How Systems Decide Who Stays and Who Goes

TELLS: Naming Early Signs of Workplace Mobbing

TELLS explains why early, deniable workplace mobbing harm is so hard to name—and why language matters before reputations freeze and exits narrow.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 7 May 2026

TELLS: Naming Early Signs of Workplace Mobbing

STRONGMAN: Manipulation by Force

Force does not always look like the monster. Sometimes it looks like the builder who makes appetite operational, containment elegant & punishment deniable.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 May 2026

STRATAGEM: Manipulation by Design

Before Macbeth reaches for the crown, the witches give him something more dangerous than power. They give him a premise.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 May 2026

STRAWMAN: Manipulation by Story

Before the box, there is the story. This vignette enters Set’s mind before the trap forms, exposing the first movement of the strawman: the private reduction of another person into a version small enough to punish.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 May 2026

KUDZU: Dark Ecology of Envy

KUDZU is a short uncanny fiction piece about envy, jealousy, and unchecked growth, told through the strange intelligence of an invasive vine.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 30 Apr 2026

Plausible Deniability in Workplace Mobbing: Hidden Manipulation Explained

Plausible deniability allows workplace harm to spread without clear statements. This post explains how truth is distorted through implication, repetition, and bias.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 8 Apr 2026

Plausible Deniability in Workplace Mobbing: Hidden Manipulation Explained

Scarcity Tactics at Work

Scarcity at work isn’t always real—it’s often engineered. This post explains how restricted resources are used to destabilize and control employees.

By Kathryn Fredrickson

/ 6 Apr 2026

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