💬📚 “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience or enact.” Lori Morimoto, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies

What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies 📚

💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan Studies Primer, “Introduction,” edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams

Finished reading: Smith of Wootton Major & Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien 📚

Reading my way through Wyngraf’s Appendix C (for cozy!).

📚 Tom Bombadil (😍) sings SO. MUCH.

💬📚 “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

📚💬📝 “…the work of critical thinking and theorizing is itself an expression of political praxis that constructs a foundation wherein individual action can be united with collective struggle.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “Critical writing counts for very little when critics speak about ending domination… in our work without changing individual habits of being…” bell hooks, remenbered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “The point is not to render ideas less complex—the point is to make the complex clear.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work

📚💬📝 “I write with the intent to share ideas in a manner that makes them accessible to the widest possible audience.” bell hooks, remembered rapture: the writer at work