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🔖 This is a library that is also a theater. I want to go to there.
🔖 If you love beautiful writing with a wistful vibe, you should be reading Jess Zimmerman’s Dead Channel. The latest issue talks about the erosion of physical third places during the pandemic.
🔖 Y’all, Sir Ian McKellen has been blogging about his work since he started working on “X-Men” in 1999 & I love his writing.
🔖 Go read what Tim Carmody has to say about two songs from “The Muppet Movie”. I’m hoping to be able to write a detailed response but for now I’ll just say it’s beautiful and it resonates with me deeply.
🔖 The spellbinding history of cheese and witchcraft is the witchy content I didn’t know I needed. 🧙♀️🧀
🔖 One option the New York Times didn’t mention in their piece about keeping a digital commonplace book: doing it on your own website.
🔖 This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s scarf sits at the center of a Venn diagram of two of my interests, fandom & textiles. I love it.
🔖 Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means to know someone’s handle. It resonated especially with me bc when I recently said “I’m Kiba” to someone I know outside of fandom, she said, “YOU’RE Kiba?”
🔖 My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF catalog.
🔖 Highly recommended: Library Ambience Sounds for Studying / Relaxing White Noise.
🔖 I am a Book Person. I don’t love the shots this piece takes at Book People, but I appreciate its conclusion: it would be good to calm down about books. (The verbs attacks Book People are defending themselves against are published, rather than imagined.)
🔖 The Power of German Playwright Bertholt Brecht’s V-Effekt: Oliver Mayer discusses the connection between the January 6 insurrection and Brecht’s work with alienation.
🔖 What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction‘?: Soledad Fox Maura writes about why we need to reconsider genre.
🔖 An old piece that the Rec Center brought to my attention: How Writing Fanfic Introduced Me To Myself.
I’ve been feeling the need to do some fun, low-pressure writing. Fic may be just the thing.
🔖 I continue to be proud of my city: Durham Moves to Protect Residents Against Natural Hair Discrimination
🔖I went into reading this expecting a fluff piece. I came out of it with a reminder of the spiritual and psychological depth of tabletop RPGs: How One Rabbi Uses Roleplaying Games to Build Community
🔖This interview is extremely validating! Just Move: Scientist Author Debunks Myths About Exercise And Sleep
🔖 Gaby has curated an amazing collection of Bernie memes. The Beetlejuice and Clerks ones are my favorites.
🔖Paging Through Broadway While the Stages Are Dark: 2020 was supposed to be the year I got back into theater. 🎭
🔖 In “The Black Casting Choices in BRIDGERTON Were…A Choice”, Jessica Pryde explains the ways this was very much NOT colorblind casting. I especially appreciate her acknowledgement of the trauma related to maternal health outcomes. 📺
🔖 This is really cool. I hope that in addition to making it possible for scholarship recipients to show up, they make it so scholarship recipients actually want to stay: ‘SNL’ And ‘Second City’ Announce Scholarships For Diverse, Emerging Comic Talent
🔖🍿 The Wonder Woman Movies Have a Women Problem A great analysis with ideas for how Wonder Woman movies could better reflect all the best stuff about other Wonder Woman media.
🔖 Tips for Starting a Bookstagram: Getting started in the bookish corner of Instagram can be overwhelming. This blog post offers some helpful advice.
🔖 Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020: disheartening, but not surprising.
🔖 Run, Die, Repeat: How Roguelike Games Helped Us Get Through 2020 - Roguelikes reflect not only the cycle of the pandemic year, but also the cycle of chronic illness.