💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.
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🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great piece overall:
Loki as Other: Why Do Queer and Female Viewers Love the Trickster? tor.comRead: www.tor.com
🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read:
Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray. ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com
🔖 Putting a pin in this article to remind me to write later about the perils of outsiders researching affinity spaces, the overlooked punk rockness of the new domesticity, & how academia is constantly “discovering” things that have been going on for yrs.
🔖▶️ Watching Meet Courtney: An American Girl Movie & trying not to lose it every time they mention the Challenger or Christa McAuliffe. 35 years & yet it doesn’t seem like history to me.
🔖📺 Listen, as a 90s babybat I welcome the new Anne Rice television universe. 🦇
🔖▶️ Watched Create Your Unicorn Career from Scratch. Engaging talk from a science communicator/comedian! Don’t throw any part of yourself away! (That’s from Austin Kleon.)
🔖📝 I love Austin Kleon’s advice to relocate your darlings. I have a file for every project with the word “Cut” in the filename and anything I don’t use goes there in case I want it later.
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What We Can—and Can’t—Learn About Louisa May Alcott from Her Teenage Fiction - Electric Literature electricliterature.comI love that Pynchon shared his juvenilia with commentary. I’ve shared my student writing. Maybe I’ll start writing commentary for it.Read: electricliterature.com
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Toll from political push at UNC continues to mount | NC Policy Watch ncpolicywatch.comRead: www.ncpolicywatch.com