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🔖📚 Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did.
Excellent piece about the dangers of outing anyone before they’re ready. Nods to Becky Albertalli & Kit Connor, who both experienced this. 💔
🔖 How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD
Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like myself, struggle to finish writing long things.
🔖 Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman (Catapult).
Great piece. Every time I think I’m parenting M wrong, if I just listen to him & follow my intuition, I’ll beat anything influencers can tell me.
🔖📝 Read How to Finish.
Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay blank and sharpen pages I’ve already made? Should I go run or walk and shake the fog out? Could the fog be interesting, if I try not to have too much control? Should I read or go look at art or ride the subway back and forth with a notebook?
This is all writing.
🔖📝 Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist.
I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think it’s the tool for me. Gonna try & figure out what motivates me.
🔖📝 Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space”
“…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of stripping away the stuff that I had to write for myself & happening upon the stuff that I want to offer to other people.”
“I don’t have the sort of life where I can write every day and that’s fine.”
“…so much of writing is not writing but you have to inhabit that not writing space as a writer and not as a mother or a teacher or the 3,000 other things you are.”
🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn).
I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily parenting-related as they parent. Good stuff here.
🔖📝 Read Writing Advice Isn’t Made for Bodies In Pain.
Too many things I want to quote here, so if the headline appeals you should just go read the whole thing.
🔖📺 Read ‘Bad Sisters’ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister
Ooh. When I’m ready for intense TV I might try this.
“Sisterhood was a world unto itself… together, we made bewildering terrain familiar.”
🔖 Read Emma Thompson’s Third Act.
I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred spirit, a screen aunt like Carrie Fisher is a screen mom. This profile made me love her even more.
“[When I act] I’m taking a holiday from myself.”
🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now.
If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed into micro.blog, & then syndicate to Twitter. Let me know if a tutorial for this would be helpful.
🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom.
the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a discreet, yet ever-present and deeply internalized, part of [the acafan’s] methodology.
The dilemma that online researchers have to confront is how to respect a user’s or group’s perceived privacy while simultaneously not ignoring their voices.
🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies – transform
We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the scholarship we produce, and if we have given our fan identifications too much influence over academic ones.
🔖 Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan – transform
I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position that we bring to our work as well as to our investment in media texts and/or their communities.
🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost.
Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.
🔖 Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV.
The thing that “counts” as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, while that which clearly is getting broadly read and cited is viewed as an optional hobby.
🔖 Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV.
It’s worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of analysis… but as a structuring facet of academic research.
🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter
I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”
🔖 NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month
This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.
🔖 Read Howl’s Moving Castle should be the model for every book-to-film adaptation (Polygon) by Petrana Radulovic
🔖 Read The Big Bang Didn’t Happen.
I know very little about cosmology, but this makes some good points about the limits of academic funding and publishing and the value of public science communication.
🔖 Read A CRITIQUE OF DARK ACADEMIA: THE ROMANTICIZATION OF OVERWORK.
Wearing tweed and wandering old bookshops is fine. Denying yourself sleep over an essay that isn’t due for days is not.
Say it with me: school should not take priority over your mental health. School should not take priority over your physical health. School should not take priority over your relationships.
If Einstein could take a nap, so can you.
🔖 Read Wear Me This: Dark Academia could be the answer to the very problem it romanticizes.
I would venture that slipping on a tailored button-up and sitting in the library because Aesthetics Wiki told you “studying and reading” are “activities” of Dark Academia could be the impetus for a powerful academic pursuit or useful social connection.