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Hello I have watched the first episode of SHADOW & BONE and Jesper has now replaced Kaz as my Ketterdam favorite. (I don’t think my Ravka fave will appear this season.) Also yes I want to see #Legendborn get this treatment. 📺📚
You can now watch my dissertation defense presentation! I’ve stopped the video before the Q&A to protect my committee and guests’ privacy, but if you want to see the version with questions included, DM or email me and I’ll send you the link.
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Marvel movies have a weird relationship with kissing and romance - Polygon polygon.com(via baldur on micro.blog)Read: www.polygon.com
Today’s weather is the best kind of NC spring weather. It’s 57F and there are fluffy clouds. The trees are all green. I’m in a hoodie under a blanket on a hammock reading SIX OF CROWS. This is the kind of day a person needs to recover from dissertating.
Want to read: The Brilliant Abyss, Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It by Helen Scales 📚
I’m so happy that I’m now qualified to wear this Delicious PhD Darling “regalia.” 🤣 (If you’ve never seen this before, be sure to read the reviews.)
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How Bookishness Affects the Book Biz publishersweekly.comRead: www.publishersweekly.com
I resent the fact that Book Riot’s Find Out Your SHADOW AND BONE Character quiz made me choose between Nikolai & Kaz. (I chose Nikolai but I’d rather BE Nikolai and crush on Kaz. Obviously I’m only 17 in this hypothetical.)
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On the Relationship Between Motherhood and Madness in Victorian Literature ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com
I know somebody on micro.blog has put together an On This Day type page that shows you posts on today’s date in previous years. I can’t remember who or how. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
My favorite thing about Labyrinth is that the ending suggests that you can grow up while retaining your attachment to fantasy. 🍿
Submitted my dissertation to the university. Ordered Ebony Elizabeth Thomas’s The Dark Fantastic from Rofhiwa Bookcafé to celebrate. 📚 📝🎉
🔖 Reagan Ray has collected a bunch of hand-lettered logos from Marvel comics pre-2000. My favorite series from this era is the 6 issue miniseries Kitty Pryde & Wolverine. Ray doesn’t have that logo, but I did grab a Kitty Pryde logo and a Wolverine logo to stick here.
Exhausted from defense & migrainey because PCOS, so it’s time to settle in with some #StarTrekTNG. I’m doing a very slow rewatch. Today: “Samaritan Snare.” 🖖🏻📺
Advisor: So make these revisions because those were good questions and you had answers to them.
Me: Please send the defense video, I will not remember what my answers were.
#occasionallyresumeimprov
Katherine Taylor’s essay, I Am Not a Robot, explores Data’s value as a stand-in for autistic people. It also gets at how all kinds of neurodivergent or other disabled people might see themselves in him. It beautifully explains all the things that make him my favorite.
I have a lot of thank yous to catch up on, and I will. But in the meantime, I highly recommend having most of your best friends at your dissertation defense if you can. It makes the whole thing celebratory.
Lt. Cmdr. DOCTOR Kimberly Hirsh here… I mean Data, whoops… I passed my dissertation defense! Yay me! And immense thanks to the people who attended. It felt great to have so much support.
This really does feel like waiting to go to the hospital to be induced. I hope the dissertation defense involves less back labor.