In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to fanbound books. And it ended up being relevant to work stuff. I love my job. 🖖🏻📚

A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: focus on YALSA and GameRT. Get as many free comics as possible. If you’re exhibiting, offer candy.

Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change bookclubs by the end of the day.
Me: archives email

Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚

🔖 Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in Star Trek. I think Piers Anthony’s Killobyte might be good to put in conversation with White’s novella.

🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full review up soon. Lots of good stuff in this book, will be revelatory for some & leveling up for others. 📚

🔖 Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. 📝

Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop culture analysis with personal writing. Thank you!

What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? Whatever it is, it’s happening to me. The thought of crafting or reading or playing a video game is too much. So, I guess… Star Trek time?

The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. 🖖🏻📺💬

“It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of disabilities.” “Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I might have something to contribute?” - Hannah Bates and La Forge, on eugenics