🔖 I’m always looking for Leonie Dawson’s post about heroic self-gentleness and struggling to track it down in searches so now that I’ve succeeded once, I’m dropping the link here so I can just search my own website for it next time.

Reading the schedule for GIFCon and my breath caught and I teared up a little at Kat Humphries’s paper title, “What’s this cheery singing all about?”: Fantasy television and the musical episode.

🔖 Read Academic Waste. 🎓

I added a Shop page to my website! Right now all that’s there are my Notion templates (all pay what you can, $0+). In the future I hope to add a Books I Recommend section with affiliate links to Bookshop.org and a Books I’ve Written section. Affiliates get 50% commission.

I’m thinking about adding an Ask Me Anything’s page to my blog. But I also might just sometimes make a post soliciting questions. What questions do you have? They don’t need to be specific to me or my expertise.

Colored a page from Dover Coloring Book Fairy Fashion by Scott Altmann. I’m using jumbo crayons so I don’t get hand cramps. Coloreds this Canadian fairy in honor of Robin Scherbatsky and Cobie Smulders.

Shang-Chi is all “1996” and later is all “PRESENT DAY” and it’s confusing how those aren’t synonyms.

Finished reading: Shang-Chi by Gene Luen Yang Vol. 1: Brothers and Sisters by Gene Yang 📚

I haven’t watched it yet but I’ve decided The Adam Project is a sequel to 13 Going on 30 and nothing will convince me otherwise.

🍿 Watched Turning Red. Highly recommend. Perfectly captures being 13, navigating our own growth and our parents’ expectations, and the way these questions stay with us in adulthood.