Also making a note to myself to write a full blog post about going to see my first community theater production in ages & how it made me feel.

Making a note to myself here to write a full blog post about Star Trek: The Next Generation 3x21, “Hollow Pursuits,” and the connection to the paper I’m currently revising about TRPGs & identity development. 🖖🏻

Next #FSNNA21 live-tweet: “Fans, Players and/or Users? Bridging Fan and Media Studies” Will post log to kimberlyhirsh.com.

I’ll be live-tweeting the #FSNNA21 panel “Digital Methods and Digital Fan Practices” in a few minutes and share the log at kimberlyhirsh.com after the session.

I set foot in a bookstore for the first time since the start of the pandemic today. I stood there, looking at everything, almost having a panic attack from giddiness, wanting to buy it all. W said he could smell the store on me when I got back in the car. 📚

Introducing my five-year-old to Sweeney Todd (original cast), as you do. 🎭🎵

I’m watching the season 1 finale of Star Trek Discovery and having L’Rell do the previously in Klingon is a nice touch. 🖖🏻

Extemely chuffed to announce that my first blog post written for @QuirkosSoftware, “A priori coding is A-OK!”, has gone live!

I don’t like how clear it is that we are living in the mirror universe and the primary Star Trek universe is not ours. At least, this is what Discovery has led me to believe. 🖖🏻

I may have been excessively affectively engaged in the conversation about Buffy fic writers’ responses to “Seeing Red.” I really don’t know how to not be “in my feels” when it comes to Buffy, esp. fan response.