Can I be in the book fandom? Like, I’m a fan of books as a medium and as aesthetic objects?

Finished reading: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Exhausted from reviewing my dissertation slides with W (and applying for a job and doing a makeup test and parenting). Off to Ravka for the next 45 min, see you later.

Finished reading: You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing by John Scalzi 📚

Finished my defense slides and I’m so tired. 📝

Me: Why am I so obsessed with identity construction?

The little Chani Nicholas my head: Because your Sun & Ascendant are both in Cancer in the 1st house.

Me: But whyyyyyy?

Fellow academics, do you have a writerly identity? I told my artist BFF my 1st diss draft was garbage & she said “Lol so writing like art has garbage stages” & I thought “But my diss isn’t, like, WRITING writing.” Pretty silly way to think of my 50000-word creative work.

I have decided to go all-in on Star Trek. Especially TNG of course, but for the time being, I’m making Trek writ large my primary fandom.

I’m not saying I’m just saying I kind of wish the Season 2 finale of Picard would be Picard and Q’s wedding is all. 🖖🏻📺

Which Muppet do I most identify with? Well… 📺🍿