Notes
Well I guess the jet lag is over because instead of getting a brilliant solid stretch of sleep that didn’t start until 2 am, I was out by 11 but up around 2:45 & now can’t get back to sleep because restless legs so I guess I’m feeling at home in the Netherlands now.
We took a walk through the village down to the Westeindeplassen (a lake) today. Here are some photos from that walk.
The other day W pointed out that the way we communicate in memes is basically the same as Tamarians in “Darmok” 🖖🏻. When I say, “Spiderman pointing at another Spiderman,” it’s not that different from “Shaka, when the walls fell.”
🔖 Read The online free speech debate is raging in fan fiction, too by Elizabeth Minkel.
🔖 Read The Fannish Potlatch: Creation of Status Within the Fan Community by Rachael Sabotini (Fanfic Symposium) via Lori Morimoto’s Introduction to Media Fan Studies.
How has the fandom gift economy changed since this was written in 1999?
Me in the Netherlands on Day 3: UGH I can’t believe I haven’t been to ALL THE MUSEUMS, what am I even doing
🎮 Played the Dragon Quest Treasures demo.
Cute with some fun mechanics and a cool world but not so compelling that I’d purchase without a steep discount.
🔖📺👱♀️ Read Sarah Michelle Gellar Returns to Fighting Form: “I’ve Earned the Right to Stand Where I Am”.
“Was it an ideal working situation? Absolutely not. But it’s OK to love Buffy for what we created because I think it’s pretty spectacular.”
Woont u in Nederland? Ik ben in Aalsmeer. Wil u afspreken? Ik spreek een beetje Nederlands, maar ik spreek veel Engels.
Me: wants to message all my friends and family My friends and family: are sleeping, I hope, as it’s 3:30 AM where most of them are
Well, a cat walked us home from the bus stop so I guess we and everyone we know are moving to Amsterdam.
📺 Finished watching Wednesday. Glad I stuck with it. I appreciate Wednesday refusing to be in the same teen drama show as everyone else. I was delighted by the ending. Be warned: replies may contain spoilers.
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Tyler: Come on, don’t you like a day that’s all about you?
Wednesday: Every day is all about me. This one just comes with cake and a bad song.
🖤🌧️🖤
🔖 Back on my dark academia bullshit thanks to WEDNESDAY (the show is DA, the character is goth) and so I read this interview with Donna Tartt.
Real struggle to focus today which is probably a combo of getting to bed late because I wanted to keep tabs on how my mom was doing in the ER (poorly but her heart’s okay), janky sleep, and travel anticipation.
Pro-tip: asking questions about why you’re doing the research in the way you’re doing it and what you originally said you were going to do and how close you’re getting to that and what needs to shift and what that shift will look like is all part of the work. 📓
📺 Watching WEDNESDAY and every time Christina Ricci says, “Wednesday,” I’m all, “Are you talking to yourself?” in spite of the killer job Jenna Ortega is doing.
📚💬 “Be open to the possibility that you are bigger, more magical, more powerful than you dare imagine, that you are here to do something that is necessary and consequential and that only you can do.” Bakara Wintner in WTF Is Tarot? And How Do I Do It?, on XX JUDGMENT
🔖 Read How Wednesday Addams Birthed a Generation of Cynics by Emily Alford (Longreads).
This is my favorite Wednesday think piece so far.
Ricci’s Wednesday was devious, quietly furious, and most importantly, content to be so.
It seems extra cruel that while my mom can’t actually carry herself around on her legs, she can feel lots of pain in them.
🔖 Read All in Good Fun: How Fanfiction Reignited My Passion for Writing by Briana Lawrence, linked in this week’s The Rec Center
The first time I started working on a fic in the past couple of years, I did it in a spiral notebook.
Hello. LIS scholars, scholars of #LIS for those of you on hashtaggy places: are you familiar with LIS research that points to PEOPLE as the dominant/preferred resource of information? Can you point me to it? I’ll hunt some down myself but thought I’d ask.