🔖 Everyone Wants to Be a Hot, Anxious Girl on Twitter

I am both fascinated and terrified by the phrase “the girl in the machine.”

🔖 NC Mutual Will Cease Operations This Month

This is heartbreaking and I’m ashamed I didn’t follow this story earlier.

I get excited and ambitious and then I have a flare and then I forget all my passions and ambitions. Listen, body: I am doing my best to build a life where I take good care of you. Could you stop derailing literally everything else I want to do?

This is an example of process art.

A box depicting beautifully painted hot cocoa bombs, reading "Count Dracula Hot Drink Bomb Kit"An orange silicone mold holds 6 cocoa bombs. None of them appears to be sealed. One is painted vaguely like Count Dracula. The rest are joyfully messy.

I want to food, to cook fresh ingredients into beautiful and tasty things. But I like to experience this as meditative and do it when I have energy, so I’m currently parsing out the things that keep that from happening. Maybe I start making really excellent lunches.

Finished up my time at #FSNNA22 with a dance by the pastries.

Okay, getting dressed and then heading to the #FSNNA22 Gather lobby to try dancing and throwing confetti.

Skipping the first sessions of #FSNNA22 today to have breakfast with my family. Back for the 11 am, then missing the closing session to play D&D.

Today, in Kimberly remembers that scholarly publishing is broken: lots of journals demand either full transfer of copyright or an exclusive license for the full term of copyright, without compensation to the author. Academics often don’t control our IP.

I’m attending “Transcultural Fandom Experiences” at #FSNNA22 but not live-tweeting because I’m prepping for the #FanLIS session, “#FanLIS at Home,” that will run at 12p Eastern.

Super headachey, so probably gonna lie down, may or may not do more #FSNNA22 today.

Me to friend who is also a mom: Want me to drop the water bottle you left at M’s birthday party off at your house?

Her: Yes.

Me: I’ll let you know if I forget to.

Her: Fair enough.

Parents’brains are full, y’all.

W just reminded me we have a Parent-Teacher conference this morning so I actually will miss the first 2 #FSNNA22 sessions today but should be back in time for the keynote.

Up too early and going to sleep a little more. I’m going to miss the first #FSNNA22 session of the day because it’s right during kid-day-prep time, should be around for everything except the last session (kid pickup time) & the vid show (kid dinner time).

📚 Tom Bombadil (😍) sings SO. MUCH.

💬📚 “Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Now is the part of #FSNNA22 where I retreat to my hotel room, order room service, and watch TV except because it’s a virtual conference I retreat to the kitchen, heat up a flatbread from Daily Harvest, and hang out with my kid.

The Daily Mail: Don’t use these emojis! They make Gen Z people perceive you as old!

Me: I mean they’re going to perceive me like that either way, so I’ll use whatever emojis I like.

Time for a liedown, hope to be back up in time for the #FSNNA22 publishing session.

It’s super energizing to go to conferences like #FSNNA22, #CLS2022, and #FanLIS2022. I’m reminded that I do enjoy research, I am part of a community of scholars, and I have things to contribute.

Even in Gather, I’m that nerd sitting in the front row. #FSNNA22

Taking kid to the dentist during the next #FSNNA22 session so I won’t be live-tweeting but hope to keep up with others' tweets about it. The tool I use for live-tweeting and collating it all into a blog post is NoterLive. Highly recommend! Scroll down for instructions.

M after watching me confer in Gather: “Can we play a little Stardew Valley?”

Kid woke up, so break from live-posting but I’m introducing him to Gather. “What game is that?”

Side question for anyone at #FSNNA22 or anyone aware of fan studies at all - have folks looked at parents/caregivers and what their fannish activity looks like? Intergenerational fandom within families?