Because I’m Extremely Online, I joined Hive with the username kimberlyhirsh. Because I’m an IndieWeb person and they have no API at present for me to syndicate to, I’ll have to manually syndicate & so will likely lurk/reply more than I post.

Finished reading: Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir 📚

I loved it so much. And I’m still pretty confused but that’s okay. 💀

Okay, I have enough people still hanging out on Twitter to stick around, reactivated syndication.

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Introduce yourself with five video games 🎮:

  • Final Fantasy VII
  • Dragon Age Inquisition
  • Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy
  • Professor Layton and the Curious Village
  • Return of the Obra Dinn

Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & Mastodon (@kimberlyhirsh@indieweb.social).

I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But I’ve rejected hundreds, so… Yay?

It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana only), the most perfect fan artist’s tarot I’ve ever seen. @HistoryMuppet @ToughPigs

You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.

My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia use to refer to video games?”

Didn’t get any replies but after almost 14 years I can confidently say academia often uses the term “video games.”

Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. 🎵

The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always come back so hi, time for me to reinvigorate my muppets obsession, welcome. 🐸🪕🌈

I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!

Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.

Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!

A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be gone now.

I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.

💬📚 “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our animal closeness.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

💬📚 “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

💬📚 “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodies— handling the refuse, the filth and putrescence, living in the stink.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

For Garbes, mothering is a type of care work not reserved exclusively for parents.

Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚

Thanks for the rec, @agilelisa!

So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).

Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t give me hand cramps, so. 🤷‍♀️

🔖📚 Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did.

Excellent piece about the dangers of outing anyone before they’re ready. Nods to Becky Albertalli & Kit Connor, who both experienced this. 💔

🔖 How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD

Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like myself, struggle to finish writing long things.

🔖 Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman (Catapult).

Great piece. Every time I think I’m parenting M wrong, if I just listen to him & follow my intuition, I’ll beat anything influencers can tell me.

Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. 🖖🏻