Notes
In our work team meeting today we spent a significant chunk of time discussing the history of Star Trek fanfic and its trajectory from zines to web to fanbound books. And it ended up being relevant to work stuff. I love my job. 🖖🏻📚
A little less than 12 years ago, I attended my first American Library Association Annual Conference. I’ve been to 3 more since then. My advice: focus on YALSA and GameRT. Get as many free comics as possible. If you’re exhibiting, offer candy.
Literati: Hey if you don’t want to read a super cool book about the deep ocean as part of the Atlas Obscura book club, log in and change bookclubs by the end of the day.
Me: archives email
Want to read: Meet Me by the Fountain by Alexandra Lange 📚
🔖 Nathanial White writes Disturbing the Comfortable: On Writing Disability in Science Fiction. I freewrote 1100 words today on reading disability in Star Trek. I think Piers Anthony’s Killobyte might be good to put in conversation with White’s novella.
🔖 The Bullet Journal blog has a great interview with Tiago Forte, author of Building a Second Brain, which comes out today. I hope to get a full review up soon. Lots of good stuff in this book, will be revelatory for some & leveling up for others. 📚
🔖 Today’s #1000WordsOfSummer letter is all about letting writing be fun and silly. I needed to read this today. Maybe you do, too. 📝
Hello, Internet. Please recommend to me your favorite essay collections that combine TV or other pop culture analysis with personal writing. Thank you!
What’s that thing where your brain is like “Even leisure is too much right now”? Whatever it is, it’s happening to me. The thought of crafting or reading or playing a video game is too much. So, I guess… Star Trek time?
The TNG episode, “The Masterpiece Society,” is great. 🖖🏻📺💬
“It was the wish of our founders that no one have to suffer a life of disabilities.” “Who gave them the right to decide whether or not I might have something to contribute?” - Hannah Bates and La Forge, on eugenics
Hi! Do you struggle with activities of daily living due to executive dysfunction, cognitive overload, or brain fog? I do. Autism Grown Up, a non-profit founded by my friend Dr. Tara Regan, sells checklists that can help. Today I bought the shower one.
Want to read: This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch by Tabitha Carvan 📚
Want to read: Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany 📚
🔖 Rebecca Schuman’s (@pankisseskafka) advice on being productive with long COVID is sound for anyone with chronic illness or many other disabilities. As I’m in the middle of some kind of flare due to stress, I’m going to operate in Safe Mode.
Finished reading: The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Angela Carter 📚
New (well, ~40 year old) takes on old fairytales. Gorgeous language.
Austin Kleon urges us to embrace belwiderment..
He quotes Rumi:
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
This is now my overarching goal.
Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer was awesome, too.
“I will de-intellectualize and re-sensualize my writing practice.” Morgan Parker
Want to read: This Time Tomorrow: A Novel by Emma Straub 📚
Today’s #1000wordsofsummer letter made me really happy. Diary writing! Noticing! And This Time Tomorrow is going on my TBR because I could use a 1996 time travel novel.
I’m just grumping it out right now so if you’re going to be interacting with me, know that. It’s not you, it’s that I’m a grump at present.
Currently reading: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter 📚
Time for a Gothic Charm School re-read. 📚
