Notes
Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. 🖖🏻
📺💬 On MythicQuest…
Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you?
Me: I do! I love Web1!
It’s Sunday morning and I am back to being overwhelmed by meal planning, how’s your day? I should say that M & I made banana bread and pumpkin bread this morning, so that’s lovely.
📚💬 “Proximity to power, however real that feels, is a simpler choice than solidarity. True allyship lives in relationships, true solidarity requires giving up some comfort, material resources, and power—and sharing it with others.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “The perspective mothers bring to their jobs—whether it’s law making, coalition building, project management—is that family and care work are essential to life, not an inconvenience.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “We are entrusting that which we say is most precious—our children, our future— to other people, yet we are not willing to pay them a living wage? What does that say about our priorities as a society? Our priorities as individuals?” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “Childcare professionals, many of them mothers, are three times as likely to live in poverty as workers in other professions.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
The number of people grieving the loss of Kevin Conroy in my various timelines has confirmed that I’m following the right people.
Hello I require a meme where Lore is impersonating Data on Twitter, they’re both verified, will pay in high praise kthx 🖖🏻
Over at Mastodon, I have a lot of new infosec/cybersecurity followers. I assume y’all followed me because Kevin Beaumont follows me. Kev & I are fandom friends, so you won’t find much infosec content here, but I hope you find something interesting.
Moved Mastodon instances from mastodon.social to indieweb.social because the prior kept timing out. People who were following me shouldn’t need to do anything.
💬📚 “Weekends aren’t time off for parents; they are two long days of caregiving.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
💬📚 “Early on in quarantine, I found myself thinking, ‘What is the most valuable thing I could be doing with my time?’ The answer clearly wasn’t writing an article or making a podcast, but rather, keeping my family, and my community, safe and healthy.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Just moved a publication on my CV from “In Progress” to “In Press.” An RA gathered data in 2018-19. A professor & myself wrote the first draft in 2019-20. It’s been submitted 2x, accepted w/revisions & revised, w/an additional author. This is fast for scholarly publishing.
🔖📝 Read How to Finish.
Should I force myself to Make New Work or should I let the blank pages stay blank and sharpen pages I’ve already made? Should I go run or walk and shake the fog out? Could the fog be interesting, if I try not to have too much control? Should I read or go look at art or ride the subway back and forth with a notebook?
This is all writing.
🔖📝 Read This Machine Will Make You Write More: A Product Recommendation with a Twist.
I covet the Alphasmart/Freewrite, but I don’t think it’s the tool for me. Gonna try & figure out what motivates me.
🔖📝 Read “You Make the Space, You Fight for the Space”
“…every draft after the first draft for me is a kind of process of stripping away the stuff that I had to write for myself & happening upon the stuff that I want to offer to other people.”
“I don’t have the sort of life where I can write every day and that’s fine.”
“…so much of writing is not writing but you have to inhabit that not writing space as a writer and not as a mother or a teacher or the 3,000 other things you are.”
Logging out of socials until at least Wednesday. See kimberlyhirsh.com/hello if you want to get in touch.
🔖📚 Read The Art of Reading While Feeding (with a Newborn).
I love articles about how other people enjoy things that aren’t necessarily parenting-related as they parent. Good stuff here.
🔖📝 Read Writing Advice Isn’t Made for Bodies In Pain.
Too many things I want to quote here, so if the headline appeals you should just go read the whole thing.
“if you’re looking for a sign from the universe that it’s okay to stop trying to force your work, that it’s not just okay but good to tend to yourself in whatever way that brings you joy and doesn’t hurt yourself or someone else—this is your sign.”
Over and over again I search for this comic by Sylvie Reuter that is the best depiction I’ve ever seen of how I, personally, experience depression. Maybe next time I’ll find it on my own site instead of having to hope Google helps.
🔖📺 Read ‘Bad Sisters’ Captures the Intensity of Having and Being a Sister
Ooh. When I’m ready for intense TV I might try this.
“Sisterhood was a world unto itself… together, we made bewildering terrain familiar.”
🔖 Read Emma Thompson’s Third Act.
I’ve always loved Emma Thompson, envisioned her as a kindred spirit, a screen aunt like Carrie Fisher is a screen mom. This profile made me love her even more.
“[When I act] I’m taking a holiday from myself.”
🍿 Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney (Sheriff Lamb on Veronica Mars) would get to play someone nice but no luck. If you like these kind of movies, this one is inoffensive.