Notes
Yesterday’s #1000WordsOfSummer reading: many stories in Angela Carter’s THE BLOODY CHAMBER. So good. 📚
Google Keep is my notetaking app of choice, which makes me a bit of a rarity, but if you use it and would like it to be more helpful or if you’re curious about what it can do, this Computer World article is a huge help.
If you’re looking for a writing community, check out Jami Attenberg’s #1000WordsOfSummer. I’m prioritizing reading. Today: Kelly Link’s Intro to The Bloody Chamber, the first essay in remembered rapture, and the preface to Slouching towards Bethlehem.
Finished reading: War for the Oaks: A Novel by Emma Bull 📚
Rock music + fey = delightful.
Today’s outfit: LGBTQ Center of Durham Rainbow Bull Shirt, popsicle shorts from Torrid.
If you enjoyed the Chapel/Ortegas dynamic in this week’s SNW, there are [21 works tagged with their relationship] (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Christine%20Chapel%2As%2AErica%20Ortegas/works) at AO3, mostly from a prolific author with the delightful username Lesbi_enterprise. 🖖🏻📺
“It appears that hijinks are the most logical course of action.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, 1x05, “Spock Amok” 🖖🏻📺💬
It’s hot out. I’m tired. I had a call with my doctor this morning. She’s giving me gabapentin for pain. I’m so glad because 900mg magnesium orally + 400mg transdermally + 3000mg bromelain + 50mg CBD oil hasn’t made a dent in it. My kid lost his 1st tooth & didn’t even notice.
Current phone screen. (Yesterday, W to me: “Look at all these old pictures of Jennifer Connelly.” Me: “Oh yeah, I had those saved on my computer in the 90s.” Yes. Those.)
Gonna start doing outfit of the day posts as often as I feel like it. The shirt says “What’s more punk than the public library?” You can buy one from the Mt. Pleasant Library Friends Hat tip to Austin Kleon for making me aware of it.
I am all in on Woodland Goth, y’all.
I feel like the captioners for Stranger Things (who are doing an awesome job describing the music) should Google any place name on the show followed by “Durham,” just to make sure they’re spelling it correctly.
“You dwell in my mind like a household spirit. All that I think is followed with, ‘I shall tell that thought to Eddi.’ Whatever I see or hear is colored by what I imagine you will say of it. What is amusing is twice so, if you have laughed at it.” Emma Bull, War for the Oaks 📚💬
I made a book! The fic is Mischief Managed by touchedglitter (who is me). This is pamphlet bound. The big thing I learned was that I need a better craft knife. These pictures show the cover & the interior. For process photos, see this Tumblr post.
Just followed some Trek fan Micro.bloggers from yesterday’s roll call. I’m current on new shows & doing a rewatch of TNG. Happy to offer advice on getting back into Trek after a break.🖖🏻
In Star Trek: TNG, S5E11, “Hero Worship,” a kid asks Data what he thinks of a model the kid built. When Data expresses his aesthetic assessment the kid says, “You hate it!” Data tells him, “You are making an unwarranted extrapolation.” I’m telling my anxiety that from now on. 🖖📺
Your girl’s over here finding old Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfiction listed on Fanlore but not linked anywhere and digging it up in the Google Usenet archives, then adding the links to Fanlore. Peak Kimberly.
“…embodied writing is not in opposition to political writing. In fact, it is the kind of political writing that I am most interested in reading.” Melissa Febos, Body Work 💬
How do none of the early results in a Google Images search for Star Trek Bingo have something like “mysterious pathogen takes down whole crew” on them? It happened twice in season 1 of TNG & we got it in episode 2 of SNW. (It’s one of my favorite Trek tropes.) 🖖🏻📺
“As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey.” “The enemy doesn’t care about my feelings, Captain, so I don’t waste my time having any.”
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “Memento Mori” 🖖🏻💬
The Michigan Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a really useful letter template for writing to congresspeople.
I don’t have the oomph to discuss this at length but my dad wrote a good journal entry for CaringBridge about the most recent impact of chemo on my mom. My heart is leaden today. At least there’s adaptive technology for sewing without using your feet.
I can’t neglect the world & focus on my child, because my child is in & of the world. I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of existential threats he faces even as I know he is playing life on easy mode. I struggle with where to begin to take action.