🔖 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.

Goodnight, everybody.

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 am very exhausted. Not sleepy. Not fatigued. Exhausted.

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. 📚

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” 🖖🏻📺💬