Symposium’s over, it’s 90F outside. Time for a wardrobe change! [Image description: A white woman with dark hair wears a black tank top with the Sheikah eye from The Legend of Zelda and black shorts with a popsicle 0rint.]

Want to read: The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom by Jessa Lingel 📚

So far my favorite outcome of #FanLIS2022 is another attendee asking me if I’m sure I’m not Caitlin Doughty.

A screencapture of a Zoom chat. Me to Everyone: Like an exquisite corpses Another participant to Everyone: [@kimberly](https://micro.blog/kimberly) Are you sure you're not Caitlin Doughty?

🔖 Read Durham GOP’s “Better Board, Better Schools” candidate slate is soundly defeated.

What a relief.

Week 3 of #StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds and there are already 189 works on AO3. Looking forward to discovering new favorite creators. 🖖🏻

There are a lot of great things about attending a conference from home. Still, it’s a bit sad not to be able to go hide in a hotel room and let all the new ideas roll around while disconnected from your usual responsibilities.

Definitely just brainstormed the paper title “Screw General Order One: Representing Positionality as an Insider When Doing Fan Studies Research.” #FanLIS2022

Missed a huge chunk of the current #FanLIS2022 paper due to Zoom crash & also lost my NoterLive log because I didn’t think to post it before rebooting.

A squirrel is trying to break into my house.

Gonna be live-posting #FanLIS2022 today & tomorrow. Will transition to LiveNoter in an hour and a half but posting through Micro.blog until I’m done taking my kid to school.

I’m adding things to it slowly, but I’ve created a Connected Learning page curating my notes, memos, and blog posts on this topic. I have so much more to add.

🔖 Read When Kids Have to Act Like Parents, It Affects Them for Life (The Atlantic) by Cindy Lamothe

“she said she often distrusts that other people will take care of things. ‘That’s why I tend to step up and do it myself.’”

Next time I take it into my head that words won’t come out of me in written form, I’m going to re-read this 2018 blog post in which I calculated that I wrote 98,000 words in the first 5 semesters of my doctoral program.

Stole a quote from the woodland goth page of Aesthetics wiki for my bio/tagline: “…a hybrid of fey imagery, Glam Rock glitter, and the lighter side of 80s Goth.”

The Goblin King from the movie Labyrinth contact juggles multiple clear balls.

Pool’s open!

A child stands on the steps of a swimming pool, facing away from the camera.

🔖 Read Why I Blog Part 1 and Part 2 (Kyle Mathews).

🔖💻 Read You’re Not Blogging, My Friend. (Tom Critchlow).

🔖💻 Read Incrementally correct personal websites (Brian Lovin).

🔖💻 Read envisioning my homepage as an online therapeutic space (Winnie Lim).

🔖💻 Read revisiting architectural blogging (Alan Jacobs).

🔖💻 Read Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick (Tom Critchlow).

I like this homesteading metaphor. Neither gardens nor streams quite work for what I do with my personal site. This is closer.

Voting selfie!

🔖💻 Read Why blog? (Chuck Grimmett).

Well said. These are my reasons, too.

I love Discovery and I’ve enjoyed Picard and Prodigy, but Strange New Worlds feels like nostalgic Trek in a way that of the new shows, only Lower Decks does. I’m happy to have such an embarrassment of Star Trek riches. 🖖🏻📺

As always, The Trans Advice column is helpful. The latest: Should cis folks use gender neutral pronouns?

Your pronouns shouldn’t be some sort of political statement or show of support for others, they should be how you want to be referred to.