Notes
🔖 Read Why PhDs Need to Study Creative Writing.
Awesome piece with an excellent argument. I’ve been tacking this direction for a while and it’s nice to see more scholars talking about it.
🔖 Read We Are All Hostages to Anti-Semitism by Yair Rosenberg
Excellent piece about how anti-Semitism is not individual prejudice, but part of a vast, centuries-old conspiracy theory that undermines people’s faith in democracy.
🔖 Read Hypertext Gardens.
Efficient traversal provides the information readers think they want, but may hide information readers need.
I love the 1998ness of this essay. It’s given me a lot to think about, though it’ll be a while before I figure out how I’d like to apply these ideas.
I’m experimenting with building a digital garden via a personal wiki so of course my first page is about Digital Gardens and Streams. I won’t be shocked if I end up going back to putting everything in my website/blog, but I thought I’d try this out.
Just a little pro tip, muting words on Twitter will not prevent them from appearing in the “What’s happening” sidebar. A little public service announcement for you today.
Finished reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚
I definitely want to write a longer review of this one, but I need some time to sit with it first. I love it.
What gave her strength then? We cannot know for sure. That contrary thing inside her? The hard stone of rage that all lonely girls possess? - Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS 💬📚
Easy magic is pretty. Great magic asks that you trouble the waters. It requires a disruption, something new.Leigh Bardugo, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS
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Yesterday I interrupted my kid’s marathon viewing of BLIPPI and transformed it into a marathon viewing of PHINEAS AND FERB, I am the best at parenting, AMA
Currently reading: The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo 📚
I have so much respect for how dark Bardugo is willing to go with these fairytales. The twist is consistent but shocks me each time.
My workplace harassment training is promoting person-first language, but ends with “Ultimately, it is important to treat everyone as an individual and respect the words with which they define themselves.” Wish that part was up front. Person-first v. identity-first is so fraught.
Wisdom from my blog archives: What if everything I am - everything I’ve tried to improve in this particular, optimizing, tool-utilizing way - is just fine? (It’s my half birthday. Happy half birthday, me!)
No YOU’RE thinking about writing a fanfic that’s just an IRB application for a xenoanthropology dissertation at Starfleet Academy.
Now that I’m gainfully employed, mosts of my discretionary spending is going to creators in little $5/mo increments.
Me: If I were going to write fiction, what genre should I write?
Brain: YA high fantasy.
Me: does analysis by genre & market of the last 20 books I read
Analysis: YA high fantasy.
W: Do you know the first documented time “Google” was used as a verb?
Me: Yes, it was on Buffy the Vampire Slayer 👩🏼, Willow said it, it was in Season 7, it was in reference to the character Cassie who claimed to speak on Tara’s behalf. But I don’t remember which episode.
I started reading A Court of Thorns and Roses because it’s, um, overdue & 9 people have it on hold (sorry people, thanks library for eliminating fines). I don’t know why I waited so long to start this series. It’s very much my thing. 📚
🔖Read What happens when we die.
Beautiful notes from Maria Popova on the novel Mr g.
Putting together references and resources for making myself a Tidemaker kefta, no big deal.
🔖 Read The comedy of survival.
🔖 Read “I Feel Very Uncomfortable When People Call Me A Writer”.
Great conversation between Sara Fredman & Dr. Merve Emre. WRITE LIKE A MOTHER is a newsletter fave for me right now. Highly recommend.