Notes
🎮 Played Dragon Quest on Android. Gorgeous pixel remake of the foundational JRPG. Super fun! 🐲
📚🗯️ Read Once & Future Vol. 1: The King Is Undead by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora. Arthuriana and a story about the nature of stories, plus a kickass grandma. Looking forward to reading more. 🗡️
💬🔖 “What did I learn today about how to live this life?” This question applies to a lot more than writing.
Catapult | On Writing (with a Day Job) | Richard Mirabella catapult.co
📚📺 At Electric Literature, Meera Vijayan writes about the value of seeing Alina Starkov build her strength a little at a time in the face of staggering self-doubt and how good representation doesn’t always require “strong” female characters.
I feel both seen and attacked by this Lit Hub piece that says the literary character who shares my Enneagram type (4) is Dorian Gray.
I’m available for work starting September 7. Ideal employed situation is part-time, remote, at least $1500/mo. Also open to contract work. My superpowers are research design, qualitative analysis, workflow organization, clear writing, & speaking.
📚 In HARROW THE NINTH Harrowhark uses the phrase “A fatal longing for the picturesque” and I’m all “AHHHHH is that a THE SECRET HISTORY reference?”
🔖📺🍿This piece identifies what made LOKI less than ideal for me: Loki himself is constrained, not as grand or mischievous as we’re used to. Great piece overall:
Loki as Other: Why Do Queer and Female Viewers Love the Trickster? tor.comRead: www.tor.com
🔖🍿📚 It’s nice timing to read this after recently starting my Dorian Gray re-read:
Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray. ‹ Literary Hub lithub.comRead: lithub.com
The article Meet the typical 40-year-old millennial, who has $128,000 in debt, is not nearly as wealthy as their parents were, and is known as ‘geriatric’ was published on my 40th birthday.
Me, after two nights of terrible sleep: Welp, I worked for 48 billable minutes. Time to pack it in and watch TV!
You know what would be an interesting pair of books to read together? The 4-Hour Work Week and How to Do Nothing. 📚
💬📚 “Harrow would be tripping over herself for her whole existence, a frictionless hoop of totally f-cking up.” - Tamsyn Muir, HARROW THE NINTH #relatable
📚 O no I have HARROW THE NINTH on my eReader and want to hermit up and just read it until I’m doooooonnnnneee.
📚 I’m re-reading THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY and I want to write down all of Lord Henry Wotton’s bon mots but there are too many and all of them in that beautiful Wildean structure: “I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”
Just watched the first episode of Schmigadoon and Aaron Tveit channeling John Raitt/Gordon McRae/Robert Goulet is 💯.
I’m working on developing a new academia aesthetic, it’s kind of a sff academia. Inspired by the Mythic Quest episode “Backstory,” still need to work out how to express the cool bits while acknowledging the seriously bad stuff in sff history.
I love when I have a call with my doctor and I say “I think I should do this” and she says “I agree.”