Another fic prompt from when M was 3: In “The Green Ribbon,” Jenny tells Alfred that she just likes the green ribbon and that’s why she wears it all the time. And then she takes it off and her head stays attached to her body.
Fic prompt from when M was 3: in The Velveteen Rabbit but at the end, not only does the Velveteen rabbit become real, but also the boy and his parents become rabbits, and then they all hang out together.
I’m not going to spend a lot of time scrolling Mastodon, but I’m set up to cross-post from my blog there (just like I do with Twitter) so if you’re moving your web social activity there, you can follow me @kimberlyhirsh@mastodon.social to see my stuff. I’ll check notifications.
If you’re in/near Glasgow and the mother of a child who’s under a year old, check out the New Mothers Writing Circle.
Cooking when your energy bar is low: make some instant oatmeal using the microwave or a kettle. Dump some trail mix on top. Stir. Eat.
🔖 Read Editorial policies, “public domain,” and acafandom.
the importance of fans as both human subjects and creators… can be a discreet, yet ever-present and deeply internalized, part of [the acafan’s] methodology.
The dilemma that online researchers have to confront is how to respect a user’s or group’s perceived privacy while simultaneously not ignoring their voices.
🔖 Read SCMS 2011 Workshop: Acafandom and the Future of Fan Studies – transform
We need to ask ourselves how identifying as an aca-fan impacts the scholarship we produce, and if we have given our fan identifications too much influence over academic ones.
🔖 Read Post-SCMS musings on the value of the word acafan – transform
I would argue that aca/fan is most vitally understood as a contextual position that we bring to our work as well as to our investment in media texts and/or their communities.