🔖 Read Black Women in Fantasy Saved Me Where Academia Failed (Catapult by Ravynn K. Stringfield.
I always love reading what Dr. Stringfield has to say. This is, in a way, a scholar’s origin story, and I love it.
🔖 Read Video Games Are for Everyone—And That Should Include Disabled People (Catapult) by Allyssa Capri.
Great discussion of where the gaming landscape is with respect to accessibility, plus resources for disabled gamers, and it ends on a positive note.
I keep asking myself, “When will I not be too tired for x?” and it turns out my thyroid hormone levels are suboptimal so now that we’re upping one of my meds doses I really hope the answer is “In about 6-8 weeks.”
The past few years, I’ve written a blog post on my birthday about who I want to be that year. My birthday’s in 2 days & as I look back at the past year, I’m too exhausted to come up with new thoughts on who I want to be. I’m going to let last year’s stand.
Most of the time the answer to not having enough storage is to get rid of stuff, but with books, I tend to feel the answer is more bookshelves.
Y’all, check out this picture of Gene Roddenberry cosplaying as a Romulan commander from Balance of Terror from Cinefantastique #20 that I found on the fanlore.org cosplay page. 😍🖖🏻
Me, pitching future research clients: So in this scenario, see, you’re Buffy, and you know there’s fork guy and he’s scared of the substitute teacher but you don’t know what it all means, and I’m Giles and I’m going to use books and stuff to make sense of fork guy for you. 👱♀️
I found a picture of myself on Tumblr. Dropping all other descriptors of myself in favor of “Data in an oversized cardigan.” 🖖🏻
I’m workshopping a new professional tagline because I want to emphasize that I’m a qualitative researcher. First draft: “I use stories to answer questions.” I’m open to feedback.
Finished Strange New Worlds Season 1. A+. Somebody give Ethan Peck’s eyebrow an Emmy. 🖖🏻📺