I thought the Internet should know: Nikolai Lantsov is now my book boyfriend. Sorry, Kvothe. (Links definitely contain spoilers.) 📚
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One of [the] things about the “love professions,” which includes academia, it is really easy to forget that you are a worker. But when people remember that they are workers, they can make life better for themselves. - Miya Tokumitsu, interviewed by Kelly J. Baker in Sexism Ed: Essays on Gender and Labor in Academia
Finished reading: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty 📚
Accepting death doesn’t mean that you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like “Why do people die?” and “Why is this happening to me?” Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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The great achievements of humanity were born out of the deadlines imposed by death. - Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and Other Lessons from the Crematory
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The doll is named Dana. She is here now and I think she’s actually 200% haunted. The mid-life crisis continues.
I’m psyched to present my dissertation research at FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures Beyond the Archive. I’ll talk about how cosplayers find, evaluate, use, share, and create information, as well as possibilities for FanLIS as a discipline to expand into fan practices beyond fanfic.
I am RSVPing yes to Micro Camp 2022 .
🔖 Read Women of a Certain Age.
Great piece about how the Golden Age of TV creates space for roles beyond somebody’s mom, somebody’s wife, and harpyish crone. 📺🍿
The Kimberly urge to write Picard/Gomez fic. 🖖🏻