May 25, 2023
🔖📝 Reading Revision can be fun. No, really. by Charlie Jane Anders.
…revision can actually be kind of exhilarating at times. Because instead of thinking of the revision process as fixing my garbage draft, I’ve started to think of it as unwrapping a series of presents that I wrapped for myself before.
🔖 Read How to Scale Back, Even When It Seems Impossible.
Do you need to lose something else to find yourself? Katie Pryal writes about how she had to let so many things go to create space for herself to thrive.
Just learned that it would cost £22 to have 100g of Tchai-Ovna’s Faeries Blood Tea shipped to me here in the US. Yikes.
📚 Purchased 2 different books from museums to be shipped directly to my house rather than carrying them home myself:
- Sarah Bernhardt - Et la femme crea l’etoile exhibition catalog (Petit Palais, Paris)
- Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination exhibition book (Science Museum, London)
Time for a needs assessment! Micro.blog community, what resources do you need in the Micro.blog Community Library?
Want to read: The Light Room by Kate Zambreno 📚
📚 Here comes the BBC with a list of the 100 Greatest Children’s Books of All Time. Maybe when I’m recovered from jetlag I’ll see how many are on both this and Time’s 100 Best Fantasy Books list.
🍿 Watched Howard.
It’s always striking when you realize the outsize influence an artist has had on you, and watching this it really hit home what an influence Howard Ashman has been on me. I think tomorrow is its lady day on Disney+. I hope they’ll release it for purchase after that. I’d buy it.
May 23, 2023
May 22, 2023
Last full day in Europe and I’m spending it alternating between packing and lying down. Don’t underestimate how much stuff you can acquire in 4 months, even when you’re doing your best to be really selective.
I’ve created playlists on YouTube for all 3 Micro Camps, in case you, like me, have a long flight and might want to download and watch them all on the plane (if you have YouTube Premium, that is):
Happy World Goth Day!
Tomorrow I will go home, where I will have access to all my goth perfumes and jewelry.
Today, I give you this photo of Sarah Bernhardt wearing her bat hat, which I hope to recreate with a needle-felted bat.
May 21, 2023
📺 Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures is exactly the Star Wars show I would have written as a kid:
- Kai Brightstar
- Nash Durango
- The Crimson Firehawk
Brilliant targeting for its audience.
📚 Revisiting Time’s The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time.
N. K. Jemisin:
Don’t think of fantasy as mere entertainment, then, but as a way to train for reality. It always has been, after all.
“Y’all” is the best contraction. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
May 20, 2023
Quand même
A while back I said I was going to get obsessed with Sarah Bernhardt (I seem to have said it somewhere other than my own website ☹️) but never followed through. But today I went to the Sarah Bernhardt exhibition at the Petit Palais and now I’m recommitting myself to this plan.
If you want to read about the exhibition, here are a couple articles:
- The Original Influencer Was French—A Show Dedicated to Sarah Bernhardt Celebrates the World’s First Superstar
- Why Actress Sarah Bernhardt Was the First Modern Celebrity
- Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt
Did you know Sarah Bernhardt was a goth multipotentialite? She acted, directed, sculpted, painted, wrote, ran a theatre, and led charity work. She had herself photographed in a coffin and was super into bats. And she was friends with Oscar Wilde. And she kept acting even after having her leg amputated and began her film career at age 56. I love her.
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Finished reading: Flowers from the Storm by Laura Kinsale 📚
A sweet historical romance involving a Quaker and a rakish Duke.
May 18, 2023
I was feeling disconnected from the Micro.blog community, and I was pretty sure it wasn’t just because I wasn’t posting that much. So I changed the setting so that I see replies in my timeline. (I’d had them hidden.) I already feel more part of the conversation.
🔖🌐 Read Webring History.
animated email gifs, web counters, scrolling and/or blinking text, midi background music that could not be turned off and the “under construction” images.
I’d forgotten about midi background music! This quote is basically a list of things that made the web feel fun for me. I’m going to work on recapturing that vibe, even if the tech looks different.
May 17, 2023
🔖 How Does Motherhood Impact Your Creativity? It’s Complicated vogue.com
Read: www.vogue.com
My inhibitions were methodically ripped to shreds by the pure chaotic energy of the small children and carers around me. I stopped caring about whether what I was doing made me feel silly, and that is a huge boon to anyone wanting to express themselves creatively.
O no two meetings left, not done for 3+ hrs, and yet so sleepy. Might be an afternoon caffeine day. I would love to just live in Paris forever but it will be really nice when I’m only 3 time zones away from my colleagues.
May 16, 2023
I’m in Paris this week so I don’t know how much of Micro Camp I’ll catch live, but the schedule looks great.
