Finished reading: If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio 📚
🔖 This deep-dive into fans reverse-engineering knitwear like Bernie’s mittens & the fourth Doctor’s scarf sits at the center of a Venn diagram of two of my interests, fandom & textiles. I love it.
🔖 Jess Zimmerman’s latest Dead Channel compares the old Internet to Faerie & tackles what it means to know someone’s handle. It resonated especially with me bc when I recently said “I’m Kiba” to someone I know outside of fandom, she said, “YOU’RE Kiba?”
Got about 500 words written today. Hoping to go faster moving forward. I slept poorly last night and woke up about every 2 hours. I had a pretty good day for such an underslept person.
I’ve been low-key reading all the tie-in comics for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in release order. Most are skippable, but Zombies Assemble is fun. I’m using MCU Reading Order & Marvel Unlimited to help me track them down. 🗯
Want to read: Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee 📚
Making progress on both dissertation & assistantship today. Beginning to feel like I might get this dissertation revised in time after all.
🔖 My granddaddy got his Ed. D. in 1972 and I just found the record for his dissertation in the UF catalog.
Writing that theory chapter…
We went to the NC Museum of Art Park as a family Saturday. It was a really nice change of pace from our usual neighborhood trails & city parks. The park is full of giant art that looks like it belongs in a fantasy movie or video game.
