November 4, 2022
🔖 Read #AcademicTwitter Will Endure—for Now.
If you’re at an institution that provides hosted blogging, you could microblog there, pipe the feed into micro.blog, & then syndicate to Twitter. Let me know if a tutorial for this would be helpful.
November 3, 2022
As I eagerly await Linda Holmes’s inevitable holiday TV movie round up, I have used her previous ones to curate a list of 33 new-to-me movies available on services I already have.
November 2, 2022
I will remember 2022 as the year I wanted to do everything, actually did some things, and felt like I did nothing.
Big Luisa Energy today and I don’t like it.
Give it to your sister, it doesn’t hurt, and
See if she can handle every family burden
Watch as she buckles and bends but never breaks
November 1, 2022
The world is full of writing challenges in November, and it’s rough because I want to do them all. Might try my usual method of attempting everything and seeing what sticks.
Still in the prep stages for this month’s writing projects. I created a reversible notebook to hold workbooks for both.
Now that I’m trained in human subjects research I find myself siding with the Board of Governors in Jekyll & Hyde. 🎭🎵
October 31, 2022
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.
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.
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.
One last fic prompt from when M was 3: Spider-Man and Michelangelo team up to defeat Dormammu.
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The Gothic novel to Broadway musical pipeline 🖤
Happy Halloween from Hilda and Twig!
October 29, 2022
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.
October 28, 2022
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 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.
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.
October 27, 2022
Me, watching the Lower Decks finale after finally finishing watching “Time’s Arrow, Part 2”: Is Buenamigo’s cigar hand-rolled or replicated? 🖖🏻
🔖 Read On Disliking Mad Men | Just TV.
It’s worth considering the role of fandom within media scholarship, not as a separate object of analysis… but as a structuring facet of academic research.
🔖 Read When is a Publication Not a Publication? | Just TV.
The thing that “counts” as a line on a CV is slow-moving and comparatively hard to access, while that which clearly is getting broadly read and cited is viewed as an optional hobby.
🔖 Read Against Aca-Fandom | Ian Bogost.
Specialty humanities conferences are just fan conventions with more strangely-dressed attendees.
🔖 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.
🔖 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.