Kimberly Hirsh

Turning off Twitter syndication from my blog. Still syndicating to Tumblr (@kimberlyhirsh) & Mastodon (@kimberlyhirsh@indieweb.social).

It really makes me happy to introduce to you Maddie Priebe’s Rainbow Connection Tarot (major arcana only), the most perfect fan artist’s tarot I’ve ever seen. @HistoryMuppet @ToughPigs

I have spent the past 3 hours online shopping for Christmas presents. I have bought ONE gift. But I’ve rejected hundreds, so… Yay?

Guess I better start cross-posting to Instagram more!

Big last day of the WB Bronze nostalgia with all the farewell tweets tonight.

I have a newsletter! It emails you all my posts for the week on Fridays!

The Muppets is (are? I’m sticking with is) my oldest fandom and I cycle away from them but I always come back so hi, time for me to reinvigorate my muppets obsession, welcome. 🐸🪕🌈

Today’s @750words playlist: Music for Writing in a Haunted Mansion curated by Sarah Chavez. 🎵

My first tweet, from December 2, 2008, is super on-brand for me: “QUESTION: What term(s) do academia use to refer to video games?”

Didn’t get any replies but after almost 14 years I can confidently say academia often uses the term “video games.”

You are a creature of flesh. You have all the same bodily needs any wild mammal does.

Want to read: Waterlog: A Swimmers Journey Through Britain by Roger Deakin 📚

Thanks for the rec, @agilelisa!

💬📚 “Those who mother are the sanitation workers of bodies— handling the refuse, the filth and putrescence, living in the stink.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

For Garbes, mothering is a type of care work not reserved exclusively for parents.

💬📚 “I don’t believe care work has to wreck us. This labor can be shared, social, collective—and transformative.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

💬📚 “We give the people we mother our bodies, and what they will recall is our presence and heat, our animal closeness.” Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change

I just backed A Book About the Magic of Foraging Pigments & Making Art on Kickstarter.

A helicopter was just flying low and loud too close to my house and I’m very glad it seems to be gone now.

Dear Kimberly,

I’m just going to jump right in.

Remember E’s cute boyfriend and how you noticed she seems to not be dating him anymore and you think that’s kinda sad? Don’t be sad. YOU’RE MARRIED TO HIM NOW. I mean, you’ll marry him in 2009.

You’ll have a beautiful kid with him in 2016. The kid has long eyelashes and says delightful things. You had him later than you expected but he’s worth the wait, I promise.

Hey guess what neighborhood you live in starting in 2011? W! That’s where rich people live, you say? Well, two things: 1. It’s actually where a broad range of middle class people live and 2. you definitely would think of the household you live in by 2022 as rich. Y’all could eat Lunchables and Fruit Roll-ups and drink Capri Sun Every Day if you wanted to. (But you won’t, it would create way too much trash.)

You have a PhD (2021) and your job is to read, write, and talk to librarians. ON THE INTERNET. I know, right? Pretty sweet gig.

There’s a lot of scary stuff going on in the world right now (2022) - global health stuff, political stuff, war stuff, climate change stuff (that’s what we call global warming right now because it’s more accurate). Also, some family illness stuff. I know that doesn’t feel new, and it’s not, but it’s still a lot.

And yet in spite of those difficulties, on the micro level, your life is AMAZING.

Just wanted to let you know.

Love, Kimberly

Decided to do morning pages over at 750words. It’s not longhand, but it also doesn’t give me hand cramps, so. 🤷‍♀️

So worn out and it’s almost time to start the second shift of my day job (parenting).

Thanks to Ransom on Lower Decks, I now notice every time Riker has his foot up on furniture on TNG. 🖖🏻

🔖 Read Instagram Makes Parents Feel More Clueless Than We Really Are by Elisabeth Sherman (Catapult).

Great piece. Every time I think I’m parenting M wrong, if I just listen to him & follow my intuition, I’ll beat anything influencers can tell me.

🔖 How to Write a Novel (Or Anything, Really) with ADHD

Lots of helpful ideas for people who, like myself, struggle to finish writing long things.

I have a lot of friends, but the circle of friends I think of as my people is much smaller. If I make a list, it’s probably maybe 10 or so people right now, though the circle has porous boundaries.

This morning I sent something Austin Kleon wrote to a friend with the note “This seems like something you’d appreciate.” Sometimes my friends send me things that remind them of me.

Sometimes there’s an obvious reason, like when anyone sends my sister red panda stuff or me mermaid things.

But my favorite times are when it’s about a vibe. That feels to me like accessing the ineffable core of a relationship that I always imagine you can only get at after a very intense initial period of friendship, unless you happen to be friends with a literal horse, in which case it happens instantly because horses just understand you.

There’s a sort of distance that I think makes this kind of thing easier. My dearest friends all live far away. I think it facilitates finding this kind of thing. I want to be in the lookout for more opportunities to do it for my most inner circle, my innest circle? My spouse, my child, my household of origin.

Do your people have vibes that give you shortcuts to letting them know you’re thinking of them?

🔖📚 Read As a Queer Author, I Thought I Had to Come Out Before My Books Did.

Excellent piece about the dangers of outing anyone before they’re ready. Nods to Becky Albertalli & Kit Connor, who both experienced this. 💔

📺💬 On MythicQuest…

Ian: Poppy, lines are so Web1. You don’t wanna be in Web1, do you?

Me: I do! I love Web1!