Kimberly Hirsh

Finished reading: Snowbound with the CEO by Shannon Stacey 📚

Sweet, short. Stacey wastes no time in making things steamy, but leaves plenty to the imagination.

Seeing Scott Thompson as the French (Canadian?) hotel front of house manager in Snowbound for Christmas is a fun surprise. 🍿

🍿 Watched Snowbound for Christmas (on Amazon Prime). Based on the book Snowbound with the CEO. A lot of changes from the book. Cute enough, though.

🍿 Watched Back to Christmas. Jennifer Elise Cox steals the show. I was hoping Michael Muhney (Sheriff Lamb on Veronica Mars) would get to play someone nice but no luck. If you like these kind of movies, this one is inoffensive.

📚 Went to the library to pick up my hold on I Dream of Dinner (so You Don’t Have To): Low-Effort, High-Reward Recipes and Nona the Ninth was waiting for me on the shelf beside it. 😍

🔖 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.

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.

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

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. 🎭🎵

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!

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.

🔖Read Attention Economy, Layered Publics, and Research Ethics Kristina Busse / University of South Alabama – Flow

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.

🔖 Read Stuart Hall and the Rise of Cultural Studies | The New Yorker.

🔖 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.