Kimberly Hirsh

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.

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.

📚 Finished reading An Introduction to Media Fan Studies by Lori Morimoto.

A super accessible introduction with helpful paraphrases of jargon-filled pre-fan studies cultural studies scholarship and many new directions for future reads. Highly recommend.

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.

Hey, Internet. I want to get Table of Contents alerts for the Journal of Fandom Studies. My institution doesn’t subscribe, so I can’t set up an alert from a database. Other suggestions?

What’s that? Oh, just a quick pamphlet bind of Lori Morimoto’s An Introduction to Media Fan Studies 📚

💬📚 “‘Pure,’ ideologically unadulterated consumption/fandom may be a possibility, but it’s not what most media fans experience or enact.” Lori Morimoto, An Introduction to Media Fan Studies

I change NaNoWriMo plans a lot. Most recently, I’m planning to write YES, ANDROID, a Star Trek: The Next Generation fanfic where Data recruits most of the bridge crew to join his improv team.

💬📚 “The acafan… is one who is able to occupy the spaces of both fandom and academia and speak authoritatively on both.” A Fan Studies Primer, “Introduction,” edited by Paul Booth and Rebecca Williams