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💬📚 “As a double major in creative writing and advanced melancholia, Eva had accidentally stumbled upon this life.” Tia Williams, Seven Days in June

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So relatable.

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Finished reading: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros 📚

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🔖📚 Read In Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility You Can Be “Demure and Brat All at Once” by Samantha Silva (Literary Hub)

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In the Dashwood family and in my family, it sometimes feels like the older sister feels like she has to be Sense so she can hold space for the younger sister to be Sensibility.

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@patrickrhone I know you know this, but you have a very cool kid.

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@patrickrhone Beatrix’s dress is amazing!

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💬📚 “It’s easy to take one’s own enthusiasms for granted; it’s much harder to explain them.” Mary Beard, Talking Classics

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@patrickrhone Congratulations to her and to you and Bethany!

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Keeping an eye on news about Pride displays coming down in my local library and getting ready to show up at whatever meetings I need to. I have limited physical capacity for in-person activism but I will Show Up for Libraries.

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More grief today learning of the loss of Anthony Stewart Head. I met him at a con once. It was probably the summer of 2003. He was so generous with his time, chatting with a couple of us from the official Buffy posting board until his handler shooed us because a line had formed. He hugged me before I left...

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@amit So cool!

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💬📚 “I love the days when my body cooperates.” Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

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The Wayback Machine has a robust archive of Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega’s website. One of my first thoughts was how important it was to preserve the writing he did about doing research. I’m glad the Internet Archive has it.

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I am devastated by the death of Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, an incredibly generous scholar who impacted my research process for years. If, like me, you always want details in the midst of your grief, Periódico Correo has them but be warned that it involves violence.

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🎮 I’ve been thinking about why Celeste feels better to me (as in, more pleasant to play) than Animal Well does, and the reason is simple: in Celeste, when you die, you go back to your starting point on the same screen where you died. In Animal Well, you go back to a save point.

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@stinapag.bsky.social 💗 Darin Morgan 💗 My favorite is Humbug.

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Angry/frustrated over the insurance situation with the school library. I don’t often get very angry. I am at present so angry that none of the things that would normally make me feel better even sound worthwhile.

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@cygnoir Bless you for your work.

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@amit What is a blog for if not to work out your own thinking? Keep the verbosity.

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Finished reading: The Lost World A Novel by Michael Crichton 📚

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It’s fascinating to me that Crichton wrote this at Spielberg’s behest, but the movie is so very different from this. Only a few scenes and characters from this are in it.

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@jsonbecker These people are so frustrating because they are both bigoted AND misunderstand the diversity of the ancient Mediterranean.

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@cherizilla ce certain âge

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@cherizilla Je suis une femme d’un certain âge.

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@hollie I hate when I experience these and I kind of just want to always be hermiting these days.

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@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social “Part of me has clearly never left this era, just as Boomers still have the 1960s living inside of them.” Me too.

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My romanticized nostalgic childhood summer replay: kimberlyhirsh.com

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Finished reading: Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton 📚

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A great time and at its most interesting in the places where the movie departed from it.

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💬📚📝 “I offer up the idea of the safety of a sentence for you right now, the possibility of a place to put yourself, to put your heart. A place to rest for a while from these feverish days.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words

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💬📚📝 “How do I cut through all the constant buzzing around me and capture the simple truths? With the slash of a sentence.” Jami Attenberg, 1000 Words

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🔮📚💬 “You don’t need to push or clear away your humanness to sit with the numinous.” Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul.

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🔮📚💬 Lindsay Mack, Tarot for the Wild Soul:

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…the Tarot cannot reliably tell us when something will end or how something will turn out. It doesn’t consistently fix, heal, or tell us precisely what will happen or when it will happen. But it can be medicine in the face of deep pain. It can help us come home to and stay with ourselves, no matter what might be arising.

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I’m doing a couple of qualitative action research projects at work and, as one does in qual research, have collected a huge amount of data (mostly student work samples) and now have to figure out how to analyze it. 📓

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🔖📚📝 Read A Deaf Manifesto on Motherhood (Electric Literature).

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A great interview with Sara Nović about her book Mother Tongue, parenting, and writing.

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I didn’t publicly mark the fifth anniversary of my dissertation defense back in April because things were so busy. Dr. Katy Peplin is celebrating 10 years of having a PhD and wrote a great blog post about ten things she’s learned in ten years of having her PhD.

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Quick note on Jurassic Park and university research: kimberlyhirsh.com

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Finished reading: The Long Game by Rachel Reid 📚

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Like literally everyone, I adore Ilya Rozanov. Depression rep here really resonated with me.

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@hollie Well now I feel lucky that I tend to hang out in the 2-5 range.

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@brie You’re really tempting me with this to become a person who tries all the ereaders.

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Finished reading: Role Model by Rachel Reid 📚

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When the siren song of goblin mode calls, I aspire to run the opposite direction and end up in goblin king mode: wearing tight pants, covered in glitter, walking around inside MC Escher’s art.

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@deanleetal.bsky.social I’ve liked all of them so far. The fun is catching the allusions.

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@patrickrhone I could have written a similar history.

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@patrickrhone I love this! But that’s no surprise, as I consistently love Derek’s writing.

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@adactio I love that book so much!

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@dwalbert I think if I came home to this, I would say, “Okay Ermengarde, I see you’re using the space so I will go back out and return later.”

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@manton so much smoking!

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@hollie My f-i-l recently was distraught that after a medical event, he scored average for his age on executive function when he scored above average on everything else. I told him, “Hey, I know plenty of people who do okay with limited executive function!”

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@hollie C) B but instead of mailing and apologizing, put in a specific spot, then make a note in my calendar ahead of her NEXT birthday of where I put it, 50/50 chance whether it’s still in that spot when I get the calendar reminder.

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@chrisfoley If you like life/farm sims, Pokopia is the most fun one I’ve tried. If you’re not a fan of the genre, it might not be for you.

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@heyitswhitney.bsky.social We ARE the same!

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@heyitswhitney.bsky.social Grab yourself some fantastical farm sims and we will be.

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