Emily

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Impoverished spinster. Mediocrities everywhere, I absolve you. | Frances Anderson on @nomgpodcast.bsky.social (She/her)

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We are trying to organize the office at work this week, and today included hours of opening crates to discover caches of small plastic animals. It also included opening a box to discover a single plastic orca that was A FOOT AND A HALF LONG. Wonders all around us!!

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Libraries are dynamic institutions. A library without staff is not a library, but a building with some static collections in it. Library workers make libraries! They do all of the work to manage & build resources, provide services to connect people to what they seek, maintain infrastructures! 📚📜

A library is more than its collections or physical spaces. It’s the people who make the library a robust site of inquiry and discovery. For shame

Every now and then, I yell internally “SPOROS MUST DEEPEN” and have a lot of feelings.

Am I more proud of the story we made for @nomgpodcast.bsky.social, or the fact that it could inspire a Spock reaction gif? Por que no los dos?

Well, that's my heart absolutely broken into a million pieces after the season finale of @nomgpodcast.bsky.social's "Cassilda's Song, Chapter 4." It's going to take a while to recover, I think.

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John is right, this is fucking amazing and I demand a recount.

The Bulwer-Lytton Awards for Worst Opening Paragraph went out and, man, I totally disagree. This opener is hilarious.

I love everything about this essay, including loving Farscape.

I love Farscape so much I am now trying to make the case that it will save you from despair in election season -- which, in fairness, it totally will my latest for @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/watching-far...

Burn! Down! The Pedestals!

I debated whether to post my thoughts on Neil Gaiman & something involving him that I experienced 5 years ago--a professional experience that infuriated me (nothing like recent allegations). But I thought... power differentials are a thing. So I wrote this. burner-account.ghost.io/a-burn-it-do...

A Burn It Down video extravaganza, and thoughts on Neil Gaiman, creative gods, American Gods and rotten pedestalsburner-account.ghost.io Hello! Chicago folks, on Wednesday, Aug. 14 at 7 p.m., I’ll be in conversation with my friend Steve Darnall at The Book Cellar in Chicago. The occasion is the reissue of Uncle Sam, a brilliant graph...

So many books I waited months and months for all came out in the last few weeks and fam, I do not have the time and it’s killing me softly!!!

I am currently watching It, which I have never seen nor read before, and I am going to need to know why these children keep ALLOWING themselves to be separated and then scared to pieces! Have! A! Sleepover!! Use! The! Buddy System!!

Was not expecting the erotic charge in the Olympic track and field commentators’ remarks as soon as they saw a shot of the discus racks.

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The Dickin Medal is the highest award that can be issued to animals in British military service. Bearing the words "We Also Serve" it has been awarded 75 times since its creation in 1943. Only one cat has ever received the award. This is the story of Able Seacat Simon, of HMS Amethyst. 🧵 1/25

Truly only capable of doing maybe three big things a day during the worst summer heat, and although we didn’t break 100F here today, I can already tell I am donezo for the rest of the day.

Nine is such a weirdo musical!!

I don’t say much about the church part of my church job for many reasons, but I subbed in at a different denomination today and boy howdy. It felt like coming out of a dark room and into such a warm and welcoming one. OOF LET’S NOT PROCESS THAT ONE, FRIENDS, I’m back at my regular church next week!

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No. Either embrace Death Of The Artist, and the fact they've been exposed as shitty doesn't matter to you to enjoy the work, OR forsake the work. Don't engage in sophistry with the works you like, pretending they weren't involved, so you can skate by on some sort of moral technicality.

No one should be surprised that the first Olympic event I’m watching live is an equestrian one.

A king, a gargoyle, and a pretty lady walk out of a museum and into the end of their story together.

SEASON FINALE: As our latest chapter of “Cassilda’s Song” by @robindlaws.bsky.social comes to a close, the art students finally reach the palace, and the masquerade. What choices will they make concerning their future? Listen now! #rpg #actualplay #kinginyellow podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

It's important to really dig into how the world of publishing works and how they interact with The Horrors.

NEW EPISODE: As the art students get closer and closer to the palace, they must come face to face with the decisions that got them there in the first place. Listen now as our current chapter of “Cassilda’s Song” by @robindlaws.bsky.social nears its conclusion! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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In Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, the dystopian timeline begins Saturday, July 20, 2024. Tomorrow.

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This is very last minute but I’m looking for data on mystery novel sales in the 1920s and 1930s: how much shelf space did they take up at bookstores, how many were sold annually, how much money did the sales produce? I know I’ve seen it before but I can’t find it.

[Redacted] and the terrible horrible no good very bad day.

NEW EPISODE: The art students find themselves facing more danger than they've yet encountered, and need to look for help anywhere they can find it as our playthrough of “Cassilda’s Song” by @robindlaws.bsky.social continues! Listen now! #rpg #actualplay podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

My game night got canceled, and so I carried out my favorite summer tradition of watching random older movies I’ve somehow not seen before. Tonight’s feature: The Abyss.

Just ate a truly great nectarine, which brought me right back to an excellent joke in Peter David’s TNG novel Q-in-Law, the same as it has since I was a teenager. If you didn’t know, PAD has been recovering from gnarly medical issues for a long time, and still needs help. gofund.me/e1ac3cb0

Peter David Fund, organized by Graham Murphygofund.me Hi, everyone. I'm fundraising for author Peter David and his family. He's had some compounded health pr… Graham Murphy needs your support for Peter David Fund

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If dispelling doom for the sake of dispelling doom does not appeal to you, perhaps try dispelling doom out of spite, is what I’m saying.

If it’s not helpful to you, by all means ignore this, but I’m just saying… It really helps me to recenter myself to think “Oh right. The worst fucking people on the planet want me to feel like we’re doomed. Fuck those guys, actually.”

OH MY GOD I GOTTA GOOO

Is there anything less helpful than a memory as vague as, “I stood right here once and listened to a song and it was an incredible song and I have no idea what song it was”?

Come further up, come further in!

NEW EPISODE: The art students start to explore the city, and find themselves trapped in a world full of horrors as our playthrough of Cassilda’s Song” by @robindlaws.bsky.social continues. Listen now! #rpg #actualplay #kinginyellow podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬

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proving love sometimes means takin a risk. i mean EXISTING is just about the biggest risk there is. but dang what a reward to sit here for a moment and breathe the air and see the stars. what an adventure

It’s a jolly holiday in Carcosa!

NEW EPISODE: Along the shore the cloud waves break, / The twin suns sink beneath the lake, / The shadows lengthen / In Carcosa. Listen now as our playthrough of “Cassilda’s Song” by @robindlaws.bsky.social continues! #rpg #actualplay #kinginyellow podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...