First it was so hot that I couldn't fall asleep, and then when I finally did the cat did everything in his power to wake me back up again. During the hour or so of actually passing out, I dreamed of trying to review the semi-recent film of an Austen novel that doesn't exist. It was called Patience and was traditionally viewed as a companion piece to Persuasion, which in this history had not been a posthumous publication. The film was one of the famous ones from the '90's that I was trying to catch up with ahead of the new adaptation. I needed to be so much more functional today than I am. Have some links.
1. Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has put out an open call for submissions from marginalized reviewers and fans specifically. "For the last five decades, most of the scholarship and criticism on Lovecraft and Mythos fiction, and most of the relayed experiences of being a fan, writer, or scholar in the Lovecraftian milieu, have been from white, male, cisgender, heterosexual, abled, Christian, and American viewpoints. What I'd like is other perspectives."
2. Courtesy of![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
reconditarmonia: fanart for Utopia, Limited. There's a fair amount in the artist's collection. I wasn't expecting it, either. I'm just charmed.
3. Courtesy ofhandful_ofdust: cultivating reading attention, like any other ability. "you may have to set goals so small they seem silly. you may have to brainstorm and testrun concentration mechanisms that are odd . . . i have faith in you."
4. I took a quiz about haunting classical sites and got Istanbul:
Or is it Constantinople? This city has seen so many identities, you barely keep track; it suits you that way. Carrying in your breast that ancient flame, you are not bound by one person, but your ghost shifts according to the situation. Very, very sexy.
I was expecting something a little more archaic, but you know what, I'll take it. [edit] Out of curiosity, I re-ran the quiz, changed one answer (not the cursed scenario, that's still Catullus on Facebook, although I think Catullus on Twitter would be truly cursed), and got the Pnyx, which is sort of the exact opposite.
5. I don't feel called out by this tweet, I just hadn't realized it was endemic to the profession. Then again, see above.
I made a life decision and clicked on the AO3 tag for Frank Wildhorn's Rudolf and I can't read most of it, but insofar as you can have a juggernaut ship in a fandom the size of a shoebox it looks like Rudolf/Taaffe with some Mary/Taaffe for good measure and I couldn't stop laughing.
1. Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein has put out an open call for submissions from marginalized reviewers and fans specifically. "For the last five decades, most of the scholarship and criticism on Lovecraft and Mythos fiction, and most of the relayed experiences of being a fan, writer, or scholar in the Lovecraftian milieu, have been from white, male, cisgender, heterosexual, abled, Christian, and American viewpoints. What I'd like is other perspectives."
2. Courtesy of
reconditarmonia: fanart for Utopia, Limited. There's a fair amount in the artist's collection. I wasn't expecting it, either. I'm just charmed.3. Courtesy of
handful_ofdust: cultivating reading attention, like any other ability. "you may have to set goals so small they seem silly. you may have to brainstorm and testrun concentration mechanisms that are odd . . . i have faith in you."4. I took a quiz about haunting classical sites and got Istanbul:
Or is it Constantinople? This city has seen so many identities, you barely keep track; it suits you that way. Carrying in your breast that ancient flame, you are not bound by one person, but your ghost shifts according to the situation. Very, very sexy.
I was expecting something a little more archaic, but you know what, I'll take it. [edit] Out of curiosity, I re-ran the quiz, changed one answer (not the cursed scenario, that's still Catullus on Facebook, although I think Catullus on Twitter would be truly cursed), and got the Pnyx, which is sort of the exact opposite.
5. I don't feel called out by this tweet, I just hadn't realized it was endemic to the profession. Then again, see above.
I made a life decision and clicked on the AO3 tag for Frank Wildhorn's Rudolf and I can't read most of it, but insofar as you can have a juggernaut ship in a fandom the size of a shoebox it looks like Rudolf/Taaffe with some Mary/Taaffe for good measure and I couldn't stop laughing.
