My Friday the 13ths tend to be good, but I’m getting the results of a COVID test today, which feels very very cursed. Pray for me; I really want to do sister night with my sister tonight, and I very much want to spend some bonding time with my nephew this weekend. I miss him! He is such a good boy! Anyway, let’s have a links round-up! I’m going to start with an article that is partly rather grim about the future of the pandemic, but also reassures us that the pandemic will end someday. This is helpful to me.…
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OMG I am highly blessed and favored, y’all. Literally as I was writing this post, I was complaining internally about the fact that it’s the middle of July and still no second-half-of-2021 book preview from The Millions. I was like, “Forget ‘I love television,’ I’m going to use the subject of this post to bitch about the fact that the lengthy and clearly labor-intensive book preview has not dropped,” and as I was thinking about a pithy way to bitch about that, I opened The Millions to double-check and you will never guess what happened! YES THAT IS RIGHT IT…
Leave a CommentI don’t have any links about 2021 being halfway over, but I just felt like this post should acknowledge it. Like: What the fuck? How? It was March yesterday! But also, the coup attempt was eleventyfinity years ago, so I guess we have confirmed via science that time has not yet resumed being normal. The first of the links in this links round-up pleased me mightily, and then there are some that are a bit sad, and then we close out with some articles about cults, and yes, I do include the world of the Bachelor franchise in that. (Just kidding.)…
Leave a CommentHappy Friday! I’ve got some excellent links about the new HBO series The Underground Railroad, plus some thoughts on *jazz hands* trauma. Cause I am who I am, fundamentally! Barry Jenkins worked hard to avoid sensationalizing and exploiting Black trauma in his adaptation of The Underground Railroad, but the material was difficult nonetheless. A therapist was on set at all times to protect and help the cast and crew. (link) Always read an Alex Brown review! They’re at Tor this week reviewing Barry Jenkins’s new TV adaptation of The Underground Railroad, which handles Black trauma with care and thoughtfulness. (link)…
1 CommentHappy Friday, beloved friends! I bring glad tidings of great joy: Leverage Redemption has released a trailer and told us a release date (July of this year). Between this and Ted Lasso, the summer TV of 2021 is shaping up to really, really be what I deserve out of life. Here‘s the trailer for Leverage. Here‘s the trailer for Ted Lasso. Great. Now we are all on the same page. Two articles about burnout: one here, one here. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a tremendous writer on Black politics, and this profile of her is terrific. (link) Nadya Agrawal talks about what…
1 CommentWell, okay, due to time having no meaning, I admit that now some of these links are a little older, and that is just because time has no meaning and I forgot what alternate Fridays were. Also that it has been very rainy in my neck of the woods lately, which contributes to the feeling that we are living in a timeless placeless uncaring universe. Nevertheless, here are some links! Emma Southon is so great, and she has a new book out about murder in ancient Rome! Here is an excerpt! (link) Social-emotional learning can help kids relate to each…
Leave a CommentLast week I was reading a bunch of things where people said that quarantinaversary was going to be very hard for everyone so we should go easy on ourselves, and I was like, la la la, I’m doing amazing, I’m not even slightly having a hard time, I have escaped the trauma of quarantinaversary. And then this week came along, and my brain now comprises a (1) scrambled egg. Pride goeth before a fall! All of this to say, please be gentle with yourself if you’re having a hard time right now. Here are some links! Gabrielle Bellot writes about…
Leave a CommentWelp! Things are very cold here! And everything is awful! 2021 just won’t stop doing things — in this case, dumping a ton of ice on a bunch of places not structurally equipped to deal with ice or extreme cold! If you would like to be of service, Southwest Louisiana has been absolutely slammed by weather in the past few months, and this is a mutual aid organization that continues to supply aid to people who were hit by Hurricane Laura, and then Hurricane Zeta, and now this ice storm. So now here are some links! What I learned in…
Leave a CommentWell, we have come to the end of another week, and as such we must read some links and think about the world. I am writing this post whilst finally watching WandaVision, and you may expect that my next links round-up will contain lots of links about WandaVision, because I am enjoying it tremendously thus far. Also Teyonah Parris is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. I gasp every time she smiles. Anyway, have some links! “It’s disingenuous to say their race doesn’t matter in this world, when the most prominent and numerous people are white.” On the…
Leave a CommentGuess what I meant to do for several past Fridays! Yes, the answer is “post a links round-up.” So now we have this very belated links round-up but the good news is that it contains lots and lots of genuinely great content, including the first half of the year Millions book preview! Yay! First and most importantly: The Millions Book Preview! (link) Serial killers are in decline, hooray! (link) “Despite the joys of his irreverence, however, it is all too easy to sink in the morass of sexism, if not outright misogyny, muddying the plots of Vonnegut’s novels.” On the…
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