Tumblr’s not dead — no! It is aliiiiiiiive!

China has blocked fanfiction site AO3 for Chinese users. The migration of Chinese fans to AO3 was a big story in 2019, with the Archive working hard to accommodate a large volume of new fans. To understand more about the migration patterns of Chinese fandom, read this!

Whatever happened to the tech guy who took a million dollar paycut and raised the minimum salary at his company to $70K?

This is a heartbreaking personal essay about replacing one’s abusive parents with new, better ones.

Asexuality has been described as the first identity the internet created, but it existed long, long before the internet.

Turns out internet trolls aren’t new: The early twentieth century was a banner era for people writing nasty anonymous letters. I did not know this and now understand why in English classes I read several very unsettling mid-century short stories about poison-pen letters.

Here’s what’s happening with Barnes & Noble since James Daunt’s hedge fund took it over.

I follow Alisha Rai on Twitter, and the ongoing saga of the cake pops tweet has been quite wild to witness.

This is a close reading of the prologue of The Secret History, which will surely make you want to reread The Secret History, which you should definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to read about murderous Latin students, rather than coronavirus? (Yes, it would be nice.)

Crispy and crunchy are NOT the same thing, and one of them has a whole-ass industry devoted to making it occur in foods.

A fortnight from now, I promise I will have a more robust links round-up. In the meantime, I hope you will remember to wash your hands upon entering a new location and again just before leaving. If you are sickly, I wish you health and protection by the herd. If you are healthy, it is now your job to protect the sick and vulnerable amongst you, and you must do that by not going on trips and avoiding gatherings and washing your hands for twenty full seconds every time. Thank you for being prosocial!

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All the excuses people give for making shitty racist movies, and why none of them are that convincing. (Clap your hands if you are pleased to see Ghost in the Shell bombing.)

On feminist SF writers and the dystopian worlds they create. And it’s got a hell of a concluding paragraph.

Oliver Sacks’s partner, Bill Hayes, writes with such clear-eyed love and sweetness about Oliver Sacks. It’s not everyone who can write about the person they love as well as this.

Feminist hypocrisy is the new trend in start-up narratives.

I am perennially furious that guys are given such a narrow range of potential gender performance. Boys look great in makeup! Let boys wear makeup, society! Here is a deeply personal and lovely essay about sexuality, gender performance, and Snapchat makeup filters.

Brit Bennett, author of The Mothers (which I liked a lot), talks to The Millions about black stories and having her book adapted for film.

On the myth of the lone wolf terrorist.

This article and then this article on the accuracy of the therapist’s depiction on Big Little Lies has made me 150% more likely to actually watch this show.

Art world scandals are my favorite scandals.

Marvel’s being shitty again, but luckily Gavia Baker-Whitelaw is here to explain what’s going on. Swapna Krishna has some ideas for Marvel to bring in more female readers.

Stephanie Powell Watts on books you love that don’t love you back.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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