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#SundayReading #BookSky This week in academic reading, I'm a good ways into Matthew Leggatt's Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Specifically, I'm nearing the end of the first two chapters, which look into utopia and play, and utopia's relationship to stasis.

I went through some not-great periods in my 20s, and I honestly think that one of the big factors that kept me from an incel direction was reading book series like this as a kid. Glad to see they're still around. (And the TV series is still missed.)

#BookSky #SundayReading This week, in academic reading, I finished R Lyle Skains' Neverending Stories: The Popular Emergence of Digital Fiction. The book is essentially a map and a history of the digital fiction field.

Just spent about an hour and a half lining my cats’ litter area with plastic. And the main thing I’ve learned from this is that I’d be very bad at setting up a killing room.

Fascinating! Ann Pellegrini explaining the gendered history of microphones.

#SundayReading #BookSky In academic reading, I'm further along R Lyle Skains' Never Ending Stories, which is shaping up to be a survey of digital narrative forms. In the sections I read this week, Skains has discussed webcomics, visual novels, walking sims, and general digital economies.

I was prepping for a date when a glass frame fell, shattering. I tossed my keys down and they hit a soda that exploded. I was late for the date

#SundayReading #BookSky This week, I continued my academic reading with Høeg's edited collection, Literary Theories of Uncertainty. Specifically, I've read the three essays that comprise the book's middle part.

Moralists don't really *have* beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child's toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded.

I just re-read the Fighting Fantasy book Vault of the Vampire, and shoutout to the little fish monster statue in the left corner in the wood golem fight. Gotta love a tiny weirdo.

#SundayReads #BookSky This week, in academic reading, I finished Laboratory Lifestyles: The Construction of Scientific Fictions, a collection of essays edited by Sandra Kaji-O'Grady, Chris L. Smith, and Russell Hughes. It's a collection about the rhetoric around science labs and their construction.

Canada bureau chief of NYT has the same or lower standards of writing than the students in my non-major English classes

I love Patrick Stewart's delivery as Director Bolluck in American Dad.

I really love Signs of the Sojourner. Just the core conceit resonates: that life experiences can change the way you talk/think about the world in ways that can both connect and alienate you from other people, that growing as a person sometimes means changing your relationships with others.

#BookSky #SundayReading This week, for academic reading, I finished Funabmulist Pamphlets vol 9: Science Fiction, edited by Leopold Lambert, published May 2014. It's essentially a series of blog post essays, collected and published (I think).

For my final meal I would request my second last meal, thus creating a logical paradox whereby they would have to free me. (I am assuming they wouldn't kill me while I was hungry.)

#SundayReading #BookSky This week in academic reading, I finished Brian Hisao Onishi and Nathan M. Bell's The Call of the Eco-Weird in Fiction, Films, and Games. Verdict: it's a very strong and varied collection on its subject, and I came away with a long to-read list.

#BookSky #SundayReading I got a long way into this before my computer restarted on me, so... here's the abridged version. I've been reading Call of the Eco-weird, Laboratory Lifestyles, and Funambulist v9 for academic reading.

#SundayReading On the academic side, I've continued my reading of the Eco-Weird book, edited by Onishi and Bell. After a couple of theory-heavy chapters, I was pleased to read a chapter on Garland's film Men by Dawn Keetley.

#SundayReading #BookTalk In academic reading, I finished Amanda Philips' Gamer Trouble, and wow, what an ending! There's a tendency in academic works to make the conclusion perfunctory, but that's not this book. Phillips sums up her thesis, and projects it outwards. I took so many screenshots.

Spotted this on my way home. I think it's a Pokémon, but I have no idea which one. What is this? #MysteryPokemon

Anybody got something bubbling on this topic? I need a replacement essay. Get in touch!

#SundayReading #BookSky In academic reading this week, I'm nearly finished Amanda Philips' Gamer Trouble. She has some very strong critiques of games I remember moderately fondly (mostly Portal and the Mass Effect), and I'm grateful for the ways it's making me revisit and rethink them.

Just wanted some revenge for his pa; But indecision is a famous fatal flaw. I'm talking....

I've been reading every aquaman comic on the DC app and the one constant is that it's about a man in a codependent relationship with an underwater city.

Natalie is great and her books are great!

the hardest part about separating the art from the artist is how i seem to have glued myself to this macaroni picture

#SundayReading #BookSky In academic reading this week, I'm a few more chapters into Amanda Phillips' Gamer Trouble. It's great; I loved the chapter on interfaces and facial depiction in games in relation to race and gender.

#SundayReading I didn't do a ton of reading this week, but I did finish some works I've been plodding through quite a while.

#SundayReading I've got a lot to cover here, as I was ill last week, and read a lot of comics while recovering.

“What’s her game? I guess I’ll have to just keep making out till I figure it out.”

#SundayReading This week, I re-read Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez-Walta's The Vision, for my sci fi class. I've tried other comic combinations of the years for the sci fi class, but I keep coming back to this one; it really gets students talking.

#SundayReads No academic for-class reading this week; we're in Reading Week, so I get a bit of a break.

#SundayReading I tried this once today, and Chrome crashed when I was a good ways into the thread. So let's try the short version again.

#SundayReading Reading for classes this week included the chapter on proposals from Writing in the Sciences, and Becky Chambers' novella, To Be Taught if Fortunate. It worked really well; both my sections of the sci fi class seemed to enjoy it.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Modern and 18th c reproductive technologies Arthurian legend The Faust myth in global literature Multivariate algebraic fields Cyberpunk

#SundayReading this week I did a bunch of reading for my science comm class--John Swales and Katherine Feak's chapter on writing introductions, Frey and Fischer's "Mapping the Ecology of Risk," and Schutz et al.'s "Addressing undergraduate misconceptions about antimicrobial resistance."

Just saw the Testament of Ann Lee at the local theatre. It's a dramatization of the Shakers, the 18th c religious movement. Very intense, more than half a musical, and very worth seeing in theatres.

#SundayReading There's a little bit of a lack of reading done this week, as I was doing a lot of playing instead. Specifically, I got obsessed with finishing the videogame Void Stranger, which is a sokobon (block-pushing) game, with the added wrinkle that you can move and remove floor tiles.

#SundayReading Academically, my reading this week consists of what I assigned the students. First, we've got Purrugganan and Hewitt's "How to Read an Scientific Article," for my Science Communication class.

#SundayReading I've actually got some academic reading to report, as I've been ramping up the prep for the sci fi class next week. Specifically, I've read Mary Bowden's "An Empire of Red Weed: Environmental Infrastructure in H G Wells' The War of the Worlds"...

Top 5 Books I Read in 2025: Kingfisher, The Hollow Places Bierce John The City That Would Eat the World Tchaikovsky, Adrian City of Lost Chances North Ryan, Fenoglio Chris Star Trek: Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way Thin, D (ed) Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror

#SundayReading This week, I took some X-Mas time off, and finally made some headway in reading through a pile of novellas for my sci fi class.

#SundayReading this week, I did some long awaited leisure reading. Most of that was Jay Kristoff’s Empire of the Dawn, book three in his Empire of the Vampire series.

Archie's Madhouse, a 1960s comic series, went to some, uh, interesting places. "Anyway... he missed."

Archie's Madhouse, a 1960s comic series, went to some, uh, interesting places. "Anyway... he missed."

#SundayReading The student grading amped up this week as classes ended, so I've graded about 100+ science reports, posters, and research essays. So, sort of doing academic reading, once again.

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