Such excellent analysis (and fandom historical context)! also this is where I am right now, but back in regular non HR fandom

✨ new 'stack ✨ i establish Heated Rivalry as a prototypical Toxic Airborne Fujo Event, or perhaps a fandom version of the pluribus disease: 👉 tchotchke.substack.com/p/the-toxic-...

thank you allegra! this is very good. the latest round of "what's a slash?" coverage due to HR has been driving me steadily nuts

another great essay from someone who Gets It

and as always allegra is right!!!!

Very few, if any, of the Heated Rivalry takes out there have this important point in the screenshot below, and I'm so glad its out there.

would anyone care to peruse my Thoughts On Yaoi™ ? great i knew you would. anyway here's why Heated Rivalry blew up and i'm right and everyone else is wrong tchotchke.substack.com/p/everyone-i...

These are the kinds of things that make @terrorcamp.bsky.social such a joy to be involved with. Thank you to everyone who attended, presented, made a poster or shared art, and helped organize, especially the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social! Can't wait to do it again next year

So happy to be nerding out at @terrorcamp.bsky.social 🤓 A rare and wonderful space where academic inquiry meets fan convention energy. Great to be with people across the world who are brilliantly, obsessively in love with polar exploration like me 😆 #polarexploration #terrorcamp #conference #fandom

"What if there was an event—online, like all events still were at that point—that combined the best elements of an academic conference and a fan convention?" - @tchotchke.bsky.social on the origins of @terrorcamp.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t... #envhist #polarstudies #popculture

What a pleasure to moderate this conversation. Takeaways: joy, naivety/approaching your work like an amateur, integrity - all sit at the foundation of creative work that lasts in a world designed to make it seem disposable.

TODAY’S THE DAY! ❄️🤩🎉 We can’t wait to kick off Terror Camp V today, starting at 9:00am PST / 12:00pm EST / 6:00pm CET. You should have received a link to join the conference via Eventbrite email — let us know if you have any problems, and we’ll help!

This weekend is the next iteration of Terror Camp, a free online conference for polar exploration enthusiasts, which has the highest level of intellectual content and hilarity I have ever encountered: www.terror.camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social

Anyway. There's still good stuff about the Internet. At @terrorcamp.bsky.social on Sunday, I'll be chatting with Edward Berger (The Terror, Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) & Florian Hofmeister (The Terror, Tár, True Detective). Have questions, check out the link in my last Re-post.

"Terror Camp Clear" by @tchotchke.bsky.social of @terrorcamp.bsky.social is the eleventh and final post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/12/01/t... #envhist #envhum

Did you know? You can help support Terror Camp by paying for a conference ticket or donating at any time! Here's everything your support helps us do—from Zoom licenses to charity donations: terror.camp/so/75PgE5vmu...

new article on AO! about the HOT NEW TREND ON TIKTOK, memes about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," just in time for the 50-year anniversary of the disaster www.atlasobscura.com/articles/edm...

📣 SATURDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Inside Amundsen's House with Anders Bache! Step inside the historic home of Roald Amundsen, as curator Anders Bache invites us on an exclusive tour of his amazing recent discoveries. 🤩 ❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

📣 FRIDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Careers in Polar Humanities! Interested in becoming a professional polar obsessive? Join us as we hear from five incredible experts working across the field of polar humanities. ❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

Time for @terrorcamp.bsky.social at Shackleton Autumn School, kicking off with the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social ❄️🐧

📣 TERROR CAMP V PROGRAM ANNOUNCED! Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam... We’re thrilled to bring you a fantastic line-up of presentations for Terror Camp V, from deep dives into Inuit texts and polar history to queer naval fiction & scurvy. Find out what we've got in store! 🤩

i just wish more people knew about the race to the north pole of 1909

Full house tonight at South Street Seaport Museum for talks on queer polar and maritime history with @tchotchke.bsky.social @evamolinaflores.bsky.social and Seth Stein LeJacq! ❄️⚓️🌈

I'm guest hosting @walthickey.bsky.social's Numlock News today! Read on for a numerical roundup of stories about the internet, fashion, literature, the Fringe, basically a lot of very on-brand fare: www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...

Web links and websites disappear all the time. But Google’s planned erasure of millions of links at once demonstrates the risks of putting our personal and collective digital histories in Big Tech’s hands. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... via @shiraovide.bsky.social

New from me on @sherwood.news: Wattpad is full of fanfiction and they want you to know it! sherwood.news/culture/fand...

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

thank you to my mom for digging out a tom lehrer LP and sending me this insanely hilarious bio… rip to the 🐐

I would take a course on “how to win arguments against opinionated men at parties when you know you’re right but are easily intimidated by the other person being loud and dismissive” is this a thing that is offered anywhere

New tchotchke about how being good at admin has possibly ruined my chances of being an artist: tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...

📢 This is your one week reminder!📢 Our FREE talk on queer polar history at the South Street Seaport Museum in NYC takes place in one week! Get your RSVP in now 🤩🌈❄️

let out a very happy sound at the sight of @hesterblum.bsky.social cited in this book about early 20th century female film fangirls ... MY INTERESTS !!!

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

I'm on the @atlasobscura.com PODCAST today chatting about IVAN THE TERRA BUS !!! open.spotify.com/episode/0RXg...

writing the second draft of this book is really like this

subscribe to my substack ... i will be posting more often ...!!!

the use of the word "cured" here... "cured of the desire to watch any more episodes"...

Lander: "It's just gross, racist bigotry. Meanwhile he's running an optimistic, upbeat campaign for a NY where everybody belongs, and I feel proud as the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in NYC to be supporting somebody who would be the first Muslim mayor—what could be more NYC than that?"

once you’ve realized you need to wash your hair it’s already too late. trying to complete any kind of focused work while aware of unwashed hair is a fool’s errand. this is the leading cause of frantic 3pm showers in curly haired women

subletting my room in ridgewood for AUGUST please let me know if you would like to live here !!!! it’s nice !!!!! mutuals or friends-of-mutuals preferred :)

new TCHOTCHKE — about wishing, uselessly, that my phone was not only gone but perhaps never existed at all: tchotchke.substack.com/p/tchotchke-...

Wrote about Zohran, edgy podcasts, “problematic men,” and how I yearn for a world where political discourse looked and felt more like our group chats.

More on the death of US science

i would like it a lot of zohran did whatever it takes to keep lander involved with the campaign. ride a tandem bike with him in your ads man this is great stuff

permission to lib out being ceremonially granted in group chats across the city tonight

my mom was like "wasn't zohran the fortune teller in big that makes tom hanks an adult" and i had to be like mom that's zoltar.

this weather is a conspiracy to make me stay in and work on my book

i want to start blogging again but i don't really want to do it on substack but also i have like 700 subscribers on there and a long-running bad habit of ditching platforms right when my following actually becomes meaningful...

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all... i have written about the history of the controversial SLOP BOWL for AO! read it while you eat your lunch !!!!