this sale ends tomorrow!

this of course is because it's about feels and not a rational, considered position. see ch5 of: press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

And it wouldn't even lead to lower prices at the pump! Here's the legendary @pkrugman.bsky.social writing in 2000.

Bluesky comments coming to life for this…

Humanities kids graduating:

Shame Southwest Airlines stopped their "Wanna Get Away" ad campaign, because this would be a perfect addition.

of all the semesters to miss graduation, and not be there live for this!

Surely they've suffered enough?

Members made this possible. Collective action requires the collective. Whether MLA, AHA, or another society, please join, engage, and participate. Together, we can accomplish some pretty amazing things.

I'm working on the Interdisciplinary Teaching course @melstanfill.bsky.social and I start next week. Everything is in markdown & lives on GitHub. The API might not be back for me to push it to Canvas anytime soon, but I'm glad I have everything stored externally. anastasiasalter.net/Interdiscipl...

the journalists using fandom as a lens on politics talk to a single fan studies scholar challenge is still impossibly difficult, i see.

It’s absolute horses out there innit, blimey

curious how fans feel about generative AI? my article, “AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts, is out now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Actually pretty illuminating that Republicans have built an image of Trump in their heads where he's shaped like Rambo and everybody else in the country realizes he's a feeble old man who exclusively eats fast food.

I love the old “professors can’t speak plainly” trope because it ignores the fact that professors spend their days grabbing the attentions of hung over teens who are looking at their phones. We know how to bring our level of discourse down to the lowest rungs of humanity!!!

A Portrait of the Auteur as Fanboy: The Construction of Authorship in Transmedia Franchises is **56% off** through May 15 (the discount shows up when you put it in your cart). a good chance to grab it if you've been considering! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/A/A-Po...

is anybody seeing use of AI voice generation for podfic? obviously it would be contested if it happened given overall fandom feelings about AI, but is anybody doing it?

my book, Translating hell, in a nutshell:

Yep, I’m *that* Professor Bridget Kies 😉

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

The Transformative Works and Cultures website will be down on Thursday, April 30, 2026, from 10am Eastern to 1pm Eastern as the Online Journal System (OJS) completes scheduled maintenance. We thank you for your patience during this time.

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Oh book club scammers, I wish you were real. You say such nice things about my books.

T&T faculty member @melstanfill.bsky.social recently published " The Fanfiction Gold Rush 2.0: After/AI." Take a look! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Did you publish an article in TWC from 2023-26? We're seeking entries for the Fans of Color Prize, which recognizes peer-reviewed research about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the preceding 3 years. There's a $500 cash prize! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...

Survey Participants Needed! Fanfiction Writers, Fanfiction Readers, Fans, Fandom enthusiasts ucf.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (@fanstudies.bsky.social @scmsfaas.bsky.social can i get a boost for this student's research solicitation?)

I have seen one good example of this plate

now with 100% more page, volume, and issue numbers:

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Well it’s official: Starting August 8 I will hold the rank of Professor.

Someone sent me this.

Yeah, this is kind of terrible. Even if you dislike genAI, you do not want to kill remix culture, which is already circumscribed and limited under our current regime, which is already comically biased towards rightsholders in the very vast majority of cases.

Hey #scms26, are YOU a Professor Superstar? Come see me for a ribbon!

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this panelist saying "late 1900s" instead of "late twentieth century" is giving me timeline vertigo. #scms26

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

ok y'all, i am officially teaching graduate #FanStudies in the fall. what do you feel like are the best books/articles published in recent years? bonus: what are the best pieces published specifically by grad students, to teach the last week?

WHO TAUGHT THEM HOW TO DRIVE

#TWC's issue 47 on Gaming Fandom is out! Read more at otw-news.org/ystt4tr6.

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

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Whanne þe madness of Marche haþ perced to þe roote

T&T alum Mark Kretzschmar and faculty member @melstanfill.bsky.social recently published "The politics of credit in remix of Japanese popular culture: Between '“an 80's Japanese disco floor' and 'this remix is worthy of the actual game.'" Check it out! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

this continues to be my favorite routine typo

Transformative work of the day, I bless the rains edition

In these trying times, it is incumbent upon us to innovate our initiatives.

ahead of Professor Superstar publishing this week, i have a blog post, up now: "What Can Fan Studies Teach Us About Attacks on Higher Education?" press.umich.edu/Blog/2026/03...

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?