Elizabeth Minkel
@elizabethminkel.bsky.social
Writing about digital communities, books, and fandom. Co-host/editor of Fansplaining & co-curator of The Rec Center ✨
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what do you mean, I love literally having to hit pause and stand up to get closer to the screen, immersive viewing!!
December 1, 2025 at 2:40 AM
what do you mean, I love literally having to hit pause and stand up to get closer to the screen, immersive viewing!!
I've come to actively resent American Pret (we have many in New York, including one that was the closest business to my old office in the World Trade Center) whereas British Pret always makes me go, "...yeah, sure." Very little similarity between the two food-wise imo, though I'm a vegetarian so...
November 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I've come to actively resent American Pret (we have many in New York, including one that was the closest business to my old office in the World Trade Center) whereas British Pret always makes me go, "...yeah, sure." Very little similarity between the two food-wise imo, though I'm a vegetarian so...
(things like "make the dots in A.M. full size between the smallcapped A and M" is very much between Makeup & Foundry—I don't think any of Mary's work touched on that. But she definitely gets at some of the finicky stuff, in addition to being a really wonderful instructor on broader grammar/style)
November 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
(things like "make the dots in A.M. full size between the smallcapped A and M" is very much between Makeup & Foundry—I don't think any of Mary's work touched on that. But she definitely gets at some of the finicky stuff, in addition to being a really wonderful instructor on broader grammar/style)
not that I know of, and I would be surprised if there ever was! I strongly recommend the work of longtime OKer Mary Norris—she did a whole series on the style rules in the 2010s (including videos www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...) and wrote a whole book version too: bookshop.org/p/books/betw...
Comma Queen: The Semicolon; or, Mastering the Giant Comma
Feelings about the semicolon run strong. Its proper use is a hallmark of literacy.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
not that I know of, and I would be surprised if there ever was! I strongly recommend the work of longtime OKer Mary Norris—she did a whole series on the style rules in the 2010s (including videos www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...) and wrote a whole book version too: bookshop.org/p/books/betw...
😇 we did indeed do some vertical readjustments of that nature lol. I also remember a lot of making periods full size in between smallcap letters (e.g., A.M. and P.M.).
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
😇 we did indeed do some vertical readjustments of that nature lol. I also remember a lot of making periods full size in between smallcap letters (e.g., A.M. and P.M.).
I worked in TNY's Makeup Dept (production) for years and you can only DREAM of the finicky things we'd have to do around hyphens and other punctuation in these kinds of cases.
November 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
I worked in TNY's Makeup Dept (production) for years and you can only DREAM of the finicky things we'd have to do around hyphens and other punctuation in these kinds of cases.
well, romance *has* won the algorithm wars, though (see: BookTok especially). It's interesting to me that on a whole, Hollywood is still struggling to understand what to do with it (and treats individual hits as sort of one-off phenomenons rather than something structural they could capitalize on).
November 30, 2025 at 12:08 AM
well, romance *has* won the algorithm wars, though (see: BookTok especially). It's interesting to me that on a whole, Hollywood is still struggling to understand what to do with it (and treats individual hits as sort of one-off phenomenons rather than something structural they could capitalize on).
ha, yes I have noticed this—though I think the pro romance side of this is so massive that *that* feels like the real oversight to me in a lot of this coverage. (But then, judging from some of these reviews going around, romance conventions & readers seem very foreign to these people lol)
November 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM
ha, yes I have noticed this—though I think the pro romance side of this is so massive that *that* feels like the real oversight to me in a lot of this coverage. (But then, judging from some of these reviews going around, romance conventions & readers seem very foreign to these people lol)
Well, hockey RPF predates CP and has significantly more fic (and famously is a place tons of non-RPF fic writers have passed through) so I don’t think you can solely credit CP for broader fandom’s interest in stories about hockey players! (Setting aside the entire romance subgenre, too…)
November 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Well, hockey RPF predates CP and has significantly more fic (and famously is a place tons of non-RPF fic writers have passed through) so I don’t think you can solely credit CP for broader fandom’s interest in stories about hockey players! (Setting aside the entire romance subgenre, too…)