There's a lot of good worldbuilding dripped across it all in kernels though, it gets pretty freaky at times, and I think some of the people who love it despite its flaws (vs ignoring them) stay for the mythos

In terms of writing quality, the first book is the worst of them, just assessing prose alone. The fetishistic gender dynamics and misogyny that the whole thing is steeped in never leave though. That's part of why the show being cancelled sucked, it did a lot to address that.

I shall travel the world, unfucking your spreadsheets

I don't want money I just want my thoughts seen

✋my institution uses coverage as widely as possible, fwiw

It sounds amazing and important, for the record

Let me talk about problems in the work while being funny

What matters is that I have two separate projects right now where data is lying to me in two separate places (embedded photo metadata and the Evil Spreadsheet) and it's so, so funny

And it would be really neat if there weren't stigmas around organizing like that, if we could adopt some sort of convention from the romance languages to avoid assigning blame, because honestly that part doesn't matter

I feel like every working archivist could successfully get on TikTok and show off how bizarre the work is easily, the hard part is that the work is bizarre because someone, at some point, be they ex coworker or donor, organized things BADLY

Coworker heard me groaning at my desk and immediately said "You looking at that dang spreadsheet again?"

What will he dream about