I don't have recs (and hope you get some so I can look into them myself!) but I wonder if there is research on this in reader response theory or reception studies? Or in historiographical scholarship on how the discipline of history presents time?

There is always something to be done, and that something makes a difference.

That is what optimism is: choosing to believe that you can continue to make a difference, and doing so, as much as you can.

And that demeaning experience was (is?) built on devaluing of Everything Else. I wasn't Bad at Math and literally teachers *laughed,* like uncontrollable sharp barks of laughter, when I said I was going to major in English because they couldn't fathom doing the humanities if you weren't Bad at Math

There are ample numbers of arrogant bastards interested in the humanities, but trying to make any kind of living in the humanities tends to be an extremely humbling experience in a way that has been far less the case (until, like, last year) for “studying compsci and getting a job in tech”

I loved what I read from this! I should read the whole book--we read what I think is the first section alongside "Whereas" (Long Soldier) and Sheryl Lightfoot's "Settler-State Apologies to Indigenous Peoples: A Normative Framework and Comparative Assessment" as part of a seminar on poetic agency

I wish Christmas wasn’t so oppressively goddamn ubiquitous but also I love Christmas, it fucking rules

Braiding Christianity with Druidry has also made me appreciate it even more

A typo that slipped through the editing stages aside, I am extremely proud of my review of North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher! strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

I can't listen to the song without thinking of

Tales of the Arthurian Knights published by WizKid games is a super fun story-driven Arthurian board game! Also Gerald Morris's Squires' Tales series if stuff for kids is permissible. And the "Arthuriana" issue of Eye to the Telescope for a great into to contemporary Arthurian poems

read and discussed those forms in class, with multiple examples of them and everything. And I don't have a ton of teaching experience, but in addition to being currently a grad student I was an undergrad not *that* long ago; my classmates didn't have this problem even as recently as the later 2010s

I received so many poems that weren't even trying to be sonnets--11, 12, 24 lines long--as opposed to failures to adhere to the rhyme scheme(s) or to make use of a volta. So many poems that didn't even approach the structure for any of the repetitive forms. And both assignments were given *after* we