and why does my password never work?????

literally all of them. and there are too many of them.

i got stress-induced shingles in the last months of my PhD. went to university clinic and the staff was super interested because they had only seen it in books, as generally younger people don’t get it.

5. Europe's Disappearing Waste: Unanticipated Conflicts between Removal and Greening by Daniel Sosna (forthcoming, Berghahn Books) × Ashnikko www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SosnaE...

What is an index, and why is it important? An index is a map; it makes the information in books accessible to readers. It gives a sense of the coverage of the book, and whether it contains the information you need. And you can go back after reading to find what you want #IndexDay buff.ly/LMIHOqs

Ask the Indexers: what made you become an indexer? In our first Ask the Indexers post of 2026, we ask the indexers: what initially drew you to indexing, and how did you know it was the right fit? Valeria Padalin

So who are the indexers? We come from a wide variety of backgrounds and bring our professional experience and subject area knowledge to our indexing work. You can read about some of our members’ indexer origin stories in our blog post #IndexDay

this is on my tbr - i might need to move it up!

put this in the louvre

brb learning polish so i can buy this version

4. Black Queer Girlhood on the Musical Theatre Stage by La Donna L. Forsgren (forthcoming, Oxford UP) × Bad Bunny

let me know if you find out, i’ll help claw it back from them

3. Fashion and Literature, edited by Elizabeth M. Sheehan (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press) × Rosalía's Lux (on repeat)

the cover for Filial Lines by Emmy Waldman next to a picture of Sabrina Carpenter onstage in a sparkly outfit

2. Filial Lines: Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, and Comics Form by @emmywaldman.bsky.social (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press) × Sabrina Carpenter

www.cambridge.org/cz/universit...

the way i screamed

Cover for Theatre and Print Culture in the Manner of Jacques Callot featuring a commedia actor, next to an album cover of Japanese heavy metal girl group BABYMETAL.

1. Theatre and Print Culture in the Manner of Jacques Callot by Kyna Hamill (forthcoming from Routledge) + BABYMETAL

www.routledge.com/Theatre-and-...

~ 2026 Indexing Projects Thread ~

Cataloging indexes along with my selected musical accompaniment:

this game rules

We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.

he's just like me for real

"Crucially, she didn’t act in a vacuum. Perkins was empowered by a surging labor movement. That labor power gave her the political capital to humanize the immigration process."

people have FOMO about parties but i have FOMO about homeownership

passport control agents every time i come back to the US: "and where were you visiting? why were you there?"
me: "no, this is the visiting. i'm visiting the US"

read "benoit blanc" at first

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

with what

a what

this post is how i found out there's a new Mummy movie 🙌

i saw someone doing "ethical AI" advising editors to do exactly this on LinkedIn 🫠

bsky.app/profile/astr...

please, i'm begging you, editors of the world, do not use AI to "verify facts"