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Dr. Emily Friedman@friede.bsky.social |
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Storyteller about storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
Associate Professor of English.
Words at Polygon, LA Review of Books, & more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performances)
www.ecfriedman.com
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Thanks to folks who checked in on my family: as of now all but my parents have power restored (they are safe). Given that I have dozens of kin in Beryl's path (to say nothing of the wider communities of care) I feel very lucky. But too many are facing this infrastructural disaster without support.
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Anne Trubek
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If Brandon Taylor can shift the dumbest dumb dumb discourse about “art and artist” with essays like this what a mercy that would be blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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I’d say they are for sure.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Tagging @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social on this one!
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Dr. Jennifer Grouling (she/her)
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Is there a particular name for the genre of storytelling games that includes a card element like Dialect, Quiet Year, and Alice is Missing? @friede.bsky.social
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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The TTRPG Scent Engine on KS would seem to be the space where my last research & my current overlap, and yet I’m somehow ambivalent (probably *because* of my past research, to be fair)
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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As I curse a drawer onto its tracks, I pause to thank the universe for the poor bastards who get some variant of Snarly, Snarky Em periodically pinging their phones.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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I love you so much.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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MANU
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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As I beat my head against my book, I keep thinking about the important distinction between one’s audience (which can include a wide variety of perspectives) & something more intimate: the panel of opinions that matter most. And one’s conscience, however that applies.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Solidarity! And UGH
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Nope, just don’t have a distributor that can get them the game.
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Jonathan Dresner
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Administrators have outsourced survey classes in critical core fields that elevate the college experience from job training.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Another semester, another note that a game I’d like students to buy cannot be ordered by the bookstore. While I buy a ton & folks kindly donate PDFs (or books/boxes) for my teaching library, I want my colleagues & I to be able to assign (affordable) games & get that $ to makers!
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Accept
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Eileen Clancy
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The white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell is working with a background check company, HireRight, to scrutinize job applicants' participation in anti-Israel protests. They will scour social media as well as recordings of public appearances for statements they deem “triggering” to Jews. Gift link!
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Kevin Gannon
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I'm reading memos and letters to the university community from presidents who are implementing draconian budget cuts this year (for a project I'm working on) and good god the amount of obfuscatory and weasel-wordy business-speak in these things is making me grind my teeth into dust
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Ryan Cordell
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As I turn my attention to planning a fall graduate “Introduction to Digital Humanities” class, what DH scholarship published in the past 3-4 years would you insist should be included on such a syllabus?
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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I talk a lot about the careful way Critical Role (as company & as collective of individuals) negotiates boundaries & privacy — it’s an extraordinarily delicate balance.
This is … astonishing, & leads with an important call to action worth amplifying: get the HPV vaccine.
youtu.be/caRT9xzddxY?...
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Keegan Lannon
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One of the most inspired decisions the faculty union at UIC made was to include all faculty--tenured, tenure-track, non-tenured and contingent--in the same Union. In the last contract negotiation, all faculty saw improvements in working conditions. When we went on strike, we went together.
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Association for Scottish Literature
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Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, & the Scottish Gothic Tradition
5 Sept, Edinburgh – free
Dr Emily Alder & Prof Daniel Cook look at how Frankenstein & the Gothic permeate Scottish literature to this day, from the JUSTIFIED SINNER and JEKYLL & HYDE to POOR THINGS
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/treasures-...
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Micah Bateman
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honestly this should be distributed day one of an American studies course
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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My father is helping me negotiate and compare options to replace my a/c while in the middle of a hurricane-induced power outage. (Though to be fair my mother ended our in-the-weeds debate by incisively stating the salient facts, so kudos all around)
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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This thread is solid, nuanced context for the early publication history/afterlife of Frankenstein. (I mean, we could quibble over the status of the novel in the early 19C, but it’s fair to say it was a genre in flux, & critics were actively working to canonize some kinds of fiction over others)
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Manisha Sinha
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For all those on the path of Hurricane Beryl, Project 2025 would eliminate the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Spoke too soon — power now out.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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A few more hours left to go, but my parents still have power and no damage, and I cannot ask for much more.
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Claire Willett
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for those who were following along with this conversation, Amy is heroically running point on a research/writing/design project to build social media shareable graphics to educate the uninformed persuadable voter about Project 2025. sign up here if you want to share your skills!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
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One of the reasons TA work is sometimes (AND OFTEN NOT) repetitive lower-skilled tasks is bc these are training tasks for early career scholars. If we automate them and eliminate the positions associated with them, we are explicitly gutting the future of these fields.
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Saeed Jones
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*files nails*
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Zamira Rahim
@zamirarahim.bsky.social
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'Sometimes things don't go, after all, from bad to worse' Thinking a lot about this poem today.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Thinking of you loads and hoping it’s the drier, slower probability.
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Steve Silberman
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My God, this is the best poem I've read in months. "When My Daughter Tells Me I was Never Punk," by Jessica Walsh. (Sorry the alt text doesn't go all the way to the end, but you can find the poem online.)
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Watching the map for Beryl, and braced for a long night of worry for my family & my hometown.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.
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David M. Perry
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Yes, this. But also two weeks ago this outcome seemed unlikely. We have time. Not infinite time and our system is more unwieldy. But time.
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Jodie Troutman
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News out of France today and England earlier is demonstrating that most people, it turns out, aren't very into fascism. Which is a comforting thought.
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G. Willow Wilson
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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.
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Crystal Lee
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i cackled
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Sardonicus
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'Cellulose nitrate was used to make dice from the late 1860s until the mid twentieth century, and remains stable for decades. Nitric acid is released in a process called outgassing. The dice cleave, crumble, and then implode.' Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck by Ricky Jay and Rosamond Purcell
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Iron Spike
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Being invisible won't help, no. We don't live in a meritocracy. Extremely talented individuals who do zero marketing aren't elegant mysteries, they're just invisible.
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Justin Hendrix
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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Tobias S. Buckell
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Hello social medias...
You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique.
The devastation is tremendous. The need is great.
You can help and make a difference:
www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...
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Laura Brady
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How the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/a...
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Chuck Tingle
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proving love sometimes means takin a risk. i mean EXISTING is just about the biggest risk there is. but dang what a reward to sit here for a moment and breathe the air and see the stars. what an adventure
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bijan
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all the culture you liked from decades past was made possible by cheap rent and artists' pay keeping up with what things cost
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Laura Seay
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Arkansas, y'all.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
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Solidarity! 🫂
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Sticky Doodler
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If you were waiting for the perfect moment to create that lyric game based on Wingspan, this is it!
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