Janet Brennan Croft

Or waken a Balrog.

as a person who knows that banishing evil spirits by swearing at them is a common thing in multiple Slavic traditions, i am DELIGHTED by this tip

About 915,000 of those downloads were from Mythlore.

There will be more to come from the Mythopoeic Society's official social media steward, but: today, our content at dc.swosu.edu/mythsoc/ hit ONE MILLION DOWNLOADS! Woot!

I keep remembering how the first thing an abuser does is cut you off from friends and family. This feels like the global political version of that on an unimaginable scale.

LC published a tentative list to change #LCSH Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America & Mt Denali to Mt McKinley. Comments on the proposed changes can be sent to listcomments@loc.gov by Tues. February 18, 2025 (which is TODAY). If you oppose the change, please email! #critcat (classweb.org/tentative-su...

Love it: "This Court should restore constitutional order and ... declare that his actions to date are ultra vires and of no legal effect."

Go to your room, young man, and think about what you've done. :)

Work in healthcare?

Come to a country that still values freedom, diversity, and science.

IF YOU HAVE QUEER and TRANS friends in healthcare, get them to apply immediately!

don’t treat people like crap.

unless you want to treat them like *we* treat crap, with the transformative care, respect, and service-oriented attention it deserves.

The Contrarian.

Those are great!

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The seminar proceedings for MythSoc's "Something Mighty Queer" online conference are up. Some great reading here! Lots on Tolkien, but also papers on Our Flag Means Death, Star Wars, intersectionality, queer theology, and more! dc.swosu.edu/mythpro/vol2...

Alt text: Photo of a rectangular postage stamp, blue on white. An arrow pierces an atom, superimposed on a silhouette of the state of Oklahoma. Text reads: 1907 * Arrows to Atoms * 1957. 50th Anniversary of Oklahoma Statehood. 3 cents United States Postage.

No -- from the Hunnewells -- but I think thy knew I HAD lived there.

Cool old stamp that came on one of our Christmas cards! Someone was clearing out their stamp hoard.

Since I don't work as a cataloger anymore, I didn't think I'd ever need to consult the Homosaurus controlled vocabulary list -- but it's coming in really handy for creating appropriate new entries for the Mythlore Index Plus for the papers from the "Something Mighty Queer" seminar.

It's one of those that pays revisiting. I was imagining what a really brilliant illustrator could do with it. And wondering if I could persuade a Charles Williams scholar to write a piece digging out the Arthuriad influences.

The distinction between emotion and analysis is an excellent one.

Flowchart of human history:

1. Suffer incredible hardship.
2. Amazing science and hard work fixes hardship.
3. Everything is much better for about 50 years.
4. Nobody remembers hardship anymore.
5. Solution to hardship now considered unnecessary.
6. GOTO 1.

Sounds wonderful!!

I've often said that letting your money do your thinking for you is deeply stupid. Money just wants to be more money as quickly as possible, without any thought for sustainability, let alone morality.

From the @sarahkendzior.bsky.social book that started this website.

On the nose!

Oh boy! That book needs to be reviewed in Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+. I'm the book review editor -- drop me a line at janet.croft@uni.edu

Imagination Grows a Better World: Courage, Creativity, and Fantastic Futures Our field is requiring ever more courage from us as we face challenges to our bedrock beliefs in free access to information and the value of diverse viewpoints, of representation of different ways of ...

I haven't been very active here on Bluesky -- I was never very active on the former place either. But one thing I DID do there was post when I put something new up on Academia. This was my talk to to the OK ACRL librarians a few days after the election: www.academia.edu/125387596/Im...

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Geeze, I try to go on Facebook to crow about having my one meeting for the day cancelled, and Facebook is down.

Ah, not just me then.