Today was a good day to be stuck at the airport due to flight delays - 4 Heated Rivalry fanfics I am subscribed to on AO3 updated in the past 24 hours!

Standing in line at security for my flight out of BWI when I saw signs offering $1000 to families that “self-deport” with advice on how to do so. I feel sick with sadness.

Writing fanfiction is real writing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. It doesn’t have to be “practice” or serious business, and there’s no upper age limit on it. If smashing blorbos together brings you joy, that’s the only reason you need.

#ficwip@ficwip.bsky.social · last wk.

it's been a while since we last did this, so please quote this post & say something encouraging to other writers!

At the poetry night at Backwater Books in Ellicott City, Maryland (USA) tonight. One poet began simply but to great applause: "Gulf of Mexico, Kennedy Center, and Lake Ontario"

I accidentally typed AI toys instead of AI tools, and I anticipate I'm going to be making this mistake a lot now...

I have now received an Anthropic Copyright settlement notice to review my claim. I don't think I am in a position to dispute anything, and receiving this was satisfying on a certain level. I still, however, have no plans to give Anthropic any of my own money ever to use any of its AI tools.

Note to self: Marathon training is a stressor on the body and is always going to feel even harder when stress ramps up elsewhere too, like right before international travel at the beginning of a new academic year when all hell is breaking lose.

As a university professor, I find it fun and endearing to read university AU fanfic. It reminds me of my student days and makes university seem like a fun glamorous place (full of dramatic romance) and not just a place of work and stress.

I am jealous of all the Heated Rivalry fans in Boston tonight!

Heated Rivalry News@hrnews.bsky.social · 2w ago

How would Connor Storie’s #HeatedRivalry character Ilya Rozanov and Hudson Williams’ character Shane Hollander act if they were at Fenway Park tonight? via deadline

The extra worry I have on behalf of my international PhD students right now 😢

One small glimmer of happiness I am enjoying is how much the fun of Heated Rivalry has so easily replaced the bitter disappointment I feel around Harry Potter.

Why young people hate AI even more?

Listening to a tribute to Dolly Parton on NPR. What an inspiring person. I figure I have 27 more years ahead of me to become more like Dolly. That’s a good chunk of time 😊

Tonight’s “teaching L2 reading and writing” class expressed strong mistrust of AI for educational practices. This is probably the most AI skeptical class I have taught, and it includes students who have taken AI-focused courses in their undergraduate studies.

The amount of working artists I've spoken to who are losing or have lost the ability to make a viable career out of it due largely to people's use of genAI instead of hiring artists is genuinely so upsetting. We won't know what we've lost until it's gone.

Seeing a scholar who has previously professed gender critical sentiments all over my feed right now because of prominent work they are doing around literacy is giving me a knot in my stomach.

[Exit Queen.]

When I was a student, international students became some of my closest friends, a few became partners, and many more were integral in shaping my learning and view of the world. Many are still a part of my life! This is a devastating loss for current US universities and domestic students.

Robert Kelchen@robertkelchen.com · 3w ago

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Okay, I laughed too soon. I too am now grieving the loss of Connor’s curls. 😓

UChicago core social science classes go AI-free: “'we first equip students to read, write, and think without dependence on AI, just as we equip students to read, write, and think beyond the bounds of conventional views or leading ideologies,' the memo reads." chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...

Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall

All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...

chicagomaroon.com

I'm sort of enjoying the fandom's collective grief over the loss of Connor's curls. There is less for Shane to yank on now, which is a little sad, but I'm exited for how this change translates in the visual storytelling of The Long Game.

Interesting thread. To absolutely no one’s surprise, Jeffrey Epstein’s good buddy Stephen Pinker has signed, and the letter is being promoted by a prominent member of the anti-trans contingent. Gross, but birds of a feather and all that …

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are dozens of academics signing this open letter to defend the American Eugenicist Nathan Cofnas from the consequences of his own actions. They are calling him a “whistleblower”

I really can’t get over what a rookie mistake it is to look the Government of Canada in the eye and say “We’re gonna need you to piss off Quebec.”

Last weekend at the NY Ren Faire, one of the acts made a joke about the Harry Potter author torching her own reputation to much laughter and applause. I wonder if this is a sign that it’s not just the terminally online who recognize that she’s gone off the deep end.

Reading fanfic for a Canadian show/book that includes events in Montreal means I encounter things that set off a dormant childhood memory. And now I am lost in the past.

Big tech is the 21st century version of big tobacco.

Love this for #AcademicSky #EducationSky! Open Rank Faculty Position at Stanford Graduate School of Education: **Social Sciences/Humanities of Education in a Rapidly Changing World** "We seek applicants attempting to understand the role of education amidst [...] societal transformations"

I love when a popular author uses their wealth and influence in support of literacy and libraries instead of bigotry and harassment. 🏒 🌈 📚

Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky

‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

ctvnews.ca

Physically I’m at the NY Ren Faire, but mentally I’m at the cottage.