Matthew Cheney

@melikhovo
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Writer of books from Black Lawrence Press & Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming from Punctum & Third Man. Director of Interdisciplinary Studies, Plymouth State University, New Hampshire.

Interests: #books #film #horror #literature

Academic interests: #queer #modernism #OpenEducation #pedagogy #VirginiaWoolf

Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/matthew_cheney
Websitehttps://matthewcheney.net/

"Mosses were the first plants to blanket the Earth. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are also the last."

#Mosstodon #longreads

https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ancient-green/

Ancient Green – Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer explores worlds made by mosses: beings who remember when rock and leaf first united on Earth’s dry land and when Skywoman first danced atop Turtle’s back.

Emergence Magazine
Thanksgiving from Wampanoag Youth

YouTube

A meme going around: "5 #ShortStory collections to get to know me". I like story collections! I even write them, fool that I am! Thus, I can't resist:

The Wine-Dark Sea by Robert Aickman

If Angels Fight by Richard Bowes

Chekhov's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Ed.)

Driftglass by Samuel Delany

Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf

and at least 50 more

Very interesting paper that finds immersion in gaming culture, rather than in games per se, can lead to toxic outcomes

https://gnet-research.org/2022/11/11/extremist-action-in-digital-gaming-spaces-the-role-of-identity-fusion/

Extremist Action in Digital Gaming Spaces: The Role of Identity Fusion - GNET

GNET

(One has ceased to believe that a public event can be anything other than a horror or disaster.)

Leonard Woolf, Downhill All the Way (1967)

This is the website of the brewery owned by Richard Fierro, the veteran hero who tackled the Colorado Springs gunman. It has been suggested that we could buy out all their merchandise and gift certificates to show our appreciation, and I endorse that suggestion.
https://www.atrevidabeerco.com/
Atrevida Beer Co. Shop

Jess Fierro is the Owner and Head Brewer of Atrevida Beer Company and is challenging the standard definition of craft beer. Jess is the winner of the TV series “Beerland” Season 1, she is designing beers that will entice any beer drinker. Support a Latina, Woman, Veteran, Family Business.

Atrevida Beer Co.
Some years ago, Theodora Goss created this resource of #PublicDomain #Poetry: "Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre." She mentioned it again recently and I returned to it with joy. Perhaps you will, too.
https://poemsofthefantastic.com/
Introduction

Poems of the Fantastic and Macabre

I’m wondering if y’all can help me build a community of trans people of colour on the tag #TransPOC as i miss the wonderful people i knew on a different animal themed app.
After seeing reports of racism and bad moderation I guess i’m just trying to find my people. Boosts very welcome.

#Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA #LGBT #BlackMastodon #Black #POC

What trusted news outlets are on Mastodon? Recommendations?
"Nobody wants to have to hunt down an uncommunicative, off-the-grid executor. It might be whimsical and exciting to start, but it gets old. It’s exhausting and expensive. We — biographers, scholars, editors — are eventually forced to give up and set our sights on other projects, leaving uncommunicative estates to languish."