WetheHums/On Holiday

A rotation curation account for all aspects of the humanities. On its annual break until September. For press enquiries: @academicjess, @krisreadsbooks

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@MillerLyndsay [Admin] We're on annual break until Sept but if you want s/thing signal-boosting our DMs are open. Fancy curating? https://t.co/cgWt5GubnT

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[Admin] We're keen to amplify people who are marginalised in their fields/industries/communities; if you can help spread the word, thanks!

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[Admin] And if you've got more to say than one tweet, sign up to a weekly curator here: https://t.co/cgWt5GubnT

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[Admin] If you think the WtH community would be interested send it our way!

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@MillerLyndsay [Admin] Whether it's an article, your fave summer read, something you've made, or a twitter rant, pass it our way for summer-sharing.

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[Admin] Huge thanks to @MillerLyndsay for taking us into our annual break with a fabby week full of superheroes, Nabokov and binge-watching.

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@TheMedievalDrK @MillerLyndsay They are the nicest, sweetest, most placid dogs! ❤️❤️❤️

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@TheMedievalDrK @MillerLyndsay Comment of the week! Until I met these little gentlemen, I thought greyhounds = lurchers and whippets = Italian greyhounds.So much to learn!

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@MillerLyndsay (what do you say folks, one last whippet photo for the sweet souvenir?) 🐶

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If you've enjoyed our discussions, then follow me @MillerLyndsay. For now, though, goodbye & goodnight! 👋🏻😴🌘

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@GlowNetflix It's been a pleasure & privilege to share the week with you all! Thank you @AcademicJess & @krisreadsbooks for the opportunity ❤️

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Now, I have to confess - I can't finish @glownetflix tonight.I'm exhausted. But! I will finish it tomo by replying here from my own account.

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That, for me, is the importance of the types of storytelling we've considered - social/new media, transmedia storyworlds, streaming services

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our interests-research/otherwise.There's an immediacy that connects all parts of the stories we tell&consume,&that connect us to each other.

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Well, IMO, they let us use 21st century media in resourceful, interesting ways to continue to create, shape & share our lives & stories,

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@GlowNetflix (yes, still using that as a verb - can't stop won't stop)

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@GlowNetflix binge-watching. What can we tell about our own humanity from them? And how do they affect the Humanities, & the way that we all 'humanity'?

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@GlowNetflix All week we've been asking & discussing impacts & implications of modes & mediums of storytelling, from Twitter threads to the #MCU to

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@GlowNetflix But the presentation of people - women people, no less! - who feel authentic is @GlowNetflix's greatest strength IMO.

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@GlowNetflix the writing and making of a tv show? ✔️ characters who create their own roles and then perform them? ✔️ the Nabokov scholar in me is 100% 😍