Credentials, Dan

Professional librarian, armchair everything else. Birmingham apologist and cultural ambassador at large. Co-host, co-founder, and co-creatrepreneur of @thrawnderdome.bsky.social
Joined May 2023
  • People are bringing up all the unfamiliar terms as barriers to reading comprehension and it strikes me that avid reader of science fiction and fantasy I'm accustomed to unfamiliar terms and just rolling with them until I piece together context. Probably makes reading older prose less of a chore!
    • Replying to ryan cooper
      this is a really thoughtful study and response so i'm being intentionally reductive here: it's so funny to make a bunch of 18-20 year olds read this and then wonder why they're having a hard time
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  • I don’t want to see any lazy “deep dish pizza” or “malort” pope posts, you gotta dig deeper than that. Let’s see some “the first pope to put giardiniera on host” or “the Second City alum pope”
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