Fishwick Papers: the "Cop Car gets Pooped On by a Pterodactyl" edition

Good afternoon and Happy New Year!I hope Things are treating you kindly, given their unparallelled ability to Thing all over the Thing. I'm starting the year with a few weeks of finishing off projects, and having a bit of a creative retreat time before everything starts back up at full steam in a few months. Maybe.Before we get to the paper proper, I have some quick things I would like to tell you about that have come out in the last month!Firstly, my podcast I Get That A Lot has started its second season! Each episode someone tells us about the annoying jokes other people make about their name. The first two episodes this season feature James Colley and Mimosa Shah, and can be found in all your favourite pod places.Secondly, I've been a fan of the reporting over at polygon dot com for many years, and I'm very excited to have my first article there, about how Hobbiton has impacted the nearby town of Matamata.Finally, in case you missed it, at the each year I put out a wordplay quiz, of punny and reasonably nerdy clues, which this year all point to Agatha Christie novels. It's a bit of fun to be solved on the couch with your friends and family. You can get just this year's here, or you can get all of them (pay what you want) here. 

Interpersonal Relationships

• The Art of the Boyfriend 'Soft Launch'

• A missing work that could have changed videogames entirely

• My friend's life was ruined (for a while) by a kitchen makeover show

International Relationships

• Why museum professionals need to talk about Black Panther

• Shein beats Amazon at their own game

• Manifest: tracking supply chains

Intertextual Relationships

• Dinosaurs in the Hood by Danez Smith

• Have we forgotten how to read critically?

• Pokemon and the first wave of digital nostalgia

Industrial Relationships

• The battle for Bungie's soul: a studio searching for a better culture

• The legislation that failed to stop sex trafficking

• The cult of the middleman

Darcy of the week

• 65 years of Mr Darcy proposing

There we are, that'll do for now. I'll send you another missive in a few weeks, but in the meantime, if you enjoy The Fishwick Papers, please consider joining my Patreon to support the making of it, or simply spread the word and send a friend to sign up.Stay safe, keep at it, tell someone you love them,I love you!jim x