Fishwick Papers: The "Ship Infidelity" edition

Evening, squire!I'm writing to you as we (hopefully) near the end of a two-week lockdown here in Kirikiroa. Now obviously this is very short in terms of other city's lockdowns, but it came at quite the annoying time of 'two days before I was supposed to go to Wellington for the improv festival I'm helping put on'. Ah well. I've made a lot of bread, watched a lot of quiz shows, gotten some writing done, and had a lovely garden to sit in. I'm relatively very lucky.While I think of it, one thing I did recently was to host an online panel about improv, with a range of wonderful people from around Asia. You can find the video here, or find out more about the next one (October 30) here!But for now! To links:

Being Real Online

• Your favourite TikTok account might be fictional

• How come inane questions are everywhere on Facebook?

• Shitposting killed the meme account star

Describing Images

• How to write an image description

• The origins of Gothic Romance book covers

• Gretchen Andrews uses SEO to hyptonise Google

Within and Without

• The most popular design thinking strategy is BS

• A reflection on Big and Small arts orginisations

• In defence of the meaty tuck

Collections

• Things women in literature have died from

• An hour and a half of parody romance blurbs

• 36 Western shootouts lined up by the first gunshot

Rejected Bond Theme Of The Week

• Spectre by Adam Buxton

Well, it's about time for dinner so I need to go. 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. Your submissions of nifty-ish things that you've found, not to mention your thoughts on any of the links contained in this missive, are also more than welcome: simply reply to this email.Have a delightful weekend, don't forget to have some water,MWAHjim x