Fishwick Papers: The "This Newsletter Is Your Son" edition

Good Friday to you!I'm writing to you in between a day of writing and working away at my projects, and a night where I'll be hosting a trivia night, which I'm looking forward to. I'm starting to get a sense for what the next few months will be like and it's all looking quite exciting! More on that soon.In the meantime, there's a new episode of I Get That A Lot with all-round joy Bridie Connell!And in the meantime before that, here are some links to interesting things!

Colourful little blobs

• Wordle is a love story

• The most frequently used emoji of 2021

• Circus and philosophy: teaching Aristotle through juggling

Seeing yourself

• Glance Back: capturing the time between you and your computer

• Why do we call our celebrities our sons?

• The black vanguard in white utopias

Living in old buildings

• Introducing royalcore, the aesthetic taking over TikTok

• The managed destruction of Australia's oldest Faculty of Arts

• From museums' statements of solidarity to transformative action

List of the best video essays of 2021 of the week

• The BFI's list of the best video essays of 2021

And now it is time to end the newsletter. If you enjoy The Fishwick Papers, please consider joining my Patreon to support the making of it, or send a friend to sign up. Please feel free to send interesting things to include, or to share your thoughts on this edition by replying to this email.Until next week,MWAH,jimPS. here's a lovely little bit of writing about cooking