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Fiona Moore πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022).

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Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays, and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology." A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and in 2023 she won the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction. .. more

Business 31%
Communication & Media Studies 20%
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Updated my calling card again.

Time to share my favourite Christmas advert again. I am old so have no idea who the influencers are, but it's fun, joyful, campy and with a little zing about unpaid labour at holiday time.

youtu.be/ob0oLMhGV9I?...
Boots 2024 Christmas advert with Adjoa Andoh
YouTube video by The Mirror
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I'm quite fond of Solo and The Force Awakens, and of the prequel trilogy I think Revenge of the Sith stands up best (though only if you've seen The Clone Wars as well).

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I just learned about the imminent closure of The Bookshop in Sydney. It's got a significant place in the history of LGBTQIA people in that city where I grew up.

I wrote about the importance of books and bookshops in my life, and how things have changed.

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On Books and Shops that Sell Them
SJ Groenewegen published a post on Ko-fi
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The chances of anything coming to Swansea on Oct 27th are a million to one, they said.

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Do you know how much of the cover price goes to a trad published writer? About 10-15%.

The various types of indie pub get a higher percentage (but have to do more work with virtually zero publicity budget).

How many publishers have been put out of business by piracy? Not a lot. Writers, tho'...

This is how we do festive at my place.

You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who's coming to save you?

(If you haven't seen historical K-drama Mister Sunshine, do not be fooled by their cute appearance. They are both capable of assassinating Japanese officers from 500 yards)

The Clone Wars retroactively redeemed Revenge of the Sith for me: after seeing it, Anakin's tantrum didn't feel unearned, his relationship with Padme felt more fleshed out, the death of Dooku felt more like closure than "who were you again?"

Okay, I will give it a go then. One thing I found with Clone Wars was that after the first three seasons it threw off its MG disguise, so I could believe similar with Rebels.

Watched an episode and wasn't wowed, but maybe I should give it another try.

Every year at Christmas I re-watch the original Star Wars Trilogy plus Rogue One, plus whatever of the rest of it I feel like watching and isn't terrible.

This year, wondering if I should give a TV series a rewatch. Bad Batch? Clone Wars? Mandalorian?

Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Charlie Brown
Eight more days till Charlie Brown
Silver Shamrock
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Charlie Brown.
We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.

O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Charlie Brown.
We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.
Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see, Charlie Brown

100%. Though one thing I *don't* miss is going to the library only to find that the very book you want has been taken out, someone's torn the article you need out of the journal, or someone has accidentally or deliberately misfiled a source...

We'll always have Paris, Charlie Brown.
Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see, Charlie Brown
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown.

This probably describes a few of my friends.
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.

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Where we’re going we won’t need eyes to see, Charlie Brown
I find your lack of faith disturbing, Charlie Brown.
We all float down here, Charlie Brown

Thank you! Will watch some Doctor Who to celebrate both.

Today is my birthday; Doctor Who's birthday; and also the Gotcha Day of this fine fellow here.

One of my favourite talks at Worldcon 2017 was by a Finnish shaman who told us that you should not say the name of the bear, because it would summon it, you should instead use a euphemism like "the honey paw" or "the bone dick."

No, seriously, "the bone dick."
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.

Eh, it's Oxford. Study hard, party hard.

I'm counting the points on the leaves of that "shrubbery" and I think Steve is definitely getting something extra out of smelling it.

Happy Tolkien Knew How 21-Year-Olds Party Day!

Also, part of me does wonder if there were fireworks. Really good fireworks.
In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party

The government will do what they're determined to do, but maybe if enough of them scream at them they'll get the message on this.
UK government consultation alert. Details are in the linked website.
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

I have actually seen people of the opposite sex forcibly invade a bathroom. It was women. One day, on Ryerson campus after a Women's Day march, I saw a group of evidently high/drunk marchers decide, in a fit of high spirits, to occupy the men's room.

No reason to post this. Just thinking about it.

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UK government consultation alert. Details are in the linked website.
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk

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In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party

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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.