We are closing in on July, which might be my least favorite month. That or August.
Depending on your part of the world, I hope you’re staying cool or warm! It’s a sweat fest here.
My brother will be back on base after his deployment ends next month, and I’m ready to travel! He’s stationed in Europe and is excited for me to visit. Can’t wait!
Anyway, let’s get into some links, shall we?
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Sue sent us the deetz on this Kickstarter farming sim/visual novel. This ticks a lot of my gaming boxes and I’ll probably wind up backing it! Appreciate you, Sue!
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Love The Bachelor or just Elyse’s recaps? Former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay wrote a piece for Vulture on her experience being the first Black lead, the pressures she faced, and her constant disappointment with the franchise. Really eye opening if you like learning behind the scenes stuff.
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I was absolutely tickled by this.
I demand to know who is responsible for this https://t.co/baPmO8Qdim pic.twitter.com/YqLOzzHorg
— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) June 22, 2021
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If you’re an HBO Max subscriber like I am, you may have received a weird test email last week. Turns out an intern at the company was responsible and Twitter came in with examples of all of their embarrassing mistakes in a sign of solidarity. Very wholesome!
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One woman used only Bridgerton quotes to flirt with men on Tinder and well, the results are what you’d expect.
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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!
Book Riot had an interesting article on things that can cause books to get bad reviews on GR.
https://bookriot.com/bad-goodreads-reviews/amp/
That article on The Bachelor was really fascinating. I remember reading the recaps of that season here and it’s so interesting to get a view of what it was like on the inside.
That eel footage made my day! Underwater biology is absolutely fascinating to me. I’m a diver and have seen many eels underwater but had no idea they could come out of the water to eat.
DC Comics claims “heroes don’t do that” and vetoes a scene showing Batman going down on Catwoman:
https://bookriot.com/what-batman-doesnt-do/
Obviously the powers-that-be at DC Comics haven’t taken any trips to Romancelandia recently. Heroes do a lot of things there.
For those who loved Reading Rainbow growing up, LeVar Burton is doing a Masterclass on Storytelling and how fundamental (hur) stories are to our humanity: https://www.tor.com/2021/06/22/the-power-of-storytelling-masterclass-levar-burton/