Dr. Rose Bridges (she/her)

Absolutely wild time to have been doing a conference in Washington, DC about nationalism, btw

PowerPoint slide on "1960s British Rock Reception in Japan" (title), featuring bullet point text on left and images of The Beatles (in concert in Tokyo, 1966) and Japanese rock group The Spiders on the right. Bullet points are: British Invasion had a vibrant fandom from early on in Japan – and continues to this day The Beatles’ concert at the Budokan (1966) “Group sounds” musical genre Later genres influenced by 1960s sounds (Shibuya-kei) Resonances of British-Invasion-style rock music in anime and manga

Did IASPM-US this past weekend in DC. It's fun when you get to combine the primary and secondary research interests!

Will be talking more about Britishness and music through a Japanese lens in my paper at Music and the Moving Image (in NYC in May), focused on Pokemon Sword and Shield

Spock and Kirk.

I was joking with @trickthetm.bsky.social that the first slash pairing was *also* a Canadian/American dyad, just reversed dynamics! I will say though one can directly draw a parallel in that TOS also took a "It's all about the characters" ethos in a sea of procedurals and westerns.

Get my man some Icy-Hot
#Pokemon30

With Stargaze airing, a decades-old truism returned with full force: Yasuhiro Nightow is/was catholic & that is the source of some Trigun imagery.

This claim's been thrown around all sorts of web spaces, once bolstered by Wikipedia. But digging for sources reveals it a mere illusion.

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

I was hoping Kaori Sakamoto would finally get her Olympic gold medal yesterday, but Alysa Liu was having so much fun out there on the ice and her joy and manic energy deserved that top spot. So confident and dynamic and FUN. If you watch any figure skating from these Olympics, make it her free

A bookstore shelf showcasing the top selling books. Several titles from Rachel Reid’s Game Changers series are displayed prominently, and it is clear people have been buying them based on the stock relative to other books

Even Oxford, Mississippi can’t get enough of Heated Rivalry! 🏳️‍🌈🏒

(Square Books rules, well worth a stop if you’re ever in the area)

I went into my Azumanga Daioh Blu-Rays and ripped The Thing. You're welcome.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Happy Lunar New Year to all my fellow Horses! 🐴

There’s no President Barack Obama without Jesse Jackson. It just doesn’t happen.

Yes,,, your boy has taken a ride in the 4 man bobsled,,, but im an adrenaline junkie and needed to try skeleton. And now I’ve officially joined the team and am gonna try to start competing.

66 years old going 66 mph.

This Polish-American musicologist is flying back to school with her plush pieróg (pierogi is plural!) stuffed in the luggage and ready to go on display in the office, just in time to teach about Chopin tomorrow

And far less of what you say here about the invasive speculation on Heated Rivalry actors' own sexualities or the way they're imposing this narrative on female hockey players who are openly queer! Not that anyone should have to deal with toxic fandom, but it shows where people's priorities are

I really appreciated this article and how it shows the impact toxic fandom can have on a LOT of people. There's been an air to mainstream coverage of "these weird (largely queer) girls are HARMING straight conservative male hockey players and their good Christian wives" that really doesn't sit right

These are the LGBTQ athletes on Team USA in Milan - Outsports Team USA features at least 8 out LGBTQ athletes competing at the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics, representing five sports.

Lesbian Heated Rivalry wouldn’t work because they’d all be out and married by the end of the first season/book. www.outsports.com/2026/2/5/241...

Oh god, I haven't actually done that, but I bet it's infuriating in that special way that "imperialistic thinking by continental-Europeans that thinks it's actually progressive anti-USA thinking" is

a cartoon of a toaster with a face on it is plugged into an outlet . ALT: a cartoon of a toaster with a face on it is plugged into an outlet .

I would say my friendship with @composerose.bsky.social is based on the fact that one of her papers was on the OST to The Brave Little Toaster, which is objectively the best Disney movie.

Also she's a doctor which is cool too, I guess.

-Cricket is from and remains very popular in the UK, that's why I said "multiple European countries" - this is more about how continental Europe feels about it

-LA Olympics will have both of these sports, but they remain temporary ones that each country can choose or not to host. That's the issue!

I live in Oxford and that's the pronunciation they use for Tupelo

It doesn't matter that baseball is popular across North and South America and East Asia, or cricket in the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa and the Caribbean - and that all of this vastly outnumbers the population of Europe. What matters is how France and Germany and Norway feel about it

It is kind of funny how many winter Olympic sports are only big in like 3 European countries, but baseball and cricket are considered "not global enough" to qualify as permanent summer sports. IOC needs to admit their idea of "global" is just "do multiple European countries like this"

thank goodness it's finally Meat Day

Facebook and various private Discords. also Tumblr, but I think you follow me there already and I'm not interested in giving my Tumblr out here since i prefer to keep it anonymous

I realized I never posted here, but just in case anyone is following me here who isn't on other platforms, I got out of Oxford, MS on Monday. I'm staying with family in another state until school resumes on the 9th. My apartment in Oxford still does not have power! It's a crazy situation.

It’s too cold in NY even for penguins. The Long Island Aquarium brought 20 penguins indoors due to frigid temperatures. South African black-footed penguins prefer milder weather, so when temperatures drop below 30 degrees, they’re moved inside. (ABC News)

this one is especially encouraging because too few Dems have even been willing to acknowledge the all out Republican assault on higher education; going this hard on reversing the attacks on UVA immediately is extremely nice to see

The faux “poll observers” here are also, I’m guessing, largely suburban and exurban white people who have been trained to be existentially afraid of the city of Detroit since birth (having grown up there, I know the type)

"Worse than Bush after Katrina" is a polling benchmark that I thought that partisan polarization had made impossible