Nothing’s Fine I’m Tom

"The Signs as Cultural Theorists" is finally up on Playback! Check out the beautiful fruits of my finals mania. playback.wisc.edu/2019/12/18/the…

NEW CALL FOR PAPERS! The Velvet Light Trap issue 96 Theme: Continuity and Change in Media Representation Deadline: September 20th, 2024

@thechristinet @utmengdrama Congrats!

Contract fully loaded ... Next week, I officially start my first faculty job as the LTA Assistant Professor of Game Studies at @utmengdrama for 2024-25! 🥳 Supreme gratitude to the many, MANY mentors & friends who leveled me up along the way ❤️‍🔥🎮🎓🧑‍🏫

@Harris216 For sure I will DM you

@ThomasCWelch hey Thomas, I saw your article "Love you Bro" on how Twitch streamers perform masculinity. Think you can bless me with a pdf?

@its_vee_zee You should!

@its_vee_zee 🙌🏻

@theiceberge @ois_ualberta Oh my gosh congratulations!

Look at this cute drawing of our panel that @angel_trazo did! #SCMS24

.@ThomasCWelch : Work is the Play of Childhood: The Audience Commodity & Identity on Neopets #scms24

@rustyhatchell Haha I’ll give you the spark notes version later

If anyone is at SCMS today, I’ll be presenting on Neopets and the Audience commodity in 30 minutes for Panel B16: Datafied Identity! #SCMS24

@Ian_McK_ I would recommend Heavenly Bodies by Richard Dyer, specifically the chapter on gay men and Judy Garland 😌

friday night

@a_priyd Catallena an all time classic 😤 Honestly that whole AKMU album is 🔥and it’s a video album but I think that video is most what you’re looking for probably

@a_priyd Also, I have taught Twice - Cheer Up when teaching my students about genre because they use very classically-obvious signifiers

@a_priyd Brown Eyes Girls - Abracadabra, AKMU - Hey Kid Close Your Eyes, Orange Caramel - Catallena, Red Velvet - Peek-a-Boo or Russian Roulette, Sunmi - Noir, Heize - MIANHAE, 2ne1 - come back home, (G)-Idle - Nude, Stella Jang - Villain, Exid - up and down or Ah Yeah

@dr_vee_zee What was your favorite? Mine was Jessie Ware and she got nothing 😩

@johnpaulstadler A hero

@Sierra_OffLine Congratulations!

@dr_vee_zee No it was bananas. We barely made our plane. Stretched all the way through baggage claim.

Let’s goooooooo