Mel Mason
@melmcreative.bsky.social
Award winning author of words, plays, and theme park magic. Hogwarts Adjunct Professor. MG novel and FIL’s WW2 retrospective in progress. Theatre kid gone rogue. Paper addict & Junk journalist. Tea enthusiast - both literally and figuratively. 🫖
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Mel Mason
@melmcreative.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Easing my way out of academia (MS in Info and Library Science, so data/research is my thing, but that BFA in Theatre performance sneaks in there, too). Still love a deep-dive, but I'm also here for the paranormal and the power of stories. 1/3
Hello friends! Been busy. Podcast launches next week. Would love for you to check it out! What do TikTok hauntings, monster memes, and bedtime stories have in common? They’re all part of the folklore that lives in our feeds. Join us for stories that surprise, unsettle, and connect us. bit.ly/45bZRA3
Lexicons Unbound - Coming Soon
Podcast Episode · Lexicons Unbound: Where Folklore Meets Your Algorithm · S1 Trailer · 1m
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August 2, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Hello friends! Been busy. Podcast launches next week. Would love for you to check it out! What do TikTok hauntings, monster memes, and bedtime stories have in common? They’re all part of the folklore that lives in our feeds. Join us for stories that surprise, unsettle, and connect us. bit.ly/45bZRA3
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I wrote about it!
Once, during a thunderstorm, my dad told me, "I love you in the rain."
It was a common refrain, and something I've always carried with me. My partner and I are always saying, "I love you on a Monday," "I love you in the car," etc.
My some-day board book, I Love You in the Rain ⬇️
Once, during a thunderstorm, my dad told me, "I love you in the rain."
It was a common refrain, and something I've always carried with me. My partner and I are always saying, "I love you on a Monday," "I love you in the car," etc.
My some-day board book, I Love You in the Rain ⬇️
February 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I wrote about it!
Once, during a thunderstorm, my dad told me, "I love you in the rain."
It was a common refrain, and something I've always carried with me. My partner and I are always saying, "I love you on a Monday," "I love you in the car," etc.
My some-day board book, I Love You in the Rain ⬇️
Once, during a thunderstorm, my dad told me, "I love you in the rain."
It was a common refrain, and something I've always carried with me. My partner and I are always saying, "I love you on a Monday," "I love you in the car," etc.
My some-day board book, I Love You in the Rain ⬇️
What is a word or phrase that is part of your family #folklore? Something that was said as a kid, or a mashup of a couple of words, or mispronounced, or completely crafted from new. Maybe a new holiday (ours below - because I ruined his valentines day proposal so we celebrate 2/12 instead!)
February 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
What is a word or phrase that is part of your family #folklore? Something that was said as a kid, or a mashup of a couple of words, or mispronounced, or completely crafted from new. Maybe a new holiday (ours below - because I ruined his valentines day proposal so we celebrate 2/12 instead!)
#pretendpanel #Writers
I didn't have enough confidence to write publicly until I took a technical writing course in grad school. My prof constantly told me to edit, but also praised my prose, if only in a different course, 😁. Imposter syndrome loomed large - a small validation helped tremendously.
I didn't have enough confidence to write publicly until I took a technical writing course in grad school. My prof constantly told me to edit, but also praised my prose, if only in a different course, 😁. Imposter syndrome loomed large - a small validation helped tremendously.
It's #pretendpanel time!
February 8th: Was there anything significant in your life that led you to writing? eg. events, books you read, people - writers, teachers etc
I realise this could get quite involved! I look forward to whatever you say 😊
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 8th: Was there anything significant in your life that led you to writing? eg. events, books you read, people - writers, teachers etc
I realise this could get quite involved! I look forward to whatever you say 😊
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#pretendpanel #Writers
I didn't have enough confidence to write publicly until I took a technical writing course in grad school. My prof constantly told me to edit, but also praised my prose, if only in a different course, 😁. Imposter syndrome loomed large - a small validation helped tremendously.
I didn't have enough confidence to write publicly until I took a technical writing course in grad school. My prof constantly told me to edit, but also praised my prose, if only in a different course, 😁. Imposter syndrome loomed large - a small validation helped tremendously.
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Owning physical media isn’t nostalgia—it’s preservation. Used is fine. Streaming services drop content, digital licenses vanish, and censorship happens. If something matters to you, make sure you own it. A shelf of books doesn’t need an internet connection.
Nostalgic Yet Critical Reminder for 2025: Owning Your Media is Owning Your Freedom | tallgirl6234
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February 7, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Owning physical media isn’t nostalgia—it’s preservation. Used is fine. Streaming services drop content, digital licenses vanish, and censorship happens. If something matters to you, make sure you own it. A shelf of books doesn’t need an internet connection.
My current therapy
After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.
Can Reading Make You Happier?
After the First World War, traumatized soldiers were often prescribed a course of reading.
nyer.cm
February 8, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My current therapy
I try to write to not only be read but to be heard. I inherited that storytelling gene, and combine that with being a voice actor, I read my work out loud for flow. I strive for the narrative to be conversational, too.
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #Storytelling
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #Storytelling
Good evening #pretendpanel! This one comes courtesy of @svrtnsse.bsky.social:
February 2nd: What characterises your voice?
(or should I say 'characterizes' for the Americans? 😜)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 2nd: What characterises your voice?
(or should I say 'characterizes' for the Americans? 😜)
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
February 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I try to write to not only be read but to be heard. I inherited that storytelling gene, and combine that with being a voice actor, I read my work out loud for flow. I strive for the narrative to be conversational, too.
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #Storytelling
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #Storytelling
#pretendpanel February 1st: What's the theme song you come on stage to?
This song is quoted and central to my main character and has a bitchin' electric guitar riff www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgbB...
Alt: All Eyes on Me - Pigeon John
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #YA
This song is quoted and central to my main character and has a bitchin' electric guitar riff www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgbB...
Alt: All Eyes on Me - Pigeon John
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #YA
February 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
#pretendpanel February 1st: What's the theme song you come on stage to?
This song is quoted and central to my main character and has a bitchin' electric guitar riff www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgbB...
Alt: All Eyes on Me - Pigeon John
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #YA
This song is quoted and central to my main character and has a bitchin' electric guitar riff www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgbB...
Alt: All Eyes on Me - Pigeon John
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts #YA
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Tools, tips, and techniques for how to critically read a press release from the federal government. The example? That piece of propaganda from the Department of Education last week.
That, plus an EXTENSIVE roundup of book censorship news this week: bookriot.com/guide-to-cri...
That, plus an EXTENSIVE roundup of book censorship news this week: bookriot.com/guide-to-cri...
How To Critically Read a Press Release From The Federal Government: Book Censorship News, January 31, 2025
Press releases and the coverage of news from the new federal administration requires flexing your information and media literacy skills. Here are some tools, tips, and examples to help.
bookriot.com
January 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Tools, tips, and techniques for how to critically read a press release from the federal government. The example? That piece of propaganda from the Department of Education last week.
That, plus an EXTENSIVE roundup of book censorship news this week: bookriot.com/guide-to-cri...
That, plus an EXTENSIVE roundup of book censorship news this week: bookriot.com/guide-to-cri...
Following a debate on audiobook narration (AI vs. Human) As a narrator & comm studies prof, I have ~opinions~ 😁 Studies indicate that synthetic voices require a higher cognitive load from listeners b/c it lacks what a human voice can encode; imagery & engagement. bit.ly/4jxrn1q
🎧📚 💙📚 #neuroscience
🎧📚 💙📚 #neuroscience
Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect | Request PDF
Request PDF | Synthetic versus human voices in audiobooks: The human emotional intimacy effect | Human voices narrate most audiobooks, but the fast development of speech synthesis technology has enabl...
bit.ly
January 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Following a debate on audiobook narration (AI vs. Human) As a narrator & comm studies prof, I have ~opinions~ 😁 Studies indicate that synthetic voices require a higher cognitive load from listeners b/c it lacks what a human voice can encode; imagery & engagement. bit.ly/4jxrn1q
🎧📚 💙📚 #neuroscience
🎧📚 💙📚 #neuroscience
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. Concentration camps continued to be discovered for many months following. (image from Eisenhower Library) 1/4 #WW2 #Holocaust #History
January 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day – the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945. Concentration camps continued to be discovered for many months following. (image from Eisenhower Library) 1/4 #WW2 #Holocaust #History
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January 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Go check out something. Better yet, check out a book that is on that stupid banned book list. 💙📚 #forourlibraries #readbannedbooks
With new threats to libraries & library workers already materializing, we need all library advocates to show up together.
United in our advocacy for libraries and everyone we serve, we WILL make a difference.
Join us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries. Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
United in our advocacy for libraries and everyone we serve, we WILL make a difference.
Join us and Show Up #ForOurLibraries. Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/01...
January 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Go check out something. Better yet, check out a book that is on that stupid banned book list. 💙📚 #forourlibraries #readbannedbooks
Y'ALL - just got another card from a small library in a neighboring town and they have HOOPLA. How did I not know about this? BINGE Passes?? Boy, when I truly commit to slowing down and making time to curl up with good books or movies the Universe does NOT disappoint! 💙📚 @hoopladigital.bsky.social
January 25, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Y'ALL - just got another card from a small library in a neighboring town and they have HOOPLA. How did I not know about this? BINGE Passes?? Boy, when I truly commit to slowing down and making time to curl up with good books or movies the Universe does NOT disappoint! 💙📚 @hoopladigital.bsky.social
Welp, just filled my #ereader with fun, free #cozymystery books. Fits in with my #hygge promise to myself to cocoon until spring. 💙📚
#CozyMystery #Book Blast! Fill your #ereaders with #freebooks! 💙📚 Mystery lovers rejoice! cozymysterybookclub.com/bookblast/
January 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Welp, just filled my #ereader with fun, free #cozymystery books. Fits in with my #hygge promise to myself to cocoon until spring. 💙📚
I've been listening to this, off and on, a lot over the past week. Lots to process, both settling and unsettling at the same time for me. Therapeutic and beautiful #booksky #amreading #wintering
January 23, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I've been listening to this, off and on, a lot over the past week. Lots to process, both settling and unsettling at the same time for me. Therapeutic and beautiful #booksky #amreading #wintering
Over the holidays I was a Secret Santa on @wikitree.bsky.social So fun helping to solve other's genealogy questions. I got to talk about what I discovered on WikiTree's live YouTube "12 Days of Elfmas" Find out more on the life and times of early film star Phyliss Barry here bit.ly/3E5vp0R
January 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Over the holidays I was a Secret Santa on @wikitree.bsky.social So fun helping to solve other's genealogy questions. I got to talk about what I discovered on WikiTree's live YouTube "12 Days of Elfmas" Find out more on the life and times of early film star Phyliss Barry here bit.ly/3E5vp0R
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Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
Former head of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards has died
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
www.npr.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cecile Richards, the longtime activist for women's rights and former head of Planned Parenthood, died Monday after battling brain cancer.
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While planning your week, consider joining us for Public Domain Day 2025! 🎉🖋️🎶🎞️ We're celebrating works from 1929 entering the Public Domain!
📅 Jan 22
🕙️ 10 AM PT/1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1104135491979
@InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
📅 Jan 22
🕙️ 10 AM PT/1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1104135491979
@InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
Singin' in the Public Domain: Public Domain Day 2025
On January 1, 2025, creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US. Celebrate with us!
www.eventbrite.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
While planning your week, consider joining us for Public Domain Day 2025! 🎉🖋️🎶🎞️ We're celebrating works from 1929 entering the Public Domain!
📅 Jan 22
🕙️ 10 AM PT/1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1104135491979
@InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
📅 Jan 22
🕙️ 10 AM PT/1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1104135491979
@InternetArchive #PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain
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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
December 4, 2024 at 9:23 AM
I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired.
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist
History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them.
Signed,
a physicist