About the project

Unintended Readings is a blog of thoughts, specifically the sorts of thoughts that would struggle to find their place in any other forum. Theories, stories, arguments, etc, often exist within a single realm, as they are meant to be. In those realms, a common language and culture exists, and from that commonality, progress can be made.

However, in this little corner of the internet, I can have a little fun, jumping over fences and making bridges where they potentially should not exist and when it’s definitely what any author intended.

All academic disciplines and all popular releases are fair game here, folks. I just want to push some boundaries.

Release Schedule

At this juncture, there will be at least one post a month, but given the nature of this project, I can make no further guarantees than that.

Content Warning/Is This Content Appropriate for Kids?

I mean… If you know kids that enjoy dense academic material, then power to you, but I don’t think this will be appealing in broad terms. That is to say, I recognize the existence of outliers to norms, but I like my odds in betting that no child would be willing to sit through the content of this website.

In more specific terms that are actually at the heart of this question unwisely worded, insofar as there needs to be a content warning, it would vary from piece to piece. Consequently, pieces will start with any relevant warnings. Reader discretion would then be advised.

Affiliate Link Disclosure:

No entry on this website is or will ever be sponsored, and this entire project is self-funded.

The links to where you can purchase these books are not provided to generate sales for me. They are not affiliate links, and I recognize that it would be possible for me to get an Amazon affiliate link in order to make some money off of this website.

However, I know two things to be true about myself and potentially about other people. One, if I hear about a really good or interesting book I will want to acquire it, and two, I like things to be as easy as possible.

To that end, I have included links to the various books included in this blog that can be purchased through—and this might be the point that is of most interest to you—my favorite bookstore of all time: the Seminary Co-op in Chicago, IL. It was the bookstore that made Chicago feel like home. But more than that, their staff is amazing, and while they have one of the largest collections of academic books, they’ll work to get you want you are interested in on the off chance they don’t have it. And in 2019, the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, Inc. became the country’s first not-for-profit bookstores. Way better than the… place that shall not be named, if you ask me.

Marcilena (MJ) Bailey is a Chicago-based content creator and podcaster with roots extending far beyond the city and two cats that love causing chaos more than they love her work.

MJ turned to podcasting in 2018 as an outlet for her love of writing and her interest in acting: the former she had been doing since she was a small child and the latter she admired from afar. However, Unintended Readings is meant to fill a lingering void in this arrangement. There are thoughts that don’t fit anywhere else, so why not make a blog for them? Or that’s what she was inclined to think. When she’s not pondering the human experience or crafting tales based in Filipino folklore, she works as a typical (if not overly efficient) administrator in a nonprofit.

As the head of Miscellany Media Studios, she is the showrunner and sole talent for shows like The Oracle of Dusk, Aishi Online, Temporal Light, and The Mountain’s Heart.

Find her on Twitter @oracleofdusk, Instagram @oracleofdusk or the Miscellany Media Studios website - miscellanymedia.online