Reading Wednesday 7/12
Dec. 7th, 2022 10:01 pmI said I'd try to post more here, especially links and just general keeping in touch posts. I'm not very good at sticking to that sort of resolution, but anyway.
Right now I've had a potential Covid exposure, I'm testing negative so far but feeling pessimistic. It's my "fault" in that I took a trip and did some higher risk activities than I normally would, particularly eating indoors when it was around freezing outside and dark and foggy. The person I travelled with is unpleasantly ill, so I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. I still don't understand how anyone thinks living like this is preferable to the alternative of actually having public health measures.
Anyway, recently read (locally):Elon and the virgin by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
siderea. It's a very cool mashup between Elon Musk snark and Mediaeval religious folklore as expressed through early music.
lannamichaels has no cultural context for a situation where dating gives you social cachet and benefits and has written some lovely meta about the fake dating trope.
rushthatspeaks is always brilliant, and has written on porn as a genre.
Also sorcyress and silveradept, among the most engaging and interesting writers in my circle, are doing some cool December Days series, on dice and adjectives respectively. Worth a look.
Currently reading: Theoretically Netwon's cannon by Greg Keyes, in reality I may DNF. It's a very cool alt-history setting where the world actually works according to Newton's esoteric theories about things like alchemy and magical sympathy, not just his mechanics. And the characters are fun, but the writing on a sentence-by-sentence level is a bit subpar and I find it difficult to get past that to enjoy what is an original and exciting story. Or possibly I'm just not in a reading place at the moment, that seems to happen more and more these days.
Right now I've had a potential Covid exposure, I'm testing negative so far but feeling pessimistic. It's my "fault" in that I took a trip and did some higher risk activities than I normally would, particularly eating indoors when it was around freezing outside and dark and foggy. The person I travelled with is unpleasantly ill, so I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. I still don't understand how anyone thinks living like this is preferable to the alternative of actually having public health measures.
Anyway, recently read (locally):
siderea. It's a very cool mashup between Elon Musk snark and Mediaeval religious folklore as expressed through early music.lannamichaels has no cultural context for a situation where dating gives you social cachet and benefits and has written some lovely meta about the fake dating trope.rushthatspeaks is always brilliant, and has written on porn as a genre.sorcyress and silveradept, among the most engaging and interesting writers in my circle, are doing some cool December Days series, on dice and adjectives respectively. Worth a look.Currently reading: Theoretically Netwon's cannon by Greg Keyes, in reality I may DNF. It's a very cool alt-history setting where the world actually works according to Newton's esoteric theories about things like alchemy and magical sympathy, not just his mechanics. And the characters are fun, but the writing on a sentence-by-sentence level is a bit subpar and I find it difficult to get past that to enjoy what is an original and exciting story. Or possibly I'm just not in a reading place at the moment, that seems to happen more and more these days.
