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cesperanza) wrote2025-08-13 01:04 pm
cesperanza) wrote2025-08-13 01:04 pmWhere the fuck is my life going?
I am still here! <3. I'm just so seriously middle-aged, I've got everything on the boil rn. But I'm here if anyone needs me and still contributing to fandom in all the ways I can. You can also reach me at all the places you've always reached me--or other me, or any of the mes you may need.
Things I have enjoyed/am enjoying lately include:
* Killing Eve - I know, I'm super late to Killing Eve, but my sister loves loves loves it and so she asked me to watch it and so I'm watching. First two seasons obviously the best IMO, but she's asked me to see it through so I'm seeing it through.
* Strange New Worlds - its like 100% actual Star Trek! Also it's so fannish - like, look, there are episodes where I can tell the entire reason for the plot is to make sense of one weird moment in ST; TOS and you know what: I RESPECT YOU!! I SALUTE YOU!! YES, GO AHEAD AND FIX THAT ONE MINOR PLOT POINT in TOS, I AM YOUR AUDIENCE, I TOTALLY SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, GET DOWN WITH YOUR BAD SELF. Also, honestly, I will never be tired of Pike cooking, which is a bizarre characterization that I didn't see coming and which nobody I'm trying to pimp to this show ever believes until they see it. Also I would die for Number 1 and La'an. Also Pike cooks with cast iron and open flame in a spaceship. Really: I salute you, show. I am glad you are back! (Especially since no more Disco.)
* Bridgerton/Queen Charlotte - late to QC also, after watching Bridgerton, and thought it was actually really a notch above Bridgerton. (Which I did enjoy - I mean, I respect their commitment to the pleasure principle.) Glad to be caught up there.
* House - yes, yes, I know, I'm really kicking it like it's 2004 around here, but Tiberius, now a teen, had seen bits of it on the interwebs and was like, "Mom, do you know anything about this show House?" and I was like YESSSSS. YESSS I DOOOOO, and your aunt made a great vid of it! Whereupon I showed him astolat's "Bukowski" and we settled in for a watch/rewatch: we like to have a show we're watching together. He's into Trek also so we watched Discovery and Lower Decks and we'll watch SNW as a family now its back, but there's a lot of House to go through and that's a nice option too.
(Side note to those of you who don't have teens: what I did not expect is that Gen Z basically is getting culture in bursts of 10 seconds or less. He's seen literally BITS of House. He will tell me "I know that song--or well, I know 7 seconds of that song." Remember how there would be kids who wouldn't read a novel, they'd just watch the movie? My students now are like--THAT MOVIE IS TWO WHOLE HOURS? I seriously fear for the future, it makes previous claims of attention span deterioriation look PREPOSTEROUS. Holy shit. I swear, I spend so much energy trying not to be too judgy! But I am very judgy! Then again: this moment, this decade, really provokes judginess!! )
(Additional side note: Tiberius is super eye rolly because since middle school all the girls he knows are like "Wow, your mom is SO COOL," --because of course I am! I am really fucking cool, plus I helped to found the AO3 and all of that, so I am a high school rock star, and Tiberius is like, "please God save me from this hell" lol. Cause honestly there really is nothing worse than having a cool mom, I do get that, but I tell him he'll appreciate it later, when I'm dead.)
Things I have enjoyed/am enjoying lately include:
* Killing Eve - I know, I'm super late to Killing Eve, but my sister loves loves loves it and so she asked me to watch it and so I'm watching. First two seasons obviously the best IMO, but she's asked me to see it through so I'm seeing it through.
* Strange New Worlds - its like 100% actual Star Trek! Also it's so fannish - like, look, there are episodes where I can tell the entire reason for the plot is to make sense of one weird moment in ST; TOS and you know what: I RESPECT YOU!! I SALUTE YOU!! YES, GO AHEAD AND FIX THAT ONE MINOR PLOT POINT in TOS, I AM YOUR AUDIENCE, I TOTALLY SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE, GET DOWN WITH YOUR BAD SELF. Also, honestly, I will never be tired of Pike cooking, which is a bizarre characterization that I didn't see coming and which nobody I'm trying to pimp to this show ever believes until they see it. Also I would die for Number 1 and La'an. Also Pike cooks with cast iron and open flame in a spaceship. Really: I salute you, show. I am glad you are back! (Especially since no more Disco.)
* Bridgerton/Queen Charlotte - late to QC also, after watching Bridgerton, and thought it was actually really a notch above Bridgerton. (Which I did enjoy - I mean, I respect their commitment to the pleasure principle.) Glad to be caught up there.
* House - yes, yes, I know, I'm really kicking it like it's 2004 around here, but Tiberius, now a teen, had seen bits of it on the interwebs and was like, "Mom, do you know anything about this show House?" and I was like YESSSSS. YESSS I DOOOOO, and your aunt made a great vid of it! Whereupon I showed him astolat's "Bukowski" and we settled in for a watch/rewatch: we like to have a show we're watching together. He's into Trek also so we watched Discovery and Lower Decks and we'll watch SNW as a family now its back, but there's a lot of House to go through and that's a nice option too.
(Side note to those of you who don't have teens: what I did not expect is that Gen Z basically is getting culture in bursts of 10 seconds or less. He's seen literally BITS of House. He will tell me "I know that song--or well, I know 7 seconds of that song." Remember how there would be kids who wouldn't read a novel, they'd just watch the movie? My students now are like--THAT MOVIE IS TWO WHOLE HOURS? I seriously fear for the future, it makes previous claims of attention span deterioriation look PREPOSTEROUS. Holy shit. I swear, I spend so much energy trying not to be too judgy! But I am very judgy! Then again: this moment, this decade, really provokes judginess!! )
(Additional side note: Tiberius is super eye rolly because since middle school all the girls he knows are like "Wow, your mom is SO COOL," --because of course I am! I am really fucking cool, plus I helped to found the AO3 and all of that, so I am a high school rock star, and Tiberius is like, "please God save me from this hell" lol. Cause honestly there really is nothing worse than having a cool mom, I do get that, but I tell him he'll appreciate it later, when I'm dead.)
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marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-13 01:07 pmSanders' Union Fourth Reader
Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders
Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.
Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.
Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.
Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.
Entry tags:
Only Murders in the Building S5 Promo
Premiere: September 9
After [season 4 spoiler] dies under suspicious circumstances, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel refuse to believe it was an accident. The trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets connecting powerful billionaires and old-school mobsters.
After [season 4 spoiler] dies under suspicious circumstances, Charles, Oliver, and Mabel refuse to believe it was an accident. The trio uncovers a dangerous web of secrets connecting powerful billionaires and old-school mobsters.
anehan (anehan) wrote2025-08-13 03:08 pm
anehan) wrote2025-08-13 03:08 pmEntry tags:
Wednesday is on holiday
This week I'm starting to really see the effect of being on holiday. My brain is starting to wake up, so not everything needs to be an easy read anymore.
Recently read
Currently reading
Up next
I think that, if I were smart, I would read something else than the next part of the Nightrunner series, because these are long books and I've noticed that reading too much of the same thing has diminishing returns on enjoyment. But I'm not sure I'm that smart.
Recently read
- Mina V. Esquerra, What Kind of Day. DNF at 56%. For some reason I was utterly bored. Also, Naya (the FL) was annoying. Meh.
- Ginn Hale, Lord of the White Hell: Book 1 & Lord of the White Hell: Book 2. Heavy-handed at times, both in world-building and in characterization, but I enjoyed these nonetheless. Still, by the time I had finished these I was more than ready to leave Kiram behind, so it's a good thing the next part of the series switches protagonists. Yay, more Elezar (bastard though he is).
- William Marx, The Hatred of Literature. Very much NOT an impartial, dispassionate account.
If the accusation of immorality leveled at literature is among those that continue to elicit a response and still today serve to justify the banning of various books, it is because this accusation primarily concerns childhood and education and raises the image of readers who are defenseless before the representation of evil ... The ethical judgement an individual is supposed to be able to exercise in a real situation ... is considered to be lacking when that same person is confronted with a literary text: literature apparently deprives the reader of moral autonomy, which is why readers should be emancipated from literary custody.
I think "which is why readers should be emancipated from literary custody" is my new favourite. Marx is often so delightfully sarcastic. - Tero Tähtinen, Kuunkajoa lootuslammella (Moonlight in the Lotus Pond). An essay collection on Chinese literature.
- Lynn Flewelling, Luck in the Shadows. Queer fantasy from the 90s. Lately, I've found two new-to-me fantasy series from the 90s, both of which first drew me in because of their queer protagonists and both of which I ended up loving for more than that. The first was Melissa Scott's Astreiant series; the second is this, the Nightrunner series.
Back in the 90s, I was still reading exclusively in Finnish, so books that had no Finnish translation never appeared on my radar. And then, later, I never even heard of either the Astreiant or the Nightrunner series, until very recently. With Astreiant, I saw a couple of recs on Bluesky this spring, but I can't remember how I heard about the Nightrunner. Somehow it just appeared in my want-to-read shelf on Goodreads. It's a mystery. But it begs the question: how many other fantastic older fantasy books am I not reading simply because I've never even heard of them?
Luck in the Shadows, the first part of the seven-part Nightrunner series, features the swashbuckling adventures of Alec and Seregil, a pair of spies who try to uncover treasonous plots and oppose the rise of old evil, guided by their wise old wizard handler. It's got a very 90s feel, for obvious reasons, which I felt was a draw rather than a deterrent. :D
The epub file has a lot of errors though: mostly random dots in the middles of sentences, but also missing quotation marks, sentences that start with a lowercase letter, and so on. Sloppy proofreading work, worse than what you'd usually find.
Currently reading
- Lynn Flewelling, Stalking Darkness, the second part of the Nightrunner series, because I'm hooked.
- Heli Rantala, et al., Kirjojen kaipuu, a book on book culture in early 19th century Finland. Really interesting so far, especially reading about the way reading and acquiring books was very much a social activity back then, in part because of the difficulty of sourcing books at all here in European periphery.
Up next
I think that, if I were smart, I would read something else than the next part of the Nightrunner series, because these are long books and I've noticed that reading too much of the same thing has diminishing returns on enjoyment. But I'm not sure I'm that smart.
Vridelian (vriddy) wrote2025-08-13 06:13 am
vriddy) wrote2025-08-13 06:13 amEntry tags:
Diving into edits, prep work paying off
I am spending a TON of time on this round of Cursed Witch editing at the moment, and loving it. It's still hard work, and it was hard work getting to the point when I could do this, but it's all coming together and feeding into each other and that's a great feeling. The worldbuilding is being refined even further, leading to new ideas that magically solve other problems I had on the backburner, so my brain was likely working on it the whole time even without my active input.
It's still all a bit strange. At first, going on yet another round of structural editing after so long felt like ghostwriting someone else's story. Then because the changes started getting smaller, and generating more ideas of their own, it felt like creating fic for it, haha. Now, I don't know, I work on it in the morning and at night and the story and world and characters are constantly living in my head, in a "love you guys" kinda way rather than the "OH MY GOD I AM SO SICK OF THIS STORY" way I had reached last year. I always had a vague idea for 2 potential sequels, a one-line summary ready for each which was interesting but apparently not enough to actually make me really plan to ever write them. Now I'm adding more details to that "Sequels ideas" file once or twice (or thrice!) a day, peppering little hints of foreshadowing, sometimes even bits that work in layers so that (I think) one can think are related to the current story, but should someone care enough to re-read later after knowing what happens in book 2 or 3, then some sentences take on a completely different meaning. And I'm thinking maybe I'd quite like to take a stab at book 2 once I've handled the Soul Thief structural edits? I also had a "fatal flaws" file about a couple of points I thought made the story broken at a fundamental level, but I believe I managed to smooth or fix that to an acceptable degree to me anyway :D
I am so excited. Obviously, working/editing at the current pace would not be sustainable, but I'm just making a big push while all that motivation and excitement are bursting at the seams. And I know this is all flowing relatively well thanks to all the thinking and prep work I did, even if it felt like it was taking forever. I had to summarise my summaries of beta-reader comments because it was still too long to easily reference XD But I think this kind of exercise is what's helping keeping as much as possible in my head.
May this energy last until I finish this round of editing, too...!! Haha. One can hope. Back to it, now.
It's still all a bit strange. At first, going on yet another round of structural editing after so long felt like ghostwriting someone else's story. Then because the changes started getting smaller, and generating more ideas of their own, it felt like creating fic for it, haha. Now, I don't know, I work on it in the morning and at night and the story and world and characters are constantly living in my head, in a "love you guys" kinda way rather than the "OH MY GOD I AM SO SICK OF THIS STORY" way I had reached last year. I always had a vague idea for 2 potential sequels, a one-line summary ready for each which was interesting but apparently not enough to actually make me really plan to ever write them. Now I'm adding more details to that "Sequels ideas" file once or twice (or thrice!) a day, peppering little hints of foreshadowing, sometimes even bits that work in layers so that (I think) one can think are related to the current story, but should someone care enough to re-read later after knowing what happens in book 2 or 3, then some sentences take on a completely different meaning. And I'm thinking maybe I'd quite like to take a stab at book 2 once I've handled the Soul Thief structural edits? I also had a "fatal flaws" file about a couple of points I thought made the story broken at a fundamental level, but I believe I managed to smooth or fix that to an acceptable degree to me anyway :D
I am so excited. Obviously, working/editing at the current pace would not be sustainable, but I'm just making a big push while all that motivation and excitement are bursting at the seams. And I know this is all flowing relatively well thanks to all the thinking and prep work I did, even if it felt like it was taking forever. I had to summarise my summaries of beta-reader comments because it was still too long to easily reference XD But I think this kind of exercise is what's helping keeping as much as possible in my head.
May this energy last until I finish this round of editing, too...!! Haha. One can hope. Back to it, now.
justmarriedmod (justmarriedmod) wrote in pinchhits2025-08-12 10:06 pm
justmarriedmod) wrote in pinchhits2025-08-12 10:06 pmEntry tags:
Just Married Pinch Hits Due August 22
Event:Just Married, a marriage tropes exchange
Event link:justmarriedexchange
Pinch hit link: https://justmarriedexchange.dreamwidth.org/38109.html
Due date: August 22, 11:59PM UTC (countdown)
PH 4 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, 鸣潮 | Wuthering Waves (Video Game), Limbus Company (Video Game)
PH 8 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher
PH 12 - 说英雄谁是英雄 | Heroes (TV 2022), 师兄请按剧本来 | Stick to the Script! (TV), 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
PH 18 - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Noctilucent: Before Dawn (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 너의 스탯이 보여! | Show Me Your Stats! (Webcomic), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
PH 21 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
PH 22 - Glee (TV 2009), Glee (TV 2009), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Beetlejuice (Movies), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
PH 25 - The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Fiddler on the Roof (1971), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), Shadow of the Moon - M. M. Kaye, Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik, Life with Derek, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
PH 26 - Wicked (Movie 2024), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
Event link:
justmarriedexchangePinch hit link: https://justmarriedexchange.dreamwidth.org/38109.html
Due date: August 22, 11:59PM UTC (countdown)
PH 4 - Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, 鸣潮 | Wuthering Waves (Video Game), Limbus Company (Video Game)
PH 8 - Dial M for Murder (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955), Dial M for Murder - Hatcher
PH 12 - 说英雄谁是英雄 | Heroes (TV 2022), 师兄请按剧本来 | Stick to the Script! (TV), 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
PH 18 - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Noctilucent: Before Dawn (Video Game), 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game), 너의 스탯이 보여! | Show Me Your Stats! (Webcomic), Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
PH 21 - Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), Hazbin Hotel (Cartoon), 黄金の太陽 | Golden Sun Series, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga)
PH 22 - Glee (TV 2009), Glee (TV 2009), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù, Beetlejuice (Movies), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
PH 25 - The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner, Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Fiddler on the Roof (1971), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), Shadow of the Moon - M. M. Kaye, Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik, Life with Derek, Lord Peter Wimsey - Dorothy L. Sayers
PH 26 - Wicked (Movie 2024), Wiedźmin | The Witcher Series - Andrzej Sapkowski, Avatar: Legend of Korra, Avatar: The Last Airbender (Cartoon 2005)
marycatelli (marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-12 05:40 pm
marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-12 05:40 pmTo Tame a Land
To Tame a Land by Louis L'Amour
You can do a lot of things in Westerns. This one is a bildungsroman.
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You can do a lot of things in Westerns. This one is a bildungsroman.
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yourlibrarian (yourlibrarian) wrote in tv_talk2025-08-11 04:46 pm
yourlibrarian) wrote in tv_talk2025-08-11 04:46 pmEntry tags:
TV Tuesday: Gift of Gab
An article citing Brooklyn Nine-Nine as having the most words per minute (as well as listing the least wordy shows) begs the question as to how much dialogue influences your preferences for shows. Does it vary according to genre for you? And what episodes without any/much dialogue stand out for you?
marycatelli (marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-11 07:33 pm
marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-11 07:33 pmThe School Reader. Third Book
The School Reader. Third Book: Containing Progressive Lessons in Reading, Exercises in Articulation and Inflection, Definitions, by Charles Walton Sanders
The third book is still focused on reading. Very few of the pieces come with bylines. Still, it's taking on the aspect of the later readers, with the focus on good readings, edifying and instruction.
May be chiefly of interest in view of what they selected in the era.
The third book is still focused on reading. Very few of the pieces come with bylines. Still, it's taking on the aspect of the later readers, with the focus on good readings, edifying and instruction.
May be chiefly of interest in view of what they selected in the era.
annathecrow (annathecrow) wrote in dreamwars2025-08-11 09:00 pm
annathecrow) wrote in dreamwars2025-08-11 09:00 pmChat corner 198: The Phantom Menace
Hi!
Is it the time again? We're back in the (chronological) beginning, and our topic for this week is Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
How are we feeling about this one? If you've been here for the previous post, have you changed your mind in any way? Or, you haven't thought about the movie at all?
As I see it, TPM is at its core a movie for children. So, I'm curious: if you wanted to introduce a child to the Star Wars universe (your kid, a cousin, a nibling), which piece would you start with? One of the movies, a show, something different?
yourlibrarian (yourlibrarian) wrote in common_nature2025-08-11 10:56 am
yourlibrarian) wrote in common_nature2025-08-11 10:56 amEntry tags:
The Devil's Punchbowl
Not far from our hotel was a rock feature that had an interesting look to it. What was especially interesting to me were its walls.
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The Bone Harp by Victoria Goddard Review
This is the first self-published book I have ever read a good chunk of without realizing it was self-published. [EDIT: This is not a dig at self-published writing. I am self-published and hope my books are roughly comparable to traditional in quality, but it is a mountain to climb to do all the traditional publisher work yourself on your own dime, so I'm impressed when a work does it, and I want to uplift that it's possible.] The book is as well written as a number of recent traditionally published books; it’s well edited, proofread, designed, nice cover art. It looks professional.
But in retrospect, it had to be self-published because it’s a Silmarillion fan fic with the names changed, and a traditional publisher wouldn’t take it for fear of being sued. (Not really spoilery: this is clear quite early.) Its premise (I’ll just render this in Tolkien terms) is one of the exiled Noldor returns to the Undying Lands after dying (?) in Middle-earth. That’s a fantastic premise for a fic! With some alterations, it’s a great premise for an original story. That’s why I bought it! I don’t think it fully exploits this premise, though. It’s a goldmine for psychological and philosophical development, and it has fairly little of either, in my opinion.
It does have a great original addition in the idea of a male and female elf who are well-matched “professional/vocational” rivals to such a degree they can be almost interchanged with each other. That concept may be the story’s strongest, and again, I felt it wasn’t fully exploited.
But some of my discontents are discontents with the source material (The Silmarillion): 1) the style is, for my taste, too expository—too much “telling,” not enough “showing”; 2) I just don’t get the concept of the Undying Lands on any deep level, because my cosmology is very different from Tolkien’s. Goddard is, I think, trying to follow Tolkien here, and part of my difficulty suspending disbelief may come from my just not getting it. I give her marks, on the whole, for showing respect for Tolkien’s work and not altering his Elves in any bizarre ways.
One the whole, I find the book conceptually fascinating but not developed deeply enough to fully engage me.
Spoilery review at my DW.
But in retrospect, it had to be self-published because it’s a Silmarillion fan fic with the names changed, and a traditional publisher wouldn’t take it for fear of being sued. (Not really spoilery: this is clear quite early.) Its premise (I’ll just render this in Tolkien terms) is one of the exiled Noldor returns to the Undying Lands after dying (?) in Middle-earth. That’s a fantastic premise for a fic! With some alterations, it’s a great premise for an original story. That’s why I bought it! I don’t think it fully exploits this premise, though. It’s a goldmine for psychological and philosophical development, and it has fairly little of either, in my opinion.
It does have a great original addition in the idea of a male and female elf who are well-matched “professional/vocational” rivals to such a degree they can be almost interchanged with each other. That concept may be the story’s strongest, and again, I felt it wasn’t fully exploited.
But some of my discontents are discontents with the source material (The Silmarillion): 1) the style is, for my taste, too expository—too much “telling,” not enough “showing”; 2) I just don’t get the concept of the Undying Lands on any deep level, because my cosmology is very different from Tolkien’s. Goddard is, I think, trying to follow Tolkien here, and part of my difficulty suspending disbelief may come from my just not getting it. I give her marks, on the whole, for showing respect for Tolkien’s work and not altering his Elves in any bizarre ways.
One the whole, I find the book conceptually fascinating but not developed deeply enough to fully engage me.
Spoilery review at my DW.
annathecrow (annathecrow) wrote in tv_talk2025-08-10 09:00 pm
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Community promo: Dreamwars, a Star Wars community
Do you like Star Wars? Disney is busy making TV shows set in the Galaxy Far Far Away: Acolyte, Andor, Bad Batch, Skeleton Crew, Visions... would you like a place to talk about them with people who might not be so much into TV shows in general, but will happily geek out with you about the five-second appearance of Glup Shitto in the background?
Come to dreamwars!
We're a Dreamwidth community about all things SW, from comics to movies to tabletop gaming, and everything in between. We do a weekly "chat post" every Monday, but you're welcome to just post into the community whenever - share a rec list, write a review, maybe start a watch-along? We'll be happy to have you.
Come say hi!
marycatelli (marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-10 12:17 pm
marycatelli) wrote in books2025-08-10 12:17 pmGhost in the Tombs
Ghost in the Tombs by Jonathan Moeller
Caina's 32nd book. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.
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Caina's 32nd book. Spoilers ahead for the earlier ones.
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profiterole_reads (profiterole_reads) wrote2025-08-10 05:39 pm
profiterole_reads) wrote2025-08-10 05:39 pmThe Moonstone Covenant by Jill Hammer + Wednesday Season 2A
The Moonstone Covenant by Jill Hammer was absolutely amazing! Four wives investigate the death of Olloise's parents and end up in the middle of a political plot.
This is my favourite 2025 read so far. It's beautifully written like old-school fantasy, the comparison to Le Guin isn't exaggerated. The worldbuilding is rich (thanks for the map and the appendices!) and the many characters have complex lives. I also enjoyed the "book" theme as one of the wives is a warrior-librarian and another has book magic.
This is established f/f/f/f, which is lovely as all-female polyamory is still rare rep. Minor enbies make an appearance.
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Wednesday S2A was a lot of fun! It makes sense as a story arc, so you don't need to wait until September to watch both parts together.
This season focuses on the whole family, not just Wednesday and Thing.
Billie Piper has joined the cast, but has been underused so far. Hopefully, she'll have more to do in S2B.
This is my favourite 2025 read so far. It's beautifully written like old-school fantasy, the comparison to Le Guin isn't exaggerated. The worldbuilding is rich (thanks for the map and the appendices!) and the many characters have complex lives. I also enjoyed the "book" theme as one of the wives is a warrior-librarian and another has book magic.
This is established f/f/f/f, which is lovely as all-female polyamory is still rare rep. Minor enbies make an appearance.
Wednesday S2A was a lot of fun! It makes sense as a story arc, so you don't need to wait until September to watch both parts together.
This season focuses on the whole family, not just Wednesday and Thing.
Billie Piper has joined the cast, but has been underused so far. Hopefully, she'll have more to do in S2B.
