A little more B5 script book stuff
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sholioBut before I get to that, I started posting another fixit WIP over on AO3. This one will probably be about 4 chapters long, most of which is written, but it's kind of a mess so I'm posting it as I finish cleaning them up and filling in the missing parts.
The Living and the Damned - goes AU from the beginning of 5x18, rated mature because there will be tentacles, though things are a bit too dire for that yet.
And speaking of tentacles.
( More from the behind the scenes books (tentacle related) )
The Living and the Damned - goes AU from the beginning of 5x18, rated mature because there will be tentacles, though things are a bit too dire for that yet.
And speaking of tentacles.
( More from the behind the scenes books (tentacle related) )
Daily Happiness
Feb. 13th, 2026 08:34 pmtorachan1. We met our deadline for the big project, so it can move ahead on schedule! For the last couple weeks we've been pretty sure it was going to be okay (and this last week there was really no worry at all), but it was a major stressor since I joined the project last summer, and we did not make the original deadline at the end of the year so this extension was our final final deadline. It's a huge relief to have turned that in to the developers and be able to report to upper management that everything's going well.
2. This morning I was almost home from my walk when I saw a text from Carla saying she was going to get a breakfast burrito. The restaurant is not on my way, but only about a five minute walk from where I was, so I met up with her there and we split a burrito for breakfast.
3. I was looking around to see what all is near the new store when I go to help out next week and saw there's a Shake Shack in the same mall, which reminded me that we wanted to go to Shake Shack and try more of the Korean menu, so we went there tonight. It's a little longer walk than Carla was up for, so we drove, but then after dinner walked around, down to the beach and then through the Promenade.
Everything at Shake Shack was delicious. In addition to the chicken sandwich, which I'd had before, we got the spicy fries with cheese sauce. I'd had them without the cheese before and they were good, but even better with cheese. I also got the gochujang caramel shake, which was also very tasty.
We used to go down to the Promenade all the time years ago, but then just stopped, and now hardly ever go down there, and when we do it's usually just to the first block, where the Apple Store is. This time we did go to the Apple Store but also the other two blocks we don't usually check out, and I had totally forgotten there's a Barnes and Noble there again! There was a huge three story one there years ago, and then that closed (in 2018, apparently), but they opened a new smaller one about a year and a half ago. I had heard something about it, but it's not very relevant to me anymore, so I immediately forgot. We went in and checked it out, though, and it's really nice. Nowhere near as huge as the old one, but still big, and they have a second level in the basement where I bought a new puzzle.
We ended our walk with donuts from Sidecar, which is just about a block from Shake Shack. Brought the donuts home and will have them later. Overall it was a really nice night out and just the sort of thing that I want to do more of. Although there were several empty storefronts, overall the Promenade seemed pretty revitalized and there were a lot of people down there tonight. (It's one of those areas that has gone through multiple booms and busts. When I was really little, it was just called the mall, and then became the old mall when they built a new, indoor mall next to it, and it kind of died off. Then when I was a teenager it was revitalized as the Third Street Promenade, but started dying off again a while back, but seems to be having another revival now.)
4. It's the start of a three day weekend!
5. Molly!
2. This morning I was almost home from my walk when I saw a text from Carla saying she was going to get a breakfast burrito. The restaurant is not on my way, but only about a five minute walk from where I was, so I met up with her there and we split a burrito for breakfast.
3. I was looking around to see what all is near the new store when I go to help out next week and saw there's a Shake Shack in the same mall, which reminded me that we wanted to go to Shake Shack and try more of the Korean menu, so we went there tonight. It's a little longer walk than Carla was up for, so we drove, but then after dinner walked around, down to the beach and then through the Promenade.
Everything at Shake Shack was delicious. In addition to the chicken sandwich, which I'd had before, we got the spicy fries with cheese sauce. I'd had them without the cheese before and they were good, but even better with cheese. I also got the gochujang caramel shake, which was also very tasty.
We used to go down to the Promenade all the time years ago, but then just stopped, and now hardly ever go down there, and when we do it's usually just to the first block, where the Apple Store is. This time we did go to the Apple Store but also the other two blocks we don't usually check out, and I had totally forgotten there's a Barnes and Noble there again! There was a huge three story one there years ago, and then that closed (in 2018, apparently), but they opened a new smaller one about a year and a half ago. I had heard something about it, but it's not very relevant to me anymore, so I immediately forgot. We went in and checked it out, though, and it's really nice. Nowhere near as huge as the old one, but still big, and they have a second level in the basement where I bought a new puzzle.
We ended our walk with donuts from Sidecar, which is just about a block from Shake Shack. Brought the donuts home and will have them later. Overall it was a really nice night out and just the sort of thing that I want to do more of. Although there were several empty storefronts, overall the Promenade seemed pretty revitalized and there were a lot of people down there tonight. (It's one of those areas that has gone through multiple booms and busts. When I was really little, it was just called the mall, and then became the old mall when they built a new, indoor mall next to it, and it kind of died off. Then when I was a teenager it was revitalized as the Third Street Promenade, but started dying off again a while back, but seems to be having another revival now.)
4. It's the start of a three day weekend!
5. Molly!
Recent Reading: Looking for Smoke
Feb. 13th, 2026 06:28 pmrocky41_7Earlier this week I finished another commute audiobook, Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell. This is a crime thriller/murder mystery that takes place on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. When a teenage girl is found strangled at the Indian Days summer powwow, four of her classmates become the prime suspects in her murder.
I would say this is a solid entry in the murder mystery genre. The book alternates perspectives between the four classmates, which allows the author to do some fun things keeping the reader on the hook. One character will make a big discovery only for the POV to pop over to another who doesn't have that information, so Cobell can keep information from the reader without it feeling too forced. The audiobook has a separate narrator for each POV, which was also fun (although I didn't care for Eli's reader) and if you're prone to picking up and putting down your audiobook in the middle of a chapter, this helps you keep track of whose POV you're in.
Cobell uses the format of the crime thriller, like Marcie Rendon in Where They Last Saw Her, to draw attention to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), but the book still feels like a novel its own right; it never feels like just a tool for explaining the MMIW issue. And it's an important issue that deserves a lot more attention. The statistics on violence against Native American women are shocking--even if you think they're bad, they're probably worse than you're imagining--and specific stats get highlighted in the text and in the author's note at the end. In this way, I think the book has enormous social value. Cobell uses her characters to personalize the problem and show the comorbid impacts of poverty and drug use on the reservation.
Outside of its interest in the MMIW crisis, I don't think the book does much that's particularly groundbreaking. The teens band together to try to solve the mystery and absolve themselves, as you'd expect. At various times they suspect each other, family members, law enforcement. Cobell keeps you on the hook while offering reasonable suspicion for a number of characters. She avoids my least favorite move in the murder mystery genre, which is pinning it on some rando at the last minute.
The ending is pretty explosive and I enjoy some of the things she does with perspective here as well. We the readers know what the killer thinks of their crimes because the text tells us. But the other characters never hear that explanation except third hand, and many of them simply don't believe it. And that feels real--they end the story with their own version of the truth and there's simply no space for that to be corrected (and why would they believe the word of a killer anyway?) The killer feels a little one-dimensional, but the motives make sense, if they're unsurprising. The motivations behind most violent crimes are pretty repetitive.
The prose is fine. We're reading from the perspective of teenagers, so expect a lot of melodramatic metaphors and jumping to conclusions based on minimal evidence.
Overall, this book tells an important story. It was entertaining as a narrative and sheds light on a community that deserves a lot more attention.
I would say this is a solid entry in the murder mystery genre. The book alternates perspectives between the four classmates, which allows the author to do some fun things keeping the reader on the hook. One character will make a big discovery only for the POV to pop over to another who doesn't have that information, so Cobell can keep information from the reader without it feeling too forced. The audiobook has a separate narrator for each POV, which was also fun (although I didn't care for Eli's reader) and if you're prone to picking up and putting down your audiobook in the middle of a chapter, this helps you keep track of whose POV you're in.
Cobell uses the format of the crime thriller, like Marcie Rendon in Where They Last Saw Her, to draw attention to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), but the book still feels like a novel its own right; it never feels like just a tool for explaining the MMIW issue. And it's an important issue that deserves a lot more attention. The statistics on violence against Native American women are shocking--even if you think they're bad, they're probably worse than you're imagining--and specific stats get highlighted in the text and in the author's note at the end. In this way, I think the book has enormous social value. Cobell uses her characters to personalize the problem and show the comorbid impacts of poverty and drug use on the reservation.
Outside of its interest in the MMIW crisis, I don't think the book does much that's particularly groundbreaking. The teens band together to try to solve the mystery and absolve themselves, as you'd expect. At various times they suspect each other, family members, law enforcement. Cobell keeps you on the hook while offering reasonable suspicion for a number of characters. She avoids my least favorite move in the murder mystery genre, which is pinning it on some rando at the last minute.
The ending is pretty explosive and I enjoy some of the things she does with perspective here as well. We the readers know what the killer thinks of their crimes because the text tells us. But the other characters never hear that explanation except third hand, and many of them simply don't believe it. And that feels real--they end the story with their own version of the truth and there's simply no space for that to be corrected (and why would they believe the word of a killer anyway?) The killer feels a little one-dimensional, but the motives make sense, if they're unsurprising. The motivations behind most violent crimes are pretty repetitive.
The prose is fine. We're reading from the perspective of teenagers, so expect a lot of melodramatic metaphors and jumping to conclusions based on minimal evidence.
Overall, this book tells an important story. It was entertaining as a narrative and sheds light on a community that deserves a lot more attention.
Any Updates on the LJ Situation?
Feb. 13th, 2026 10:20 ammuccamukk(I've basically peaced out on answering comments, apologies. I'll try to catch up on at least the fandom ones. I appreciate you all!)
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denise posted the thread about LJ going Russia-locked (ETA: see comments for corrections) and/or selling off six weeks ago now, which feels like twenty years in Internet time, but is probably not that long in business time. Has anyone heard updates on what's happening with LJ since then? Is this like the x-number of times ff.net was definitely going offline?
Relatedly, is anyone in touch with the mods of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
camp_toccoa, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skyearth85 and/or skew_whiff? Sky used to be active on Discord, but I haven't seen her in ages. Has there been any talk of moving that comm to Dreamwidth?
I remember it was a bit of a voyage through broken links and broken dreams last time I looked at it, but there's still a bunch of fic that never moved to either AO3 or DW.
denise posted the thread about LJ going Russia-locked (ETA: see comments for corrections) and/or selling off six weeks ago now, which feels like twenty years in Internet time, but is probably not that long in business time. Has anyone heard updates on what's happening with LJ since then? Is this like the x-number of times ff.net was definitely going offline?Relatedly, is anyone in touch with the mods of
camp_toccoa, skyearth85 and/or skew_whiff? Sky used to be active on Discord, but I haven't seen her in ages. Has there been any talk of moving that comm to Dreamwidth?I remember it was a bit of a voyage through broken links and broken dreams last time I looked at it, but there's still a bunch of fic that never moved to either AO3 or DW.
Poem: "Choosing to Sprout"
Feb. 13th, 2026 12:53 pmjjhunterThe seeds lying in their wombs of earth are turning now
preparing to kick out taproots through their coats
I rewatch the video of bluebird chicks cracking their own eggshells
Wondering at babies battering through barriers to birth themselves
Choosing again and again to leave every womb that once held them
Protected and confined
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preparing to kick out taproots through their coats
I rewatch the video of bluebird chicks cracking their own eggshells
Wondering at babies battering through barriers to birth themselves
Choosing again and again to leave every womb that once held them
Protected and confined
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Feb. 13th, 2026 12:56 pmautobotscoutriellaFriday + weekend checklist of Stuff To Work On:
- Finish![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
purimgifts fics. Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours, so ideally those will be complete and posted by midday Saturday.
- At least 200 words on Forsaken Road or broken beaten damned (I've had a decent run at both of those and would like to continue it)
- At least 200 words on any kink meme fill or WIP that isn't one of those, picked by whatever I feel like writing at the time
- At least threefandomweekly banners
- Finish the dishes from last night (this is a Friday project)
- Bake scones before the green onions go bad
Wish me luck. It's not a long list, and it's supposed to be beautiful weather, so ideally I will not spend my weekend huddled under the blankets.
- Finish
purimgifts fics. Shouldn't take more than a couple of hours, so ideally those will be complete and posted by midday Saturday. - At least 200 words on Forsaken Road or broken beaten damned (I've had a decent run at both of those and would like to continue it)
- At least 200 words on any kink meme fill or WIP that isn't one of those, picked by whatever I feel like writing at the time
- At least three
fandomweekly banners- Finish the dishes from last night (this is a Friday project)
- Bake scones before the green onions go bad
Wish me luck. It's not a long list, and it's supposed to be beautiful weather, so ideally I will not spend my weekend huddled under the blankets.
You know who would be setting things on fire over this?
Feb. 13th, 2026 04:43 pmoursinI was reading this (and the various other reports about pro-natalist pontificating and getting women - the right sort, obvs - to BREED): Reform by-election candidate calls for ‘young girls’ to be given ‘biological reality’ check:
Mr Goodwin – who is standing for Reform UK in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election – argued: “We need to explain and educate to young children, the next generation, the severity of this crisis.
“We need to also explain to young girls and women the biological reality of this crisis. Many women in Britain are having children much too late in life, and they would prefer to have children much earlier on.”
And I was thinking, you know who would be spitting tacks and riding in with all her guns blazing on this -
- no other than Dr Marie Stopes, who was so not about woman as mere breeding vessels. And was a) the daughter of an older mother and b) an older mother herself by the time she actually progenated.
Okay, she had views of the day (particularly when it came to daughter-in-laws, sigh), but she was also very much about women's choice, women pursuing careers, women not spending their entire lives in child-bearing, fewer but healthier babies through contraception and spacing, etc etc etc.
In many ways, yes, she was a monster, but a monster I would happily reanimate from the waves off Portland Bill where her ashes were scattered and send after these guys.
Friday open thread: rewatching
Feb. 13th, 2026 04:27 pmdolorosa_12It's cold, it's rainy, and a flock of wood pigeons has descended on the back garden. Let's do this week's open thread.
Today's open thread concept came to me when I was thinking about how frequently I reread books (there are certain books within my line of sight right now that I'm pretty sure I have probably reread several hundred times), and how rarely in comparison I rewatch films or TV shows. I definitely rewatched stuff a lot more when I was a teenager — this was the 1990s, when video rental shops were still a thing, and my friends and I used to have sleepovers almost every weekend, where we'd borrow three or four movies and fall asleep in someone's living room while watching them. We had a rotating series of favourites that we'd watch again and again — the first Matrix film and The Fifth Element were firm favourites, as were a bunch of the classic 1990s slasher films, plus the usual suspects among 1990s teen romantic comedies, The Craft, etc. My sister and I also used to rent and watch the same films over and over again.
But other than a couple of Buffy and Angel rewatches at various points in the past twenty years, and Matthias and I occasionally rewatching previously viewed films as part of our New Year's Eve themed movie nights (e.g. all three LotR films), rewatching is definitely less common for me than rereading. I assume this is because it's much more of a timesuck — in general I read much more quickly than I can watch a film or a TV show, and I have more control over how much I read in a single sitting, whereas viewing is dictated by the lenghth of the film or the TV episode.
What about you? Do you return to longform audiovisual media for repeat viewings? Has this changed over time? Is this different to your approach to rereading books?
Today's open thread concept came to me when I was thinking about how frequently I reread books (there are certain books within my line of sight right now that I'm pretty sure I have probably reread several hundred times), and how rarely in comparison I rewatch films or TV shows. I definitely rewatched stuff a lot more when I was a teenager — this was the 1990s, when video rental shops were still a thing, and my friends and I used to have sleepovers almost every weekend, where we'd borrow three or four movies and fall asleep in someone's living room while watching them. We had a rotating series of favourites that we'd watch again and again — the first Matrix film and The Fifth Element were firm favourites, as were a bunch of the classic 1990s slasher films, plus the usual suspects among 1990s teen romantic comedies, The Craft, etc. My sister and I also used to rent and watch the same films over and over again.
But other than a couple of Buffy and Angel rewatches at various points in the past twenty years, and Matthias and I occasionally rewatching previously viewed films as part of our New Year's Eve themed movie nights (e.g. all three LotR films), rewatching is definitely less common for me than rereading. I assume this is because it's much more of a timesuck — in general I read much more quickly than I can watch a film or a TV show, and I have more control over how much I read in a single sitting, whereas viewing is dictated by the lenghth of the film or the TV episode.
What about you? Do you return to longform audiovisual media for repeat viewings? Has this changed over time? Is this different to your approach to rereading books?
Daily Happiness
Feb. 12th, 2026 06:36 pmtorachan1. They finally fixed the broken restroom at work! The store does not have enough restrooms. There is one set of gendered multi-stall employee restrooms upstairs, but the men's has only one stall. Downstairs there are multi-stall restrooms by the food court (two stalls in the men's) and two single toilet gender neutral ones on the other side of the store. The single toilet ones are closest to me now that my desk moved, as I just have to pop downstairs and it's right there, but due to some issues with the door/door frame, one of them has been closed since early December, and it has been so awful, especially during the holiday season. But now the door is finally fixed and both are open, so the days I've been at the store this week, there hasn't been a single time where I've had to wait for a toilet. Huzzah!
2. I made an appointment for my tattoo touch-up, now that it's fully healed. Since I'll be out of town half the week next week, I just asked for something the week after, and got set up for two weeks from today.
3. I usually take my lunch to work, but didn't have anything quick and easy to take today, so I planned to buy something, and remembered that they just introduced a roast beef salad, so I got that. It was really good! The dressing said it was truffle wasabi but neither flavor was very strong. I don't care about truffle at all, but I do like wasabi, and could have stood for it to be a bit tangier but I liked it. In addition to the beef and greens, it also had asparagus, baby corn, and tomatoes.
3. Chloe in the blankets again! (The previous picture I posted of her with her head sticking out from the blanket is now my most popular post on bluesky with like 1.7K likes. I normally get like ten lol. I think my previous most popular photos were a couple hundred?)
2. I made an appointment for my tattoo touch-up, now that it's fully healed. Since I'll be out of town half the week next week, I just asked for something the week after, and got set up for two weeks from today.
3. I usually take my lunch to work, but didn't have anything quick and easy to take today, so I planned to buy something, and remembered that they just introduced a roast beef salad, so I got that. It was really good! The dressing said it was truffle wasabi but neither flavor was very strong. I don't care about truffle at all, but I do like wasabi, and could have stood for it to be a bit tangier but I liked it. In addition to the beef and greens, it also had asparagus, baby corn, and tomatoes.
3. Chloe in the blankets again! (The previous picture I posted of her with her head sticking out from the blanket is now my most popular post on bluesky with like 1.7K likes. I normally get like ten lol. I think my previous most popular photos were a couple hundred?)
short update again
Feb. 13th, 2026 12:05 amsolenne went out with coworkers(????) from the professional training for drinks. bonded over fanfiction and tlt with some peopel from uni who are also doing the training. overshared and followed each other on socials (private ones which are the important ones)
very happy, might regret tomorrow
Solenne
very happy, might regret tomorrow
Solenne
Does this qualify as banality of evil?
Feb. 12th, 2026 07:09 pmoursin"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker:
London is being used as the backdrop for inaccurate viral videos that reach enormous audiences around the world by playing into the worst stereotypes about the capital.
This was an investigation into one man who was doing this thing:
Last summer, the man says, he found himself sitting in his car, analysing trends on TikTok. His day job was conducting viewings for an estate agency but he was trying to come up with an idea for a viral video account that could be run as a money-making side-hustle.
“I was thinking of unique videos I can do for people,” he says on the tape.
That’s when he had a brainwave: “Hate brings views.”
At that time protests outside asylum hotels were spreading across the country. The man says he noticed “far-right people” were among the most engaged on TikTok. They were easy to rile up: “They hate such videos of illegal migrants. I was like, why not?”
....
The TikToker appears to have no concept of the potential real-world impact of his uploads, instead considering everything in terms of view counts and pieces of content.
So he made fake videos about immigrants being housed in prime properties, to which he had access through his job.
He had originally found he could make money through posting videos on TikTok but 'TikTok immediately deleted his account because he was just stealing other people’s videos and reposting them'.
There seems to be just a total disconnect going on in the guy's mind (or he's just ethically vacuous) and generally he does not appear the sharpest blade in the drawer:
Despite fostering online hatred, the man recorded.... insists he doesn’t personally share the views expressed on his TikTok account. Instead, he suggests his fake anti-migrant house tour videos were just a way to game the algorithm, build an audience, and hopefully make money.
He's also
baffled. He can’t understand how London Centric traced his anonymous hate-filled London TikTok account back to his employer by geolocating the wheelie bins in his videos.
“I thought no one’s gonna notice that,” he says. “Why would someone?”
As if people aren't doing this sort of thing all the time.
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Feb. 12th, 2026 05:06 pmsummerstormAs of today, and since this weekend, I am caught up on two whole currently airing shows -- 9-1-1 and The Pitt -- and I can't begin to describe what a big deal this is to me. I don't think this has happened at all in the past decade, possibly since 2013. I've always had this... wall keeping me from watching things as they aired, like I was scared of what would happen and wanted spoilers first, but then I wouldn't go back and watch anyway? See: Stranger Things, of which the last episode I saw was 4.07.
The thing is, I would always choose things that I knew wouldn't make feel any feelings at all. I've watched so many Blood on the Clocktower streams. I still do, because it's fun! But the fact that I was able to catch up on 9-1-1 specifically is like, wow, did I make a new neural pathway? Am I really capable of overcoming the restrictions my brain saddles me with? Holy shit.
Anyway, they've both been fun. Hopefully they continue to be fun, and I can ignore spec nonsense on tumblr before it ruins my enjoyment.
The thing is, I would always choose things that I knew wouldn't make feel any feelings at all. I've watched so many Blood on the Clocktower streams. I still do, because it's fun! But the fact that I was able to catch up on 9-1-1 specifically is like, wow, did I make a new neural pathway? Am I really capable of overcoming the restrictions my brain saddles me with? Holy shit.
Anyway, they've both been fun. Hopefully they continue to be fun, and I can ignore spec nonsense on tumblr before it ruins my enjoyment.
Community Thursday
Feb. 12th, 2026 05:04 amvriddyCommunity Thursday challenge: every Thursday, try to make an effort to engage with a community on Dreamwidth, whether that's posting, commenting, promoting, etc.
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Daily Happiness
Feb. 11th, 2026 08:26 pmtorachan1. It's the annual insurance open enrollment period at work, and even if we want to keep the exact same plans we currently have, we are required to go in to a session with HR and confirm everything in person, which is annoying, especially as I looked at the calendar and the times they were having a session at the Gardena store were all not great with my schedule. But I saw that there was one at the West LA store today, so last night I messaged the HR guy who is handling it and asked if I could go to that one or if it's just for employees at that location, and he said it was fine, so I popped over there quickly this morning and got that done and then otherwise just worked from home. Plus I hadn't been to that store in several months, and it was nice to see my old employees.
2. I bought a couple sumo tangerines the other day at the store and had one for breakfast this morning and it was so good.
3. Suspicious Gemma! What am I plotting taking her picture like that!?
2. I bought a couple sumo tangerines the other day at the store and had one for breakfast this morning and it was so good.
3. Suspicious Gemma! What am I plotting taking her picture like that!?
Rough week
Feb. 11th, 2026 05:14 pmmuccamukkSomeone on bluesky said something to the effect that yesterday she didn't know that a town called Tumbler Ridge existed, and she profoundly wished she still didn't know.
I did actually know that Tumbler Ridge existed, but I understand where she's coming from.
This really sucks.
I did actually know that Tumbler Ridge existed, but I understand where she's coming from.
This really sucks.
Wednesday reading
Feb. 11th, 2026 07:07 pmredbirdJanuary was rereading, and not much of that: Paladin of Souls, by Lois McMaster Bujold, and Sorcery and Cecilia by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer: the latter was a read-aloud, with Cattitude and Adrian switching off depending on which character the letter was from.
I also bounced off a couple of rereads, and read news and other articles online.
Just finished:
Grown Wise, by Celia Lake: another of her Albion historical romances, set in a fantasy Britain with a middle-sized community of people who use or are aware of magic. This one is set a couple of years after World War II, and people are dealing with both individual loss and trauma, and the war's effects on the land. I enjoyed this, but I don't know whether it would be confusing as a starting point. (It's the first in a new series of these books, which might help.)
I also bounced off a couple of rereads, and read news and other articles online.
Just finished:
Grown Wise, by Celia Lake: another of her Albion historical romances, set in a fantasy Britain with a middle-sized community of people who use or are aware of magic. This one is set a couple of years after World War II, and people are dealing with both individual loss and trauma, and the war's effects on the land. I enjoyed this, but I don't know whether it would be confusing as a starting point. (It's the first in a new series of these books, which might help.)