Macey

I photograph of the cover of a book, featuring a woman in old fashioned silk dress. The author is Caroline Moorehead. The book is titled dancing to the precipice, with a subtitle of 'The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era.'

Caroline Moorehead!

an extremely chonky biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, broad-scoped to encompass the French Revolution in general. Louis Seize just got executed!

there are authors whose work I can read on my phone while singing 'Fire & Flame' for the fifteenth time to a certain hiccuping gremlin.

Haruki Murakami is not one of them.

mmmmmm silt verses 👌🏻

those look so good!

bees ARE genetically designed to recognize royalty...

nooo

- indeterminate reasons and never thought about it again. and now you're there, trying to be a person against this hostile space, and the Entity couldn't give two shits about that fact.

definitely Stepford-ian. and definitely resonates with hollow LLM extrusions.

- than, say, a franchise McDonald's.

the fact that such a space exists at all is interesting, because that implies SOME form of deliberation - an acknowledgement that there's a void in which Something must go. and then it starts to feel faintly cosmic horror. an Entity created this space for -

There's a word in the whitespace of this article - at least to my reading? - & that's 'soulless.' But also something of the complex system's emergent behavior. (...forgive disconnect, thought interrupted by baby. where was I.)

but yes. Extruded Culture Product, with a more aggressive un-caring -

gotta say this makes me feel pretty good about getting mine & @devzmiller.bsky.social's ballots in despite a) them being in labor & then baby in NICU for nearly all the voting period b) massive storm c) having to run ballots to the box on day 2? 3? of having baby home

should be totally fine for that long if closed

the sequel, I feel, would smell of grave dirt.

...any book with Dani involved would uh. Concern me. to make scented.

(you'd think the answer for Blood of Queens would be obvious. but actually, no, it's not blood - though that would work. it's bonemeal.

smells kinda like blue doritos. or so I've heard >.>)

i have made the cardinal error of trusting New York public transit travel estimates, & for my hubris - FIRE TRUCK!

please. please. i just want to go pick up four yards of fancy imported book cloth to make my sister a bound copy of The Wind In The Willows the size of her clenched fist 😭

A photograph of two snow capped mountains from a plane

A photograph of new york city from a plane

goodbye mountains; hello new york 💙

😂

FFVII first came out approximately seven confederacies ago 🤷🏻‍♀️

oh delightful!!!

"I am 77 pages in to Emily Wilson's Odyssey translation and I am still in the intro. I should pick up a new book for my flight tomorrow." - me, a fool

the new book: a 330 page work in translation with 81 pages of historical context before the text starts (& a 40-page bibliography at the end)

T_T

😂 yeah, but I know the temptation 😅

A photograph of a text with the following sentence highlighted: "When Karásek was launching his literary career in the 1890s, juridical and medical discourses in Central and Eastern Europe were finding a powerful obsession with social degeneration and civilizational collapse, of which homosexuality was deemed a prime symptom"

so I picked up a copy of the translated fin de siecle queer Czech fantasy novel Manfred Macmillan at WorldCon, and...

la plus ça change, huh?

this is how you get kidney stones

ask me how I know >.>

yesssss I love this book, one of my all-time favorite scifis 👀👀👀

biker gangs! hot & Troubled ladies! labour activism turned deadly! immigrants getting jobs done!

I just feel like an enterprising Tamale Lady could clean up at a State Fair parking lot traffic jam 🤔 or a corn dog runner...

but were there corn dogs

...well I somehow completely missed this going up BUT LOOK! CREEPY MUSHROOM MANDRAKE STORY!! who doesn't love a little body horror on the first day of fall!!! :D

I am looking forward to getting to explain why Blood of Queens' working name was 'squid necromancy' tbh

but like. brains. they do stuff! snick-snick-snick go the connections and PING goes the story engine, however many degrees of separation later.

A photograph of an extremely small handmade book with a quarter balanced on top for scale. The book has a yellow book cloth spine and a dark painting of florals as the cover. It is not quite 3 in tall.

A photograph of the inside of the tiny book, showing the first page of a section titled "The Imitation Game".

is it possible to have TOO much Restrained Summer Fun 🤔

anyway yes I now own an Extremely Tiny copy of Alan Turing's original essay on machine intelligence, citing Ada Lovelace.

(because I made it, as one does)

once one learns to make things into books truly the Sky becomes the Limit

the thing this brings to mind is how sharp and intelligent Suzanne Collins' actual books are, versus the tidal wave of Generic YA Dystopias which followed...