Kamela H is trying, okay

Perhaps Franklin D Rogenielt is what the Democrats need

Oh hello!

Yeah. I keep thinking, what to call this genre? I feel like “historical fantasy” is what you’re talking about. Is this more low fantasy? Which, fine. But it’s not hitting nearly as hard as, say, Bujold.

Btw, do we know each other IRL? I’ve been failing to figure that out since you followed me 😂

A couple weeks ago, I accidentally bought a big bag of idly rice, thinking it was a brand. Tonight, I’m learning firsthand (first…mouth?) the wonders of South Indian food, thanks to a place I didn’t previously know existed. Hoo this stuff is good. And hey, maybe I’ll learn to make idli.

Fantastic thread, first of all. Interestingly, “rootless” also describes this outfit’s wearer. I’m interested in what @beforewewerewhite.com would have to say about this - a bad outfit, badly worn, by a man who used his power to crap on the people he comes from

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Like if you’re going to do historical fantasy, I’d like maybe a little more fantasy in?

Spoilers I guess, but it’s A Brightness Long Ago. Which overall I’m enjoying, although it seems more like an excuse to nerd out about the politics of the Italian Renaissance without having to be true to the history, ya know?

Strawberries and blueberries in a metal colander

I won’t go quite so far as to say that Nova Scotia berries are happiness in fruit form, but they come close

Oh, he just killed someone I was very much enjoying the character development of, and it was a richly drawn female character, and I hate that.

🤦‍♀️

Truly, there is nothing quite so buoying as a beautiful gay man telling you "you're so pretty!"

I admit I am now mad at Guy Gavriel Kay.

Gavriel, jeez, I can never get this guy’s name right. And thank you, and yes, he is Canadian! Fun.

My partner couldn’t finish it because of the intense alcoholism. I’ve rarely met a piece of art simultaneously so brilliant and so widely triggering

#Booksky, tell me about Guy Cavriel Kay? I feel like I've seen his name all over the place but never read him until starting A Brightness Long Ago a couple weeks ago, which I'm enjoying greatly.

I guess what I'm saying is read this book but maybe take your time. Also know that the ending is crystalline but highly disappointing if you come to care about the characters, which I do, which I always do. WHAT HAPPENS LOUISE

I'd never read #Erdrich before, and I'd heard her stuff was brutal, but goddamn. I was swallowed whole by this book. And it turned out I didn't have to do it. Somebody returned a copy to another branch, and I guess that filled the hold request. I renewed the damn thing right after I finished it

a girl sitting at a table reading a book that says hap pily on the bottom Alt: a girl is reading a book and crying, while gesturing helplessly off-camera.

I did something ill-advised in the past few days, encouraged by a library message suggesting that I would not be able to renew the second of two books I'd borrowed. I'd started the longer one first, like a fool. Thus it was that I ended up reading Future Home of the Living God in about 48 hours

Just got home from seeing the Decemberists, who had never been in Halifax until tonight. It’s like they followed me here, as I had never seen them live until tonight, either. They closed with Mariner’s Revenge Song and it couldn’t have been more perfect

That’s so real. And then later I felt terrible about it. What a masterwork. I still haven’t finished it.

Oh that’s a deep cut.

This scene. 😭

Perfect post

I personally don’t feel yelling at or insulting people who make a moral error helps: not them, but more importantly not you. it is coarsening.

& I know that if you went through my replies you could find instances of me being rude or angry. but I just hope to do better the next time. we all can.

And then just...Shirley MacLaine guesting, Martin Short and Nathan Lane trying to kill each other in an elevator, it's just - what a goddamn delight #onlymurdersinthebuilding

Only Murders continues to be my current guilty pleasure. Tonight's little delightful detail: A search result for the boxing gym the crooked cop runs. It's called "Excessive Force" and has 1.2 stars on Google maps

I got invited to watch the fireworks from an indoor space with a great view where I wouldn't have to hear all the noise, but they postponed the fireworks due to fog.

This has not stopped Some Dipshit from setting off fireworks anyway, presumably *for* the noise.

I will never understand people

My judgy ass in a public place:

But whyyyy do so many people have to say everything that comes into their heads out loud…?

*sends post*

…oh.

During our meeting in New York today, Zohran Mamdani produced a large handsaw and cut a circle around my chair, causing me to fall through the floor to the level below. "Why are you doing this?" I pleaded with him. "Because I'm muslim and communist" he replied