Previously, in Trip's Life...
31 August 2018 - Friday
Because my ear doesn't work, if I sleep on the wrong side, I can't hear
my alarm. This is bad.
Three more episodes of The Good Place. Michael seems to
be showing character growth, but I don't trust it. Also, I am personally
offended by the Bad Place people, even though they have a train.
Heroine's Journey (Sarah Kuhn) is the third book in the
series, the one the author read the beginning of at Worldcon. It is from
the PoV of yet another member of the superhero team/found family, the
former annoying-little-sister who is now all grown up, really. Like the
other characters, she is pretty messed up, because how can you even write
about humans who aren't? But these romances are way too straight.
The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist (SL Huang) is the
queer reversed "Little Mermaid" that the author read from at Worldcon.
It has all the important bits, including complete doom.
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30 August 2018 - Thursday
I skipped work in the morning to go to urgent care and have a very
nice nurse irrigate my ear, but it remained barren of sounds. I will
have to go back on Saturday for a specialist, because I am just that
defective.
Troika is a
super-minimal RPG, old-school but not OD&D-based. It has like two stats,
and a mandatory roll on d66 for a character background that sets skills
(and spells). Pretty much the whole setting (such as it is) is encoded in
the backgrounds, for example, 14 Cacogen You are Those
Filthy Born, spawned in the hump-backed sky lit only by great black
anti-suns and false light. Your mother was sailing on the golden barges or
caught in some more abstract fate when she passed you, far from the
protective malaise of the million spheres. You were open to the power and
the glory at a generative time and it shows in your teratoid form. or
16 Claviger The key masters wander the universe
fathoming the workings of all entry ways they can find. Though they're
quite fascinated with simple chests and doors, they are most excited by
metaphysical and metaphorical barriers. You might find small conclaves of
clavigers camped around the feet of demon gates, debating appropriate
methods of attack or building obscure machines of entry. Seems cool,
and I'm not even sure I'd have to convert it to PbtA.
The Good Place 4-6: Now we know what's up with [SPOILER],
but the characters don't seem to be addressing the obvious question that
raises. Once again, divide and conquer is the MO of the overclass.
(Not that the overclass is coming off as all that superior, extra
dimensions aside.)
I've been slowly reading through 13th Age
Glorantha, but although I like many of the ideas, I'm not sure I like
it as a game. Even more than standard 13th Age, it
relies on a profusion of small, slightly useful, special case rules that
only come up once in a while. A good example is the standard bonus for a
rune gift in the healing category: it gives you an extra recovery, but you
can't just increase your max recoveries by 1 and carry on, because this
recovery is Special and has different rules than all other recoveries, so
you have to track it separetely and decide, every time you heal with a
recovery, whether this is the right time to use it. And everything is like
that: rune gifts (the equivalent to magic items) and class abilities are
almost all "daily" or "recharge" abilities, meaning you get to use them
once or an unpredictable but small number of times every few sessions (a
month or more of player time) and have to keep track of their availability
and decide which one to use at every opportunity. Class abilities (spells,
etc) at least give you some amount of bang in exchange for the cognitive
load, but rune gifts are just large enough that you'll suffer if you try to
blow off the system.
I expect that Dave, Mike, and Ken will all love this, because it's very
board-game like and they like finding the synergies among ten million
different rules, but the idea feels me with a deep lack of interest in
jumping through those hoops. Or playing D&D at all, really. It's 2018, FFS!
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29 August 2018 - Wednesday
My ear seems to have stopped working. I tried both water and
over-the-counter stuff, but no dice. Unless it spontaneously clears up
overnight, I guess I will have to go to the doctor tomorrow. Like an old
defective person who is falling apart.
No 13th Age,
Ken is something.
Marith shared her raviolis with me. She is a good flatmate.
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28 August 2018 - Tuesday
Heroine Worship (Sarah Kuhn) isn't the book the author read
from at Worldcon, but comes between that one and the one I read. It's from
the PoV of the person the protagonist of the first book felt steamrollered
by, because of course she has her own emotional burdens to bear. Also
there's a plot, or something, that's not really the point of the book.
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27 August 2018 - Monday
No date tonight, Avalon's brain is exploding. 8(
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26 August 2018 - Sunday
No PAD&D5
today, Jeremy has been afflicted with humans at work or something.
I don't think I accomplished anything at all today. Because I pretty much
suck.
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25 August 2018 - Saturday
A routine Saturday. Well, alternate Saturday, since we had cleaners.
- Sailor Moon S 30: Well, that's not ominous at all.
- Laid-Back Camp 7: Ghost stories are important!
- My Hero Academia 36: Of course we had to cliffhanger before
Deku's exam.
- Love, Chuunibyo, & Other Delusions 2.3: The Boop episode!
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24 August 2018 - Friday
Yay, Avalon is still alive!
Snotgirl vol 1 (Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung) is about a
fashion blogger in LA who is kind of a terrible person, but probably all you
need to know to decide whether to read it is that it's by the Scott
Pilgrim guy, but is mimetic rather than magical realism.
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23 August 2018 - Thursday
I don't seem to have any brain at all this week.
Marith and I watched the first three episodes of The Good
Place, because two episodes (of a later season) were up for Hugos.
Now she has Theories.
Sworn to the Night and Detonation Boulevard
(Craig Schaefer) are the first two of a trilogy that seems to be tying
together the author's two related urban fantasy/horror series and one
secondary-world series. I'm here for lesbian antihero romance struggling
against doom from before history and also rich assholes getting destroyed,
but the interdimensional fantasy stuff doesn't seem to fit very well with
the horror stuff, even though it's pretty dark fantasy.
Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword (Henry Lien)
is about as adorable as the title. It is about girl power and
figure-skating-style martial arts and political intrigue.
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22 August 2018 - Wednesday
We had everyone for 13th Age, so we
finished the sword-smithing fight and ate Wuhan
food.
Cool, my 13th Age
Glorantha are here! This makes it more likely that we will play 13G
after Eyes of
the Stone Thief wraps up.
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21 August 2018 - Tuesday
Boss K is in town, and made me and coworkers S and T go to dinner
because talking work at work is not enough. No one knew where to go, so I
guided them to Taiwan. They
weren't overtly repulsed, and I got to walk home conveniently, so I guess
it worked out okay.
Coworker S's new Tesla 3 is pretty spiffy, but seems to have some
software issues.
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20 August 2018 - Monday
There was a little more Worldcon programming today, but I needed a day to be
passively useless and do things like grocery shopping and laundry and drinking
too much Diet Dr Pepper.
Marith, who went to anime on Saturday instead of abandoning most of her
friends, got me all caught up on My Hero Academia.
- My Hero Academia 33-35: Beginning of the finals! Froppy and
Cool Bird Boy are still best! Sticky Head Bulbs is still the worst, and
should get fed to a supervillain! All Might is surprisingly scary when he's
not being cheesy!
The Harbors of the Sun (Martha Wells) ties up the plot that
started in Edge of Worlds, while opening room for many more. I
mean, surely no one will be upset by [SPOILER], right?
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281. Of course, now I have to write something that takes everything I may
have learned at Worldcon into account, so I'm still doomed, but being around
other people who were talking and thinking about writing has improved
morale.
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19 August 2018 - Sunday
Fourth day of Worldcon!
- Macro
to Micro: Worldbuilding Workshop with NK Jemisin was more
geography-building, on spherical planets, and then deriving culture
from that, with audience input, so I was not that interested, even
though possibly I should have been, and bailed out halfway through.
- The conclusion from We
Dressed Those Girls: Subverting Tropes or Reinforcing the Status
Quo? was that subverting tropes is hard, and claiming that
acknowledging the tropes constitutes subverting them and people who don't
understand are the Real Sexists™ does not count.
- Body
Language - How to Improve Your Awareness and Use It in Fiction had
a cartoonist as well as
some writers, so that was an interesting additional perspective.
Anyway, body language is a huge deal, people don't even know they're
reading it, everyone should definitely include it in their dialogue all
the time. Watching humans is good for learning how humans do body
language.
- All the panelists who made it to How
Hollywood Gets It Wrong were doctors, so it was very medically
focused, but "every way possible" probably holds for most other fields.
Useful takeways for oppressing characters: everything takes longer to
heal than they show on TV, and the best place for a disabling but
nonfatal wound is the thigh, to the outside of the femur.
- YA
vs Adult Fiction: Defining Boundaries was mostly panelists who have
written both, so there was a lot of talk about what they thought the
differences were vs what their agents thought the differences were, and
how most of the dividing criteria are flexible anyway because writing,
man. It would have been better without the white guy on the panel
talking over people though.
- Reading:
Kat Tanaka Okopnik was only okay. I think her work is not entirely
to my taste, which is fine. (I think Cat liked it more.) She is down
with social justice, which is good enough for me.
- I think all the panelists for Disability
in the Future were disabled, so it was definitely a better
perspective than might have been found in the past, and I think they
were right that there will always be disabilities of some kind ("Sorry,
ma'am, your neural architecture is just not compatible with the ISO
cyberware standards."). But it felt like they were most interested in
what was coming out nowish alleviate their particular ailments, and
less in how those ailments could be eliminated altogether. (Some of
them said that they wouldn't want their disability to be gone, because
having it made them the person they are today.) I understand this, but
I think it made the panel not as future-oriented as would have been
interesting to me. Maybe we do need to be not terrible
about disabilities now before we can have a good
discussion about the future, but that wasn't the stated goal of the
panel. I dunno, I'm relatively able-bodied, I probably don't get a say
here.
- Earl and Cat escaped before dinner, so I had to go eat very unhealthy
things all by myself. Sniff!
- I tried to go to another Mary Crowell concert, but it was mysteriously
cancelled in favor of a scary old lady telling people what to filk.
- And finally, the Hugos!
Unlike the masquerade, the results are already known, and the MC was
Efficient, so we got through the entire slate in about two hours. Lots
of women, some PoC, no obvious Nazis (suck it, Sad Puppies!). Rebecca
Roanhorse, who is black and indigenous, got both the Campell and a
Hugo, NK
Jemisin got her third Hugo in a row for the third book in her
recent trilogy, which everyone agrees was well
deserved, Murderbot got a Hugo, Bujold got another Hugo,
all was good. Hurray!
THE END!
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Weekly total: 545, but that's with four days off for Worldcon. Without
that, I would have broken 1000 for sure! Probably!
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18 August 2018 - Saturday
Worldcon continues!
- Research
Rabbit Holes was pretty entertaining. Ann Leckie knows of the
Tiffany Problem!
- The Richard
Kadrey reading failed because the author bailed via twitter, but
new author I'd never heard of, Henry
Lien, had props and music for reading from his book about girl
power and figure-skater style kung fu. Hey, look, there's wireless in
here, I can instantly!
- Why
Pluto Was Kicked Out of The Planet Club and What We are Learning About
It Today was more basic than I hoped for, but on the other hand,
glaciers of solid nitrogen!
- I wandered around until I found pho to eat for lunch. It was
good, but messy.
- Alien
Minds: What is Possible and What Can We Do with Them? had most of
the same panelists as yesterday's panel on alien life. The focus was on
communication, which some panelists thought would have to be feasible
in some fashion, but others thought would be impossible, since humans
can barely communicate with each other. No conclusion was reached,
which probably shows something.
- Reading:
Campbell Finalists was Rebecca Roanhorse (part of a short urban
fantasy story about a deer woman and murder), Sarah Kuhn (the beginning
of the third book in her series about Asian-American superheroines in
San Francisco, which was funny enough to make me get the second and
third books even though I was only so-so on the first one), and
Jeannette Ng, who is probably an escaped Love
Nikki character (the beginning of Under the Pendulum
Sun, in which British missionaries travel to a marvelously
surreal fairyland, which is bound to go well).
- The
Body and the Shadow of the Imagination did not convince me that
describing characters is unnecessary, but I can't argue that a telling
detail is worth any number of listed features. (I probably knew
that, but it never hurts to be reminded.)
- The Literary
Beer with Linda Nagata was held not in the convention center but at
a nearby bar, which meant it was terrible, because bars suck. I bailed
after just a few minutes.
- This time we went to the Indian place right next to
the Malaysian place for dinner. Mmm, naan.
- Saturday
Evening Concert: Alexander James Adams and the Canticles was okay,
but not as good as I remember Heather Alexander concerts being. Is that
because the performer has changed, or because the audience has changed?
- The Masquerade
was okay, but I am not a costume geek. The winner was clearly "Alien
Queen", which broke the MC for extra bonus points.
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worldcon readings by marithlizard (Mon Aug 27 02:11:29 2018)
Peasprout Chen, Future Legend of Skate and Sword sounds pretty adorable!
Peasprout Chen by Trip (Thu Aug 30 13:31:29 2018)
It is a pretty adorable book. And I guess other people thought so, since there is a sequel coming out at some point.
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17 August 2018 - Friday
More Worldcon!
- Young
Adult: Looking at the World Through a Skewed Lens at least helped
me understand what the vital characteristics of YA fiction (to extent
that any rules in writing are vital): fast-paced, immediate
(first-person or deep third), young protagonist. I wonder how making
things fast-paced works?
- Pronouns
Matter - Gender Courtesy for Fans was mostly stuff I know, but had
some insights I had not previously considered. For example, in some
cases you may have to misgender someone for their own safety
(relatedly, do not ask people in Omaha for their prounouns), and the
neutral forms of aunt/uncle and neice/nephew might be nuncle and
nibling. Ann Lecki was on the panel, but she did not build a Dyson
sphere while we watched.
- Because it has the same name as the company I work for, and also is
right next to the convention center, I went to Arcadia
for lunch. It wasn't that great, so I should tell the CEO we need to
destroy them as unworthy of the name.
- Signup for kaffeeklatsches was a fiasco, but there was no way I would
have made it into the Ann Leckie one anyway. I went to the one for SB
Divya on Earl's recommendation, though I have not read any of her
work. She seems cool, and is a Techer, so we hung around after the
kaffeeklatsch and she and Earl talked like smart people.
- Ethical
Responsibilities to Alien Life was mostly about simple life,
because that is what most people expect to find in the next few
decades. There was general agreement that we should not stomp all over
anything we find, although taking samples for scientific or business
purposes was not ruled out.
- Playing
For a Better World: Social Activism in Games was mostly about video
games, because kids these days. However, one of the panelists is doing
a FATE sourcebook for how to play disabled characters, so that's
something.
- Erin Mittmann is young and bright, there's no way she should be going to
the same panels as me, but she was in like four of the panels I went to
today. I think she must be defective.
- I bought a few things in the dealers' room, for people. The books are
all still very papery, though, and although there are some board games,
there is strangely no RPG stuff (okay, one small box of Pathfinder,
that's like no RPG stuff).
- Earl, Cat, and I picked
IPOH Garden Malaysian
off the con's restaurant guide. It was pretty good! Malaysian food is
similar to Thai, but different.
- In Reading:
Hugo Finalist BookSmugglers Kate Elliot read a short story from I
guess one of her series? I don't know, she's not an author I follow; SL
Huang read part of a super-queer reversed "Little Mermaid" story but
did not finish so we have to go find the story; and Foz Meadows read
from a WiP that she describes as "big gay hockey idiots in space with
aliens". We didn't get to the aliens, but the rest of it is spot on,
and hilarious.
- Music
of Past, Present and Future! featured some Spider Robinson
performing songs he wrote for his wife of many, many years (now
recently deceased), which was touching, and then a random old filk guy,
so we left after that. (Last time I was at Worldcon, I would not have
found his songs problematic, so I guess I am more work now? Ridiculous
as that seems.)
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16 August 2018 - Thursday
Now, it is time for Worldcon
76! Because I had the good sense to move to San Jose, it was only a
short bus ride to get there, not an international plane flight, and I
arrived well before the registration rush. Go me!
Perhaps I will present this in the form of bulleted list. Bang!
- The dealers' room had many many books, but they were all very papery, and
many many jewelries, but I am not adornable. Still, they were
interesting to look at, and perhaps I will buy some of them.
- For no reason I can discern, there was a large picture of Chrisber,
Tamago, and their offspring in the costume exhibit area. I mean, they were
in costume, but I lack the skill to tell whether their costume was
truly that amazing, and there was no explanatory plaque.
- Across the Gender Spectrum did
not tell me much I did not already know, but it was nice to see people
being of good will.
- Beyond
Yaoi: Trends in LGBTQ+ Representation in Anime & Manga also was not
super-novel, but they did talk about Utena and
Yuri!! On Ice and conclude that things are getting better.
- Hey, look, Earl and Cat are at this con too! (This was not a surprise.)
- I didn't succeed in paying full attention to Chinese
SF/F and its Fandom because I had a schedule to work out, but it
sounds like fandom in China is booming, partially because SF is the
Literature of the Future, and China is all about the future. (Fantasy
and the supernatural, maybe not so much.) They can even get nationally
important people to show up at their cons!
- Mary
Crowell
was pretty filktastic. She has a song about dump stats.
- Ozu Sushi gave us food. I had tofu
udon, which was a little messy but otherwise nice.
- Mirror's Revenge
billed itself as a sequel to Snow White. It was, um. Well,
it was clearly the director's labor of love.
- I could probably have gotten home using light rail, but Earl and Cat gave
me a ride.
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15 August 2018 - Wednesday
Mexican food and 13th Age
(although it turns out that La Vic
has terrible nachos)!
The orcs were all defeated, and we got into the next room mostly still
alive, only to find that this was where the swords waiting to have our names
engraved on them were being kept. If we survive, though, we can write the names
of people we don't like on the swords!
How To Treat Magical Beasts vol 1 (Kaziya) definitely has a "magic
and knowledge are antithetical" position, but it's not as annoying as I
expected.
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But they are all about how I am very stupid and cannot write at all. I mean, I
could work on a different project, but those are all stupid and horrible too.
Maybe more horrible, because I am pretty sure guys should not write smut
(except Chuck Tingle, and then maybe only titles). How did I manage to write a
whole novel that wasn't NaNoWriMo and so had some kind of a plot, even if not a
very coherent one? Maybe my brain was not so old and decrepit. I certainly
didn't have any kind of outline or even an ending, although I did have a goal for
near the end and an excuse to just keep throwing in more monster girls (hey, I
was ahead of my time!). It was a very simple plot, not worthy of a novel, maybe
not even of a novella, but I did at least know one place it was going, which is
perhaps what I need now. Except I need to be better, and have character
development, not just plot progression, I really really really really don't
want to do outlining, because it will make me want to not write the story (it's
already complete!), but maybe it's what I have to do. But I don't want to kill
the story! Aaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhh.
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14 August 2018 - Tuesday
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171, about how I can't write and should die in a pit.
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13 August 2018 - Monday
Edge of Worlds (Martha Wells) continues the adventures of the
shapeshifting dragon people who just want to live in their giant tree but
keep getting mugged by adventures from the distant past. Once again they are
haring all over the Three Worlds trying to keep untold doom from befalling
their people. This time: ocean! And doom. And cliffhanger!
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155. Glaaaaarrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh. None of this is working. I've tried rewriting
this
from the beginning about a million times, or at least half a dozen, but
it never works. I started writing this because I read
Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm A Supervillain
and thought inadvertant middle-school supervillains was a great idea to mix
with the Mythos-based supers setting I was already thinking about, but
apparently I don't have an actual story. I have characters (the protagonist
with her mutatedness and sneaky superpower, the best
friend with her lack of modesty and terrible secret that I've never gotten far
enough to reveal, the supervillain with a built-in dungeon, even some male
characters although I'm not really sure what the point is), I have backstory
(the Terrible Horrible No-Good Very Bad date with Peter Stonebreaker, Slink and
Mina Tauros's grudge), I have setting (the city built near the ruins of
Columbus OH after aliens bombarded it), but it's not adding up into a story
that goes anywhere. Glaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh.
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12 August 2018 - Sunday
This week, we have everyone for PAD&D5!
Although they barely escaped with their lives, and are now majority
slug-mutants, the Heroines of Red Larch must go back in to retrieve the
quest object so that they can continue on their way to retrieve the other
quest object so they can get help getting back where they belong. Despite
their foes having gotten more slimy, scaly, and generally loathsome
reinforcements, things go much better this time (especially when Rimardo
puts up a damage shield and lets the enemy berserkers all have a shot at him).
The enemy leader wriggles away, but the Heroines recover everything that was
stolen as well as the quest item and return triumphantly up the quest stack
to Walter (who has extra tentacles of suspicion but eventually accepts that
the Heroines have not been suborned).
Now they can continue with the quest to retrieve [SPOILER] for [SPOILER],
which they do in the most ham-handed heroic way. Although
Akrá is swallowed by a giant lobster, for the most part the slimy,
scaly, loathsome (yet different) opposition is no match for the Heroines,
and they make off with [SPOILER] (reified as a giant pearl).
Alas, victory is not yet in sight, as it turns out [SPOILER] was their
enemy [SPOILER] all along! [SPOILER] is apparently not committed to the
great conflict, though, having found out too much about their place in the
planned endgame, so a deal is struck. Surely there will be no betrayal
later.
To no one's surprise, the Heroines' way home is in another
castle [SPOILER].
Next session in 4 weeks, it looks like. :(
My flatmate has not died of cat dander (yet), so we watched some more
Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Today: Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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Weekly total: 1696. Better than last week, I guess?
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11 August 2018 - Saturday
I have finally finished Paradise Residence (Kosuke Fujishima),
which is only three volumes long (unlike Oh! My Goddess). It is
cute and all, but not that interesting.
- Sailor Moon S 26-27: Haruka, people might listen to you more
if you ever stopped to explain things instead of just giving orders.
- Nirvana in Fire 48-50: Everything is spiraling inwards as
more people find out more things that had previously been secret
(whether or not they believe them), and there are only four episodes
left for the horrifying collision.
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176. Ugh, up so late.
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10 August 2018 - Friday
Yay, it's Friday.
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9 August 2018 - Thursday
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8 August 2018 - Wednesday
No 13th
Age, too many people are sick or busy.
Look, Avalon is still alive! She texted me!
The third "Murderbot" story, Rogue Protocol (Martha Wells)
is out! Murderbot is still adorable, and other people are still not quite
as hellish as it believes. It looks like the plot will actually come back
around to the beginning in the next story.
Then I had to go back and reread All Systems Red and
Artificial Condition, because Murderbot is adorable.
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7 August 2018 - Tuesday
I skipped out early from work and dashed home, because Avalon is not
dead! But she was afflicted with many irritating humans who sapped her will
to live. I'm glad that's over!
We tried watching Netflix together, which worked pretty well. Dark
Tourism is morbid and probably exploitational in some fashion, but
perfect for a death lord, and at least the guy seems properly appalled by
what he finds.
Bridging Infinity (ed Jonathan Strahan) is an anthology
with the themes of engineering and sensawunda. The world being what it is,
the near-future stories are mostly about terraforming Earth, but there are
ones about various sorts of large-scale engineering (Dyson spheres, sun
drills, etc). None of the stories was horrible, but none of them grabbed me
really strongly.
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6 August 2018 - Monday
Blaaarrrrrrggggghhhhhh.
Children of Time is by Adrian Tchaikovsky, so it is not
surprising that one of the two intersecting plots is very chitinous. The
other is full of doom, so it's good when they bounce off each other, but
mostly I like the chitinous one better. It has biology.
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5 August 2018 - Sunday
HAPPY HAPPY RACHELDAY (observed)!!
Instead of being in Rachel and Jeremy's house like previous years, the
party was at the San Jose Museum
of Quilts & Textiles (which Rachel is on the board of). It was much the
same party, only more conveniently located for me and with more space. Also
there was some art on the walls, but the current exhibit was mostly kind of
meh. That's fine, there were people to talk to there. (There were also
people to look at, I think I'll die in a pit.)
After hanging out for a while, I went home watched a little
Brooklyn Nine-Nine with Marith.
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Weekly total: 1403. Not as bad as last week, anyway.
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4 August 2018 - Saturday
- Steven Universe 5.25: Just what it says on the tin, but
does anything good ever come of going there?
- Sailor Moon S 25: I hope Jus isn't learning to stalk
celebraties from watching the Mimet episodes.
- Laid-Back Camp 6: Secret lake camping!
- Love, Chunibyo, & Other Delusions 2.2: My comment on the
the previous episode turns out to be what this episode is all about! So
adorable!
- My Hero Academia 31: Superhero battles have consequences?!
- My Hero Academia 32: Yay, almost a whole episode of Froppy!
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3 August 2018 - Friday
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2 August 2018 - Thursday
Marith was home at a compatible hour, so we watched episodes 5-7 of
B99. That was pretty entertaining.
Dreadful Company (Vivian Shaw) is the second "Greta Helsing"
book. This time, our unwillingly intrepid monster doctor takes a vacation in
Paris, which turns out to be full of unregulated vampirism and other
supernatural issues for her to get mixed up in. Like the previous book, this
one is... humane? Sometimes violence is called for, after wrongdoers have
failed to knock it off, but it's not portrayed as anything other than awful
and terrifying, and many of the problems arise from people not being taken
care of emotionally. The protagonists don't want glory, or to save the world
(unless it really needs saving, but even then, there are probably people
whose job that actually is), they want friends and home and lives.
I guess the genre is emotionally realistic urban fantasy.
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1 August 2018 - Wednesday
For once, we started
13th Age before
20:30, because Ken ate his
Indian food expediently
and also Kelsey was not excessively late! We are back in the Stone Thief,
finally, and a Koru behemoth is coming to frolic on it. Sadly, our way to
the lower (less frolicked-upon) levels is being blocked by a giant lake of
lava and flaming bile. Also orcs. I hate those guys. (Really, it's on my
character sheet!)
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