Honesty compels me to admit I would've forgotten to watch the DNC if it hadn't been on after football, but all that aside, I have lots of commentary. Some of it is squeeful, but more of it is analytical and potentially critical, so you have been fairly warned ( Read more... )

So, I finished American Gods last night. I really liked the way it ended. It also made me wonder - it's fairly apparent, throughout the book, that the various gods are strongly affected by the amount of belief in them (for example, the hall of forgotten gods, or whatever it's called.) But this makes me wonder, in a real-life spiritual context: ( Read more... )

Well, I'm completely failing at writing for het_challenge, which is clearly because the deadline is five whole days away - of course, I don't have time to work on this any time but tonight, but that doesn't matter, because obviously the deadline is quite far enough away, thank you. (Dear muses: WHY ( Read more... )

Often when I read a particularly well-crafted story, it makes me ashamed of myself. I am not so brave as the main characters, so able to drive myself forward based on mere will or faith. Neither am I so deep, I think; there are many things it does not occur to me to think on until I have seen it set forth in print by someone else. I think I am, ( Read more... )