it's only right that you should play the way you feel it
Originally posted by musesfool at it's only right that you should play the way you feel it
Last night, I took a Benadryl along with my 1 teaspoon of robitussin with codeine, and I slept through the night! No waking up for a half hour of coughing every two hours! \o/ Of course, I still had to pause in the middle of getting ready for work for an epic bout, but sleeping through the night is such a victory, I can't even tell you.
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Wednesday reading meme! I miss last week for being sick, but I don't think there's all that much to report:
What I've just finished reading
- Black Widow 2
I enjoyed this - the art is beautiful and I like seeing Natasha's idea of atonement play out. There was some talk about it last week on tumblr, but the cat crying at the window and Natasha refusing to let it in - that was totally a metaphor for Bucky, right? (And a callback to how he would creep through her window when she was in the Red Room?) Even though she still doesn't remember him? When she said, "My past is my own," I had a fleeting hope that maybe this memory loss will be addressed sometime soon. Even though it appears everyone else has forgotten about it as well. Otoh, the New Invaders storyline seems concerned with piecing together memories of the past that the characters have forgotten so maybe thematically it's a thing? Especially considering what happened to Carol? I don't know but it seems like it comes up a lot and I wish they would address it because it's still enraging.
- Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
As I mentioned the last time I wrote about it, I feel like it's a little too soft-focus in the early parts, but once Noor decides to do something during the war, it picks up a lot. Interesting and sad. I want the miniseries about her, and all the ladies of SOE, really.
- Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
This is way more fun and funny than the Noor Inayat Khan book, because Nancy Wake survives the war, and also because though her adventures were not any less harrowing, she wasn't alone for most of them. I'd also like to read her autobiography, but it seems to be OOP in the US and used copies are much too expensive, and it doesn't appear to be available from the NYPL (at least, the online search doesn't turn it up). I would enjoy a movie about her, as well.
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
skygiants recommended this and the NYPL had it as an ebook, so I bumped it up on the list. This is also pretty hilarious. The pigeons, I don't even know. But I laughed out loud on the bus reading about them. Until I started on this WWII reading binge, I did not know that all the German spies sent to the UK had been captured and/or turned into double agents. I did know that they'd run a big deception on the Germans re: the location of the D-Day landing, but this book gives you a lot of the details about how that was done, and it is also ridiculous. I definitely recommend it, even if it in some ways promises even more wackiness than it delivers (and it delivers quite a lot of wackiness).
What I'm reading now
- Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers by Jack B. Copeland
So far, this seems like kind of a rehash of The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war, except that it actually explains in detail how things were encoded on the Enigma and Tunny machines, which I found really helpful. I just started it, so it's still kind of a technical snoozer, but hopefully it will start talking more about people and less about the inner workings of machines soon.
What I'm reading next
Macintyre also wrote a book about Agent Zigzag, so I might read that, if it comes through from the library. I have a ton of books on my iPad, so who knows?
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I have reached the point on both of my main wsip where I need to hash out what should happen next (and if what has already happened actually makes sense), and ugh. I miss having a couple of people to talk out my stories with. I find it much easier and more satisfying to write when I've got someone else who is just as excited as I am about the story, and the stories are better, too, because usually they will think of something I've missed or figure out how to fix a problem, etc. I generally don't think about the audience when I'm writing (I don't think about that until I'm getting ready to post so I can figure out how to tag something and also to whine to people about how no one is going to read it), but I do like having one or two people to write for, who I can show the new words and have them get excited with me. Right now, I kind of ambush my friends who are mostly in other fandoms and they try to help, but it's not quite the same, you know?
(I also don't understand people who say they don't write an idea that otherwise interests or excites them because they don't think people will read it; it's one thing to do that when you're trying to sell a story, but in fandom, I really don't understand it. I've written things that had very small, niche audiences - not just for yuletide, I mean - and I've written things I expected only had an audience of me but which turned out to be surprisingly popular, so you really never know. And while of course I would love it if everything I wrote got pages of comments, I'm still pleased to have written the ones only two or three people were interested in, especially if they were things that really pinged for me for some reason.
Of course, I also reread my own stories for comfort reading, so I might be an outlier. It's not that I can't see the problems in my own stories - believe me, I can and do and sometimes I wish I could figure out how to fix them - but I'm my own ideal audience, I guess, so generally speaking, I write a lot of stories I want to read, especially when there aren't a lot of other people writing in the same pairing etc. I always try to encourage other people to write the stories I want to read, but I'm also a little cottage industry of pleasing myself, since getting other people to do it doesn't work out very often anymore.)
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Last night, I took a Benadryl along with my 1 teaspoon of robitussin with codeine, and I slept through the night! No waking up for a half hour of coughing every two hours! \o/ Of course, I still had to pause in the middle of getting ready for work for an epic bout, but sleeping through the night is such a victory, I can't even tell you.
*
Wednesday reading meme! I miss last week for being sick, but I don't think there's all that much to report:
What I've just finished reading
- Black Widow 2
I enjoyed this - the art is beautiful and I like seeing Natasha's idea of atonement play out. There was some talk about it last week on tumblr, but the cat crying at the window and Natasha refusing to let it in - that was totally a metaphor for Bucky, right? (And a callback to how he would creep through her window when she was in the Red Room?) Even though she still doesn't remember him? When she said, "My past is my own," I had a fleeting hope that maybe this memory loss will be addressed sometime soon. Even though it appears everyone else has forgotten about it as well. Otoh, the New Invaders storyline seems concerned with piecing together memories of the past that the characters have forgotten so maybe thematically it's a thing? Especially considering what happened to Carol? I don't know but it seems like it comes up a lot and I wish they would address it because it's still enraging.
- Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu
As I mentioned the last time I wrote about it, I feel like it's a little too soft-focus in the early parts, but once Noor decides to do something during the war, it picks up a lot. Interesting and sad. I want the miniseries about her, and all the ladies of SOE, really.
- Nancy Wake by Russell Braddon
This is way more fun and funny than the Noor Inayat Khan book, because Nancy Wake survives the war, and also because though her adventures were not any less harrowing, she wasn't alone for most of them. I'd also like to read her autobiography, but it seems to be OOP in the US and used copies are much too expensive, and it doesn't appear to be available from the NYPL (at least, the online search doesn't turn it up). I would enjoy a movie about her, as well.
- Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies by Ben Macintyre
skygiants recommended this and the NYPL had it as an ebook, so I bumped it up on the list. This is also pretty hilarious. The pigeons, I don't even know. But I laughed out loud on the bus reading about them. Until I started on this WWII reading binge, I did not know that all the German spies sent to the UK had been captured and/or turned into double agents. I did know that they'd run a big deception on the Germans re: the location of the D-Day landing, but this book gives you a lot of the details about how that was done, and it is also ridiculous. I definitely recommend it, even if it in some ways promises even more wackiness than it delivers (and it delivers quite a lot of wackiness).
What I'm reading now
- Colossus: The Secrets of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers by Jack B. Copeland
So far, this seems like kind of a rehash of The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war, except that it actually explains in detail how things were encoded on the Enigma and Tunny machines, which I found really helpful. I just started it, so it's still kind of a technical snoozer, but hopefully it will start talking more about people and less about the inner workings of machines soon.
What I'm reading next
Macintyre also wrote a book about Agent Zigzag, so I might read that, if it comes through from the library. I have a ton of books on my iPad, so who knows?
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I have reached the point on both of my main wsip where I need to hash out what should happen next (and if what has already happened actually makes sense), and ugh. I miss having a couple of people to talk out my stories with. I find it much easier and more satisfying to write when I've got someone else who is just as excited as I am about the story, and the stories are better, too, because usually they will think of something I've missed or figure out how to fix a problem, etc. I generally don't think about the audience when I'm writing (I don't think about that until I'm getting ready to post so I can figure out how to tag something and also to whine to people about how no one is going to read it), but I do like having one or two people to write for, who I can show the new words and have them get excited with me. Right now, I kind of ambush my friends who are mostly in other fandoms and they try to help, but it's not quite the same, you know?
(I also don't understand people who say they don't write an idea that otherwise interests or excites them because they don't think people will read it; it's one thing to do that when you're trying to sell a story, but in fandom, I really don't understand it. I've written things that had very small, niche audiences - not just for yuletide, I mean - and I've written things I expected only had an audience of me but which turned out to be surprisingly popular, so you really never know. And while of course I would love it if everything I wrote got pages of comments, I'm still pleased to have written the ones only two or three people were interested in, especially if they were things that really pinged for me for some reason.
Of course, I also reread my own stories for comfort reading, so I might be an outlier. It's not that I can't see the problems in my own stories - believe me, I can and do and sometimes I wish I could figure out how to fix them - but I'm my own ideal audience, I guess, so generally speaking, I write a lot of stories I want to read, especially when there aren't a lot of other people writing in the same pairing etc. I always try to encourage other people to write the stories I want to read, but I'm also a little cottage industry of pleasing myself, since getting other people to do it doesn't work out very often anymore.)
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