i have a couple things to say about the last thing i finished
What I just finished reading:
not just finished, because i finished it a while ago and just never posted about it, but patience & esther: an edwardian romance, written and drawn by sw searle, which is a super cute and super sweet graphic novel about two girls (patience is white and esther is indian) who meet as housemaids in an english country estate in 1910 and fall in love. SUPER CUTE. also a tch graphic. there are vibrators. and loving closeups. the girls end up in london working for the niece of the guy who owns the estate, because he dies and his widow closes up the house, and one of the niece's friends is a jewish woman (mentioned once and otherwise irrelevant, which is actually ok) who today would probably identify as non-binary. when the girls first meet her she's dressed in men's clothes, altho with her hair down, and when they meet her again (she and her husband own a bunch of buildings and have a flat to rent to them) she's wearing a dress. and when the girls comment on it, she says she wears pants because she wants people to take her seriously when she tells them she's not a woman but she doesn't feel like a man either. and i thought well, i don't doubt there were non-binary folks in london in the early 1900s, but i do doubt that's how they'd phrase it.
also, the second section is set in 1915, and even tho patience has brothers (and probably brothers-in-law by this point) who would be of an age to join the army, there is ZERO mention of ww1. NONE. i totally get that it's a romance and romances are very happy-ending stories and ww1 is, uh, kind of a downer. but i was still surprised there wasn't even a vague mention, even tho the story is pure romance and bringing in the war would bring it down. so i get it but at the same time i was briefly pushed out of the story by how ahistorical it was.
also somehow esther has gotten her hands on a translation of sappho's poems while she's working at the country estate in 1910, and i could barely suspend my disbelief for that.
What I am reading now:
jade city which i am enjoying thoroughly. gangsters and magic and fighting, oh my! seriously, tho, there's a lot going on in it but it's all good.
What I'm going to read next:
spirit machine: tales of seance fiction, an anthology i helped kickstart because
apiphile has a story in it. scifi + spiritualism + steampunk. it sounded interesting.
one of my pi's at work keeps getting fedex invoices for stuff he hasn't shipped, because it turns out a previous admin (who wasn't his admin) set up a fedex account with his office as the shipping and billing address. which i figured out and (hopefully) fixed after spending WAY TOO LONG on fedex.com today. i guess if you dick around on a web site long enough you'll eventually get to the page you need that will let you change the contact info and the billing address on the account. you just have to dick around for a while and swear at it.
other than that my day was very quiet. i could've been working on my bang, but... no. i'm feeling slightly "bored now" about it, which is a problem. hopefully i'll get my shit together before may 1.
here's a story about a creepy-ass haunted house and the guy who rented it, tried to fix it up, and sold tickets to it so the public could be scared.
not just finished, because i finished it a while ago and just never posted about it, but patience & esther: an edwardian romance, written and drawn by sw searle, which is a super cute and super sweet graphic novel about two girls (patience is white and esther is indian) who meet as housemaids in an english country estate in 1910 and fall in love. SUPER CUTE. also a tch graphic. there are vibrators. and loving closeups. the girls end up in london working for the niece of the guy who owns the estate, because he dies and his widow closes up the house, and one of the niece's friends is a jewish woman (mentioned once and otherwise irrelevant, which is actually ok) who today would probably identify as non-binary. when the girls first meet her she's dressed in men's clothes, altho with her hair down, and when they meet her again (she and her husband own a bunch of buildings and have a flat to rent to them) she's wearing a dress. and when the girls comment on it, she says she wears pants because she wants people to take her seriously when she tells them she's not a woman but she doesn't feel like a man either. and i thought well, i don't doubt there were non-binary folks in london in the early 1900s, but i do doubt that's how they'd phrase it.
also, the second section is set in 1915, and even tho patience has brothers (and probably brothers-in-law by this point) who would be of an age to join the army, there is ZERO mention of ww1. NONE. i totally get that it's a romance and romances are very happy-ending stories and ww1 is, uh, kind of a downer. but i was still surprised there wasn't even a vague mention, even tho the story is pure romance and bringing in the war would bring it down. so i get it but at the same time i was briefly pushed out of the story by how ahistorical it was.
also somehow esther has gotten her hands on a translation of sappho's poems while she's working at the country estate in 1910, and i could barely suspend my disbelief for that.
What I am reading now:
jade city which i am enjoying thoroughly. gangsters and magic and fighting, oh my! seriously, tho, there's a lot going on in it but it's all good.
What I'm going to read next:
spirit machine: tales of seance fiction, an anthology i helped kickstart because
apiphile has a story in it. scifi + spiritualism + steampunk. it sounded interesting.
one of my pi's at work keeps getting fedex invoices for stuff he hasn't shipped, because it turns out a previous admin (who wasn't his admin) set up a fedex account with his office as the shipping and billing address. which i figured out and (hopefully) fixed after spending WAY TOO LONG on fedex.com today. i guess if you dick around on a web site long enough you'll eventually get to the page you need that will let you change the contact info and the billing address on the account. you just have to dick around for a while and swear at it.
other than that my day was very quiet. i could've been working on my bang, but... no. i'm feeling slightly "bored now" about it, which is a problem. hopefully i'll get my shit together before may 1.
here's a story about a creepy-ass haunted house and the guy who rented it, tried to fix it up, and sold tickets to it so the public could be scared.