What I just finished reading:
brunelleschi's dome which i enjoyed because a. architecture! b. renaissance engineering! and c. it's just very entertainingly written. but i really wanted some modern diagrams because a lot of the descriptions of how the dome was built were hard to visualize.

What I am reading now:
alif the unseen by g willow wilson ( Read more... )

what a weekend, huh? (especially for the americans in the audience.) we lost shelley duvall, richard simmons, dr ruth westheimer, and shannen doherty, then someone took a potshot at former president cheetolini, then jd hillbilly elegy vance got the nod for republican vp. and argentina won the copa america (google "copa america final" and see ( Read more... )

oh my flist it's been like a million years. in no particular order here's some shit i did the past, uh, six weeks:

• saw furiosa which i mostly liked - i really enjoy the hotter hemsworth playing a villain - altho i just can't buy that anya taylor-joy physically grows up to be charlize theron. definitely liked the additions to the mad max lore tho.
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pretend it's still wednesday and i didn't just dump a month and a half update on you.

What I just finished reading:
eva moves the furniture which i ended up mostly liking altho i kept reading it thinking you've got ghosts! because it's obvious that's who the companions are. the main character meets a nice jewish boy who isn't just "the jewish ( Read more... )

What I just finished reading:
the fairy bargains of prospect hill which i enjoyed altho the vague time period continued to kind of annoy me. i liked the world of the fae - it's beautiful and magical and cruel and nothing grows there that wasn't acquired from humans. if historical fantasy with the fair folk in america is your thing i recommend it ( Read more... )

i have returned from the wars! and by "wars" i mean "the cape". i wrote about 2700 words, which i used to be able to do in a couple hours rather than a couple days, and after a while i wondered if it was boring because i thought it was because i know how bad my worldbuilding is and i've been kind of poking at this story for a year and i don't ( Read more... )

my sister's birthday was yesterday (chorus: "happy birthday!") so i took her out for dinner and had a delicious salmon and equally delicious sangria and it was very civilized and classy and then i went to bed at a completely ridiculous hour because i was *looks shifty* writing smut. ahem ( Read more... )

my sister and i saw bullet train last night and it was funny and surreal and convoluted and increasingly violent and had two really fun cameos and we both enjoyed it. a couple times i had to suspend my disbelief so hard it broke but i think it was that kind of movie. good soundtrack, too. after that we had mexican for dinner (delicious) and ( Read more... )

my sister and i saw thor 4: more thor - i mean, uh, love and thunder on friday (which threw off my whole weekend because i'm so unused to doing stuff after work) and, uh, well, you get to see the hotter hemsworth's naked ass. it's a good ass. :D i mostly enjoyed it altho it was pretty silly before it suddenly switched to serious superhero mode. ( Read more... )

rip bernard cribbins, aka donna noble's grandfather. i only ever saw him on doctor who, but i loved him as wilf. i mean, who wouldn't? right? i read part of a really lovely tribute from russell t davies on tumblr and was so glad i was locked away in my office and there was no one around ( Read more... )