Hugo voter packet and accounting, plus a bit of reading and meme

Jun 06, 2018 23:35

49. Whitney Gardner, Chaotic Good -- June must be National Polly Oliver Month or something, because when I went to the library the first weekend in June, the new Teen books section had two titles that caught my eye, new since just a couple of days earlier: Chaotic Good, which is the story of a girl who decides to dress as a guy so as to feel more ( Read more... )

a: alex yuschik, #blackspecfic, ya, short stories, a: mary robinette kowal, reading, podcast, a: whitney gardner, worldcon

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_profiterole_ June 7 2018, 14:52:23 UTC
I've heard of Note Worthy and I'm surprised I hadn't heard of Chaotic Good before.

The Hugos seem to be a lot of work. XD

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hamsterwoman June 7 2018, 20:27:30 UTC
Noteworthy (apparently it's all one word, even though I couldn't tell that from the cover) seems to be more serious than I expected, so I haven't gotten very far into it yet, but I do appreciate also that the protagonist is Asian -- and from San Francisco :)

Chaotic Good is... pretty fluffy for the themes that it's taking on (I thought, anyway). Like, Cameron is in this Gamergate type scenario (only over cosplay), and she is getting online harrassment and eventually phone calls and her (no-longer-valid) address published online, but the focus seems very much on the romantic drama.

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ikel89 June 7 2018, 18:55:49 UTC
I have nothing of substance to say <33 and let's nominate these texts from ghost war for Yule 2k19 :D
(also, mechas fighting ghosts, perhaps, not giant robots?)

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hamsterwoman June 7 2018, 19:52:40 UTC
Haha, thanks for flagging the ghosts thing! This is what I get for posting while sleep-deprived XP

and let's nominate these texts from ghost war for Yule 2k19 :D

I'm seriously thinking of nominating for YT for the first time ever because of this story (and also my displeasure of not having Morrolan in the Dragaera tagset last year, for full disclosure, but still). And maybe even making a pimping post, because more people need to read this story and there needs to be 5/Hyeon fic (or 5/Chung Sol fic, or just fic in general)

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ikel89 June 7 2018, 19:56:16 UTC
I already have a prompt ready: now that Hyeon's house is ghost territory, he gets into the habit of showing up at Five's barracks and making himself at home there, to Five's great annoyance. :D Chung Sol is a shipper on the deck, and it is his personal tragedy that Hyeon keeps seeing him as a contender for Five's attentions. He is just there to make sure the two make out eventually!!

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hamsterwoman June 7 2018, 22:17:52 UTC
Perfect XD

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spellingmistake July 14 2018, 01:13:57 UTC
"Ms Figgle-DeBitt's Home for Waywayrd A.I.s"
- Sounds like something I'd read.

About fanwrites - what fandoms?

Also what exactly is a podfick?

PS
Trope: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything

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