[This is a repost of a post I made this month on my PatreonThis isn't really an organized meta post or review so much as a few half-finished thoughts I wanted to get out after I read a Cap miniseries a few weeks ago that I can't really stop thinking about, because it had a scene that really stuck with me and that I think we could use more of in ( Read more... )

What I Just Finished Reading

Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder: A very well-written (I mean, it won a Pulitzer) but also extremely unflinching biography. If you're the kind of person who wants the authors you love to also have been perfect people, you may want to avoid this. I'm still trying to figure out ( Read more... )

What I Just Finished Reading

Emma Vanderpool, Sacri Pulli: A Tale of War and Chickens: I stole this out of Lysimache's bag before she could take it to school; it is a story for beginning Latin students about the consul Publius Claudius Pulcher and the sacred chickens and it does in fact have several chapters written from the POV of a chicken (whose ( Read more... )

Reposting some short meta from Tumblr about Tony's companies, mostly...

( Under the cut )

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Fallen Angels #1, Guardians of the Galaxy #11, History of the Marvel Universe #5, Invaders #11, Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #50, X-Men #2 )

As an addendum to my previous post, the vote tabulation here was even better (or possibly worse) this time than watching the newspaper update a Google Sheet in real time. This time, what happened was that after the polls closed, while the local news was still saying 0% reporting, people were posting to the local Facebook group pictures of ( Read more... )

An anon asked me an interesting question on Tumblr and I thought I would repost my answer here for posterity.

Anonymous asked a question: hi! do you have any advice you're up to sharing about writing early canon steve? I feel like later canon steve has more of a weariness/idealism duality going on, plus a lot more anger. what do you think ( Read more... )

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing. Sigh.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Doctor Strange Annual #1, Excalibur #1, Ironheart #11 )

What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing! But I am getting a few words written.

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Avengers #25, Marauders #1, Strikeforce #2, Tony Stark Iron Man #17 )

Bidding went live for Marvel Trumps Hate the other day and continues all week; I suspect I am currently, um, in excess of what most people are hoping to pay, but I'm offering a Steve/Tony story hereI don't know what I'll end up with this year; I have my eye on a few people (and have been outbid on most of them) but I think mostly I'm going to wait ( Read more... )