Comments | tsuki_no_bara: i haven't done the reading meme in two months O.O

tsuki_no_bara

i haven't done the reading meme in two months O.O

Dec 27, 2017 21:28

What I just finished reading:
the amazing adventures of kavalier and clay, FINALLY. i figured out why i bogged down and stopped reading it last time. ( cut for spoilers )

holy shit cold, dr who, furniture, new job second floor, wednesday reading meme, city planning, hee, the librarians

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donutsweeper December 28 2017, 02:52:16 UTC

I totally spaced on The Librarians returning and I meant to catch up but now there's a million Yuletide fics to read so... meh, I'll watch eventually. Probably. There were some plot holes last season that kind of annoyed me so I'm not chomping at the bit to return to it.

Wow that chair tree growing thing is fascinating.

tsuki_no_bara December 29 2017, 03:50:49 UTC

i missed almost all of last season but don't feel too lost. read yuletide. the librarians will still be there when you're done.

i love that someone thought "what if we could just grow a chair?" and then made it happen. so ecologically nifty.

nomercles December 28 2017, 07:54:56 UTC

Oh, man, please tell me your thoughts on River of Teeth. I followed her on Twitter (when I had one) during her writing it, and her outtakes were *hilarious*, but that doesn't always translate to in the story. If it's even a fraction, though, it should be amazing.

tsuki_no_bara December 29 2017, 04:13:15 UTC

i love the hippos, and i love that particular bit of alternate history. (the fact that the us government really did consider importing hippos as a meat source cracks me up. i mean, what does hippo even taste like?) i'm not sure how i feel about the characters yet, altho i've only met three of the five people on the team, and i'm on the third chapter and just now learning what the job they've been hired to do is. (it's been alluded to a bunch of times so i think it should have been made clear earlier.) one of the characters is non-binary, and i'm constantly thrown by the narrative referring to "them", i think because i'm just not used to it. i don't love the story yet but i do want to know what happens next.

nomercles December 29 2017, 18:07:54 UTC

I believe she said hippo tastes a little bit like pork. She was invited to a safari-type thing a couple of years ago, along with another of my favorite authors which is how I learned of her, and they had hippo jerky.

And man, the pushback she got on having a non-binary character. Oof. She got a bit...strident with it, and for good cause.

amberdreams December 28 2017, 09:29:17 UTC

That growing furniture project though. Not exactly profitable, is it. Looking at that one chair he's harvested, I feel he'd be better off calling himself an artist and entering the Turner Prize.

I really enjoyed the Dr Who Christmas special! Though, dammit. I am going to miss Peter Capaldi - i thought he was a terrific Dr. I am thinking I should try and get hold of The Librarians, it does sound like fun.

Remind me - Kal Wallace - is her fanfic still available and what's her fannish ID?

tsuki_no_bara December 29 2017, 04:32:45 UTC

not profitable yet! but maybe someday. i'm sure there's a market for harvested chairs, altho it might not be a very big one, but if he can sell his chairs as artisanal and organic - i don't know if they count as handcrafted, but a good pr person could work in a lot of trendy buzzwords - he might be able to get a lot of money for them. it's a really cool idea, in any case.

i think i've only seen a couple of episodes with twelve - bbc america reruns them - but he seemed like he'd be a good doctor. and the librarians is really cute! i think it's on its third or fourth season.

kali was ignipes on lj/dw, so i assume that's who she is on ao3. she wrote one of my favorite spn fics, the edge of the known world. i think she wrote wincest but none of what i read was explicit.

amberdreams December 29 2017, 08:27:34 UTC

Oh yes! ignipes! I've been working my way through the fics on AO3 since you mentioned her previously. Now I need to find a way to fix her two identities in my stupid brain, because her fanfics are indeed excellent.

I loved Capaldi's Doctor because he was as mad as a box of frogs. That was once I'd got over the expectation that he was going to punctuate his dialogue with lots of fucks after seeing him in The Thick of It.

dear_tiger December 29 2017, 01:24:21 UTC

Dude! Kali Wallace! Me too spent hours and hours of my life reading and rereading her SPN fic and loving every minute of it! I don't like YA but I marked this on Amazon, because Kali Wallace! Seeing those great SPN writers who made it into professional writing is really lovely.

You report back on the River of Teeth. For some reason I really have an itch in me to troll this book.

tsuki_no_bara December 29 2017, 04:59:58 UTC

did i tell you about shallow graves? her first novel. it's creepy and disturbing and even tho it's ya there's no love triangle. there isn't even a love interest. isn't it great when someone whose fic you like publishes an original novel? you can show your appreciation with money, not just comments!

i have an itch to troll rivers of teeth too. go fig. i need someone to read it along with me, so i have someone to ask "does this make sense?" and "can you make this make sense to me?" like, the author put a dam on the mississippi river, which is fine, except the lake formed from the dam should be upstream, and she has it downstream, and that's not how dams work. and if you dam the mississippi and fill the resultant lake with man-eating hippos, you're cutting off a MAJOR route to the gulf of mexico and the atlantic. and it doesn't make sense that people and businesses would let that slide for any length of time. plus the characters feel kind of like the author was ticking off a lot of diversity boxes, altho to be fair i've only ( ... )