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Sep. 14th, 2018 08:13 amI did not write yesterday when I got home cause I ended up having a nap that turned into a sleep
but the dancing and shopping went as intended
except for a repeated lack of salad.
I talked to the driver and made sure there are alternative methods of communication on file.
So the non contact cancel shouldn't happen again.
But he wrote down I need a new mobile and I do not, it just needed restarting, that happens sometimes.
Last night's nap was a mass zombie dream I think, but I had healing magic so I could unzombie people, so that seems better than usual.
Obviously I should keep reading Pathfinder rules and accumulating good ideas for powers.
I am still reading paper books. ... I still have so much more Stuff than time to read it all, and still spend most hours daydreaming anyways, but if I ever get back in the habit of writing it down that could become useful again. Still. Paper books. Read the first part of a series yesterday and was not impressed but have already bought the second, so I started it and plan to finish it today. The first one was just very... linear. There's a whole section where they're on automated trucks in a tunnel just rolling forwards at 15 km per hour, and that seemed like a microcosm of what the story did. And the main character was never wrong? I don't just mean they succeeded a lot, I mean their every speculation turned out perfectly accurate, and they never wandered around wondering if this or that person was against them without it turning out they were in fact against them. And this was revealed by a one of point of view shift so we could watch the person thinking, rather than be left with any tension or doubt whatsoever. So it was just... I can see it set out to do a thing and did a thing, but I feel weirdly flat about it.
And I'm still in that mind where I can either criticise or name the book, because only supposed to say something nice.
It had lots of female characters?
I have noticed now that my brain keeps tripping up about gender, because everyone with a military title reads as a he in my head until proven otherwise even though the first filter of the military SF series I read is they're about women. Also when there's more than two genders around I default to a familiar one in my head. Which is doubly annoying when it feels like getting one's own pronouns wrong. Of course there are more than two options! It's just unless I'm concentrating my daft brain just files them as like one or other binary. Ridiculous.
But I have found several things lately where this at least comes up, so that's of the good.
I'm seeing the merit's of Leckie's approach with just saying she for everyone. Granted my brain then tries to default binary, but not the most boring way.
What else...
Have read a few fanfics as they came up on tumblr.
... some people are a lot more into non humans than I am. Like, there are entire stories where the author has put a lot of work into researching other species genitals. Which is fine and interesting and a valid approach to worldbuilding! That just makes me giggle. Not my thing. But then it can go with a lot of thought put into other species potentially very different reactions and social structures and everything? And then it's interesting. Just, it seems particularly weird in fanfic, because we know what these guys look like, as humans, though not usually in much if any detail in that area. And then there's people who gleefully design them new cocks.
*shrugs*
fair enough.
Fanfic I read being mostly romance does all these elaborate things and only builds up to resolving the romance. I end up missing politics and diplomacy and blowing stuff up.
It gets weird going between genres though, because you'll get stories where the sex is kind of vaguely implied in a fade to black and then I feel like we don't know how that relationship works at all as a relationship? As a working partnership, yes, they can do the battle stuff together, we see that. But on a personal level? They freak out when the other is in danger and then... fade to later.
There's got to be in betweens somewhere. Plot with people.
I shall keep reading all the things until I find best bits.
but the dancing and shopping went as intended
except for a repeated lack of salad.
I talked to the driver and made sure there are alternative methods of communication on file.
So the non contact cancel shouldn't happen again.
But he wrote down I need a new mobile and I do not, it just needed restarting, that happens sometimes.
Last night's nap was a mass zombie dream I think, but I had healing magic so I could unzombie people, so that seems better than usual.
Obviously I should keep reading Pathfinder rules and accumulating good ideas for powers.
I am still reading paper books. ... I still have so much more Stuff than time to read it all, and still spend most hours daydreaming anyways, but if I ever get back in the habit of writing it down that could become useful again. Still. Paper books. Read the first part of a series yesterday and was not impressed but have already bought the second, so I started it and plan to finish it today. The first one was just very... linear. There's a whole section where they're on automated trucks in a tunnel just rolling forwards at 15 km per hour, and that seemed like a microcosm of what the story did. And the main character was never wrong? I don't just mean they succeeded a lot, I mean their every speculation turned out perfectly accurate, and they never wandered around wondering if this or that person was against them without it turning out they were in fact against them. And this was revealed by a one of point of view shift so we could watch the person thinking, rather than be left with any tension or doubt whatsoever. So it was just... I can see it set out to do a thing and did a thing, but I feel weirdly flat about it.
And I'm still in that mind where I can either criticise or name the book, because only supposed to say something nice.
It had lots of female characters?
I have noticed now that my brain keeps tripping up about gender, because everyone with a military title reads as a he in my head until proven otherwise even though the first filter of the military SF series I read is they're about women. Also when there's more than two genders around I default to a familiar one in my head. Which is doubly annoying when it feels like getting one's own pronouns wrong. Of course there are more than two options! It's just unless I'm concentrating my daft brain just files them as like one or other binary. Ridiculous.
But I have found several things lately where this at least comes up, so that's of the good.
I'm seeing the merit's of Leckie's approach with just saying she for everyone. Granted my brain then tries to default binary, but not the most boring way.
What else...
Have read a few fanfics as they came up on tumblr.
... some people are a lot more into non humans than I am. Like, there are entire stories where the author has put a lot of work into researching other species genitals. Which is fine and interesting and a valid approach to worldbuilding! That just makes me giggle. Not my thing. But then it can go with a lot of thought put into other species potentially very different reactions and social structures and everything? And then it's interesting. Just, it seems particularly weird in fanfic, because we know what these guys look like, as humans, though not usually in much if any detail in that area. And then there's people who gleefully design them new cocks.
*shrugs*
fair enough.
Fanfic I read being mostly romance does all these elaborate things and only builds up to resolving the romance. I end up missing politics and diplomacy and blowing stuff up.
It gets weird going between genres though, because you'll get stories where the sex is kind of vaguely implied in a fade to black and then I feel like we don't know how that relationship works at all as a relationship? As a working partnership, yes, they can do the battle stuff together, we see that. But on a personal level? They freak out when the other is in danger and then... fade to later.
There's got to be in betweens somewhere. Plot with people.
I shall keep reading all the things until I find best bits.