Laughter Through Tears

I have a couple of short blog posts queued for this week and next. No big, substantive reviews. Part of me still wants to get that aromantic post out of my system but I'm not sure how well I'd weather the process. Meanwhile I have been playing a lot of 7KPP and Affairs of the Court, which I probably still should review, at some point.

Other things in my tabs: Why Being a Writer is an Exercise in Cognitive Dissonance from Kameron Hurley's blog (via Goodreads). Coffintree Hill has a whole bunch of magazines and anthologies calls for submissions. I have been reading a fair amount of Asexual Agenda posts and links, lately.

Soon I will have a cellphone again.

Year, we got off to a rough start. I acknowledge this. I'm not sure how I feel about you just yet, but I am willing to give you a chance.

Tomorrow, my 2015 writing retrospective will go up on the WordPress blog. I will probably crosspost it here. It has charts! And numbers! And colors!

I also have some Yuletide recs that I've been gradually accumulating. I will post them once I've grown a spine and read the reviews on my own story.

Meanwhile I'm drafting a review for Solstice.

The holidays and a short illness have thrown off my work schedule and I ended up not updating for longer than I intended.

Today was a good writing day and I have completed the first draft of my femslashex assignment pretty much on schedule. I'm pleased with it right now but let's see how I feel about it in two-three days when I reread it.

My wordpress blog is now linked from the sidebar, alongside my AO3 and Tumblr.

I do still intend to blog about things of a bit more substance, but as it's getting rather late and I haven't yet had dinner, that will have to wait for later this week.

I posted "the Margaret Atwood" on a thread about geek dating and my comment received two downvotes. I shall wear them with pride.

Then they went on to talk about how pretty girls never have any problems. #misandry4lyfe

I installed Jailbreak the Patriarchy based on an article on Autostraddle thinking that I would probably cave and remove it immediately but ASDFGHJKL; it makes reading IO9 so tolerable I wish I could install it on TV shows.

I got tired of seeing things on my dash that I didn't want to reblog on Nerdy Cookies because they weren't topical, so: Anthology of What? Reblog if you have a reblogging blog.

I am soliciting icon suggestions.

One of my nerdycookies posts has gotten a lot of action. I opened my e-mail sometime this morning (I think) and I had about fifty new messages, almost all of which were notifications for this one post. A bunch of new followers, too. :) They are pretty awesome cupcakes, but I think it was the multi-nerdity that did it. I mean, Daleks and the Mad Hatter in one sugary post? Hell yeah.

This week I did a bit of frog dissecting. It was gross and fascinating and a little exciting. And very funny, because everyone who stayed in the lab to watch the gory bits was passing around all sorts of weird jokes. School-wise, the thingamajig that simulates and measures the nerve was more interesting, because I am not really going into zoology or anything. But the most interesting thing by far was that the lab was full of old taxidermies, mostly birds, with one enormous, terrifying-looking dolphin that sort of lurked on top of one of the cabinets waiting to catch the looker unawares. It freaked me the fuck out. I will never believe the myth of dolphin cuteness again.

Oh! I forgot follow Friday as usual but some people need to join pose_as_a_comm so that I don't feel like I'm talking to myself.

Tonight for supper I made rice with onions, carrots and zucchini, and I cooked the vegetables as little as possible with the hopes of avoiding the mushiness that is often their lot. It actually came out awesome and I have enough for (some of) the week. Shopping plus cooking success! I win at being a grownup!

This morning I was bored so I made a Tumblr: Nerdy Cookies. There are three posts. I am also sitting on some links for later. It will probably update a lot this week, and then never again until April, or thereabouts. My quest for referential sweetmeats has lead me to discover a lot of languishing Google search terms. Truly, has no one ever made a batch of supervillain cupcakes? Distressing.

Oh, and certain people don't need to worry that they're being stalked, just because their personal Tumblr blogs are being followed by someone they've never heard of. It's me.

Reviews for The Gaslight Dogs are starting to pour in. Funny thing is, the review mentions two protagonists and explains them in a way that already makes it clear to me that I'll almost definitely have the opposite reaction to them. Almost definitely.

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The best part is, it's not a hardcover, so no waiting for the paperback because it's already out. The worst part is, I am way too busy with school and I just bought some books and I still have a whole pile of gift and loan books I haven't read. Most likely, I won't read it till September or so.

ETA: I have made karin_lowachee_blog_feed for follow Friday, although it hasn't started updating yet.

On the topic of werewolves and paranormal romance, I just stumbled upon this creative review of two popular PR series about women shapeshifters. It's pretty solidly informative. For example, it highlights something that's been bothering me for a while.

( Spoilers? Or is it too predictable to count? )