Daisy decided to wake me up this morning by sitting on my chest and breathing into my mouth. It was incredibly creepy

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*sighs* For everyone complaining that the writing in xyz popular book is bad, please realise that the word you're missing is "subjectively". eg. it's not to your taste. You need to understand that not everything is FOR you but that doesn't mean other people shouldn't enjoy it.

My Dad asked me what I want for christmas, and the trouble is that I don't really want anything. I basically don't drink these days. I suppose I could ask for a bottle of liqueur or whisky for those rare occasions I do drink? I suppose I could ask for a kitchen knife. The handle on mine's parting.

Are they gonna pay creators this time?

I'm reading A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers and HOO BOY. If you like your horror lush and visceral and full-bodied, based so heavily in the physical that you want to roll around in it, this is the book for you. Summary: A food writer murders shitty men. There is cannibalism.

the rich are obsessed with hating fat people because it's a strain of cruelty seemingly normal people will respond positively to AND if you're rich and you don't want to be fat you just pay a team of specialists to make you not fat. it's a class war wedge.

@rahaeli.bsky.social Apropos of nothing, every time I see your name, I have to read it twice to stop reading it as "rakali" which is an Australian type of otter (they call it a water rat but it's almost entirely carnivorous). They're very cute!

The new Frankenstein movie is the platonic ideal of a GdT gothic. Absolutely visually beautiful with the underlying theme of “we owe kindness to each other/our children”

OUCH

Holy shit you guys, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is so good. What it does with shifting perception and humanising the monster, and contrasting his atrocities against the larger atrocities of genocide/colonialism and then gradually taking it away,and then the slow dawning realisation that it's revenge.

Having to keep myself nice on main when what I actually want to do is talk about how leftist spaces are all "oh inclusivity! BIPOC authors!" until one of them actually succeeds and then it's all "oh they're problematic!" and full erasure of their race.

godDAMMIT Lois McMaster Bujold, TELL ME (or the internet or something) when you release a new Penric novella. Get a newsletter, I beg of you!

So far on my list of things to read to Improve Myself: - Sontag by Benjamin Moser, prior to reading Sontag's works - The Years by Annie Ernaux (Sen's pick) - Octavia Butler's back catalogue - Whatever I've missed of Le Guin - Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Wolfe - Helen Garner and Germaine Greer's works

@tillywizard.bsky.social Hey, I'm looking to Improve Myself. I have a science degree and kind of... skipped over anything that wasn't personally interesting to me once I transferred out of my 2/3 of a drama degree. What would you recommend I pick up?

This time in adventures in public transport, a pair of eshays just got in the train and are punching/kicking one of the seats. Time to practice my survival skill of “appearing to be staring out the window obliviously while actually watching them through the reflection”

people conflate their politics with their fiction the same way they conflate morality with politics - not as a genuine indication of their beliefs, but as a way to permit themselves to condemn others for theirs.

I'm reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter and it's like stepping onto something & then realising it's is the top of a column held up by stuff you don't know anything about. Obviously I'm not going to know about Blackfeet culture, but now I'm feeling like I'm behind and didn't do the required reading.

hear me out, THIS time "finding some fictional element from pop culture that mostly women like and deciding it should be destroyed because it's... making society immoral or something" is DEFINITELY going to get us back on the good timeline. we just need these chicks to see reason

*sighs* Pleased to see that being an anti continues to rot brain cells (and yet doesn't stop people from attempting to grift off the content they claim to abhor.)

Another book I would like to rec is The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling. It's a horror about chronic illness, medical systems, and disease. I actually had to sit with my feelings a bit because it made me feel the need to justify myself, which is my sign that this is A Good Book.

I don't even go here but I'm so happy to see my entire timeline united over Ben Solo outrage.

the pursuit of moralizing fiction is in fact a fascist movement and more importantly, it seeks to deny individual thought by replacing it with group adherence. if your morals are broken by a work of fiction, your morals were not real in the first place.

I would rather fund 100 "welfare cheats" for the one person who needs it and I think cuts to government welfare programs that catch the 1% as well as the 100 are fundamentally unethical. I think the government should have been prosecuted over Robodebt.

Breaking news: a book intended to make people feel uncomfortable has made them uncomfortable. Call the police.

Day whatever of reminding people that having their feelings hurt does not equal harm. It's shitty, it sucks, and I'm sorry you feel bad/that happened to you, but also it's not harm. You can expect your feelings to be hurt in life, and you should have the emotional resilience to cope with it.

I caved and bought a danish from the work cafe. Surprising no one, it was terrible. The triumph of optimism over experience is constantly disappointing.

Ginger Snaps Il Orfanto The Descent The Ring (Japanese version)

Knowing that I have rsd and having strategies to cope with it do not, in any way, stop me from feeling the mixture of embarassment, shame and hurt at minor social setbacks. While this is very much my problem and not anyone else's, I would just like my brain to fucken quit it.

Oh and now I’m going home and there is a dude who decided to sit next to me in spite of the entire rest of the extra long bench (seating about 9 ppl) free. And he’s playing music with no headphones and using (cheap) cologne as an olfactory weapon.

I am on public transport and once again, I am irritated by the fact the yoof apparently haven’t heard of headphones.

www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi... New article interviewing Sen for Alchemised! They talk more in depth about the characters and worldbuilding for the book

Lila for Sen 🥀 #alchemised @senlinyu.bsky.social

www.audible.com/blog/senliny... Sen has a really interesting interview up!

I desperately want a croissant/some kind of pastry but I only want a GOOD pastry and unfortunately the work cafeteria doesn't supply that.

Today's hot take: unhinged hate is only acceptable when it's in a small in-group who know that you're (mostly) joking. Otherwise it's tedious at best (and sometimes deeply concerning, to the "I will avoid this person" level)

Just finished How Bad Things Can Get by Darcy Coates. Highly recommended. A youtube star holds a tournament on an unpopulated island, and things go from bad to worse. It's a gory reflection on fame and its construction and the responsibilities we owe to each other, and on charisma and cults.

I am going to take a deep breath and say: if the writing does what it's intended to do, it's not bad. The Fourth Wing and Dan Brown are not to my taste but I will THROW DOWN over the fact that it's fucking effective writing. I personally don't like Dickens: this doesn't mean he's a bad writer.

Goddammit. Remembering that I'm not locked and so have to be a little more cautious on main is hard.

the only thing that is keeping my blood pressure from reaching stratospheric levels is an active finger on the block button + knowledge that 1. the book is actually good and 2. all the bullshit is making people actually buy and read it. So thanks, I guess.

Also Sascha Stronach's books are great and you should buy them.

unironically think these recent attempts to scrub "difficult" genres into a clean and palatable form is a sign of creeping fascism

*sings* the backlash to the backlash to the backlash has begun.

SO SO SO DESERVED 🔥🔥🔥 CONGRATULATIONS TO SENLINYU AND ALCHEMISED !!!!! www.instagram.com/p/DPR9uiej2Y-/

The week’s bestselling books, Oct. 5 Hardcover fiction 1. Alchemised by SenLinYu (Del Rey: $35) A woman with missing memories fights to survive a war-torn world of necromancy and alchemy. 2. What We Can Know by Ian McEwan (Knopf: $30) A genre-bending love story about people and the words they…

@tillywizard.bsky.social I didn't know if you'd seen this artwork containing Lila

Posted on twt but it bears repeating: There is no point in fighting ppl about alchemised. They've made up their minds and decided all their misinformation is correct, and nothing Sen says even now would change their minds. Better to just celebrate Sen and their AMAZING achievement and creation.

@tillywizard.bsky.social oh. Did you see the preorder art Avendell did that has Lila in it?

I am reading Wormwood Abbey by Christina Baehr and enjoying it immensely. It's lighter, but it's essentially "Very Practical Heroine moves back to Gothic Family Home" which is a genre I enjoy. (I love gothics dearly. I also love seeing them get slightly skewered by people with Common Sense.)

Good news! When the US paperback of Alchemised comes out, the map will be included, so it’s canon!