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Note: This post is for me thinking thoughts out loud. I intend to discuss these issues with my medical team when I move onto the physical therapy part of my process. I am not specifically interested in advice from other parties, unless you have experience that seems very directly related to what I'm describing.

I've been meaning to post these thoughts for the last week, but honestly the workarounds for posting one-handed mean that after I've worked on the lesbian history blog posts, I am usually done for the day.

Here's the basic problem: I have been very gradually having issues with balance and recovery from almost falling. I've noticed it in processes like getting in and out of boats back when I was doing dragon-boating and I notice it regularly when doing yardwork, especially when I'm on uneven ground or I'm working around the edges of raised beds. I have become very careful on ladders. And as I discussed a couple years ago when I bought my recumbent tricycle, I had several instances where I would stop at a stoplight put my foot down and then have it collapse under me and fall sideways. Very slowly.

Now there are several components involved here. One is the nerve damage in my right leg which means that certain muscles just aren't there for me. If I hit the wrong angle, it's hard to recover automatically. But I also seem to have a constant, if low level, degree of – not quite vertigo - more like not being entirely aligned to gravity. (I've been idly wondering whether there's any relationship between this phenomenon and the tinnitus I've had for the last quarter century.) I'll take a step, especially if I'm turning at the same time, and my body won't realize that I'm not maintaining verticality until I find myself staggering sideways to avoid falling. Separate from this, I've always had problems with not quite knowing where my body is in space. Witness the number of times I've stubbed toes due to not recognizing that there was an object where I was about to put my foot.

Another part of it is that my feet just can't quite move fast enough to catch myself properly when I get off balance. The part of it is just an expected aspect of getting older is that I no longer have the reflexes of a gymnast. I can recall when tripping and falling meant going into a tuck and roll and ending up on my feet again. That doesn't happen anymore. Maybe there are exercises I could do to get some of my flexibility back again. It would be nice to be able to get down onto the ground and back up again without major shenanigans. (As a step in this direction – hopefully without tripping – I've started going to a tai chi class.)

So what can I do in the meantime? I've started organizing a program of learning new reflexes and habits. Some of them will apply only while my arm is still healing, and some are intended to be permanent changes. I'm hoping to find a balance between keeping myself in one piece and not turning into one of *those* old ladies. You know, the ones who move so very carefully all the time.

Temporary measures include things like: Only carry one object at a time. Long-term measures are things like: Always keep my eyes on the ground while walking. Only do one type of movement-related thing at a time. Walking is good, turning is good, try not to walk and turn at the same time. When gardening, do not perform manipulations with plants except when standing still. Do not walk backwards. Carrying something while walking is OK. Complex manipulations like opening and closing doors require first confirming that footing is solid.

Maybe all this sounds a bit over-the-top, but it's based on analyzing past and potential failure points. It's not like I've been falling all the time, and the last time I broke a bone was in the previous millennium. But I have to say that this broken arm has me spooked. And I don't want to go through this on anything resembling a regular basis.

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3+/5. The Emperors of Orrun have been chosen for hundreds of years by a multi-part contest between candidates from the different ~~Houses~~ factions of the Empire: Raven, Fox, Tiger, Ox, Bear, Monkey, Hound, and Dragon. It is now time to pick a new Emperor, and ~~this AU Triwizard tournament, as isis put it in her review and now I can't unsee it~~ these Trials are about to begin again. Neema Kraa, the emperor's brilliant and socially awkward Raven High Scholar, who obtained her position from an act in her past that causes everyone else to look at her askance, is drawn in to the Trials in a way that she didn't expect.

Before I start going on, a couple of things: The first thing you should know about this book -- and fortunately I did look this up halfway through -- is that it is the first book of a trilogy, and though it comes to a coherent conclusion, it's sort of like saying The Empire Strikes Back comes to a coherent conclusion.The second thing I should say: I was "spoiled" for this before I read it and it was a good thing -- the prologue of this book (which is very very long) is not an accurate representation of what the rest of the book is about (see the first paragraph). (I have my doubts as to whether the prologue should even be there -- I see why the author felt it should be, but it just feels like there might have been better ways.) Okay, onward!

This was a very interesting book to read after The Everlasting, because although it's not a perfect book, it's a book and not a fanfic, and I ended up liking it much better than Everlasting as both a book and as a Hugo candidate (and probably ended up liking it much better in general than I might have otherwise, in fact). There's a ton of worldbuilding, a ton of characters -- the world feels much more lived-in -- and a ton of plot, and it was rather a relief after dealing with ersatz worldbuilding and only three characters.

The thing I do find that it shares with Everlasting is its compelling nature. After the prologue (which did drag for me), I always wanted to know what happened next, and I never thought "gosh this is going on too long," even though it's a long book. Then again, I am an absolute sucker for the whole Triwizard-ish setup of "the candidates have tests, the tests say something about them, plus which there's external weirdness going on that they have to navigate" (see also: Gideon the Ninth) so, I mean, I was never going to really get tired of that. But also there's enough plot, and even though the prose is a bit odd (see later) it is compelling, which counts for a lot, for me.

One aspect of it that becomes more and more important as the book goes on has to do with the anthropomorphic-animal factions of the Empire, which are also worshipped as gods. There was a bit in the middle where I was kind of unsure about the integration, but I was mostly convinced of it by the end. Though I do sort of roll my eyes a bit at books like this one where half the characters are atheist, and then oh, hey, it turns out that the gods have a long-standing history of involving themselves in the world. Yeah, actually, I think the culture of the world would be different in that case, especially considering it took thousands of years for our not-so-god-involved world to get to the point where large numbers of people were atheist! People would still have religious issues in such a world, they'd just be different -- are the gods actually good? do we have free will? what does that even mean? etc. -- it's one of the reasons I really like Bujold's Chalion books -- anyway...

I mentioned it's not perfect. It's really actually quite flawed in a number of ways. First, it's a long book, and there are parts that just aren't consistent in terms of characterization, etc. For example, there's a passage where Neema ruminates on how the emperor is the only person she trusts without question, and I'm all, "wait, you mean the guy who literally condemned you to death a few chapters back? That guy?" (I do wonder whether I should blame this on the author or the editor -- seems like a lot of this kind of thing should have been caught during edit.) Gaida Rack, the Galinda-type figure, is also very weirdly characterized; half the time as "everyone loves her," and the other half of the time as "she's so mean that everyone should hate her," and I am still not quite sure what was going on with her. These kinds of things sound nitpicky but are actually really important for a book such as this that lives or dies on its plot and characterization-as-plot (which is a big part of it). There's a major plot element I'll talk about in the spoiler section that doesn't land like it could have because of it.

Neema, the main character, is written rather oddly to my eye; she's self-aware enough to sometimes realize she's not doing things in the way calculated to win friends and influence people, and she also has been in the Emperor's court long enough to analyze a lot of the social games that are being played, but at the same time she is all angsty that people don't take her seriously because she's not playing the court social games at all... which is an odd combination. (And sometimes I wanted to just shake her; look, if you're making the choice not to play the game, then fine, but own it, don't just sit around unhappily angsting about it, you have been around court long enough that you demonstrably know what's going on!) Also I was shocked to realize, after reading reviews of the book, that she's in her 30s; the whole time I was reading (since chronology is not my strong point) I thought she was in her early 20s, in the way of being very un-self-aware and very angsty but also the way that she's so concerned with fitting in, at the same time as she's clearly not fitting in at all. (Saffy, in The Incandescent, is maybe a decade older, I think? but is a much much more realistic character in my opinion, in the sense that she both understands and plays the game sometimes, and sometimes doesn't do either, and also has kind of dispensed with worrying about fitting in and has mostly accepted that sometimes she does and sometimes she's just going to be unhappy about not.)

The tone is also weirdly inconsistent. Sometimes you have, you know, standard Epic Fantasy tone. Other times you get stuff like this: Cain had to admit, she looked hot. They both did. Rivenna was like an evil butterfly and Ruko was like a big, sexy wardrobe that might kill you, and these were both very much Cain's type. Cain had a lot of types. Maybe it's just because I grew up reading 80s-90s epic fantasy, but I'm weirded out by this kind of tone! (Also, I always am annoyed by fantasy books where everyone speaks English and uses Arabic numerals and an English-introduced symbol for infinity: did you worldbuild in such a way that any of this makes any sense? No you did not!)

( Book-destroying spoilers )

This review makes it sound like I didn't like it, and I did! I think it's the kind of book that is super entertaining but it's very interesting to discuss its flaws (whereas for The Everlasting I found it more interesting to discuss why it was compelling). I think it's sufficiently flawed that I don't want it to win the Hugos, but I enjoyed it enough that I will definitely read the sequel if it pops up on Hugo lists next year, and I am also interested in voting for Hodgson for the Astounding award, because I think it's ambitiously flawed. Ack, this means I need to read the Astounding part of the packet now. We'll see if I get around to that.

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I'm fascinated by language and linguistics in fiction, even though I'm not trained in them. I sometimes reread the four issues of What's a Word Worth? because I loved it so much. I'm a big fan of Lingthusiasm. And like tons of other people, I'm still chasing that Story of Your Life/Arrival high, even if it does do silly things with language science and aggravate trained linguists. The vibes are just so good. When I saw that S.L. Huang was going to be tackling themes of language and culture, The Language of Liars was immediately on my Most Coveted Books List for 2026. ( Read more... )

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I’m leaving for a short trip soon and I thought it would be nice if I could finish up some of the massive pile of library books I have sitting around before then, seeing as I don’t want to take them with me. I didn't read as much of the pile as I hoped but I did make some progress!

Many of these are nominees for this year's Eisner Awards, since I looked at those and put in holds for the ones that seemed interesting recently.

Vern, Custodian of the Universe by Tyrell Waiters—Graphic novel about Vern, who having lost his job moves home to Florida where it turns out his grandma has gotten him a job at a weird tech company. This was fun and zanny. There’s multiverse travel and kinda trippy art to go with it. The story is a bit didactic but I really liked the message so that worked for me.

This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux—This a murder mystery set at an all girls school in the 80s. (It took me an embarrassingly long time to notice it wasn’t contemporary) Our main character is a recent transfer student who doesn’t fit in. I really liked this, the characters were compelling, the mystery was interesting, and the ending felt just right

Content notes are spoilerish

Homophobia, underage sex, death of a teen

Globetrotters: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's World Tour by Julian Voloj and Julie Rocheleau—This graphic novel is inspired by real historical events – that I knew basically nothing about before reading this! All I knew was that Nellie Bly was a pioneering woman journalist. The subtitle makes it sound like Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland were traveling together but actually they were racing to see who could get around the world the fastest! I was totally riveted!
Content note: period typical sexism and racism

Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town by Li Chen—The second Detective Beans book, about Beans the adorable detective kitten. This one is a collection of shorter stories, my favorite was the last one with the bear and the moon!

Hello Sunshine by Keezy Young—This is hard to talk about. It's a graphic novel about a group of friends who are looking for one of their friends who is missing, possibly dead. (They are all teens) its kinda creepy, but also kind of heartwarming? Anyways I enjoyed it a lot!

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Books
Finished T Kingfisher's Paladin's Faith, which I think was better than any of the preceding books in that series. I liked it a lot, and I hadn't really expected to, since neither of the protagonists had really appealed to me in the earlier books.

Read Isaac Asimov's 1957 short story 'Profession', which some website somewhere linked to as an example of Why LLMs Are Bad, but which read to me as a strikingly good fictional example of the social model of disability in action. Unfortunately, I don't think Asimov knew that was what he was writing, and I think we were supposed to agree with the historian informing the protagonist that he was the one in a gazillian very special snowflake who was smart and original enough to be worthy of the financial burden of individualised education.

Listened to the audiobook (read by Ali Stroker) of disability rights activist Judith Heumann's memoir Being Heumann, cowritten with Kristen Joiner. I'm unfamiliar with Kristen Joiner's work, but the writing style of the memoir made me think ghostwriter. The narrative voice was... well, the association in my head is "90s middle grade novel", but that might say more about me than it does about the authors. It's that in medias res, "Chapter One. Ring, ring! I awoke suddenly to the sound of the telephone. I started to get excited butterflies in my stomach. Who could be calling me at this time of night? I sat up in bed and reached for the receiver. It was 1991, and I was Claudia Kishi, secretary of the Baby-Sitters Club, and I had my own phone in my bedroom." kind of thing.

That said, nothing wrong with writing something in an easily accessible style so long as you're not leaving important parts out. Not knowing Judith Heumann's life well enough to know what I don't know, I can't speak to the facts, but I can say that the word "bullshit" appeared once in it, which wouldn't have happened in the aforementioned 90s middle grade novel. And she packed a solid amount of real, usable information about activism tactics and strategy, and real disability rights history and organising principles and also disability 101 in there, and with a minimum of inspirational glurge or undue optimism about the present political state of America (it was published in 2021, two years before her death.) It's simplistic but not trite.

Plus Judith Heumann did have a genuinely very eventful and interesting career.

Tech
I got my current self-hosting project working: I can now point my phone (or my laptop) at my RasPi and select a song from the disk attached to it and play that song through the phone or laptop's speakers. (The difficulty was that most of the guides I could find assumed I wanted to use my phone to control a RasPi with a speaker attached to it, so I could play music hosted somewhere other than on the RasPi.)

Weather
Wet and cold.

Cats
Dorian experimented with a salchow too, at least once. He also was kind enough to demonstrate for me today that he can reach the one remaining kitchen bench I thought he couldn't get up on. At least this way I know he can do that. Meanwhile, Ash has the salchow locked in, and is now innovating with other Birdie eradication methods, such as a crocodile death roll.

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I had a follow up appointment with orthopedics today. Got my previous cast removed – the tech corrected me that it was a splint, not a cast, technically speaking. I guess because it was two solid pieces of plaster that were held together with elastic wrappings but not actually connected. Anyway I got my stitches out and have a lovely Frankenstein–style scar that may trigger interrogations about self-harm for the rest of my life. Then they gave me a lovely new kelly-green fiberglass cast for the interim. It's slightly smaller and much more solid than the previous, but also not quite as heavy, I think. My next appointment is July 2, when they plan to remove the cast. That would be almost exactly 5 weeks from the operation to install the plate. That would mean I'll be cast-free for BayCon, although I don't know if I may still have some removable protective object at that point. After that it will be all about the physical therapy. I'm supposed to be practicing extending and clenching my fingers as much as possible in the meantime.

I also was able to pick up a fancy protective plastic bag to go over my arm so I can take showers. It has a rubberized seal that you stick your arm through, so no dealing with tape and it's reusable. So now I'm off to take my first shower in four weeks.

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I'm took part in a roundtable on "Positivity, Negativity or the Secret Third Thing (Criticism)" which is now up at Ancillary Review of Books!

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What I Just Finished Reading

Nothing!

What I'm Reading Now

Comics Wednesday!

( Avengers Armageddon #1, Captain Marvel Dark Past #3, Civil War Unmasked #2 )

What I'm Reading Next

Not sure. Still slowly working through this baseball autobiography of Billy Bean that

lysimache got me I think for Christmas. (Not Billy Beane with an e, that is a different former baseball player. This one is the gay one.)

Current Mood: hot

cahn

So, more Hugo reading! So I just finished The Everlasting and I have Feelings and I have to talk about it. In fact, I unexpectedly had so many feelings that I then made the mistake of telling D about it. And you will all just have to suffer with me --

D: Is it about gobstoppers?
Me: No! It is not about gobstoppers!

-- the thing is, I had not been expecting all that much from it, having had previous experience not-intensely-negative-but-not-particularly-positive with Harrow Hugo reading, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the first quarter of the book more compelling than I'd thought it would be. Though I did have this sort of constant low-level irritation during that first quarter because -- well. It takes place as a secondary-world fantasy, taking place in a kingdom called Dominion, that's concerned with two time periods: what I have been calling the "modern era," which is a post-industrial, vaguely early-twentieth-century-feeling sort of place where the best and bravest young men are sent off to fight wars, remembering their semi-mythical founding myth... and the second time period is that distant 1000-year semi-mythical "past era," where there is a semi-mythical queen and her best-beloved knight, Sir Una the Everlasting, whose tragic death is instrumental in constructing the founding myth of the country.

And the thing is, it's probably not 100% obvious from that one-sentence description, but the "modern" era is extremely evocative of WWI-ish Britain what with the young men going off to war and coming back with shell shock and everyone keeping a stiff upper lip about it (except the protesters) and so on, and the "past" era is extremely evocative of Arthurian mythology, what with the once and future queen and the knights she gathers around her and the green hill and the sword in the ~~stone~~ tree that can only be unsheathed by the right person (although it's Una and not the queen who does it), and lots of mentions of a Savior (religion, though, is otherwise completely ignored except when it's useful for resonance), and so on --

D: Are there coconuts?
Me: No! There are no coconuts!

And it just so happens that I have an absolute crapton of feelings about Arthurian mythology (over many decades at this point) and also a whole lot of feelings about WWI Britain (many of which are rather more recent, but even if it weren't for recent media consumption, would have had some feelings about it from general cultural literacy and other media) and it was very clear that Harrow was cheerfully just using all that to make me have feelings about her characters/world, and I was rather annoyed about this because it felt to me like she got to exploit all the resonances without actually having to do any work to, well, actually think hard about the historical/mythical parallels she was exploiting, and also annoyed because, of course, it worked, because I do have quite a few feelings about all these things.

D: Is there a holy grail?
Me: ...yes. Yes, there is a holy grail. There actually is.
D, unfortunately now encouraged: Is there a holy hand grenade?
Me: NO! There is no holy hand grenade!!
D, a little later: Well, is there a Black Knight?
Me: ...kind of.

ANYWAY. The book starts out being narrated by Owen, who is an idealistic, nationalistic, conflicted young man, back from the wars and trying to make his way as a historian. He's also obsessed with Sir Una Everlasting and her story ~~in not all that different a way than the way I was obsessed with all things Arthurian as a kid/adolescent, though rather more shippily~~. So due to plot reasons, Owen goes back in time to meet Una herself, and is with her on her last quest to find the holy grail (no really) and then goes back with her to what he knows will be her death; his role is to be the one who chronicles her quest and her death.

Me: See, the idea is that he's kind of a Malory figure --
...wait. His last name is literally Mallory. GAH.
D: *laughs at me*

Then I got past the first quarter mark, and it abruptly got both quite a bit more compelling to me -- so I didn't mind the above appropriation nearly as much (plus, by that time it had done its work), and also I started feeling very baffled by exactly how much it was giving off increasing vibes of being a really compelling shipfic. The thing is. I've actually spent quite a bit more time than usual in the last couple of months reading and thinking about fanfic, especially shipfic, for Reasons, and in particular thinking about what I seek out when I seek out fanfic, and what I want to see in a fanfic, and how to create the effects of a shippy fic I would like, and... this book is doing... a LOT of that.

For one thing, it's just piling on tropes on top of tropes (weak geeky man with strong tough woman, mutual pining, competence kink, loyalty kink, fealty kink, road trip, pulling back from betrayal, not pulling back from betrayal, hurt/comfort of course, lack of sleep, protection, nightmare comforting, bathing together, the list goes on, at one point there's even freaking Must Huddle Together For Warmth). And it's deeply satisfying to me because these are all tropes I eat up with a spoon.

And the ship is really very much a fanfic kind of ship, where we sort of assume we're starting out with UST between the two main characters and just building from there. (There are a couple of in-universe reasons for this, starting (but not finishing) with Owen's lifelong obsession with Una, but, like. The vibe!!) And over-the-top UST that goes on for quite a while is something that I am just really really fond of for shippy tropey fics. (Look, my fandom genesis included The X-Files, okay?)

Me: So by the 50 percent mark I was feeling kind of desperate for them to just have sex already.
D: ...uh, okay.

-- and the whole thing was doing this very fic thing of really just being there for the tropes and resonances. Worldbuilding, yeah, fine, great, as long as it reinforces the tropes! And yeah, this was sort of one thing about this book: I was never entirely convinced, I think, that the world existed outside of where the characters happened to be at the time... partially because it had borrowed so much from our world. (There was a bit more unique-worldbuilding near the end, as there sort of had to be.) But it didn't really matter... because you don't really read fic for the worldbuilding, right?

Character development, sure! As long as it reinforces the tropes, which means a lot of dwelling on the three main characters. I do think it's a natural tendency, mind you, especially in a shipfic, to really limit the number of people who have major roles in the fic, because each successive character means more interaction and more inner life that has to be constructed, and anyway you mostly just care about the ship and maybe the antagonist, sure. But I'm kind of amazed that Harrow wrote a whole novel in which there are three actual characters. And there are three more characters who do get screen time and whom I love very very much (Owen's dad -- does he even ever get a name??; Owen's long-suffering thesis advisor; Ancel -- the three of them are probably my favorite characters, in fact) but they do seem to me to have this aura of being taken a little for granted.

It also sort of reminded me of, you know, how you get these >100k fics in a fandom where it's really basically doing the same thing multiple times, or playing with the same fandom dynamic multiple times and stretching it out in ways that it didn't necessarily really have to, and the readers love it, because that's what we're here for. Right up to doing basically the same scene from two different POVs. (Again, there is an in-universe reason, but... very fic vibes, is all I'm saying!)

I believe this explains why I've been seeing such differing opinions of the book on my DW list -- because if you really like the particular tropes Harrow is piling on, you're probably going to be deeply satisfied by it regardless of whether you might have other issues (me, this is me), and if those tropes don't do much for you you're going to be like "what was even the point of that?" and if you like the tropes just fine but aren't particularly into them, the issues might bother you more.

( spoilers! )

Anyway. In conclusion, if you like a particular kind of tropey fic, then I think you will really love this book! (And if you don't, you will probably find it way too long and over-the-top.) Also it has more things to say about nationalism and national myths and fate and heroism and so on than I have really talked about here! I am just here for talking about shipfic, I guess.

D: I still think it should have been about gobstoppers.
Me: NO it should not have been about gobstoppers!!

sineala

While I have the brain energy, I figured I would repost a useful resource for my fellow writers using Scrivener, namely that someone on the r/scrivener subreddit has made dozens of free Scrivener themes for both Mac and Windows versions of Scrivener, if you would like to change up the color scheme of Scrivener a bit. (There's also a guide to Scrivener's Compile system there, if you need one.)

As a Mac user, this is exciting, because the Mac and Windows themes for Scrivener are not cross-compatible and I am pretty sure that every other Scrivener theme I have ever seen available for download is for the Windows version. But these come in Mac versions too! Now I can finally have a selection of pretty colors to choose from!

(This is also doubly exciting because the person who was making them was taking suggestions as they were posting them in packs to the subreddit and I asked if they could please make a version of the Cobalt2 IDE theme and they made a Cobalt2 IDE theme! For me! It's pretty great. I understand that not everyone wants Scrivener to look like their favorite VSCode or JetBrains theme, but I love this theme a lot, so.)

Current Mood: creative

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Books
Since last I posted one of these, of course I read Ann Leckie's Radiant Star. I loved it. Leckie's doing something different with narrative voice this time around, ~~so mark that off your bingo card~~, and if you enjoy Victorian novels then this narrator might be particularly enjoyable for you. It goes very hard.

Having read that (and then a friend's annotations, which I then sent on with the ARC to the next person in the chain) I decided I wanted to take some space to recover with T Kingfisher's fourth paladin book, Paladin's Faith. Which, as it turns out, is also going much harder than I expected.

I am also making my way slowly through Nick Walker's Neuroqueer Heresies, and finding it unsatisfying. I'd be less critical of it as polemic (although still annoyed at the prescriptivism and the exhorting readers to police other people's language too if they don't use "neurodivergent" and "neurodiversity" according to Dr Walker's preferred definitions), but when she's stating outright in the book that she intends to use it as a textbook to teach in university, I want more rigour and citations.

Fandom
Enjoying a resurgence of Radch discussion on Discord.

More ephemeral fic in the Nine Worlds fandom. May was good for that.

Crafts
Finished the table.

Tech
Wayland and gnashing of teeth.
That said, I learned how to use xargs in Bash, which made Android backups easier for me.

Garden
Harvested what is, amazingly, not the last of the tomatoes. Semi-dried all the ripe tomatoes I had in the oven, and froze the results. Did a little weeding, and sowed pak choy and calendula seeds.

Cats
They don't like the cold weather, but Mighty Hunting continues.

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The Raven Scholar (Hodgson)

Let's Get Literate! The Language of Liars by S.L. Huang

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The Everlasting (Harrow)

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