Snowflake Challenge 2017: Day 4

Day 04

Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've interacted with and friend/follow them. Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!"


And I did it!

これで以上です。

What Am I Reading Wednesday - January 4

What I Just Finished Reading

The Goblin Emperor– Katherine Addison
Because Yuletide! It's also the book I read the most in 2016, with three cover-to-cover reads between February and December.

Shutter vol. 1 – Joe Keatinge & Lila Del Luca
Really enjoyed this volume. Keatinge has the mojo whereby his characters have more dimensionality than they by rights should, given just what we see on the page, and his plot has more cohesion and continuity than it by rights should, given how quickly events unfold. Del Luca's art is colorful and dynamic. Not only will I be proceeding to the next volume, I'm eager to get to it.


What I Am Currently Reading

Celtic Knotwork – Iain Bain
It's a tragedy this book is out of print. I have yet to find an author who lays out a more intuitive and effective method than Bain, whose diagrams are clearer, or whose prose is as much of a pleasure to read.

The Strangler Vine – M.J. Carter
Yes, again. In preparation for the third novel, which will thankfully (and finally) be coming out in the States this March.

The 5th Season – Robin D. Gill
Gill has published about half a dozen idiosyncratic, comprehensive, but (shall we say) lightly copyedited compendia on haiku and senryu. That said, his knowledge and enthusiasm for the form are second to none and he bothers to include the Japanese along with his translations. This volume covers New Years topics. I've had it for years and always meant to start it between the Western and Chinese New Years, and now I have.

Inda – Sherwood Smith
It's early days, but Smith is doing a bang-up job thus far of portraying the dynamics of adolescent interaction, and it looks like there is going to be a lot of meaty political intrigue and bonus language geekery into the mix. That said, I could do with out the inevitable reminder that Marlovan is “the language of war” every. Single. Time. She uses the word.

Eyes of Crow – Jeri Smith-Ready
Early days on this one too, but I'm liking the quasi-Native American cast to the fantasy elements thus far.

彼方者の困惑 – 直野儚羅 (Atchimono no Konwaku – Naono Bohra)
Featuring the cutest chibi goat bakemono you could ever ask for.

What I'm Reading Next

Several candidates here, including Trees vol. 2 by Warren Ellis, DMZ vol. 1 by Brian Wood, and the 夜と朝 doujinshi by Naifu.

これで以上です。

Snowflake Challenge 2017: Day 5

Oof, I should really be in bed. But before I head there:




Day 5

In your own space, post recs for at least three fanworks that you did not create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.


A Hymn to the Endlessly Falling - Katie Forsythe, Sherlock Holmes. In 1927, a funeral, a wedding, and Sherlock Holmes teach John Watson how to let go. An older one, but so good. It was my headcanon even when I only knew about the existence of the first 6500 words.

Say it With Flowers by Serenade, The Goblin Emperor. Maia gives Csevet a somewhat unusual plant. If you've ever found yourself saying, "Delightful tentacle monster fics? I don't believe they exist" then this is the fic for you.

A Weakness for Lies by uistic, WWE. It turns out that from this side of it, betrayal fucking hurts. Seth feels gutted. Humiliated and wrecked, torn between disbelief, misplaced shame, and rage so all-consuming he thinks it might eat him alive. A perfectly executed post-SHIELD fic that slots seamlessly into the timeline.


これで以上です。