die_traumerei

Happy almost-the-Met-Gala day! I have to go into work a couple of days this week and HOO BOY am I annoyed as hell. I think I’ve got it plotted out so I don’t lost my morning writing time, but I’m not super worried, because wow it’s been a wild...okay, mostly today and yesterday.

Of Angels and Knights: Got a new chapter up last week, and I’ve at least started the next one. I’ll work on this more soon, too; I have the next few chapters planned, I just have to actually write them.

Tumble Down Through the Years, My Love: New chapter up today! Aaaaaaah, there’s so much to write! Aaaaaah!

Yet Needed Most I Bring: I just finished the next chapter. This storyline is not done yet, because Bucky needed a spanking. I’m hoping to proofread this and post it tomorrow or Tuesday. Maybe one more part to this arc? (ha ha i have said this before ha.)

...someday I’ll write something that isn’t a fucking endless saga. Someday.

Reading:

I forgot to mention last time that I’d finished We Who Are About To... Joanna Russ was recommended on Metafilter as literary SF, so, SOLD. (Someone described this book as like L’Etranger, but in space and with a lesbian. This is accurate.) I really want to read more Joanna Russ now; I’m really, really enjoying this style of SF. (Yes, I am still too chicken to start Dhalgren and I have accepted this about myself. Besides my next Delaney is gonna be Times Square Red, Times Square Blue.)

I also finished Vile Bodies for a book club I then played hooky from because I ran out of socialization spoons. It was fine. Everyone in it is a terrible person, even worse than everyone in The Great Gatsby. I love books about how utterly awful the BYT’s were though, and I quite liked it. Evelyn seems a little exhausting, but I think this is before he found Catholicism, so it’s different than the way Brideshead is a little exhausting.

Finally I speed-read Paperback Crush in like two days because it was SO GOOD you guys. It’s fun and smart and she cites Sisters, Schoolgirls and Sleuths a lot, and ~~now I want to read that~~ have placed a hold on it and should be able to start it this week thanks SPL! because it goes back to the nineteenth century and I adore Victorian morality series’, especially if they use disability to teach a lesson in the least appropriate manner possible. (Yes, I have actually read What Katy Did and it was terrible and great, and Take Up Thy Bed and Walk is on my to-read list. If anyone wants to recommend similar scholarly surveys, my ILL skills are READY. For that matter, if anyone has an actual series to recommend, my Gutenberg searching skills are all ready too.)

Can you tell that work is enjoyable but not real rewarding to my brain.