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“This article contains descriptions of fatal violence against a nonbinary person.
River Nevaeh Goddard, a nonbinary 17-year-old, was found dead in their boyfriend’s house earlier this month. Goddard’s boyfriend, 20-year-old Shane Curry, was charged in connection with their death after telling police that he had stabbed them with a sword. According to Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, Goddard was nonbinary and used she and they pronouns.
On April 3, 2024, police were called to Curry’s home in Stow, Massachusetts for a well-being check, per a press release from Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office obtained by local outlet MassLive. Although Curry stopped officers from coming inside the home for nearly two hours, when police finally entered, they found Goddard dead inside and arrested Curry, taking him to a local hospital for evaluation. Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents reports that the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children had listed them as a missing child since April 2022, when Goddard was 15.”
Note: As a result of the antiblack racism that often gets perpetuated in these circumstances by my fellow white lgbt+ people, I am going to explicitly ask that you do not use “rest in power” in the notes of this post. The phrase is Black-exclusive for very clear reasons, and this should not have to be continually explained. Nor should it be the sole responsibility of Black lgbt+ people to point this out while also mourning the deaths in our community themselves. Do not turn this into an opportunity to further hurt people.
#also if you try to argue about your right to use a Black-exclusive phrase on a non-black person you will be blocked.#tw domestic violence#tw abuse#tw trans death#river nevaeh goddard#river goddard#domestic violence#transphobic violence#transphobia#trans news#massachusetts#ask to tag#articles
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Amelia Hansford at PinkNews:
The body of River Nevaeh Goddard, 17, was reportedly found by police in Stow, Massachusetts, on 3 April while responding to a welfare check request at the home of her boyfriend, Shane Curry.
Curry reportedly blocked the entrance to his home for more than two hours before authorities were able to gain access, and found Goddard’s body.
Curry, 20, was arrested and charged with assault and battery on a household or family member and assault and battery causing serious bodily injury. A not guilty plea was entered when he appeared at Concord District Court on Monday (22 April).
According to court paperwork, Curry was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2020.
Goddard, who used both their chosen name, River, and birth name Nevaeh, went missing in April 2022.
According to GLAAD, Goddard used she/her and they/them pronouns and identified as pansexual.
Another senseless killing of a nonbinary person happened, as River Nevaeh Goddard was killed by their boyfriend Shane Curry.
River Nevaeh Goddard used both they/them and she/her pronouns and identified theirself as pansexual.
See Also:
LGBTQ Nation: Man stabs nonbinary teen to death with a sword. He’s not facing murder charges.
Them: River Nevaeh Goddard, Nonbinary 17-Year-Old With a "Cuddly Nature" Found Dead
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📚 September Reading Round-Up 📚
Didn’t read as much in September, and I’ve definitely started a lot of books I’m hoping to finish in October. Continuing my journeys with Murderbot, the Vorkosigan Saga, and the Rivers of London, however!
- Those Who Hold the Fire by Victoria Goddard (powerful, amazing, beautiful, lyrical, made me want to re-read HOTE, I want the sequel to be out already!)
- Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (so good!!! introspective, a bit sad, great character growth and relationships)
- Cetaganda by Lois McMaster Bujold (entertaining, thoughtful, good balance of adventure, tension, and agency - perfect mix of The Warrior’s Apprentice and The Vor Game - interesting gender and genetic stuff)
- Broken Homes by Ben Aaronovitch (very good, interesting themes, great character development and worldbuilding, awesome twist and foreshadowing)
#mine#books#reading#reading round-up#murderbot diaries#artificial condition#martha wells#rivers of london#broken homes#ben aaronovitch#those who hold the fire#victoria goddard#the hands of the emperor#cetaganda#vorkosigan saga#lois mcmaster bujold
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24 in 2024
@asexualbookbird tagged me, thanks!
I'll just do a neat 8-8-8 hehe
Physical backlog
New releases
Library books
A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
All the Hidden Paths by Fox Meadows
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Shadow Baron by Davina Evans
The River of Silver by Shannon Chakraborty
Ombria in Shadows by Patricia McKillip
Mislaid in Parts Half Known by Seanan McGuire
Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
The Misfit Caravan by K.D. Edwards
The Brides of High Hill by Ngi Vo
Court of Wanderers by Rin Chupeco
The Prisoner's Throne by Holly Black
Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland
Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
A Garden Half Built by Ruthanna Emrys
Thornedge by T. Kingfisher
Starless by Jaqueline Carey
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Next Year For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson
God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons
Tagging @the-lightbulb-and-the-octopus @blueberreads and @howlsmovinglibrary if you feel like it!
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Rereading The Terror
Chapter Fifty-Four: Des Voeux
Oh gang, we're rapidly running out of living POV characters as you can see. But that means we do get a glimpse into the inner life of the Notorious C(F)DV, a generally sweet lad more akin to his real-life counterpart than to his gremlin-like show one.
Des Voeux is deliriously happy, right off the bat. As well as successfully hunting and gorging themselves on seal out on the pack, his party have spotted real proper leads in the ice with clear water all the way to the Adelaide Peninsula and Back's River.
"Everyone could leave Rescue Camp. Everyone there now had a chance at survival." :(((
His joy doesn't last for long, however, as his party returns to camp not to fanfare but to abject misery. The men at Rescue Camp are so despondent that they don't even react to the eight tasty seal carcasses Des Voeux and his men haul behind them.
"Did someone die?" asked Charles Frederick Des Voeux
The last men standing with any kind of seniority/rank gather in a tent to fill Des Voeux in, all but one of them smoking like chimneys all the while. They are: Second Mate Edward Couch, First Mate Robert Thomas, Captain of the Hold Joseph Andrews, and Captain of the Maintop Thomas Farr.
They've found the bloody carnage that Hickey's party left behind them:
"[the remaining bones and flesh] Had knife marks on them" finished Robert Thomas. "Lane and Goddard were butchered by a human being"
"Not a human being" said Thomas Farr. "But some vile thing in the shape of a man."
The conversation that follows has definite shades of the E10 Lawful Mutiny scene with Des Voeux cast in Little's role instead.
"We have to go after him and the murderers with him," said Des Voeux
No one spoke for a moment. Then Robert Thomas said, "Why?"
It's hard to disagree with them really. They discuss the lives that would be wasted in such a battle, mentioning Thomas Johnson again who - as we now know - was sent to track the Mutineers to ensure they really left only to fall bloody victim to them.
Des Voeux argues first for Crozier and then for Goodsir but the others reason that they don't even need the surgeon any longer - Tom Hartnell has learned enough to be able to administer what few medicines they have left and as for surgeries...
Couch smiled sadly, "Lad, do you really think that anyone who needs actual surgery from this point on in our travels is likely to survive, no matter what?"
That ever-so-slightly condescending reference to Des Voeux's youth gets to me especially, it really does! He's just a wee guy!
The assembled men still worry about predation from Hickey and the Mutineers as well and have some choice words to say on the matter:
"... He sees all of us as livestock. What if he's just waiting out there beyond the next rise, waiting to attack the whole camp?"
"You're turning the caulker's mate into a bogeyman" said Des Voeux.
"He done that to his self already." said Andrews, "But not a bogeyman, the Devil. The actual Devil..."
I feel like that specific phrasing - his self vs. himself - can do SO much heavy lifting if you want it to. You could interpret it as Hickey not just being corrupted but as devoting/losing his entire sense of self to that corruption. Delicious stuff!
The remaining men decide explicitly that Des Voeux should lead the Expedition entire as he's the highest ranking left among them. He accepts this though he vows to continue to consult closely with the other four in the tent where necessary.
Poor Hodgson is mentioned here, in a way that makes me laugh much much more than it really should:
"Technically," said Thomas Farr, "Lieutenant George Henry Hodgson is in charge of the expedition now"
"Oh, fuck Lieutenant George Henry Hodgson up the arse with a hot poker," said Joseph Andrews, "If the little weasel were to come crawlin' back now, I'd strangle 'im with me own hands and piss on his corpse."
It's not long before Des Voeux faces his first tough decision as official leader and, when it comes down to it, he turns more Le Vesconte than Little. You're not going to like this one, gang, or what it means for poor scurvy-ridden Jopson...!
"Here is my first decision as new commander of the Franklin Expedition. When we drag the boats to the ice in the morning, any man who can walk to the boats and get into harness - or even into one of the boats - comes with us... But tomorrow, only those who can walk to the boats will leave Rescue Camp." :(((
#The Terror#The Terror AMC#Observations#Random Observations#Meta#Rereading the Terror#Terror Spoilers#Charles Frederick Des Voeux#Edward Couch#Thomas Farr#Robert Thomas#Joseph Andrews#Cornelius Hickey#George Hodgson
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3 Flavors of Perfective Verbs in Three Athabascan Languages
(Sources listed at the bottom)
Athabascan languages (a sub-group of Na-Dene languages) feature verbs with many prefixes, which mark the subject, direct object, as well as adverbial elements which help the root define the action of the verb, and affixes which help identify tense and aspect, among others (as you might imagine, Athabascan verbs can get rather long). Among the Athabascan languages are Hupa, from the coastal Athabascan sub-group in Northern California, and Navajo, spoken in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. While both are Athabascan, they are not particularly close relatives, Hupa being in the Coastal subgroup, and Navajo being in the Southern subgroup. However, they share an interesting feature; different verbs form their perfective forms (NOT the same thing as a perfect) with one of a set of prefixes. These prefixes track to a certain nuance in sense. I will quote Pliny Earle Goddard's description of this from Hupa:
There are three simple sounds which by their presence indicate whether the act is viewed as beginnning, ending, or progressing. These sounds are not found in all forms of the same verb, but only in those tenses which refer to the act of state as one and definite.... In many cases the nature of the prefix requires the act to be thought of as beginning, ending, or progressing. The sound which is of most frequent occurrence is /w/. It stands at the beginning of a syllable, usually the one immediately preceding the root. The remainder of this syllable contains the subjective personal elements. Its initiatory force can be seen in the verbs /wiñyaʟ/ COME ON and /wiñxa/ WATER LIES like the ocean, which has no beginning... In a precisely parallel manner, /n/ occurs as the initial of the inflected syllable under circumstances which point to the completion of the act. With /wiñyaʟ/ (above) compare /niñyai/ IT ARRIVED... Without the same exact parallelism of forms which obtains with the two mentioned above, a large number of verbs have /s/ as the characteristic of the inflected syllable of the definite tenses. Most of these verbs clearly contain the idea of progression, or are used of acts which require considerable time for their accomplishment. The distributive prefix /te-/ is always followed by /s/, never by either of the other signs, and some of the prefixes listed above are used with /s/ with a distinction in meaning: for example /xawiñan/ he took a stone out of a hole (but /xaïsyai/ he came up a hill)… In one of the Eel river dialects the bringing home of a deer is narrated as follows: /yīgiñgīn/ he started carrying; /yītesgīn/ he carried along; /yīningīn/ he arrived carrying. here we have /g/ (corresponding to Hupa /w/), /s/, and /n/ used with the same stem, expressing the exact shades one would expect in Hupa.
In other words, perfectives in Hupa treat an action as either the start of a situation (with /w/), the process of a situation (with /s/) or the end of a situation (with /n/). Interestingly, there seems to be some parallel prefixes in Navajo with a similar meaning. Pulling from my notes on The Navajo Language (a book I no longer have access to, unfortunately), there are yi-, si-, and ni- perfectives in Navajo. Yi perfectives are used in the simple completion of the action of the verb, si-perfectives are used when the action creates a stative or durative state (for example “I set it up”), and ni-perfectives are terminal in effect, such as in arriving, stopping, finishing, etc. These prefixes also appear in some Navajo imperfective forms as well, adding the simple, final, or setting-up nuance to an imperfective action. These similarities, especially in the Hupa /s/ and /n/ with the Navajo /si/ and /ni/, show an interesting commonality.
Before I finish, I just remembered that I have another resource on an Athabascan language, namely of Mattole, another coastal Athabascan language. I have yet to devote much time to Mattole, and this document is a fairly brief overview, but it also describes the many prefixes of Mattole, and among the classes of prefixes are these (emphasis mine):
Time-aspect prefixes These express whether the action or situation lasts on (si), is going on all the time or is concerned with the result (ɣi), is instantaneous (ni), occurs in the future (diɣi), or involves a permission (oo).
Again, we see a difference in meaning, but there is noticeable overlap
Sources:
The Navajo Language: A Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary - Robert Young, William Morgan; 1987
Hupa - Entry in the Handbook of American Indian Languages, Pliny Earle Goddard; 1911
A Survey of the Athabaskan Language Mattole - Dick Grune; 2015
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book ask 3 and 18
3 I already answered but I am gonna cheat and talk about five other books I loved
The Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon - this book is a fucking experience. Books to stare out the window of the subway at nothing to.
System Collapse by Martha Wells - I could not fail to love another Murderbot book.
The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan - ditto another Percy Jackson book with the original three getting up to adventures and being best friends.
Emergent Properties by Aimee Ogden - what a weird good little robot book!
Shadow Life by Hiromi Goto - this was a random graphic novel I borrowed from overdrive in the time the library has been down and I really enjoyed it! Knew nothing going in and had a very good time
18 - How many books did you buy?
I always think 'I didn't buy that many books' and then I think for like 5 seconds longer and realise I in fact did. I bought at least 8. Possibly more. Likely more.
(The ones I can remember are Translation State, Under the Whispering Door (in Boulder!), Learned by Heart (in London), A Desolation Called Peace and Rivers of London (in Toulouse), Wintersmith, two Victoria Goddard books, and the 10th anniversary Ancillary Justice)
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How do I permanently stay in the state of being the all powerful being of my reality? I’ve noticed that I feel powerful and that I can do anything for about a day but then the next day is all goes downhill.
Fortunately, there is a way to maintain this feeling of empowerment and become the all powerful being of your own reality. To understand how, we must first turn to the teachings of Neville Goddard and Edward the creator.
Basically, these two spiritual teachers stress the importance of believing in yourself. By believing that you can do anything, no matter how hard, you will eventually manifest this belief. People only ever get what they believe they will receive and if you believe in your own power, you will have it.
Although it is enough just to believe in your power; for me this only kept me in the state of believing I was god and powerful temporarily. It also helps to act on all the things that you want to manifest in your life. That means taking the necessary steps to make sure that your goals come true. For example, If you want to become an entrepreneur, you must come up with a plan, and then take the necessary steps to make it come true. Honestly seeing your desires in front of you helped me stay in the states the longest and helped my manifestations come faster.
For example, my parents recently won a seven figure lottery. (Thank you thank you thank you) and one of my favorite past times was going to the mall with my sister to go to all our favorite stores while touching and telling each other all the stuff we’re going to buy next time around. Already assuming as if the money is already here. Did I have a tens of thousands of money to splurge on useless wants at the time?? No..but in my head I did and I was taking the steps to make my imagination reality. It was fun, harmless and kept me in the states way longer than just believing I had million of dollars at hand did.
At the same time, it is important to be mindful of your thoughts and emotions. If you are constantly filling your mind with negative energy, it might harder to reach a state of empowerment. I’m not talking about doubt, we’re humans and doubt is a normal feeling . I’m talking about negative affirmations “I can’t do this” “this can’t be real for me” “I’m a failure of the law” “I feel like I’m the only one who can’t get into the void state” etc.. but like a river let it flow and let it go. You can’t help if they pop in your head..but you can help if you either accept or reject the thoughts. Remember to try to stay positive even when things seem difficult, and be sure to practice self-love and gratitude on a daily basis. Emphasis on the gratitude! I know some of us have bad circumstances but you found the law for a reason. So.. express gratitude,acknowledge that you’re lucky and happy and god of your world and you’re grateful for everything leading to to this moment..but now it’s time for more and for you to live your best desired life, and you’re even more thankful for that.
I promise you can maintain your state of power and finally become the all powerful being of your reality. Take the time to believe in yourself, take action when needed, and keep your thoughts and emotions positive and full of gratitude. With these steps in place, you can reach a state of everlasting empowerment without doubt!
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2022 media consumption year in review
God tier
Matthew Swift series and Magicals Anonymous duology by Kate Griffin (reread). London sorcerer is raised from the dead and accidentally gets fused to the blue electric angels of the telephone lines along the way. Luscious prose, best urban magic I've ever read, and wickedly funny sense of humor.
Kane and Feels - podcast. Paranormal investigators go around London poking the mystic forces with a sharp stick. Surreal. Funny. Moderately comprehensible. There's nothing else quite like it. Someone described it as "the anti-TMA: you cannot form any theories about it no matter how hard you try."
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North (reread) - two time travelers, defined as people stuck in time loops of their own lives, attempt to unravel the mystery of their existence. Suspenseful and beautifully constructed piece of nonlinear storytelling.
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender (reread) - Rose tastes people's emotions in food. Her brother disappears into thin air. Their parents are fine. Surreal and haunting pearl of a story.
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson - after a family tragedy, the surviving Blackwoods live in isolation from the village. A little Piranesi-ish subverted horror: the sense there's a secret at the heart of the world, and the secret is both joyful and terrible.
Our Flag Means Death - the crangst-filled pirate show that it seemed like the internet lost its mind over, for good reason.
Bee and Puppycat: Lazy in Space - Bee travels between the island and fishbowl space working temp jobs with Puppycat, until their pasts catch up with them. Dreamy, bittersweet, and gorgeous. Season finale was a banger.
Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald (reread). Nature essays on humans and birds. Quiet, luminous, and filled with love of place. Faves were "The Human Flock", "High Rise", "Eulogy", and "What Animals Taught Me"
Natsume's Book of Friends (anime) - Technically about boy who can see youkai, learning how to navigate the world of human relationships. But really about masking, healing from trauma, and learning to trust.
Decent entertainment
The Deep by Rivers Solomon with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
Encanto (2021) - movie
The Witcher, season 2 - show
What We Do in the Shadows - seasons 1-3, got bored afterwards
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Shadow Scale by Rachel Hartman
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell (reread)
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
Touch by Claire North (reread)
Sing - movie
Notes from the Burning Age by Claire North
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (reread)
The Brothers Lionheart by Astrid Lindgren
Moon Knight - show, season 1
Moon Knight comics - 2011, 2014, 2016, 2021
The Batman (2022)
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts (reread)
The Bad Guys (2022)
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (reread)
The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker
The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
Johannes Cabal series by Jonathan L. Howard (reread): Johannes Cabal the Necromancer, Johannes Cabal the Detective, Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute, The Brothers Cabal, and The Fall of the House of Cabal
The Owl House season 2
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary (reread)
Strider by Beverly Cleary (reread)
Loki - show, season 1
Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman
Paprika (2006) dir. Satoshi Kon (rewatch)
Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar (reread)
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Supernatural - seasons 1 – 6, selected episodes
The Sandman by Neil Gaiman - comics (reread)
The Sandman - show, season 1
Microcosmic God: The complete short stories of Theodore Sturgeon, volume II by Theodore Sturgeon
Various Dick King-Smith books (reread): The Merman, Harry's Mad, and Harriet's Hare
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Girl From the Other Side - anime
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
The Farewell (2019) dir. Lulu Wang
Horatio Lyle series by Catherine Webb: The Extraordinary and Unusual Adventures of Horatio Lyle, The Obsidian Dagger, The Doomsday Machine, and The Dream Thief
Mononoke (2007) dir. Kenji Nakamura - anime
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson. Fave: "The Beautiful Stranger"
The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson. Faves: "Like Mother Used to Make" and "Flower Garden"
Legend of Nezha (哪吒传奇) - the 2003 cartoon
Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer
Jane Doe by Victoria Helen Stone
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Lucie Babbidge's House by Sylvia Cassedy
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
Pinocchio (2022) - dir. Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson
Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore
You Suck by Christopher Moore
Bite Me by Christopher Moore
Disliked and usually DNF
Guardian (cdrama)
The Gameshouse by Claire North
Kim's Convenience - show
Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire
Victoriocity - podcast
Sporadic Phantoms - podcast
Guardians of Childhood series by William Joyce - okay I finished it out of loyalty but it was no rotg that's for sure
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Keep Your Hands off Eizouken - anime
Arcane - show
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
The Color Master by Aimee Bender
Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
Megan's Island by Willo Davis Roberts (reread)
First Light by Rebecca Stead
Goodbye Stranger by Rebecca Stead
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy
To Your Eternity - anime
Bloomability by Sharon Creech
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) dir. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Malevolent - podcast
Midnight Burger - podcast
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune
Sunshine by Robin McKinley
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard
Swordspoint by Ellen Kushner
The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
Black Water Sister by Zen Cho
M.E. and Morton by Sylvia Cassedy
Forty Stories by Donald Barthelme
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow
The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison
The Stench of Adventure (podcast)
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Assorted nonfiction
Songs of the Gorilla Nation by Dawn Prince-Hughes
The Organized Mind by Daniel J Levitin - nothing new except for the part about using your spatial memory to hack organization.
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker - how to organize social gatherings for meaningful and memorable experiences
Rust: the Longest War by Jonathan Waldman - investigative journalism book about corrosion, the hazard it presents to physical infrastructure, and how we mitigate it
Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8 by Naoki Higashida
Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life by Yiyun Li - DNF
The One-Minute Manager: The World's Most Popular Management Method by Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson - techniques for one-minute goal setting, one-minute praisings, and one-minute reprimands
The Chinese Language: Its History and Current Usage by Daniel Kane. Good concise history of the development of written Mandarin Chinese and the underlying structure of the characters.
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold - essays on the American landscape and conservation ethics ca. 1950. Neat from a historical standpoint, but nothing to write home about these days. Which kinda is the point I guess.
Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish At the Turn of the Millennium, ed. Oregon Trout
Caring for your Parents by Hugh Delehanty and Eleanor Ginzler
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat by Oliver Sacks - DNF
The Grid by Gretchen Bakke - history of how the physical and regulatory infrastructure of the American power grid was developed, and how it needs to be reimagined for the future.
Wildlife Wars : The life and times of a fish and game warden by Terry Grosz. Tales from his career as a California game warden catching poachers.
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. DNF. author's writing voice was supremely annoying
Wilderness and the American Mind by Roderick Nash, 3rd ed (1982) (reread) - history of Americans' changing attitudes towards nature and definitions of wilderness. A classic banger.
Black, Brown, Bruised: How racialized STEM education stifles innovation by Ebony Omotola McGee - good summary of what the successful programs for STEM students of color are doing right, everything else is the same old same old
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb. Account of the experience of going through therapy while working as a therapist. Excellent look at how we construct our personal narratives, and how to change them.
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes are High by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Gremmy, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler. Strategies for having effective high-stakes conversations and managing your emotions. Good stuff.
Engineering and Social Justice by Donna Riley. Pretty entry-level, but it's a good bibliography for further reading.
Send in the Idiots by Kamran Nazeer
Why Are We Yelling? The art of productive disagreement by Buster Benson - DNF. disliked his writing style.
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Consciousness as described by Neville Goddard
Consciousness is akin to a river split into two parts, two sides of the same coin, as it were. The two parts of consciousness are called the conscious and the subconscious minds.
The subconscious mind is the womb of all creation. It is impressed with ideas through the conscious mind and gives every idea form in the 3D, unless there are two opposite ideas, in which case it will give the stronger idea form.
"I am" is stronger than "I will be" and "I am not"
Your subconscious mind accepts what is true that which you feel to be true. The moment it perceives an idea from the conscious mind, it will go about giving that idea form. You do not have to worry about the manner in which your desire will express itself, instead, focus only on the feeling of having your desire. The subconscious mind will figure out how it will come to you.
The subconscious mind takes what you give it. If you dwell on lack or delay, it will interpret that as what you want, and will manifest that same lack and delay that you are imagining. There is nothing holding you back but your own beliefs and thoughts. Nothing comes from without, only from within.
These are notes I was taking as I was reading the first chapter of "Feeling is the Secret."
#law of assumption#living in the end#master manifestor#law of attraction#self concept affirmations#manifestation#manifest#manifesting#void state
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Okay mostly know Indy from clips(Disney hurry up and put the films on plus) but didn’t Indy try to save artifacts so that the NAZIS and Soviets wouldn’t have them?
While we don’t have to take stuff like the British museum, but after all these church burnings, statues being destroyed, and other shit (especially in the Middle East) I would prefer artifacts to stay in a secure place rather than being at the mercy of emotionally immature people.
Sorry this took so long, keep getting distracted by things and people. Mostly people.
Ya the British Museum bit is a quality observation since there's a post on here that goes over that situation perfectly, guy from I believe Iraq visiting the museum and crying in front of an exhibit of stuff from "home" cue the ignoramuses with no capacity think of any possibility beyond 'white people bad' displaying a stunning lack of critical thinking skills and outright ignorance, until someone points out that if someone had bothered to read the article they would have seen they were tears of joy.
For Indy, the first movie 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' he finds the Jewish artifact generally referred to as the "Ark of the Covenant" got the broken OG 10 commandments tablets, some manna, and Aaron's staff in it, manages to get that away from the Nazis because just because they hate Jews it doesn't mean they won't try and take advantage of their sacred artifacts.
Winds up in storage in a warehouse in the US that holds all kinds of things that are on the do not touch list.
In regards to the movies it's the only thing he did not get back to it's rightful owners.
Temple of Doom, the whole thing was with stones that were somehow magical and provided prosperity to the village where one of them was, their sacred object gets all three but loses two when they start getting charged up off of Indy's grumpiness but he saves the one that belongs to the village and gets it back to them.
Last Crusade at the opening (RIP River Phoenix) there's a cross he's trying to retrieve from a guy that will pretty much just sell it on the black market, not an object with any specific owner other than maybe the Vatican and he says it belongs in a museum.
Which I can agree with given the type of object it is, to a point, maybe ask the Pope if it's ok.
Then it's looking for the literal Holy Grail, which can't leave the spot in well they used Petra for the outside shots so let's go with that, so it's still where it was when he started just underground a bit maybe.
Crystal Skull, took it back to where it belonged and the aliens took off in their space ship since they needed the last one's head before they could do that.
Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, I can't think of any artifacts that he specifically recovered and took away once he was old enough to know the score, went in to a mummy's tomb as a child with TE Lawrence and a few other folks who did stuff but he was like 8 what could he do. Same with meeting up with Teddy Roosevelt on a safari in Africa with several other big names if you know names from that time.
Tolstoy's Bible might count, but he traded Tolstoy his baseball cards for that so fair deal (wild thing to say) got to hang out with the last round of Hapsburg's in Austria too, really top quality show.
Kinda jumps from childhood to him late teens, riding with Pancho Villa meeting Remy (RIP Ronny Coutteure) who wants to go back to Belgium since well that whole first big tussle with Germany and Austria Hungary known as WW1 is going on and he wants to defend his home, so lot of WW1 stuff there not much archeology, do get a episode with Tim McInnerny playing Kafka that's a lot of laughs but that's an espionage thing, whole episode played out like Kafka wrote it fun stuff.
After all that he goes back to the US, and there's no archeology at all, rocket building with Goddard, college dorm mate with Elliot Ness, learns Jazz from some of the masters in a episode featuring Harrison Ford (finally) Civil rights stuff here and there.
But ya, all of the stuff he finds winds up in the hands of it's rightful owner.
As unproblematic archeologists go he's up at the top I'd say.
Think Spielberg did that all on purpose, ark thing works for him since he's Jewish so he can decide what he wants there.
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I’ve decided to try something new with my patreon, as I both currently (a) am in a tighter spot financially and currently need to be taking up extra work, and (b) would really like some of that work to be creative writing, so that I do not lose all time for writing in my life. So I will begin my patreon like a monthly writing commission: I will write [monthly earnings] x 10 words for whatever current work of mine the $5 tier or above votes for in a monthly poll.
I will continue to work on all other writing projects as the inspiration strikes me; this simply acts as a guarantee that I will produce a certain number of words for the chosen project in addition to that.
This means both fanfictions — ifmlam, ttbotr, wriu, aiimbp, abbabf — and the drafts that I am working on for both original short stories and novels. The full description of all of the options will be posted on each poll. I will post all words written from the previous month’s poll in the access to everything tag. Maximum possible words per month will cap at 10k, because that is the amount that I amount that I can reasonably do while still working my day job.
Full descriptions of the options below the cut.
Fanfiction:
it feels more like a memory: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/5456225/chapters/12613484] fandom: Hamilton. Aaron Burr is the Seer — a figure of religious and political importance, due to his ability to see how someone dies the first time he touches their bare skin. An extremely detailed series of eight different alternate histories emerge from there. This probably has at least 200k to go, with an existing outline of plot points to hit and scattered scenes written amongst that.
as if it must be pure: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/43954528/chapters/110519095] fandom: Boku no Hero Academia: I am gonchposting my way through a canon retelling healer! Izuku fic. featuring All For One having an existential crisis about a Yoichi-shaped child turning up out of the blue and sure is doing something with this ‘second chance’, big brother Tomura, the entire League of Villains’ original founding tenet being the Izuku Protection Squad, Aizawa is so tired of all these extra Problem Children he has accidentally adopted, All Might did not realize what he was getting into choosing this successor, Class 1-A unanimously deciding that their precious cinnamon roll must be shielded from this world and if the HPSC needs to go down to do it that is an acceptable price, and an incredibly tired hacker! Hitoshi who is not being paid enough to deal with the insanity and also terrible opsec of said Class 1-A conspiracy and almost certainly going to get a spinoff fic of his own.
we raise it up: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/23608963/chapters/56655328] fandom: the Magnus Archives. Jonathan Sims reads a Leitner, gains foreknowledge about the course of canon through the end of season 4, and everyone proceeds to run around like headless chickens with the playing in the background fixing everything. The five remaining chapters + four epilogues are painstakingly outlined and/or partially written, probably tentatively around 50k remaining with 20k of that already written.
to the bottom of the river: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/11066571/chapters/24678171] fandom: Yuri! on Ice. A retelling of the anime with a twist on the world background: people can lease their souls to demons in return for making various supernatural deals. There is a single chapter mostly written remaining that better emotionally wraps up and concludes the whole thing, then some additional content already ready to post as a patreon exclusive.
a buried and a burning flame: [https://archiveofourown.org/works/32158693/chapters/79679947] fandom: Victoria Goddard’s The Hands of the Emperor. A retelling of the canon universe with the twist of two different sorts of culturally specific soulmates.
Unpublished Fanfiction:
the wind, the wind, the wind: lesbian Hadestown in space. need I say anything more.
shade of the morning sun: a crossover of my unpublished novel Opus (characters appearing in a beating heart of stone) with the Star Wars prequels. possibly the most insane and indulgent thing I’ve ever written.
Original Works:
Opus I: incredibly tired diplomat is annoyed that his assigned assassin-pretending-very-poorly-to-a-bodyguard’s murderous love polygon drama is going to have political ramifications that will in fact be his problem. featuring: Seers, except this Seer can only see 10 seconds into the future and uses it to be Extremely Good At Punching Things, the red/blue/gold relationship system, a magic system based around hiveminds, and an incredibly complicated and fucked-up language with plot-relevant linguistics. some characters and draft 0 concepts appear in a beating heart of stone to get an idea of the Vibes. This is the first in a series of, like, 15 books that will eventually become a multiverse-spanning space opera.
The Numanok Files: Murderbot Diaries crossed with non-sexist Dresden Files crossed with that TV show that was a psychic and a home inspector investigating supposed hauntings, but like, in space, and sometimes the hauntings are real. Valryka Numanok is a bounty hunter who specializes in dealing with ghosts, except while half of the time, a haunting is a haunting, the other half it is poorly covered wiring being affected by solar flares / an alien fungus / hi welcome to me infodumping about everything that might possibly go wrong in exoplanetary settlements. This is a series of novellas each following an individual case.
Strangeside 7: this is Redline but in the aesthetics of a Miyazaki movie; a civilization that spans a galaxy is constrained by the existence of the ‘Strange’ — think sci-fi Fae Wilds. Every year the Strangeside7 race runs through seven unannounced segments of the edges of the Strange. We follow the motley cast of characters as they attempt to qualify and run in this year’s race in a stand-alone novel.
The Heart And The Heartless: shounen anime of ‘kids going to sorcery-warrior school to learn how to wield their innate sorcerous abilities to hunt down and seal revenants’ except told from the perspective of the Incredibly Tired and Perpetually Overworked teachers. Also a stand-alone novel.
Link to my patreon is here: https://www.patreon.com/savrenim
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Hubble Reveals a River of Star Formation This newly revised NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Hickson Compact Group 31 (HCG 31) of galaxies highlights streams of star-formation as four dwarf galaxies interact. The bright, distorted clump of young blue-white stars (top-right of center) is NGC 1741. Although it appears to be a single galaxy, NGC 1741 is actually a pair of colliding dwarf galaxies. Another dwarf, cigar-shaped galaxy to the pair’s right joins their dance with a thin, blue stream of stars that connects the trio. HGC 31’s fourth member is revealed by a stream of young blue stars that point to the galaxy (bottom-left of center) and indicate its interaction with the other three. The bright object in the center of the image is a star situated between Earth and HCG 31. Dwarf galaxy encounters are normally seen billions of light-years away, and therefore occurred billions of years ago, but HCG 31 is located some 166 million light-years from Earth, relatively close by cosmic standards. The newly revised image emphasizes star-forming regions spurred by the quartet’s gravitational dance. The color blue represents visible blue light and showcases young, hot, blue stars, while the color red represents near-infrared light. To view the 2010 release of this image, see Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years Image credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Charlton (Pennsylvania State University); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of America)
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Books I read in 2022:
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Winter's Orbit by Everina Maxwell ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Lightning-Struck Heart by T.J. Klune ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Last Sun by K.D Edwards ️️️️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Hanged Man by K.D Edwards ️️️️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Hands of the Emperor by Victoria Goddard ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao ⭐️
Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Slippery Creatures by K.J. Charles ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Subtle Blood by K.J. Charles ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Sugared Game by K.J. Charles ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Extraordinaries by T.J. Klune ️️️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
F️lash Fire by T.J. Klune ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
White Trash Warlock by David R Slayton ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Before We Disappear by Shaun David Hutchinson ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Great Atlantean Battle Royalchemey by K.D Edwards ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Hourglass Throne by K.D Edwards ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Heartstopper V1 by Alice Oseman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Heartstopper V2 by Alice Oseman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Heartstopper V3 by Alice Oseman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Heartstopper V4 by Alice Oseman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Gentleman's Guide to Vice & Virtue by Mackenzi Lee ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Lost Book of the White by Cassandra Clare ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Wonders of the Invisible World by Christopher Barzak ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Queen of Air and Darkness by Cassandra Clare ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Nick and Charlie by Alice Oseman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Heat Wave by T.J Klune ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
This Winter by Alice Oseman ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Trailer Park Trickster by David R Slayton ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Wolfsong by TJ Klune ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Ravensong by TJ Klune ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Jade City by Fonda Lee ⭐️ ⭐️
Lava Red Feather Blue by Molly Ringle ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Binding by Bridget Collins ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The River of Silver by S.A. Chakraborty ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Key Player by Kelly Yang ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Bloodmarked by Tracy Deonn ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
Deadbeat Druid by David R Slayton ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
The Return of Fitzroy Angursell by Victoria Goddard ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
At the Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard (in progress)
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For all my ex-christians out there | Track list under the cut
Sins Fate - BANANA FISH // The Mind Electric - Miracle Musical // MANTRA - Bring Me The Horizon // Bloody Mary - Lady Gaga // Church (Hex Cougar Remix) - Alison Wonderland // Jericho - Celldweller // Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron // Leach - BONES UK // Pictures of You - HMLTD // Heaven - The Neighborhood // The Cross - Priest // Deadcrush - alt-J // Being out Your Dead - Ulver // Without Love - Alice Glass // NOT HUMAN - ionnalee // Interlude; 9/23/87 4:34am-Falling - Crywolf // Holy Rivers - Empathy Test // Devotion - Hurts // The Sinner in Me - Depeche Mode + Steve Fitzmaurice // It’s a Sin - Pet Shop Boys // Fear & Delight - The Corespondents // Heaven - Until December // John The Revolter - Depeche Mode + Steve Fitzmaurice // Beacon of Light - Priest // Send Me an Angle - Infected Mushroom // Holiest - Glass Animals + Tei Shi // Sacrilege - Yeah Yeah Yeahs // Gabriel - Joe Goddard + Valentina // Come Undone - Duran Duran // Happiness - IAMX // Raining Blood - Hot Sugar // Heaven - PVRIS // Children of God - AJJ // Send Me An Angle - The Mountain Goats // Heaven - I Monster // Angle Down - Lady Gaga // Hope In The Air - Laura Marling // War in Heaven - The Raveonettes // Apocalypse 1993 - Ulver // Holy - PVRIS // Send Me An Angle - Rea Life // Something to Believe In - Young the Giant // Hysteria - Priest // Help You Fly - Ivan // Follow Me - Muse // Counting Down the Days - MCC // Empty - PVRIS // He Is (HEALTH Remix) - Ghost // Alter Wine - David Keenan // See You Assholes Latter - Labrinth
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2022 Writing and Reading Wrap-Up
I can’t believe it’s 2023 already!
So, in terms of my 2022 Reading Goals, I only read one of them: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. However, I did read some incredible books, and got to start so many good series (Murderbot, Greenwing and Dart, Penric and Desdemona, Vorkosigan, Rivers of London, the Stormlight Archive). According to Goodreads, I read 73 books in 2022. That’s a lot, so I won’t list every book I’ve read, but they are all there in my monthly reading round-ups: https://shsenhaji.tumblr.com/writingandreading
For my writing, I did make certain progress in my WIPs, even though the momentum has rather fallen in the last few months. I also submitted a few short stories and wrote a few more short stories. Finally, I finally got my first publication credit!!! My short story “Childhood Home” was published in a university literary journal, and it’s in a real book!
However, 2022 was also the year that I became a proper book reviewer. It’s been a wild ride! I’ve been approved for ARCs, I’ve written for Strange Horizons, I’ve read so many amazing books, and I’ve been able to share my love of books and reading with others! I hope to continue this momentum into 2023, and to do even more.
I reviewed the following:
Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingrande Mora
Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Stargazy Pie by Victoria Goddard
Bee Sting Cake by Victoria Goddard
The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon
Ought to be Dead by Scott Warren
One for All by Lillie Lainoff
Whiskeyjack by Victoria Goddard
The City of Dusk by Tara Sim
The Justice of Kings by Richard Swan
Saint Death’s Daughter by C.S.E. Cooney
The Redoubtable Pali Avramapul by Victoria Goddard
Three Twins at the Crater School by Chaz Brenchley
Sword Dance by A.J. Demas
Silk Fire by Zabé Ellor
Saffron Alley by A.J. Demas
A Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
Some by Virtue Fall by Alexandra Rowland
Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra
Fete For a King by Sam Starbuck
The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
The Comfortable Courtesan by L.A. Hall
That means in 2022, I reviewed 25 books!
All in all, I’m very proud of what I accomplished. Here’s to 2023!
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