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[personal profile] lokifan prompted: How about crochet - how/why did you get into it? Do you have any new projects on the horizon?

I learned the basics as a little kid from my mother, just like knitting. I think it was during a summer vacation in elementary school when I was bored, maybe because of rainy weather? But tbh I don't really remember in detail. My mother got me some basic cotton yarn and showed me how to crochet pot holders, and then I made some.

I never did anything more complicated for ages (with knitting I at least tried for mittens in addition to a scarf), until I saw some amigurumi online and just tried making a simple one in 2017, this dog and a bit later this penguin, and then I again didn't crochet for several years until you felt like making a neck loop.

I don't do fiber crafts (or any crafts really) in a consistent, regular or perfectioning my skills fashion. Mostly I see something, figure it's vaguely achievable, and then follow instructions, and the end result is usually something vaguely like the intention.

Right now I'm crocheting a bunch of granny squares when I want something to do with my hands that might become a simple lap blanket before the end of the winter. Currently it's almost half finished.

(If you want to prompt me there are still open days.)
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[personal profile] schneefink prompted: Tell me about a weird crossover idea of your choice?

I'm not sure I have any super *weird* ideas. Having recced xovers for quite a while, I found that with the right setup almost anything can be made fit in a non-weird way.

As for ideas, I think I have already mentioned this in some previous meme, but the universe still hasn't provided, and I would just love to read a Check Please/Sesame Street crossover. I pretty much adore any Muppet type crossovers in any of my fandoms, but Check Please would work so well.

Jack is a hockey celebrity talking about his anxiety with an anxious Muppet and Bitty meets Cookie Monster, obviously. For once Cookie Monster might meet somebody who can manifest baked goods almost as quickly as Cookie Monster can eat them. And with Bitty being used to hockey teams, there's no issues with Cookie Monster's table manners or lack thereof.

It's frankly tragic that there still is no such crossover to be found on AO3.

For an additional somewhat weird idea, more fusion than crossover, since I'm currently playing quite a lot of Pokemon Go, without actually knowing anything about the Pokemon world building as caveat, I could kind of see the MCU crossover with the Winter Soldier story line where Bucky Barnes is the abused Pokemon, having been turned in a shadow Pokemon, and then gets rescued by Steve the Pokemon trainer...

(If you want to prompt me there are still open days.)
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[personal profile] rheanna prompted: what was your first fandom and how did you get into online media fandom?

I can't remember a time before I self-identified as a fan. I mean, I always was aware of fandom as a thing geeky people do together, so I was never a "feral fan" who was really into something, and only later discovered others were too and found them. My parents and siblings were all fannish when I grew up, variously being into Star Trek, tv series, pulp magazines, horror and SF movies, comics, TTRPGs etc.

Like, my mom told the anecdote how in the pre-VCR days when she was pregnant with my older brother her water broke during an Avengers episode, and she finished watching that before going to the hospital (tbf, it was her second child and she suspected it would take a while, but still, that's fannish priorities right there). I actually checked the air dates for that series on German tv once, and her story checks out... Both my parents told me how their parents had tragically destroyed their pulps and comic books when they were little, whereas my older sister didn't just collect Star Trek novels (there also was a live sized Spock poster for a while) and comics, she also had a chest full of "John Sinclair" horror pulp magazines that she read to me when I was tiny (my parents had no issue with that, my mother for example read "Jerry Cotton" pulps herself), and my older brother hosted D&D nights etc.

Back to my own particular fannishness, my first real fandom was Disney comics, mostly the Ducks, and then collecting comics in general, and also drawing my own. I collected (Disney still, also various European comics, but no superheroes at that time), became a regular at the local comic store, went to trade meetings, later to cons, met with a youth group to draw comics and eventually publish a zine.

The group actually was a city project for "at risk" youth done by social workers, but I didn't realize that at the time since I just saw the flyer in the library, and I was a bit younger than the main target age, like fourteen when it started iirc, and most others where 16 or 17.

Because I was really sheltered even at 14 it actually was a bit scary for me to get to the meeting place at first, because previously I'd only been on my own in my neighborhood (to the library there, to the comic store, the mall etc.), and to the central library in the city center, but the group met at a vaguely run down cultural center behind the central station and later a youth center in a neighborhood adjacent to mine, but one that was significantly poorer, and generally I didn't go to that area. Both places had lots wall signs that drug use wasn't allowed inside, which seemed somewhat alarming to me. I realized later that the funding for the whole thing had come out of the addiction prevention city budget or something, which probably also explains the locations in "drug problem" areas. Some of the other teenagers had mainly done illegal graffiti spraying before (we all brought art samples).

Anyway, the group was really fun, even though besides me only one other girl was there iirc, and it was also very educational. I still have some of the tutorial copies. It also definitely widened my social horizons. We even displayed our artwork at a local comic con eventually in the second year (actually reading the project descriptions in the con program made me realize that the thing was primarily intended as social work, not art education), however I never got my original artwork back after the exhibition. I'm still disgruntled about that, all these decades later.

So I was mostly into various aspects of comic fandom as a teenager. I don't remember anymore how I first learned that fan resources could also be found on the internet, I think a zine might have mentioned a news group as resource or such, but at first I wanted to find out comic bibliography type of things, like lists of comics certain favorite artists had worked on, which wasn't easy to find then. Like, you could find such lists when a magazine did a special on an artist or a writer, but for some there weren't any I could find.

My older sister had access through the university, so I visited her to get access to newsgroups and FTP sites with FAQs about comics and stuff, and printed out piles of posts, mostly from usenet, but also some really early websites. That was back when Lynx and Mosaic were still the main web browsers, and you searched FTP servers with a thing called gopher.

Then my older brother got compuserve at his place, and I looked for fannish things there (also played Myst), both in the groups but also more generally, and found a due South mailing list, but my attempt to join fandom then failed, because his email inbox could not cope with the amount of mail a fannish mailing list generated.

So I was aware of online fandom and wanted to join, but the difficult logistics thwarted me until I gained my own internet access a few years later. Since I was mostly into The Sentinel by then along with comics, I found that pretty much as soon as I had dial up internet at home, late 1997, when there were many Sentinel websites and lists. I think I first looked up an episode guide because I wanted to know whether more episodes had aired in the US than here (there had) and read transcripts (I had only watched the dubbed versions then, though eventually I found fans to get tapes from). I then came across Nightowl's Nest, a fandom resource site, that linked to all sorts of things and discovered fanfic, and then I was pretty much set.

I wrote feedback to the first Sentinel fanfic I found, squeeing about having found fanfic, joined the Senfic mailing lists soon after, and then a bunch of others. It took me a little bit to realize all the red, blinking "slash 18+" weren't related to gore and violence (as in "slasher" movies). They puzzled me, as I didn't understand why The Sentinel would inspire much of that, and why my favorite authors would be into gore when their regular fanfic wasn't violent at all. But since in TS there really was a lot of overlap between gen and slash, the misconception was cleared up very soon, and I joined some more lists.

The Sentinel stayed my main media fandom for several years, though I never was strictly mono-fannish. I also read Due South, Highlander, TPM, and many others, but was primarily active on TS lists (or lists that were open to other things but had grown out of TS) until fandom moved to LJ.

(If you want to prompt me there are still open days.)
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[personal profile] musesfool prompted: what's your favorite thing to bake or cook?

That's a hard question. I don't actually do either as a hobby, really, and since I live alone most of my cooking is utilitarian, like stews that reheat without fuss, so I can cook once and eat it several days, without doing complicated meal planning for optimal ingredient utilization. I'm not bad at it, and I can cook more complicated things (vegetarian ones at least) but I usually don't bother.

It's more fun when somebody else also eats the food, but I have no practice at complicated timing for elaborate menus and that gets stressful fast, so I have no real interest in hosting dinner parties.

So I guess I'm going with Christmas bakery. I usually bake a fair amount of classic Christmas cookies that are well received by family and friends, and most years I also make stollen. My personal favorite are probably Elisenlebkuchen. I just use the recipe that came with my food processor. I posted a translated recipe some years ago, it's the first of the two in this post, though recently I've mostly made them chocolate covered rather than lemon glazed.

(If you want to prompt me there are still open days.)
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[personal profile] dine prompted: let me know your feelings on mountains vs ocean for vacation spots. or is there something else you prefer?

Ocean, definitely. I haven't actually been to mountains often (I don't do winter sports or anything like that, nor do I climb, though I like moderate hiking), but I love being near the sea. I'm not much of a swimmer nor do I like sunbathing, but walking along shores or cliffs, looking at waves and smelling and hearing the ocean is great. The couple of times I've been on the ocean with ferries and such, I liked that experience too.

Unfortunately I don't live by the sea directly, though I am still in the area of the river estuary that gets significant tides and coastal storm impacts, so the sea is definitely nearer for outings too.

(If you want to prompt me there are still open days.)
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[personal profile] lilacsigil prompted: canon that you've been fannish about for longest.

If this means the canon that was my first clearly delineated fandom that I still feel fannish about to some extent now, it's Carl Barks' version of Duckburgh. I've talked about it in more detail for a "first fandom" meme many years ago here, but I joined a club, bought zines, went to conventions etc. for that subset of Duckburgh comics. I was into comics, and also a Disney fan before I recognized Carl Barks take on the Ducks as a specific canon, but the neither comics as medium nor Disney have a "canon" as such. But I eventually mostly stopped engaging with that fandom (it is quite male dominated, and I also got more into fanfic, which that fandom doesn't do). I still like the canon a lot though.

If it means the canon for which I had the longest stretch of continuous and really active engagement online and still like to read fanfic for every now and then even now, it's probably The Sentinel still, i.e. my first online fanfic fandom. Maybe if you count the MCU as one thing, and focus mostly on the length of it being really prominent in my fanfic reading, that counts as longer by now. If you see "Marvel" as one canon, that's definitely true, because I liked some Marvel comics before the MCU.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)
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[personal profile] mific prompted: Tell us about rats and why you like them.

I like rats, because they are social, smart, curious, cute, cuddly, adaptable and important for pets, you can keep them in a small apartment and still give them a decent quality of life.

Rats actually like living in human buildings, and do it voluntarily (if we let them), which in general we don't appreciate as the wild ones aren't useful like dogs or even cats, but still like to eat our food and gnaw and pee on our stuff, and also can transmit diseases (though apparently it wasn't actually their lice that brought the Black Death after all but mostly human to human lice).

So nobody wants "vermin" but the fact remains that they are well suited to living with us. They don't need a large territory or want to roam all the time or need to fly or swim (though some like splashing a little but mine mostly didn't try swimming when I offered) or would really like having a big underground warren (though they do like nest building and some like to dig a little). They like the same temperatures as we do.

And they are omnivores like us, so it's not complicated to feed them. There are a few foods they can't eat as they have some metabolic differences to humans, and some foods that aren't great for them, but basically they live on grains with some fruit, veggies (of the types that don't cause gas, brassica and legumes aren't great) and animal protein when they can get it, so more or less they eat like us. They also really prefer their food cooked and also fatty and sweet or salty, but then get the same health problems as humans and potentially tooth issues from too many soft things. But their inclinations are very aligned with ours when it comes to creature comforts. They themselves think human environments would be a good fit for them.

Of course most cages you see in pet stores are much too small, but something the size of a wardrobe with a couple of floors is fine for a small group. You can't keep just one and even two isn't great (because it's a real problem if one dies prematurely and introducing older rats is fraught), but three or four works well enough.

And the domesticated ones have been selected for human affinity and docility for long enough that early socialization to humans takes really easily. It's not as extreme as with dogs who lived with us for thousands of years, but pet rats like to interact with you, they recognize you, and they will be awake when you are and shift their schedule (though they don't appreciate erratic habits -- if you establish a schedule and then change it, they will sulk and mope, which I learned when I got some during school holidays once and played in the morning and then only got home in the afternoon once school started -- much disgruntlement ensued).

They are somewhat neophobic as they are territorial and prey animals, so unfamiliar places are stressful (the thing of carrying a rat around outside isn't great for most rats), but they are curious enough to like to explore and play with new things appearing in familiar surroundings. Especially young ones also really enjoy playing with their human, like getting tickled, running away, coming back etc. I never bothered much with tricks like fetch (which they can learn), but almost all will come when called (though bribery obviously helps). They are also really fun to watch with each other, and they cooperate for goals.

They don't get housebroken, though some claim theirs are, but I have never had a rat that you could get to only pee in designated places, and that is more problematic than their feces which is generally dry in healthy rats and not super gross. That they mostly prefer to leave in a few corners, so you can put up toilets, but they pee even in their sleeping nests, and they mark all paths with small pee droplets. So wherever you let rats out, you will have some amount of rat pee, including occasionally yourself.

Otoh them being small animals, the absolute pee amount isn't large, isn't super pungent, and unlike cats they do not vomit, and engage in no revenge peeing, but you want washable or wipable surfaces for rats. But otherwise they groom themselves meticulously (no rolling in gross stuff like dogs do sometimes) so they themselves don't smell more than a cat would in general (and much less bad breath, also they don't noticably fart), and it is really cute when they groom you socially, which they like to do.

Their major downside is of course that they are so short lived, with most living only a little over two years, and their health often declines before, so you often have to regularly medicate a rat for a quarter of their lives for one lung ailment or another and older rats frequently get cancers. So it's a lot of heartbreak to have rats, which is why I haven't kept any in quite some time.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)
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[personal profile] sabcatt prompted: Top 5 comic book or comic-book-derived (ie, film or TV adaptation) storylines?

I'm not fond of ranking fiction or best of lists in general, but that said:

  1. The top spot has to go to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck by Don Rosa. I love the foundational Carl Barks more as a brilliant cartoonist, but Don Rosa's twelve part saga weaves all kinds of one-off details Carl Barks revealed about Uncle Scrooge's past into one coherent history and timeline. I adore the world building. It's like the very best fanfic, my definite canon for the Ducks. And even with all the references, they still stand as stories on their own.

  2. The Amazing Spider-Man origin and early story lines by Stan Lee. Revisiting this has become a bit overdone, but for a reason, because it's just a great superhero setup. I've enjoyed all kinds of retellings from earlier movies to the the MCU to Spider-Man: Blue by Loeb/Sale.

  3. I have a hard time picking just one thing from the Batverse. I like many of the takes on Batman's origin and early years (also a very overcrowded field), but for one storyline I think A Lonely Place of Dying by Marv Wolfman, George Perez and Jim Aparo deserves a spot of honor. And not just for introducing Tim Drake, who actually isn't my favorite Batverse character (that spot belongs to Nightwing). It's just a great comic. (I squeed about it here.)

  4. For another of my favorite comic characters, Daredevil, it's also hard to pick, as he has many great storylines. Since I like Daredevil angsty, I enjoyed the whole Bendis era, and Out by Bendis/Maleev is a real highlight.

  5. The whole Animal Man run by Grant Morrison. It's a series that gets more and more meta, but it leaves you bewildered in a good way. (I squeed about it years ago.)

  6. An extra movie mention goes to Captain America: The Winter Soldier in the MCU, because it's one of the best MCU films, but mostly for the millions of words of epic Steve/Bucky fic it inspired.
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[personal profile] goss prompted: What were the last 2 fanworks you enjoyed?

I have been reading a couple of longer fanfics that I've been enjoying but haven't managed to finish. (I have a problem sticking with any fiction atm, it's the same with books and even tv, it's awful.) But the last I actually finished and consequently bookmarked was The Vader Archives by [archiveofourown.org profile] anghraine, two short ficlets about Star Wars in-universe academics arguing about Darth Vader, his identity and impact.

The last fanart I liked on Tumblr was this Steve/Bucky art by [tumblr.com profile] muffinshark as it came across my dash again and I noticed I hadn't liked it before.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)
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[personal profile] killabeez prompted: Talk to me about Anakin Skywalker and his relationship with another character of your choice.

I'm not that into Anakin (or Darth Vader later), though I don't dislike him either. My favorite SW character is Obi-Wan (though I still haven't watched the recent series, alas), so I quite enjoy some stories of the two as Jedi knights (though I haven't watched that animated Clone Wars series either, I just can't deal with that animation style). However I don't particularly ship Anakin/Obi-Wan, because Anakin really seems too obsessive about Padme.

I've read a few stories with more of a thruple setup, but I think overall I appreciate Anakin more as a nexus, on which the epic hinges than as a character to glom onto. I have a huge preference for likable and sympathetic hero characters, and while every villain is the hero of their own story, and Anakin can be likable, it's always tricky to pull that kind of fictional empathy off with a character who is also a mass murderer and slaughtered Jedi children.

I have enjoyed some fanfic explorations of Anakin's background and upbringing that build a more solid foundation to then also explain him turning on the Jedi and such, like Fialleril's Tatooine stories, and am also quite fond of shorter pieces about him that just ignore the big picture, whether humor pieces about the absurdity of imperial bureaucracy, or stories about Anakin and droids or Clone War era Anakin/Obi-Wan PWPs, but he's not my favorite, and I don't have any particular theories about him.

(If you want to prompt me there are still many open days.)
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I haven't always had luck with these memes, that rope others into providing topics/questions, but I guess it's worth a try. So as seen around my circle:

I'm soliciting questions for this year's December posting meme - surely you have an interesting (or boring - I don't judge), impertinent, or unusual question for me? Can be about a fannish opinion or headcanon, about me, a top 5, or my thoughts on anything that strikes your fancy. Please pick a day and give me a topic.

list of dates and questions )
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What I Just Finished Reading

I finished Home Within Skin by Jem Zero, a SF m/m romance with an alien sex worker and a trans main character. It was okay, but towards the end I got impatient with the main character's angst and self-worth problems, and also was a bit disappointed that we never got any of the alien's POV.

I also read The Queer Principles of Kit Webb by Cat Sebastian, and that was a really fun historical m/m romance.

What I'm Reading Now

I haven't yet started anything new.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea. I've seen that Unseen by Jordan L. Hawk (Rath and Rune #2) is supposed to come out on the 12th, and I quite liked the first one, Unhallowed even though I haven't read the long series that was a spin-off from (I tried the first of that when it was a freebie at some point and iirc didn't like the writing much, and never finished it, but found later, other series by this author very readable). So I've pre-ordered that one. (TBR piles never really shrink, do they?) But maybe something else gets read before.
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What I Just Finished Reading

I finished reading All the Feels by Olivia Dade. It was okay and managed to hold my attention (a good thing considering how often I seem to abandon books without actually disliking them these days), but ultimately I didn't like it as much as the first in the series, Spoiler Alert.

What I'm Reading Now

I'm currently reading Home Within Skin by Jem Zero, a SF m/m romance with an alien sex worker and a trans main character, that I somehow came across on twitter and it looked intriguing.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea. Aside from the alien romance I didn't acquire anything to increase the TBR pile even further beyond what I mentioned last week.
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What I Just Finished Reading

I finally managed to finish a book again: I read the third in T. Kingfisher's Saints of Steel series, Paladin's Hope. The romance didn't engage me quite as much as in the first two, but I still love all the World of the White Rat books for the worldbuilding.

What I'm Reading Now

I'm currently reading All the Feels by Olivia Dade, which just came out, and surprisingly only cost 2.99€ on Amazon, so I grabbed it, because I enjoyed the previous one in the series, Spoiler Alert (despite the plot with the couple keeping secrets from each other, which I'm not fond of). So far I'm enjoying this one too.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea. I still haven't gotten around to Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch, and since my last meme post I also bought the Petty Treasons novella by Victoria Goddard, which is set in the Hands of the Emperor universe and came out early September. (I have no idea why I didn't get an email from the author that it had come out despite having subscribed to their promotional list. Isn't the point of theses lists to alert readers?) Or maybe I'll finish one of the many books I got stuck in previously.
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What I Just Finished Reading

I finished The Friend by Sigrid Nunez at least (it wasn't very long), but I didn't like it. It continued to feature the dog far too little, had some strange chapter near the end (but not at the end) that seemed to imply actually nothing in the rest of the book was reality, with the suicide in that chapter only being an attempt that the narrator used to start these endless musings about the unsympathetic dead writer and the Great Dane a Dachshund, only to go back to the narrative to show the dog near his death from old age, though not outright dying. It still hits you in the tender place of pet euthanasia feelings.

I haven't finished any of the other books. *sigh*

What I'm Reading Now

Still stuck in The Bride Test by Helen Hoang, but I haven't started anything else.

What I'm Reading Next

In addition to the books I mentioned last week, I also got the second of Naomi Novik's Scholomance series, that's out now.
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What I Just Finished Reading

Still haven't finished any books. *sigh*

What I'm Reading Now

Aside from getting a bit further still into The Bride Test by Helen Hoang (though my library loan of The Heart Principle has expired in the meantime, which arrival had prompted me to finally start the second book, that I had bought in a sale at some point after actually reading the first).

Anyway, that going kind of treacle-like, I checked out The Friend by Sigrid Nunez from my library, because it was featured in a non-romance rec set on the SBTB site recently. That said it was a short "animal-centric" novel and a "story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog". I'm more than half-way in, and the dog barely appears, however, and it's all rumination about a now dead writer and ex-university lecturer, his issues with the introduction of sexual harassment policies, and the female narrator somehow feeling warmly to him for no reason that I can see, because he seems to have been insufferable. It's well written, though.

I also read the opening sample of Finding Joy by Adriana Herrera, an m/m romance that was on sale for 0.99€, and I decided it was worth picking up for that, but it didn't hook me enough to continue reading it right away either.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea. Probably Seducing the Sorcerer by Lee Welch, the fantasy m/m romance I mentioned last week, which is now out and I've bought the e-book. I also pre-ordered the next in T. Kingfisher's Saints of Steel series Paladin's Hope, but that will come out only on October 9th, so it's more than a week away yet.
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What I Just Finished Reading

I haven't finished any books last week, though I reread some longer fanfic (mainly the Raptors in the Rainforest series).

What I'm Reading Now

I haven't started any new books over the last week, so the most recently opened are still the second in the Stone Shifters series, Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant, and The Bride Test by Helen Hoang. I did get a little further into the second one.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea. I haven't acquired any additional books last week either, so hopefully something from the existing pile of unread and half-read books might become read? I have seen an announcement for a new romance by Lee Welch, Seducing the Sorcerer, coming out this week, and I loved their previous fantasy m/m romance Salt Magic, Skin Magic, so I might check out this new one.
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What I Just Finished Reading

Still not over my reading slump, but I finished the m/m romance Off Balance by Jay Hogan at least. It was okay, but I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the second in this series that is coming out soon. I also read some shorter fanfic.

What I'm Reading Now

I haven't started any new books over the last week, so the most recently opened are still the second in the Stone Shifters series, Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant, and The Bride Test by Helen Hoang.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea, still hoping to reduce the half-read pile of books I didn't dislike but somehow stopped reading anyway.

Maybe I'll get back to reading some historical romances, if I don't manage to get unstuck on either the paranormal or the contemporary. I think one thing I really like about their type of escapism is that unlike in most contemporary billionaire romances at least the really rich characters in historical romance happily do not work, because they can extract rents from their wealth to have nice stuff and enjoy leisure, and even delegate their wealth management. Or they look to marry rich to avoid work, if the generational wealth was squandered a little too much. Sure, unjust for the exploited peasants (and quite likely involving some slavery-related investments, depending on the time period), so problematic on the macro-level you ignore for the fantasy, but so are contemporary billionaires, only for some bizarre reason the fictional billionaires enjoy "business" and mostly we are told (if not shown) that they keep "working" even though don't have to (well, in romance, not comic characters, who tend to do hero or villain things with their wealth, which I like more).
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What I Just Finished Reading

The reading slump is ongoing, and I did not finish anything. :(

What I'm Reading Now

I haven't exactly abandoned the second in the Stone Shifters series, Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant, but didn't get any further either. I started The Bride Test by Helen Hoang, but annoyingly the accented letters in names didn't display on my ereader, even though they show if I open the epub on my computer, and I have no idea what my ereader's issue is or what setting to change. I also started a contemporary m/m romance, Off Balance by Jay Hogan, which I saw featured on a recent Smart Bitches, Trashy Books cover awe post, and it was only 0.89 € and had an intriguing opening.

What I'm Reading Next

No idea, still hoping to reduce the half-read pile of books I didn't dislike but somehow stopped reading anyway.
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What I Just Finished Reading

My reading slump continues. I finished reading Stoneskin Dragon by Zoe Chant, a m/f gargoyle and dragon shifter romance, though. It was okay, though not one of my absolute favorite shifter romances.

What I'm Reading Now

I started reading the second in the Stone Shifters series, Stonewing Guardian, but I'm not that far in yet, and not sure whether I'll stick with it. The pile of all the other half-read books also remains. I have no idea when I became this scattered.

What I'm Reading Next

I might finish something from that half-read pile? Also The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang that I had put on hold in my library ages ago, just got delivered in my library app, so I might get on with that, before I have to give it back in two weeks.

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