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I have been wanting to get back into writing for a while as it has been a few years and I have missed it. I have also greatly missed H/C bingo and so when I saw

spikedluv post on her blog about

genprompt_bingo I thought I would give it a try as it looked similar while at the same time being more lowkey so I could take my time. So, I signed up and I got a card:

Scars	The Tower	Contentment	Hurt / Comfort	Dystopias
Africa	Alexithymia (Obscured Emotions)	Drunkeness and Inebriation	Antarctica	Aliens
Frankencritters	Thrills (Speed / Danger / Daring)	Wild Card	Empathy	Elves, Fairies, Pixies and Brownies
Isolation / Loneliness	Spiders (Giant, Radioactive, or otherwise unusual)	Anhedonia (Lack of Pleasure)	Dark Alley	The Will to Live
Slum	Identity Crisis	Dark Tone	Loss of Faith	Freckles

I like it. I think I could work with this one. I especially like the elves, fairies, brownies, pixies square, and the h/c one is always a favorite.

Hopefully it gives me the impetus I need to start again.

What are your current writing aspirations?

Current Mood: mellow
Current Music: Baseball (unfortunately)

ebaths

I want to do a more robust reading update (like actually writing my thoughts) but this may be all I have the energy for right now. My last update was in June last year. Let’s see how many more countries I’ve covered since then! (New countries are marked with an (!))

(!) Canada*

Emily of New Moon by L.M. Montgomery

China

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (5) by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou
The Husky and His White Cat Shizun (6) by Rou Bao Bu Chi Rou

United Kingdom

The Comfort of Strangers by Alan McEwan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Japan

The Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
Slow Boat by Hideo Furukawa

(!) Mauritania

The Actual True Story of Ahmed & Zarga by Mohamedou Ould Slahi

(!) Mauritius

Riambel by Priya Hein

(!) Norway

The Red Handler by Johan Harstad

USA

Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
The Cloud Roads by Martha Wells
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx *(not a novel)
Erasure by Percival Everett
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

*I technically had Canada before, but this is the first book I’ve read that’s from a single Canadian author (other one was co-written by a Canadian author and an American author). So I feel like this deserves a bit of its own fanfare. I’m still so surprised that I’ve read so little from Canadian authors!

…The United States still overwhelms every other country! This is now 13 countries, 14 if I count China. I haven’t been, just because it doesn’t feel right to include the webnovels I’ve been reading, even if they are traditionally published. There’s no actual rule I’ve been enforcing about what types of novels count and which don’t, but maybe I should include one about intellectual rigor. It just doesn’t seem right to let myself not read an actual novel from China, especially when there’s options out there. So, let’s say 13.

Current Mood: groggy

lullabymoon

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grimmrow

Todd from Seeds of Literacy dropped me off a laptop. I'm so happy. I did the social studises ged practice test right away. I passed. I need to study at seeds to do that as well. Try to get 200. D: I hope i can get 200 per test when I do the actual tests.

I'm waiting for the 8 o clock shut up and write so I can write outlines to the fantasy novel idea I have. I need to come up with characters, and a storyline outline. I have like locations and battle system written down, well as fighting classes.

I feel pretty damn good right now.

ladyjax

Oakland is having a special election so that we can elect a new mayor. Our previous one got pinched in the FBI raids that took down her partner and then her administration. Per usual, I am working a voting center. Three days instead of four which I actually appreciate.
The two front runners are Loren Taylor (booooo) and our former Congresswoman Barbara Lee. There's at least four other people running; although someone may have dropped out. But the real race is between Taylor and Lee and now we've got dark money apleanty in play.
I still harbor a great deal of resentment that Newsom didn't just appoint Lee to fill in our open Senate seat and now we're stuck with Adam Schiff. The fix was in on that one and Katie Porter was not wrong when she talked about how the Senate campaign spun out. I don't care what anyone says, that shit had Pelosi's fingers all over it and her ass needed to have retired years ago.
Gav (I can call him Gav because right now he has veered back over the line to frat boy) is doing whatever Gav does. He's doing podcasts with right wingers, all of whom deserve a punch in the face (we're past the point of being polite with these assholes). However, he's also giving the hoodlums in the District the finger. At the moment, he is not selling us out completely. HOWEVER:
California is in grave danger from the wingers as we head towards the midterms next year and the governorship after that. This is where I am going to get a little shouty: California is not blue; we're reliably purple and downright red in big swaths in the state. What saves us collectively is that there's a super majority in our statehouse on the Dem side keeping things in check however, that could change.
No firewall holds forever. If you want things to change, then show up and help change it. I have no time for people who want to do a protest vote; do that shit on your own time. Also, educate yourself on what it takes to get a third party on the ballot and then ask yourself why your favorite third party candidate never shows up to run for city council or even dog catcher but will always show up for the Big Job.
The California Secretary of State website actually has a list of third parties going through the process of getting certified in the state. Look at that - knowledge!
A friend hipped me to The Phoenix Project, a group that is tracking billionaire money in San Francisco politics. They have two Astroturf maps, one for Oakland and one for San Francisco that identify the groups operating under various names that sound nice but are a cover for getting a foot in the door. Loren Taylor is part of Empower Oakland. I already knew they were hinky but it goes deeper than that and it's frightening.
I have thoughts about the recent protests that took place but I'm going to keep most of them to myself, except to say: anyone notice how the cops didn't show up to beat anyone's head in or snatch them off the street? Ask yourself why and then ask yourself how long that's going to last. At some point, whiteness or certain types of it will no longer protect one's body. Its just a matter of when.

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