Weekly Roundup: Week 4

[opensummer]

What I’m doing: Watching the thunderstorms roll in off the ocean. I’ve always loved watching storms in flat places.
What I’m reading: Finished the Goblin Emperor which is just as good as I’ve been lead to believe, and read the Dark Artifices trilogy for the canon poly trio. It was pretty standard Cassandra Clare but I feel like her writing has improved since the last time I read anything of hers.
What I’m listening to: Studio Ghibli Jazz Covers which sounds absurd when I write it out like that but makes for excellent background noise. 
What I’m watching: The Expanse, now halfway through season 3 and oh boy do I have Thoughts. Gonna do a writeup sometime this week.
What I’m writing: 

• A breakdown on reading order in Discworld. 1k and counting. 
• Untitled Leverage/AoS xo where Hardison is Skye's foster brother. Set mid-season 2 for AoS. .5k and yet to develop an actual plot. 
• history's longest suicide note. Edited chapters 4 & 5 and working on chapter 6

Mental Health Check: 5/10. Upward swing y'all. 
Final Notes: My power got knocked out for six hours yesterday and I lit candles around the apartment, drank a bottle of wine, and finished the Queen of Air and Darkness while listening to the wind whip across the windows. 

Comments

[laurajv]

The Goblin Emperor! Gosh, I love it.

[opensummer]

It was very good and very unexpected!

[emyrys]

I am really looking forward to the Leverage/AoS xo. 💕

[opensummer]

Thanks!

[bluewinged_songbird]

Hurray for finishing The Dark Artifices! Canon poly trio makes everything worthwhile; that and Thule!Livvy imho.

I'm so glad you're doing well, you rock!

[opensummer]

Thule!Livvy is also the absolute best!

[bluewinged_songbird]

Thule!Livvy has all the guns and is the leader of the rebuilding effort and I hope for more good things for her in future. I'm not sure she'd appreciate being the leader of a new world but she'd definitely appreciate therapy and a break.

[opensummer]

I want them to open a portal to thule so the resistance can have an extended beach holiday before returning to fix the world

[bluewinged_songbird]

You know the Resistance would be galvanizing themselves to gather/buy resources unavailable in their world and forget to vacation! They're all dedicated badasses.

[opensummer]

Diana would drive them to Costco and give them a budget of a couple thousand dollars in exchange for a promise to spend the afternoon on the beach. Livy would keep that promise in the most technical sense using the enforced beach time to start making lists of the supplies they got and how she planned on using them

[bluewinged_songbird]

Them Blackthorns, all workaholics that are driving Diana mad.

[opensummer]

All the grey hairs she has are from the Blackthorns

[bluewinged_songbird]

Word! The fact that she's still around is proof of her love for them really.

[opensummer]

Diana is the best Mom Friend

[bluewinged_songbird]

Yeah, CC got it wrong Diana is definitely THE Mom Friend. She gets so little recognition.

[opensummer]

Diana! Deserves! Our! Love! And! Support!

Diana for Consul!

[bluewinged_songbird]

Diana is the unrivalled queen of everything and I would follow her to the ends of the earth.

[nocowardsoul]

I adore The Goblin Emperor.

I read Discworld almost entirely in publication order and it was fun.

[opensummer]

So I did that on my second read through and while it's a valid to do some of those books are 30 years old and it shows. Terry Pratchett developed a lot over the course of discworld and I'm not certain there is a best way to read them. I still trying to figure that out

[norsellie]

Yey for mental health upward swing!

And I look forward to your Thoughts on The Expanse :-)

[opensummer]

thank you!