#vintar

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

william t. vollmann, disturbingly enough! I'm afraid I have to go read more of his books now by how the lucky star gutted & destroyed me. also very much enjoyed sayaka murata, poppy z. brite (eek!), and ovid.

13. What were your least favorite books of the year?

this was a major reread year unfortunately. i think/guess (?) i was prioritizing other things than reading, such as boxing, writing, doing a decent job at work, and getting my back blown out. so nothing as amusingly egregiously bad as last year when i cast a wider net. but let's bang out a few haterations bullet-point style, most of which i have already blogged about but nevertheless:

historical whodunits by hy conrad

sword-dancer by jennifer roberson

death valley by melissa broder

an arrangement of skin: essays by anna journey (boo hiss barf crown of shame worst book of the year)

rouge by mona awad

playlist: what kind of music/songs help you write? do you have a writing playlist?

if i need noise i’m going straight to rainymood.com and smashing that play button. i can’t have lyrics or beats or anything else i’m gonna start subconsciously transcribing what i’m hearing.

faulkner: what tropes do you LOVE writing? which ones are your guilty pleasure?

The Complacency of the Learned fandom isn't big enough for both of them, and neither of them is going to be the one that flounces first.

this fic is a particularly funny mock wank report for a fandom au in which big name artist calliope and big name ficwriter rose get into good old wankety fisticuffs over fandom exchanges for complacency of the learned. naturally the extended cast can’t keep their noses out of the conflict, and even more naturally this may be the beginning of a beautiful blackrom.

i still laugh at this despite that it’s been several years since it was posted ok it’s very good

hiiii *feeds u cake*

hmm favorite fictional character... my mental slot machine is whirring between half a dozen that instantly leapt to mind but somehow i feel weirdly shy and don't want anyone to hunt down my ao3 based on any of them LOL because i apparently have a habit of picking a neglected character that everyone else in the fandom ignores, or worse, flattens, and latching onto their fraught inner worlds of which i am the only true visionary... in fact i just went back and privated another post where someone was asking about a story of mine because it was too easy to hunt the story down based on it haha. #healthyboundaries #yup

tries to get bites by asking cluelessly novice questions about power armor, two weeks later he's deep in a bootblacking erp reply chain and is beginning to lose track of where this is going