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Alalstor's first murder comic, with which I have a love/hate relationship. But it's done, and I can live in peace.

aro & ace books: fantasy/supernatural horror

following on from my sci-fi-ish horror post, this is fantasy/supernatural/paranormal/etc horror - or at least with horror elements, it's sometimes hard to make a distinction between what crosses the line from spooky to horror and what doesn't lol (esp in YA)

Demon Song - novella, ace/demi girl MC

Demon Engine - demisexual woman MC

Small Gods of Calamity - ace man MC

Don't Let The Forest In - YA, ace boy MC

Not Even Bones - YA trilogy, aroace coded girl MC & boy SC

Sawkill Girls - YA, ace girl MC (1/3)

Someone You Can Build A Nest In - ace woman MC & LI

In The Jaws of an Oak - aro woman MC

Benothinged - aroace nonbinary MC

Dove's Eyes - bi ace trans man MC

The Spider and Her Demons - YA, aroacespec coded girl MC

Fallen Thorns - aroace boy MC

The Book Eaters - ace man SC

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

A structure similar to marriage, which at its core is only about caring for each other and is not accompanied by the physical act. Whereby the one does not exclude the other. It seems that at that time, at least on board this hulk, it was normal and apparently accepted. The only question is to what extent it was accepted.

I finished Warships of the Great Lakes 1754-1834 by Robert Malcomson tonight, and it has to be one of the most difficult books I've read—I mean it was physically difficult to read it, as a larger hardcover book with reflective glossy pages that were dreadful to read with a booklight.

That aside, it was so-so. It's chock full of ship drafts, which have always been my least favorite thing to find in the NMM online collection when I want a cool ship picture, not boat blueprints. Malcomson is a Canadian naval historian and the War of 1812 is the meat of the book, but it's light on human interest stories and anecdotes (they might get in the way of boat stats). Oddly, he admires Isaac Chauncey and perceives him as efficient and competent—definitely not the opinion of a few other historians I've read.

Modern-day Lake freighters are renowned for their long lifespans, preserved from the corrosive effects of saltwater, so it was a bizarre twist to read about fresh water having the opposite effect on wooden vessels. Salt inhibits fungus and mold, and wooden ships on the Lakes disintegrated within a decade. Many vessels were packed with salt within their frames in an attempt to preserve them; literally pickling a ship.

I grew up in The Woods. There was absolutely no form of public transportation aside from the literal school bus. If you wanted to go anywhere besides school (10 miles from my house), you had to drive a car or ride your bike on unpaved, bumpy dirt roads. The center of town (a 2 mile walk) held the library, some churches, town hall, the village store, and the beach for the local lake. And I must've clocked thousands of biking miles just to go to the library, the village store for a snack, and the beach as a kid. Because I could go literally nowhere else.

The closest City Where Stuff Happens was 15 miles away. It might as well have been on the moon before I got a driver's license and begged to borrow my brother's car.