Stuff and Nonsense
Jul. 26th, 2022 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kihouHad a nice week-long trip up to East Boothbay, Maine with Sarah's aunt. Pretty chill and relaxing, mostly stayed at our place which had a dock in a little harbor, watching the fog and the sun. Got some fried clams and a lobster roll, got some ice cream and farmstand stuff, did a lot of grilling. I worked a fair amount on my translation project, the others did a lot of reading. Watched Christopher Robin and Red, the latter of which is relevant to my brain percolations about heists vs action movies in reference to Thief Game and my countless other vaguely DitV-inspired ttrpg ideas I seem somewhat stuck on lately. It was good to get a solid break.
Read another of the old The Best from Fantasy and Science Fictions I picked up, this one from circa 1959. It's a good way to read a lot of dated and/or bad and/or sexist stuff from authors whose other works have aged much better! It is fun to encounter conceits and themes that are no longer in the genre, and get a taste for how things have changed. I did like "Captivity" by Zenna Henderson; I feel like I might've read something of hers before, but if so I'm not sure where.
Now I'm reading Elatsoe, a YA urban fantasy from a Native perspective that has some really fun/compelling worldbuilding for a masquerade-less urban fantasy setup which focuses familiar urban fantasy elements more explicitly on colonialism. I'd definitely recommend it.
Read another of the old The Best from Fantasy and Science Fictions I picked up, this one from circa 1959. It's a good way to read a lot of dated and/or bad and/or sexist stuff from authors whose other works have aged much better! It is fun to encounter conceits and themes that are no longer in the genre, and get a taste for how things have changed. I did like "Captivity" by Zenna Henderson; I feel like I might've read something of hers before, but if so I'm not sure where.
Now I'm reading Elatsoe, a YA urban fantasy from a Native perspective that has some really fun/compelling worldbuilding for a masquerade-less urban fantasy setup which focuses familiar urban fantasy elements more explicitly on colonialism. I'd definitely recommend it.
