📖🐉 V. Larkin Anderson @bridgebury@wandering.shop

I'm so sad for the octopuses.

Please recommend me all of your favorite history-but-not-american-or-european-history nonfiction books. #books #nonfiction #history

Just had a conversation with a co-worker that made me feel like the things I'm already doing are meaningful, good, and a net positive in the world.

Still doesn't feel like I do enough in this crazy world, but it was a nice balm to think that what I do matters.

Did I get word count this morning? Nope. Did I do some in-depth free-writing to work through knotty problems in one of my main storylines? Yup. Progress is progress. #AmWriting

Infection is still not serious, but viral. So I have up to three more weeks of eye discomfort to look forward to.

Bah.

-500 words today. #AmWriting (debatable?)

I'm reading Revenger by Alistair Reynolds. It's got this nice lived in, beat up, hand-me-down universe in space sort of feel and it does it well. Like a grim pirate story in space with a young female protagonist. Totally approve and really enjoying it. #AmReading

I really hate wearing my glasses, but my right eye STILL has not calmed down after my swim last sunday, even after antibiotic eyedrops. So today I start week two of no contacts, and I'm going back to the eye doctor for round 2.

Had a horrible nightmare last night and on one hand I'm still a little shaken, but on the other, I'm impressed that my subconscious was able to roll out a logically structured alien invasion scenario. Objects were falling from the sky, spewing poison and bugs where emerging from them when they landed. Evacuation orders went out; they were coming for the coast so we had to go inland; I wanted to drive all the way to the great lakes because fresh water.

Now I really need to go to the beach.

Whelp, my husband's take home pay just got cut by 10% because his federal withholding went through the roof even though nothing changed on our end and I am just fucking furious.

I wouldn't mind paying any number of taxes if it was going to help people that needed it, if it was going to free healthcare and education.

But as far as I can tell we just lost 10% of husband's take home pay to finance fascists, bombs, and death, and, just FUCK.

It's going to be close to 100 degrees this weekend, it's been at least two years since I had a day at a beach and I am CRAVING hot sand and freezing cold water.

Omg I'm so excited for this pizza. Just about to put it in the oven.

https://wandering.shop/media/oie2qd626EVXAv7vdNc

I finally summarized my book in one sentence. 70,000 words in on the first draft.

"Queers fight oppressive systems in post-apocalyptic Alaska."

That's it. I did it. Augh. #AmWriting

I #AmReading The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions and HOLY SHIT does patriarchy lie, also, just, my people don't belong on this continent? What monstrous greed, what monstrous confidence, made us believe that someone else's home belonged to us, ever? #books #patriarchy #colonization #nonfiction

This book that I'm writing may be two entirely different stories and I don't know how I feel about that. #AmWriting

This book hurt my heart in all the good ways and all the bad ways. 5/5 stars to My Real Children by Jo Walton. #AmReading #Queer #BookReview

http://www.vlarkinanderson.com/blog/2018/6/27/my-real-children-by-jo-walton

(Guess what guys, my book reviews are back!!!)

Sometimes I feel bad that I don't yell more on twitter about how awful the world is. Like people won't know I know, won't know I care about how awful everything is.

But I'm not a yelling sort of person. I keep myself informed, I do what I can. I donate. I show up when I can. I support things that I believe need supporting. I think the rest of twitter has the yelling part pretty well covered, actually.

How much nonfiction vs. fiction do you guys read?

I always read books in the order that they're on my lists, because otherwise I'd never be able to choose what I really wanted to read. 80% of the stuff on my tbr list is stuff that I'm *dying* to read but haven't gotten to yet, and most of the other 20% is stuff that I will be thrilled to have read once I start it.

I cultivate my lists carefully to have a good mix of new stuff, series stuff, and stuff by authors that I've got a good track record with.