Satsuma @Satsuma@cat.family

My favorite kings cake has a vague ingredients list, three solid pages of musing about the carnival of yore and then a note recommending you buy a cake from your local bakery instead

its snowing!! ❅❆❄︎

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbxrUtLOIZ0

«Well we guard our world with locks and guns
And we guard our fine possessions
And once a year when Christmas comes
We give to our relations
And perhaps we give a little to the poor
If the generosity should seize us
But if any one of us should interfere
In the business of why there are poor
They get the same as the rebel Jesus»

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We’re right at the northernmost edge of the maypops native range & our plants are still building up their rootstock which slows them down a bit

But since global warming saw fit to grace us with a sixty degree December, our plants hung on just long enough to actually get a crop!

#Ao3TagOfTheDay: Quinn runs from his feelings but his feelings have a moped

I don’t think these two essays are intentionally responding to each-other, but I do think SuperDoomedPlanet’s critique of what they call the “novelization style” (transparent prose, consistently close 3rd person narrator, short time-frames & high stakes, narrative structures you’d expect from a tv show or a movie) reflects a lot of the reasons why I found Ex Urbe’s argument that specific worldbuilding is bad because someone might disagree with it so baffling

«Every really good novel is a little bit imperfect. The most fun, engaging books aren’t perfectly engineered; they have ambiguities, multiple interpretations, detours, and odd protuberances. They often include passages that look like side trips and diversions, straying from the plot but developing themes, ideas, and characters….They’re eccentric and weirdly shaped and packed with stuff. Some of the stuff may or may not work. Readers may disagree about which stuff worked and which didn’t. When that happens, that’s a clue that the novel is interesting.»

From: http://www.superdoomedplanet.com/blog/2016/04/15/conclusions-and-caveats/

I've bought everyone else a book but she prefers audiobooks to print/ebooks and I've got auditory processing issues so I have literally zero idea about who makes good ones etc

People who listen to audiobooks, have y'all listened to any good ones recently?

#Ao3TagOfTheDay: Oh No Oh Woe Canon Slipped In The Shower And I Am The Grieving Widow With An Inheritance