I don't mean to nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan?

So, that all happened. I am definitely doomscrolling and hope you all are doing ok.

Michael Marshall Smith, The Best of Michael Marshall Smith: ( bleakness )
Alaya Dawn Johnson, Reconstruction: Stories: ( sometimes a little less bleakness )
Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace: ( palace politics with aliens )
Naomi Kritzer, Chaos on CatNet: ( they won't leave the AI alone to enjoy cat pictures )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Someday All This Will Be Yours: ( veteran of the time wars )
Adrian Tchaikovsky, Ironclads: ( veteran of the corporate wars )
Brenna Twohy, Swallowtail: ( poetry )
R.F. Kuang, The Burning God: ( and here my troubles began )
Jim Butcher, Battle Ground: ( boss fights )

The Best of Subterranean, ( Read more... )
Urban Enemies, ed. Joseph Nassise: ( Read more... )
Claudia Grey, Defy the Stars: ( Read more... )
Women of Futures Past, ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch: ( Read more... )
Leta Blake & Indra Vaughn, Vespertine: ( modern gay romance )
Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones: ( Read more... )
Cherie Priest, Chapelwood: ( Read more... )
Sarah Kuhn, Heroine Worship: ( Read more... )
Mira Grant, Into the Drowning Deep: ( Read more... )
Seanan McGuire, Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day: ( Read more... )Haunted Nights, ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton: ( Read more... )

My very first Smallville story, The Presence of Fire, is up at the Audio archive, courtesy of cathexys.

( Jim Butcher and Ilona Andrews, heir to Laurell Hamilton )

Quotes for my commonplace book:

Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein, So schlag' ich Dir den Schädel ein. (If you don't want to be my brother, then I'll smash your skull in.)

“We fed the heart on fantasy; the heart grew brutal on the fare.” Wm. Butler Yeats

"Torture, from Latin torquere, to twist. What visual instruction in etymology! ... Whoever was tortured, stays tortured. Torture is ineradicably burned into him, even when no clinically objective traces can be detected." Jean Améry, At the Mind's Limit: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities

Query: anybody know if the Dreamwidth crossposter has fixed its cut-tag issues?

Rob Thurman, Nightlife: ( SPN fandom, why was I not informed? )

( The rest: Butcher, Martin's Wild Cards, Marshall )

Slate discusses the "trend" in married couples' names. What's funny is that it really reminds me of the fandom debates over Spuffy and the like.