• Book Review: Pluralities by Avi Silver

    Pluralities is an allegorical fantasy about transitioning to nonbinary in a binary society.

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    • How to Socialize Your Aeriat: Ring Species

      This essay is going to address the worldbuilding and plot arcs of the Books of the Raksura series.  Specifically, it’s going to cover the Raksura, their relationship with the Fell and contain some speculations about the ancestral species they both originated from. I may also compare and contrast this set up with Chronicles of the…

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      • Another Update: Future Post Topics

        With my first blog, way long ago in the first days of Livejournal, I wrote in a variety of topics and included personal stories about my life and with dealing with disability. (Or, before I got actual diagnoses, posts about all the ways I was frustrated due to undiagnosed autism, intense anxiety spirals, various upsetting…

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        • Book Review: Defiance by C.J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher

          Defiance is a book with a lot of moving pieces, and continues the “Ilisidi and Bren on a Train Trip Chasing Down the Shadow Guild and Making Alliances,” storyline begun in Resurgence. This book takes a worryingly retrospective turn when it becomes apparent that Ilisidi is not well and appears to be operating under the…

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          • Update With Moderate Amounts of Exasperation

            I have been working on redesigning/updating this blog and I have been wandering into some difficulties. The first being that it turns out that you can’t use color unless you you styles and you need to be paying Premium in order to use styles. (I don’t have premium.) So now I have an alert at…

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