exodus

[queenslayerbee]

We've all heard about tumblr right? LOL. If nothing else, I do hope this means more people (especially those I already know and like from there!) consider joining dreamwidth. It'd be a good outcome. And even if they end up reverting the update (I'm not holding my breath) I still want to use this journal more. At the moment I'm crossposting old fics here every two days, so in the meantime, I hope I'll keep the momentum and post other things on days in-between. Today, I thought I'd start with telling you guys about some of the things I've been reading and watching lately (a lot of them last week, because I got sick and I took shameless advantage of that).

• tellshannon815 mentioned "56 Days" by Catherine Ryan Howard in a recent-ish post. A few days later I finished it LOL. As of now I've read three more thrillers by this author ("The Trap", "The Liar's Girl", and "The Nothing Man"). With some nitpicks here and there, I've really enjoyed them, especially the last one. The author is really good at landing twists and her character work is quite good. I really appreciate how... real, I find her female characters, and her voice when she's writing from the POVs of the killers is particularly perturbing in its mundane evilness. 

• I also read a few comics. Caught up with Absolute Wonder Woman (it's fine, but at the moment I think my interest has waned, sadly), and I read Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring (with the original comic, I loved #1 and thought the last issue landed really well, even if the middle wasn't as good. With this one, I think what failed to landed properly is the ending, but I really enjoyed the rest) and The Night Eaters, the other comic by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda. I definitely recommend that one, it's a very engaging and inspiring read.

• Although these will be long-term projects LOL, I've finally gotten around to start both the Vorkosigan saga and the Earthsea cycle. In the latter case I've only read "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names", two sort stories that ~planted seeds for what the larger series would be, but I hope to start the first novel... soon-ish (I own the complete illustrated collection, which is very pretty and all, but not something you can carry around without breaking your back xD, and next week I might have to travel). Meanwhile, I did read "Shards of Honor", and loved it. I found the couple really charming in their absolutely charmless way LOL, and the book did a really good job convincing me that they were the perfect partner for each other and that Cordelia made the right choice when [redacted]. 

• After my third attempt, I completed the Psych series, films included (minus additional material I have no interest in). It's a really fun romp with lovable characters, and I really appreciate that the lead couple made the choice to be childfree. For now, at least, I don't trust tv writers on this lol. Which is why I wouldn't be at all heartbroken if there were no more movies, tbqh.

• There are many other shows I should've caught up with instead, but alas. Right now, other than the above, I'm only watching the weekly episodes of Grey's Anatomy and The Pitt. I have little to say about the first one (and might stop watching it until the season is over and I have time to catch up), and plenty about the latter LOL, though most of that I've reserved it for conversations with other people on tumblr. The second season hasn't been as good as the first, and unfortunately I think a lot of it is how much Collins's absence is felt: without her, the female characters as a whole feel unmoored, while she connected them all. The show's misogynistic and racist biases pop up more, in ways that can't be attributed to "characters showing flaws." But a lot of it continues to be really engaging, and I am more and more interested in the female characters week after week. I wish I could know everything about them LOL, but I'll be content with the crumbs this format allows!! Santos continues to be my dearest darling, but I'm also really enjoying others like Al-Hashimi or Javadi or García. Or Mohan, though her storyline has left a lot to be desired.

And now, for an ask game:

GIVE A CHARACTER 
and I’ll break their ass down:

• How I feel about this character
• All the people I ship romantically with this character
• My non-romantic OTP for this character
• My unpopular opinion about this character
• One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

Comments

[kitarella_imagines]

What is this Tumblr update people are talking about? I'm not on there but I'm curious about it now, lol.

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> We've all heard about tumblr right? LOL. If nothing else, I do hope this means more people (especially those I already know and like from there!) consider joining dreamwidth. <<

Oh, it definitely is. I sent my welcome message with resources to over a dozen people yesterday. No telling how many will stay here; they ranged from "yay this is just like LiveJournal!" through "I don't know how to use this site" to "This isn't really my thing, but fuck Tumblr." I would say the several "yay" folks are almost certain to stick around, and probably some of the undecided, so maybe a total retention rate of 50% from that wave. The yays seemed to be people who moved to Tumblr from the LJ exodus.

If you have Tumblr friends coming here for the first time, newcomers has resources they may find helpful.

>>I still want to use this journal more. At the moment I'm crossposting old fics here every two days <<

Awesome. You might like Full Content on Dreamwidth at goals_on_dw to let potential readers know that you're posting whole fics here instead of just links to offsite stuff.

>>things I've been reading and watching<<

justcreate does an all-purpose update post. For reading, see the Books communities. bookclub_dw is new. For watching, you might like tv_talk or tvfanfiction.

[ravensilversea]

*casually places a hold on 56 Days* Pay no heed to how many books are on my TBR already, but it sounds really good! And yes, Tumblr is indeed having it's semi-regular Bullshit. I know Pillowfort's seeing a massive upswing in new users, and hopefully some of them stick around. It's brought a fun energy to the place imo ^-^

And for the ask game: Cassandra Cain?

[greghousesgf]

I'm glad I'm not on tumblr, that sounds like a real pain.
as for the ask game: Frodo!

[charlottenewtons]

I saw you were reading the Trap on tumblr which has been in my book pile for a long time and it was what made me decide to finally start reading it.

I don't even know where to start with the tumblr update.

For the character game: Willow Rosenberg.