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chocolatepot) wrote2022-02-25 04:27 pm
chocolatepot) wrote2022-02-25 04:27 pm
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I've been mostly avoiding Twitter lately; mainly I'm keeping up with the situation in Ukraine via Slack, where there are a bunch of people who have a lot of background knowledge that informs their takes (history of the region, interest in the military, etc.). I have these conflicting feelings about the stuff coming out re: Snake Island, Ukrainians being asked to make molotov cocktails to resist, and the like - it's heroically stirring, but then a lot of responses to it seem like ... it's badassery from a movie, and it's not?
I'm having Feels, and then internal conflict over being an American spectator, and so on. But at least I'm not one of those let's just say "wrong people" who blames this on NATO allowing countries near Russia who want protection from it to join.
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I may make some more edits, but my Kickstarter is basically ready, so I pre-launched it! People can sign up to be notified when it goes live. I'm so terrified that my math won't add up so I'll end up in a hole, and that people will not care. So there's 60 days of that kind of anxiety to look forward to. Fun.
I'm very close to the end of King's Dragon, first book in the Crown of Stars series, and I am *so* looking forward to writing a review of it, because for once I love what I'm reading. The author is not a historian but she's clearly done her homework - it's extraordinarily realistic. At the same time, she's worldbuilt it to be a medieval Europe without sexism. I am loving it!
I'm having Feels, and then internal conflict over being an American spectator, and so on. But at least I'm not one of those let's just say "wrong people" who blames this on NATO allowing countries near Russia who want protection from it to join.
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I may make some more edits, but my Kickstarter is basically ready, so I pre-launched it! People can sign up to be notified when it goes live. I'm so terrified that my math won't add up so I'll end up in a hole, and that people will not care. So there's 60 days of that kind of anxiety to look forward to. Fun.
I'm very close to the end of King's Dragon, first book in the Crown of Stars series, and I am *so* looking forward to writing a review of it, because for once I love what I'm reading. The author is not a historian but she's clearly done her homework - it's extraordinarily realistic. At the same time, she's worldbuilt it to be a medieval Europe without sexism. I am loving it!