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Soooo, the Swedish election went Awful, though that sadly didn't come as much of a surprise. The party with Nazi roots got 20% of the votes. Fuck.
BUT I can't do anything about that or the mess our government will be right now, so I'm trying to focus on positivity rather than tear my hair out. Thus, here's a little countdown (countup?) of fun things:
1) I've read two really great books of late! Several good ones, but one in particular that I'm adding the mental sticker "fandom" to and another that I suspect will reach that level of interest too once I've finished reading it. The one I'm definitely adding to my fandom list (really need to update that) is the Rook & Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick (found family, con artists with hearts of gold, political intrigue, magic, queernorm second world fantasy~!) and the one I'm also very much am enjoying is the Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine (science fiction about colonialism and also memory storage and first contact with aliens).
2) I've decided on my NaNoWriMo project for this November! I'm going for writing as many short story parts of "Once a Bard and His Friends Took a Train" as I can manage. I have way too many almost finished novels to edit already, I don't need yet another, so short stories it is XD I'm also feeling super hyped for this project so I think this will be a lot of fun :D
3) Yuletide nominations are soon upon us! The fandom promo post is already warming up and I'm trying to decide on which of my many small fandoms I want to nominate myself~! At the moment, I'm thinking about nominating:
- Definitely Rook & Rose - M. A. Carrick because I adore it (AO3 link)
- The Mechanisms album High Noon over Camelot because I need more canon space cowboys OT3 <3 (AO3 link)
- Still unsure of my number 3, might be Teixcalaan, might be Books of the Raksura, might be Dimension 20's A Court of Fey and Flowers - so many options!
4) I'm doing well at not overworking myself! I've "only" worked full time since I got back from my summer vacation and I've scheduled a week's worth of vacation in November too, as well as a long rest over Yule, since I really need to use up all those extra vacation days I've saved up <3
So yeah, lots of emotions right now, trying to focus on the positive ones <3
BUT I can't do anything about that or the mess our government will be right now, so I'm trying to focus on positivity rather than tear my hair out. Thus, here's a little countdown (countup?) of fun things:
1) I've read two really great books of late! Several good ones, but one in particular that I'm adding the mental sticker "fandom" to and another that I suspect will reach that level of interest too once I've finished reading it. The one I'm definitely adding to my fandom list (really need to update that) is the Rook & Rose trilogy by M. A. Carrick (found family, con artists with hearts of gold, political intrigue, magic, queernorm second world fantasy~!) and the one I'm also very much am enjoying is the Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine (science fiction about colonialism and also memory storage and first contact with aliens).
2) I've decided on my NaNoWriMo project for this November! I'm going for writing as many short story parts of "Once a Bard and His Friends Took a Train" as I can manage. I have way too many almost finished novels to edit already, I don't need yet another, so short stories it is XD I'm also feeling super hyped for this project so I think this will be a lot of fun :D
3) Yuletide nominations are soon upon us! The fandom promo post is already warming up and I'm trying to decide on which of my many small fandoms I want to nominate myself~! At the moment, I'm thinking about nominating:
- Definitely Rook & Rose - M. A. Carrick because I adore it (AO3 link)
- The Mechanisms album High Noon over Camelot because I need more canon space cowboys OT3 <3 (AO3 link)
- Still unsure of my number 3, might be Teixcalaan, might be Books of the Raksura, might be Dimension 20's A Court of Fey and Flowers - so many options!
4) I'm doing well at not overworking myself! I've "only" worked full time since I got back from my summer vacation and I've scheduled a week's worth of vacation in November too, as well as a long rest over Yule, since I really need to use up all those extra vacation days I've saved up <3
So yeah, lots of emotions right now, trying to focus on the positive ones <3
