The Antisocial Socialist

Extremely drive-by today because my internet cacked out most of the morning, interrupting my routine and my tiny window of posting time.

Just finished: Maej by Dale Stromberg. This was a brick but worth it. Epic fantasy with sociopolitics and linguistic play. It's a slow, dense read but it's more than worth the time.

Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy. Sometimes you need a quick read that's exactly what it says on the tin. If you want to see a woman in STEM and a nonbinary mercenary escape from an island where the US government has quarantined a bunch of incels—most of whom die in very funny ways—this is the novella for you. It's fast-paced and witty and the black humour is absolutely my kind of black humour. If you generally enjoy the types of things that I post about, you'll love this.

Currently reading: Airy Nothing by Clarissa Pattern. This is a very beautifully written queer romance, set in the Elizabethan era, about a boy who's maybe trans, maybe just too pretty to pass as a boy, who runs away from home, accompanied by a hobgoblin that only he can see, in search of the Faerie Queen in London. He falls in with a pickpocket who wants to sell him into sex work but just...can't. It's very sweet and very YA, so it's not at all my thing, but it's well-written and the setting is cool.