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Update #18 - Back to Work!
5 years ago
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Howdy folks, it's been a minute!
The stressful week at my parent's place has come to an end, and I'm honestly relieved. Getting up the motivation to work was clashing with a galloping need for traffic, and that's not a healthy headspace to be in. Traffic will come if I write consistently. Right?
... please be right.
News on the literary front - I just finished a new audiobook. I bought the production of Axiom's End, by Lindsay Ellis, for the drive to and from Atlanta. About 16 hours long front to back, top notch production work. Suffice to say that I adore fiction that dives deep into astronomy and xenobiology, and Ellis does exactly this through the theme of first contact fiction. The book's synopsis doesn't matter as much as the topics it talks about at length. Xenolinguistics, truly bizarre aliens, the ethics of a superior species conducting diplomacy, the morality of controlling others. It's set in an alternate 2007 too, so I can have Vietnam flashbacks to the stock market crashing, yaaaay. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in new sci-fi. It got nominated for the Hugo, for crying out loud, it's good!!!
I also watched Soul before I left, the new Pixar movie. I don't think it really hit me as hard as Toy Story 2 did, in that general place of hurt, but it gave me a good perspective on life close to where I'm at right now. Living between passions, struggling to find purpose, fixating on reliving feelings at the detriment of my own sanity. Soul is a smart movie. Maybe too hokey jokey for its afterlife bureaucracy, but it has something to say about spirituality and satisfaction with living and I'm still thinking about it. Maybe a good Pixar movie doesn't have to be an emotional declaration of intent? It can be a meditation too. For as much of a comedy as Soul tries to be, it puts forward a subtle understanding of depression and mental wellness that, well, stunned me. The fact it's majority African-American and minority characters felt like a pretty big shock, since most Pixar protagonists are outwardly or coded white. This felt authentically black in a way I can't quite articulate. Maybe it's in the body types, or the casting.
I might watch it again. Definitely feel like I missed more than something.
Either way - thanks for staying tuned. I appreciate your comments.
Commission Calendar - Winter 2020-2021 wrote:-Temple of the Trunk (CM: wac2313; Elephant TF/Tibetan temple romp)
-Control Freak's Fantastic and Age Inappropriate D&D Session (CM: Eman230; group TF with D&D archetypes)
-Min-Maxing, Part 1 (CM: Nia; character creator shenanigans in real life)
--Illustrious Captain Keegan #34 - The Antares Affair (CM: Maddie, trans-lesbian sky pirate softcore)
-Star Wars: Nayvus Flight, Ch: 1 (Personal; naval battle narrative)
-Days of Our (Furry) Lives (Trade: Weird Rabbit; merging anthro TF)
-Sparkle Paws (Personal; girl wakes up to absurd paws)
-Love and Lunacy in Hollow Bastion (Personal; sequel to Date on the Timeless River; toon TF and lesbian makeout session)
And this week's Friday post will be Temple of the Trunk! and (possibly) Sparkle Paws! Stay tuned for what comes of that one!
The stressful week at my parent's place has come to an end, and I'm honestly relieved. Getting up the motivation to work was clashing with a galloping need for traffic, and that's not a healthy headspace to be in. Traffic will come if I write consistently. Right?
... please be right.
News on the literary front - I just finished a new audiobook. I bought the production of Axiom's End, by Lindsay Ellis, for the drive to and from Atlanta. About 16 hours long front to back, top notch production work. Suffice to say that I adore fiction that dives deep into astronomy and xenobiology, and Ellis does exactly this through the theme of first contact fiction. The book's synopsis doesn't matter as much as the topics it talks about at length. Xenolinguistics, truly bizarre aliens, the ethics of a superior species conducting diplomacy, the morality of controlling others. It's set in an alternate 2007 too, so I can have Vietnam flashbacks to the stock market crashing, yaaaay. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in new sci-fi. It got nominated for the Hugo, for crying out loud, it's good!!!
I also watched Soul before I left, the new Pixar movie. I don't think it really hit me as hard as Toy Story 2 did, in that general place of hurt, but it gave me a good perspective on life close to where I'm at right now. Living between passions, struggling to find purpose, fixating on reliving feelings at the detriment of my own sanity. Soul is a smart movie. Maybe too hokey jokey for its afterlife bureaucracy, but it has something to say about spirituality and satisfaction with living and I'm still thinking about it. Maybe a good Pixar movie doesn't have to be an emotional declaration of intent? It can be a meditation too. For as much of a comedy as Soul tries to be, it puts forward a subtle understanding of depression and mental wellness that, well, stunned me. The fact it's majority African-American and minority characters felt like a pretty big shock, since most Pixar protagonists are outwardly or coded white. This felt authentically black in a way I can't quite articulate. Maybe it's in the body types, or the casting.
I might watch it again. Definitely feel like I missed more than something.
Either way - thanks for staying tuned. I appreciate your comments.
Commission Calendar - Winter 2020-2021 wrote:-Temple of the Trunk (CM: wac2313; Elephant TF/Tibetan temple romp)
-Control Freak's Fantastic and Age Inappropriate D&D Session (CM: Eman230; group TF with D&D archetypes)
-Min-Maxing, Part 1 (CM: Nia; character creator shenanigans in real life)
--Illustrious Captain Keegan #34 - The Antares Affair (CM: Maddie, trans-lesbian sky pirate softcore)
-Star Wars: Nayvus Flight, Ch: 1 (Personal; naval battle narrative)
-Days of Our (Furry) Lives (Trade: Weird Rabbit; merging anthro TF)
-Sparkle Paws (Personal; girl wakes up to absurd paws)
-Love and Lunacy in Hollow Bastion (Personal; sequel to Date on the Timeless River; toon TF and lesbian makeout session)
And this week's Friday post will be Temple of the Trunk! and (possibly) Sparkle Paws! Stay tuned for what comes of that one!
