FIrst Actual Post!

[ann_leckie]

Hey! Glad you stopped by! This is the first actual post. There's no real content here yet.

What's everybody reading? Anything good? Or watching?

Comments

[crane_among_celandines]

I've just read all ten books of K J Charles' "Widdershins" series, in which an Ex-Pinkerton and a Comparative Philologist have gay romance and fight Lovecraftian horrors.

Lovecraft would fucking hate them -- they're inclusive as fuck and follow the Emrys-Approved tradition of portraying the Deep Ones as being basically decent sapients who just happen to live under the ocean and have terrifying shark teeth. (Read "Winter Tide" if you haven't already, by the way.)

They're fun pulpy action with steamy butt-sex (though the author does talk about people's sacks tightening in a way which suggests they didn't ask anyone with testicles how their orgasm feels) and some lovely found-family feels. And there are ten of them already out, with a final one yet to come!

[sylvanauctor]

Is there a good amount of comparative philology in them or is it mostly just fighting horrors?

[crane_among_celandines]

I'll be honest, it's mostly just fighting horrors and doing gay sex. Sorry. Whyborne's skill with languages is at least something that actually gets used, but there's never any real detail beyond "I spent my morning attempting to decipher the hieroglyphs".

... "mostly just fighting horrors and doing gay sex" would be a pretty great blog title though.

[sylvanauctor]

That's too bad. We need more linguistic sf that isn't just Hard Sapir Whorf Superpowers

[crane_among_celandines]

Have you ever read M. C. A. Hogarth's Kerishdar series? I can't claim it's about the linguistics, but she constructed a pretty solid conlang for it, and the narrator is a calligrapher, so some of it comes up.

Also where I learned the word "coolth" and (when looking that up) the even better word "spillth", meaning the substance of which a spill is composed.

[sylvanauctor]

I've actually just had it recommended to me! Now with two recs, I suppose it's my next read after Consuming Fire.

[cassyblue]

anything that would piss off lovecraft is attractive to me