and then I spent the evening avoiding my computer, because that's where the pigeons were...

[thanate]

Still hanging in here (thanks for the well-wishes!) and I have even finished the test for the master naturalist class that they sprung on us yesterday afternoon; originally it was supposed to be handed out on the last day of class, but now we're to turn it in on the last day of class instead. Either way, I am down to two scheduled things before Monday, and am wasting all the time I ought to be writing in, as more or less expected. (something about the sudden release of pressure, I think? Anyway, there's still tomorrow.)

I did several useful things with my morning, but then my afternoon got, er, hijacked by pigeon dating. This is all jazzfish's fault.

No, really. For an investment of about $5 you can purchase a game called Hatoful Boyfriend (which is apparently some sort of pun on the Japanese word for pigeon?) in which you are a human girl going to high school with a bunch of doves, and the fate of all humanity *may* depend on your ability to form an attachment to one of them. Which is not the weirdest plot-line by a long shot... But you don't actually have to play the game if you don't want to, (I didn't) because someone named Angie has kindly provided an extensive series of walk throughs (and this thread is just the free demo; there's a link to a longer one with bits from the full game at the end of it.) It is strange and disturbing in all those unpredictably strange and disturbing sorts of ways that one finds in small-budget Japanese fiction, though I assume the G rating means there aren't any hidden sub-plots with tentacles in.

For those distinctly uninterested in pigeons, you can also buy stitch markers, monster earrings, & Meeple jewelery from ulios.

Or you can peruse this vast & getting vaster list of [mostly] non-[western]-european fantasy novels written by women, as compiled by marthawells. Not yet annotated, sadly, but as a list of things that might be interesting, which are less likely to have come to the public notice, it's worth passing along. In case there's anyone out there who isn't yet drowning in their TBR pile, that is...

Comments

[notyourwendy]

Thanks for the signal boost!

If I remember correctly, you also have an Etsy shop?

[thanate]

No problem! :)

Technically, yes, though I've let most of it expire recently. (my etsy username is also thanate.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

That list is not very reliable. Hungary, for example, is in Europe last I checked.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I think the initial theory was that eastern Europe got a (non-explicit in the title) pass, though that still doesn't quite explain why Lavinia made it in.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Having had a recent absolutely serious argument with an otherwise-sensible person who was claiming that eastern Europe didn't count as "real Europe," I have serious problems with the non-explicitness. It reinforces exactly that prejudice, and I bet that's exactly the opposite of what the list-makers would intend.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

Having not just had this conversation, I'm not quite as touchy about it, but I do agree that it's not a good inaccuracy to preserve. (and I shall now go my initial post, as my annotations weren't quite as good as they might have been had I not been typing under the pressure of my laptop battery being about to die...)