In the dark I thought I heard somebody call

So, now is the time to spill my recent reading material all over you.

And, be grateful: this is probably the only time I'm ever going to actually warn about content of any kind, ever, so enjoy it while it lasts. I'm not even going to be that specific. But yeah, this is (obviously) going to be kind of heavy on derivative works of all kinds, mostly fanfiction, and there's some RPS thrown in there and (again, obviously) a bunch of slash.

Read it anyway.

And then, of course, the length warning. When I say something is 'long', I generally mean, like novel-length, at the least. Usually I mean series-length. When I say 'short' I usually mean what most people mean when they say 'long', because they're illiterate. Allocate some time.

Starting with some of spiralhollow's shorter stories, one about magic and the other about technology.

From there, of course, it's a short step to an e2 writeup about magic and technology. Or rather, magic and science. And from there, to outer space and stars.

But E2 has a lot more (wonderful!) content aside from scifi. Humanity, and life, and dreams, and of course, it just wouldn't be e2 without fables.

But that brings me to the first long work here, The God Eaters, which is an actual published novel these days. Which is totally awesome.

And now, unrelated to any kind of narrative thread I'm attempting to establish in this post, have some Hitherby Dragons. Really, all of Hitherby Dragons is wonderful, so it's hard to excerpt particular segments, but... some are more wonderful than others.

There are some stories about topics dear to my heart, too. Like, transhumanism, or hey, love. It's not that obvious, but I'm kind of a hopeless romantic. A hopeless romantic who dislikes happy endings, because they always feel so forced.

And sometimes I get depressed and have to read depressing stories to feel better. And hey, sometimes I like to read triumphant stories! And sometimes, I just like to read stories.

It wasn't until I noticed how little most people read that I realized how much I read. Because I read a lot. A lot of it's kind of the 'junk food' of reading material, but I still like it. I like it a lot.