Ian Sammis
@isammis
Low-level tech peon; I've also physicsed, written, mathed, and arted for food.
Marin-san had the only possible answer when @romgothsam.bsky.social asked which of the twenty-five or so texts from this semester was our favorite.
The first half of @romgothsam.bsky.social's Transformations of the Gothic course, in anime screenshots
Bad business trip habit #1: overpacking. The silliest thing is that most of my books are on my phone now, but I still pack like this!
The Isle in the Silver Sea was an absolutely wonderful, epic romantasy that I really spectacularly failed to ready by 25 March. (It was long enough that other shorter books kept jumping in the way.) Ah, well. @romgothsam.bsky.social
It's hilarious and disturbing how prone AI chatbots are to tell you that your every idea is brilliant and correct. It's the verbal equivalent of that twilight zone episode in which a gangster dies and thinks he's gone to heaven because he immediately gets whatever he wants.
Bidding a fond farewell to "Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance," @romgothsam.bsky.social 's wonderful course from last term.
Not actually helpful like my previous character lists, but I couldn't resist. @romgothsam.bsky.social
Week #7 of @romgothsam.bsky.social 's "Falling in love with love: A History of Popular Romance." All joking aside this was a wonderful book
Week 6 of Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance was Tabitha in Moonlight.
In my earlier post on The Quiet Gentleman, I made the fatal error of showing my character sheet while I was still early in a book with a LOT of twists and turns. For comparison purposes, here are the character sheets as I had them in Chapter 6 and by the end of the novel.
Not as many as I'd like, but not no one. The problem is what it always is with Trump — he does so many horrific things so quickly that it's hard to protest one without seeming to ignore all the rest. magaziner.house.gov/media/press-...
Last week's reading was The Sheik, which was the first profoundly awful novel that we've read. Historically important — it was wildly popular in 1919 — but just somehow always worse than you think it's going to be, even after you've started reading it.
I must admit that E. M. Hull's _The_Sheik_ is finally forcing me to catch up on the reading in "Falling in Love with Love: A History of Popular Romance." I'm tearing through the book at high speed, because I've seldom wanted to stop reading a book quite as badly as this.
Still very much enjoying University of Liverpool's Continuing Education course in romantic literature. This week was Jane Eyre.
Reading Pride & Prejudice for a continuing education course. The book has a lot of characters, and I was having trouble keeping them all straight. Here’s my note card so far.
From my feed. It looked so much like a question and an answer that I had to look really closely to see that it wasn't.
Christmas dinner is officially simmering. It’s a brisket, so it’s a good thing we’re on the west coast or it’d be Boxing Day before it finished cooking.
And, for the record, I should be at no risk of silly zombie endings when I get to these early next week (once Thanksgiving is over down here).
Fair. This is a really old one, but I love how it came out. (C code, some massaging of the output.)