New books! Podcast! Yay!
Jul. 27th, 2019 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
philosophercatMy copy of Palestine +100 from Comma Press arrived. It's the first ever anthology of Palestinian science fiction. I'm excited to dive in. I'm also in a book club where we'll be reading Belonging by Toko-pa Turner. I also picked up Living Revision: A Writer's Craft of Spiritual Practice. That's really good so far, and just what I needed re: the Palestinian folktale manuscript.
kIvier on Twitter originally posted this and I can't get over how much it amuses me. I normally don't like horror but I am really enjoying the Magnus Archives, especially all of the archival staff (whatnobleplatypus calls 'the good stuff.').
[ Jonathan Sims of the Magnus Archives be like: ]
Jon is head archivist of the Magnus Institute of esoteric and spooky research. Over the course of the investigations he discovers that there are "entities" which sound very like the "old gods" of Warcraft but which are explicitly not gods-- they're just 'entities' outside of the universe that act upon it through avatars and rituals and stuff. One of these is The Beholding, which "owns" the Magnus Institute and Jon discovers he's becoming the avatar of the Beholding. This includes having certain powers like being able to compel someone to tell him the truth about whatever he asks about, he can read and speak any language, and is starting to develop omniscience.
Jon very much does not like this but there's nothing he can do to stop it. However, it is handy for trying to stop the ritual of The Desolation which is trying to destroy the world.
kIvier on Twitter originally posted this and I can't get over how much it amuses me. I normally don't like horror but I am really enjoying the Magnus Archives, especially all of the archival staff (what
nobleplatypus calls 'the good stuff.'). [ Jonathan Sims of the Magnus Archives be like: ]
Jon is head archivist of the Magnus Institute of esoteric and spooky research. Over the course of the investigations he discovers that there are "entities" which sound very like the "old gods" of Warcraft but which are explicitly not gods-- they're just 'entities' outside of the universe that act upon it through avatars and rituals and stuff. One of these is The Beholding, which "owns" the Magnus Institute and Jon discovers he's becoming the avatar of the Beholding. This includes having certain powers like being able to compel someone to tell him the truth about whatever he asks about, he can read and speak any language, and is starting to develop omniscience.
Jon very much does not like this but there's nothing he can do to stop it. However, it is handy for trying to stop the ritual of The Desolation which is trying to destroy the world.
