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This Vox article about fantasy writers to read while you're waiting for the next AoIaF book is fascinating--both because it unabashedly loves (female!) fantasy writers that I love (Robin McKinley, Megan Whalen Turner, and Ellen Kushner) and writes about them in interesting ways...and because I find the writers in this list totally different from GRRM--I don't like GRRM, but I lovelovelove these writers (well, I haven't ever been able to finish Swordpoint, but I know that when I do, I will love it. It's the Pamela Dean's Tam Lin of my 30's).

There's some spoilers in this for the Queen's Thief books, but it also describes that series as "Sun Tzu in kid lit drag," which is one of my favorite sentences I've read this year.

Oh, I want to write again! I can't wait until my life has settled down and I can do that!!!


And now for something completely different: I keep seeing campaign signs in my parents' neighbors yard that just say JESUS 2020 and I, for one, thoroughly approve of the evangelical Christians' intentions to vote for Jesus as a write-in candidate. Because of course that's what that means, right? It's not just virtue signalling to no end while they vote again for one of the most evil presidents we've ever had, right???