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[escritoireazul]

Brief politics RE DeVos:

Me to my R Senator: *thoughtful commentary and criticism about DeVos*
R Senator: *stock response, with addition of how much he trusts her educational work*
R Senator publicly celebrates her confirmation.
Me to my R Senator: SHE FUCKING BOUGHT YOUR GODDAMN VOTE, MOTHERFUCKER, AND SOLD OUT YOUR FUCKING CONSTITUENTS AND WE ALL FUCKING KNOW IT
R Senator: *does not respond*
Me: FUCKING FUCK I FUCKING HATE HIM SO FUCKING MUCH

I have long loathed the man, but for some reason, I can't imagine why, lately my hate has gone white hot. It probably doesn't help that I've decided to start actually paying attention to his responses, when before I would just ignore him after contacting him. I should go back to that. It would be better for my health.

A meteor blazed over the midwest the other day. My immediate response was: PLEASE LET IT BE THE FIRST SALVO TO THE ALIENS TAKING US ALL OUT. #teamextinctionlevelcomet

Books:

Follow up on that post where I talked about Riordan's God's of Asgard books. Despite my complaints about the first one, I bought the second one the second I finished it, because in the end, he told a really compelling story and I loved the characters. I really enjoyed the second book, too, and am now left wanting the third. I think I will go back and read the rest of his books when I can find them on sale. Is this series Yuletide eligible, I wonder? I might want some fic for side characters.

In other book news, I read the Unfuck Your Habitat book, and was not as impressed as I hoped, since I love the online presence. It was interesting enough, I guess, but not something I think I will reread in the future. Similarly, I read Snowbirds by Crissa-Jean Chappell, which is a young adult Amish mystery, and while it was an entertaining read, I wanted to connect with it deeper than I did.

Riordan's books prompted a reread of Tessa Gratton's United States of Asgard series (it was super weird to see Fenris wolf be a dude in Riordan's books, I have to say, after my beloved Glory, who I totally adore).

I need to start another book that is new to me. Not sure what, though. Do you guys have any recommendations?

Comments

[lilacsigil]

I feel your frustration! I live in a very, very safe Liberal (=centre right) seat and it's canned responses all the way. The most personalised I have ever received was I wrote to my MP about a refugee issue and got back a link to an article to a Murdoch-run paper!

[wakeupnew]

I feel you on the meteor!! The construction crews working on my building started a small fire the other day and my and my coworkers' (extremely proportionate, practical) response was OK, JUST TAKE US ALL OUT, LET'S GO.

Magnus Chase is definitely eligible for Yuletide! Nobody has written any YT fic for it yet, but I'm gonna keep trying. fwiw, I enjoyed the characters in the Heroes of Olympus series much more than in the Percy Jackson series, though the Percy Jackson series definitely needs to come before the Heroes of Olympus in terms of reading chronology (in order for the story to make sense).

[lightbird]

What educational work? I mean really.

All the Republican votes were bought.

[thedeadparrot]

I get your frustration, but I just wanted to point you at this Twitter thread thanking voters with Republican senators for calling/engaging. Hopefully it helps even if you just want to scream in his face for five minutes straight. :)

[cyprinella]

Ursula Vernon has a new one out that I really liked, Summer in Orcus.

[kore]

A meteor blazed over the midwest the other day. My immediate response was: PLEASE LET IT BE THE FIRST SALVO TO THE ALIENS TAKING US ALL OUT. #teamextinctionlevelcomet

Fucking seriously. I had a dream about a giant shooting star and in it I thought "Maybe this will get Trump out of power!"

Then the dream turned into me being back in college and all my college friends seriously telling me why they didn't like me anymore. Swing and a miss, meteor.