from hell's heart i stab at thee etc etc

so I have not read a lot this week because I inadvertently wound up having...so many RP scenes LOL and spending most of my free time writing as a result. Still!

• Les Mis! Keeping up with the Les Mis bookclub means I've gotten to Book 6: Javert of Part 1: Fantine. Which means I've met Javert, which as you can imagine was a cataclysmic event for me. I really liked him. I loved that Hugo spent like 3 pages explaining what fursonas are to you, the reader, in order to make sure you understand what he means when he calls Javert a dog in a wolf's litter. Like, it's that important. Gotta know.

• Men in the Off-Hours - I only read a couple more pages of this one, but there was one poem I wound up really really liking in those few pages. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/c/carson-men.html (...when I tried to do the nice thing and embed the link in some text, it didn't work, so I guess I'm just posting the link raw. Oh well!) So I liked this one because it made me think of my horrible dead woman who is trapped in her own moment of death and resurrection. That flip-over moment! No before and after! I really liked it. It made me want to make more ocs so maybe I will. Who knows.

I keep wanting to reread Wuthering Heights, but I just finished that like last month so I'm not going to. Still. I really enjoyed it.

I'm playing through Library of Ruina lately, which is fun. I also started reading a Lobotomy Corporation LP, which is also fun, but somehow every time I read it, I have really weird, stressful dreams about having to manage a bunch of rooms in a video game and arcane gameplay strats that only add to the stress. But I'm pretty sure the way my dreams try to make me play the game has nothing to do with how the game is actually played, it's just entertaining itself with concepts.

I really want to write more of my diego/gyro things but it's hard to find the time. I think about them......