Reading

[krait]

Not having made much progress in any of the things I was reading, I decided to read The Goblin Emperor instead. The change seems to have knocked out my reading block! I finished it in a day, and then read Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology (on loan from a coworker) the following night.

Now I'm browsing through the 22 pages of Goblin Emperor fic on AO3 in a leisurely way, but my attention is split and I'll hopefully make it through a couple of the books I got stalled on.

Comments

[hamsterwoman]

The Goblin Emperor is a very lovely book! And Gaiman's Norse Mythology was a lot of fun, too.

(I'm currently working my way through the new Paarfi and finding it almost surprisingly readable...???)

[krait]

!!!! Your icon! It's fabulous!

Norse Mythology was good, but I didn't have a lot to say about it, ultimately. My fave will always be Thor's Crossdressing Wedding, and I did think Gaiman did a fair job of conveying the combo of 'mythical language' and 'oral history' with regard to tone and word choice.

And WAIT, new Paarfi!? Man, I haven't even finished the last Vlad book yet (it sorta got buried during the bathroom remodel and I only unearthed it a couple weeks ago) but now I have further incentive to finish my current crop of 'now reading' books...

[hamsterwoman]

Thank you, re: icon -- I found it as fanart, but apparently it's the cover of the Spanish edition, and it's my favorite Maia image by far!

My fave will always be Thor's Crossdressing Wedding,

Haha, same! I also didn't have a ton to say about Norse Mythology, but I did like the balance Gaiman managed with Loki, which is one of the main things I care about when it comes to Norse mythology :)

The new Paarfi literally came out yesterday! (It's a distinct set of characters from the Khaavren books, set earlier than TPG -- or at least it starts earlier, not sure how far the action will extend. The only familiar name on the Dramatis Personae list was Daro, but I haven't gotten to her yet; I assume she's a minor character at the end of the book, from her placement towards the end of the list.

I haven't even finished the last Vlad book yet (it sorta got buried during the bathroom remodel

Haha, well, if any Vlad book should get sort of buried during a bathroom remodel, Vallista would definitely be the right one, thematically speaking :)

Apparently Tsalmoth is pretty slow going, so I'm actually kind of jealous you still have unread Vlad to tide you over before the new one comes out.

[feuervogel]

I have the Cala/Beshelar fics tab open in my browser for when I get tired of everything else I'm doing. (And it's like 90% kinky shit.)

[krait]

Got any smut recs for Cala featuring (mis)use of maz?

Mages always have such porny potential, but not every fandom seems to appreciate this, and I don't think I've seen it crop up much in my search results thus far.

[feuervogel]

I think I remember reading one like that! Let me see if I can find it. (I can't find it.)

This isn't it but it was cute https://archiveofourown.org/works/11200164

Coffeeshop AU (because TGE needs more fluff i guess?) https://archiveofourown.org/works/22532944

eh, here's the whole set (all 28, including a couple arts, one of which was broken last time I looked)
https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Cala%20Athmaza/works?commit=Sort+and+Filter&include_work_search%5Brelationship_ids%5D%5B%5D=5109502&page=1&utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bcomplete%5D=&work_search%5Bcrossover%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_from%5D=&work_search%5Bdate_to%5D=&work_search%5Bexcluded_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Blanguage_id%5D=&work_search%5Bother_tag_names%5D=&work_search%5Bquery%5D=&work_search%5Bsort_column%5D=revised_at&work_search%5Bwords_from%5D=&work_search%5Bwords_to%5D=

[dragonlady7]

I loved Goblin Emperor and I loved writing fic for it :)

[krait]

Woo! This is yet another fandom party that I'm way late to, but that just means there should be lots of fic and recs and art already here to enjoy, right? :D Or so I hope!

Did you have a favourite topic/setting/character to write?

[dragonlady7]

ah, i just did canon continuation. but found family is very much my fave in every fandom, so. :)