1) I participated in Inktober. I half-assed it on some of the days (particularly when I was on vacation), but here are some from last month that I was proud of. Mostly portraits, because you can't hide bad proportions when doing a portrait. 












(this one is one of my PCs for an Avatar: The Last Airbender one-shot. If Andy Samberg were a woman, and was a Water Tribe merchant)


I'm still keeping to at least one drawing per day (even if it's a doodle) but now I'm also working on my Nanorimo project. It's a Good Omens fic where Upstairs wins (not currently pursuing either of the Tristan/Iseult crossover or Sixth Crusade ideas). I don't think it's worth 50k words, but I'll be happy to get 20k out of it. Currently, I'm about 9k words in and I have most of the plot ideas (finally) in place. 

Other Books I've Read

The Fifth Season
The Obelisk Gate
The Stone Sky


The Fifth Season was brilliant. There's an event in the middle that happens where I think, damn, I should've seen that coming. Then something similar happens AGAIN and I'd never been so happy to be blindsided. The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky didn't have that WOMP factor, the same sense of newness and progression and volatility, to carve out a trilogy-shaped niche in my heart where this story could live rent-free. Don't get me wrong, I think the story is really well executed: there are characters that objectively should be loathed, but are written tenderly all the same. The world is full of bitterness and hate and vengefulness, but also incredible resilience and love. The trilogy as a whole is worth a read and easy to respect, but difficult to love unconditionally. 4/5

Ducks
I have friends that worked in Fort Mac, though I never did myself. This is a memoir of the author's time in Fort Mac between 2005 and 2008. She does a brilliant job showing the inhumanity born of isolation, the pervasive sexism, and the brutal casualness of violence and assault. I would consider this essential reading for anyone of any gender in a male-dominated industry. The only reason that this is not a 5/5 because it's so harrowing I do not want to read it again.  4/5