knittingknots

I just posted my 250th chapter of a Tale of Ever After, my InuYasha fanfic continuation story.  250 chapters, 17 days of story time.  I consider it a soap opera, not a novel, and it has quite a cast of characters.

www.fanfiction.net/s/7602222/2…

Humanity seems to really like images of apocalypse.  We spin stories of things falling apart into chaos and then salvation as we are lead into a new tomorrow. We long for a restored world where all is right. We want the heavens to punish the wicked.  What humanity forgets is that we tend to bring on the disasters ourselves - through economics, injustice, greed, and misusing our resources. 

WE are the four horsemen.  We have exercised that function over and over throughout human history.

And we don't get a restored world once we do it.  We get grief and hunger and warlords and serfdom and starvation and dark ages when it all gets too big.  System collapse.  Failed states.  Women wailing in the night.  Empty bellied children.  Dead young men.

And the universe goes on, in spite of our foolishness.

If you're looking for renewal, find a different path.

I'm going to April Fool's myself and write for it.  Never tried to do that so soon after the November one.  Wish me luck that I've recovered!  And good luck to anybody else who's doing it.

That poetry muse of mine,
tired of merely writing
faux folk songs
in a massive soap opera setting,
has returned
freeversifying
my news reads.

She's such a strange girl, she is.

Books I've been reading this year that I decided to unbury from around my desk and move to their proper bookshelves.  There are some others that didn't make this list, but this is the bulk of them. 

Mabon and the Guardians of Celtic Britain:  Hero Myths in the Mabinogian - Matthews 
Phanerozoic paleocontinental world maps - Smith, Hurley and Briden
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere - Ward
Knitting from the Top - Walker
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East - Anderson
The Third Chimpanzee - Diamond
Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Droubt, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future - Climate Central
Desolation Road - Ian McDonald - an SF novel that is reminiscent of Marquez.
How to be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom - Berlinerblau
The Rocks Don't Lie - Montgomery
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt - Hedges and Sacco
Resiliance: Why Things Bounce Back - Zolli
War and Faith: Ikko Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan - Tsang
Textile Manufacture in the Northern Roman Provinces - Wild
House of Many Ways - Wynne Jones
The Great Paleozoic Crisis: Life and Death in the Permian - Erwin
Northwest Exposure: A Geologic Story of the Northwest - Alt and Hyndman
Climate Wars: Why People Will Be Killed in the 21st Century - Welzer
Once Upon a Time edited by Guran
The Long Thaw: How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate - Archer
Welsh Verse - translations by Conran
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets and People - Shubin
Agatha H and the Airship City - Foglio
Woman on the Edge of Time - Piercy
Women in Celtic Myth - Caldecott
The Good Wife's Guide: A Medieval Household Book Translated by Greco and Rose
Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe - Ward and Brownlee
Deep Future: the Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth - Stager
The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?  - Ward
Warping All By Yourself - Garret (a book about weaving)
Chronicles of a Death Foretold - Marquez
Climate Wars: The Fight For Survival and the World Overheats - Dyer
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales - Translated by Ford
American Science Fiction: Four Classic Novels 1953-1956 Edited by Wolfe
Howl's Moving Castle - Wynne Jones
Stardust - Gaiman
WWW: Wonder - Sawyer
White As Snow - Lee
A Field Manual for the Amateur Geologist - Cvancara
Paleoclimate - Bender
Assasin's Creed: Revelations - Bowden
Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Carroll
The Castle of Crossed Destinies - Calvino
House of Leaves - Danielewiski
When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America  - Holland
Our Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps - Ward
The BackYard Bowyer: The Beginner's Guide to Building Bows - Tomihama
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Knoll
A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest - deBuys
Ernest Hemingway on Writing edited by Phillips
Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery - Imbrie and Imbree
Late Palaeozoic and Early Mesozoic Circum-Pacific Events and Their Global Correlations Edited by Dickens et al
Wild Fermentation - Green

I read weird stuff for fun.