sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2021-01-16 11:55 pm

Come and sit down on my knee

The latter portion of the evening has been somewhat marred by computer distress, but I wish to report that Arisia itself has been so far been a success. "Movie Novelizations" was a blast, "The Monomyth Myth" could have gone into next year, I got to lead off the Traditional Ballad Bingo with "Drowned Lovers" as I learned it from Kate Rusby (and even bingo a card of my own to the tune of "happy ending," "spurned love," "father," "execution," and "hanging," which would be a hell of a ballad in its own right), and I performed selections from the improbable research papers "The Other Shoe: Fragmentation in the Post-Medieval Home" and "Eyebrows cue grandiose narcissism." The thing where I am running Zoom off the talkie window and Discord off Bertie is ridiculous, but I don't knock ridiculous when it works.

My poem "Plures" has been accepted by microverses: a hub for tiny speculative narratives. It is the second I have sold them; it is about the uncountable dead.

I have also been informed that people said nice things about my poetry on Twitter.

My father found some of his uncle's flight logs. They are an incomplete selection—we can tell because he numbered them—but seem to have covered at least three decades. I have been charting where he was between 1943 and 1945. A lot of air bases in the Pacific. A lot of C-87s and B-24s.

Tomorrow, I sing chanteys and read something I wrote.
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[personal profile] selkie 2021-01-17 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
Bertie! Keep processing!

I am glad your day has been vastly successful. Prayers up for the noble Bertie!
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[personal profile] vass 2021-01-17 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
It's good to hear that Bertie's chugging along.

And that you're singing chanteys.
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[personal profile] troisoiseaux 2021-01-17 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the poem, good luck with the computer distress, and have fun with the chanteys!
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[personal profile] yhlee 2021-01-17 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay poem!
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2021-01-17 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Followed the twitter link and that poem deserves nice things saying about it!

A lot of C-87s and B-24s.

Basically the same aircraft, so that makes a lot of sense.

Hope the chantey-ing goes well.
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2021-01-17 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
ISTR the LB-30s (taken over from a British order) were the first Liberators in the Pacific, so LB-30 may well have been the first name he was exposed to.
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[personal profile] davidgillon 2021-01-17 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I may also ask if you recognize a couple of the place-names we haven't been able to identify. One sure looks like a three-letter airport code, but if so, it's either changed or ceased to exist since the war.

Feel free, I can't guarantee to be able to answer, but I might have suggestions even if I can't nail it down.
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2021-01-17 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Will the Arisia panels be online at some point? They sound really interesting!
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2021-01-21 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Fair, but still sad for me.
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[personal profile] dramaticirony 2021-01-17 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Arisia isn't recording these.

On the other hand, the Boskone panels in February will be recorded, and the schedule, which was just published, is an embarrassment of riches, with ten or eleven options per time slot, and leaning into the advantages of the remote format, bringing in Aliette de Bodard from Paris, having Kim Stanley Robinson as guest, when he might not have schlepped physically back into Boston in midwinter the year after being a Guest of Honor last year, and so on. So if the Arisia sort of thing seems up your alley, you might take a look.
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[personal profile] dhampyresa 2021-01-21 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I'll look into it.
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2021-01-17 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been enjoying virtual Arisia! Your reading just now was great.
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[personal profile] nineweaving 2021-01-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
You've been fabulous so far! Singing, speaking, reading.

Do you have a copy of that philosophical odd-shoe paper? The very sole of wit. Also: does the wearing of a monocle focus or suppress narcissism? Inquiring minds...

Nine

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[personal profile] pameladean 2021-01-18 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, how delightful that you'll be singing chanteys! Perhaps they will cheer Bertie up.

It's wonderful and amazing that your father has found some of his uncle's flight logs. I am all agog.

P.