You breathe it into my mouth

[sovay]

This year. I can't even summarize it: sickness, stress, poverty, my short-term disability leave consumed by further illness instead of recuperation, crisis of beloved cat. I maintained my website and my presence on AO3 and wrote some new things including my first original fiction since 2020 and was very, very tired.

I published no new fiction this year. I had one very important reprint:

"As the Tide Came Flowing In" in Adventures in Bodily Autonomy: Exploring Reproductive Rights in Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror (ed. Raven Belasco), Aqueduct Press, October 2023.

There were some new poems:

"The Credo of Loplop" in Uncanny Magazine #50, January 2023.
"Exposure" in Not One of Us #73, January 2023.
"Drained" in Not One of Us #74, March 2023.
"I Have a Sister Beyond the Sea" in Not One of Us #75, June 2023.
"The Green Room" in Not One of Us #76, September 2023.
"Scarcity Economics" in Not One of Us #77, December 2023.

No fanfiction that made it as far as AO3, since I decided in April that discretion was the better part of sadfic, but I will count the ghost poem I wrote for Johnny Ryan at such time as it sees print.

In past years, I never included my editing work for Strange Horizons or The Deadlands because they were other people's publications, but my name is on the cover of this volume:

The Deadlands: Year One (eds. E. Catherine Tobler, Sonya Taaffe, David Gilmore), Psychopomp Books, December 2023.

I wrote so much less than I had wanted for Patreon, but at least about some films it mattered for me to do so:

Night into Morning (1951), January 2023.
The Flying Scotsman (1929), January 2023.
Learn and Live (1943), January 2023.
Ministry of Fear (1944), January 2023.
The Wild North (1952), February 2023.
Black Kitten 'Thon 2023 [Mad Love (1935), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), Time Out for Trouble (1961), "The Last Day" (1989), Time Piece (1965), The Hidden (1987), The Sounds of Science (2002), Neptune Frost (2021)], February 2023.
Hunt the Man Down (1951), March 2023.
Any Number Can Play (1949), March 2023.
Julius Caesar (1953), March 2023.
The Unfaithful (1947), March 2023.
Nude on the Moon (1961), March 2023.
The Accused (1949), April 2023.
"Sign of the Zodiac" (The Barbara Stanwyck Show, 1961), April 2023.
Something Always Happens (1934) and Crown v. Stevens (1936) , April 2023.
I Walk Alone (1947), April 2023.
The Capture (1950), May 2023.
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956), May 2023.
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950), May 2023.
1917 (2019), June 2023.
Holiday Affair (1949), June 2023.
Dial 1119 (1950), June 2023.
The Furies (1950), June 2023.
revisiting Too Late for Tears (1949), July 2023.
The Hitch-Hiker (1953), July 2023.
The Woman on Pier 13 (1949), August 2023.
The Well (1951), August 2023.
Inferno (1953), August 2023.
Lightning Strikes Twice (1934), September 2023.
The Lighthouse (2019), September 2023.
Doctor Who: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (1988), October 2023.
Dark City (1950), October 2023.
Harriet Craig (1950), October 2023.
The Killer Is Loose (1956), November 2023.
Desert Fury (1947), November 2023.
on film editing and Elisha Cook Jr.'s hands [Born to Kill (1947)], November 2023.
They All Come Out (1939), November 2023.
Men (2022), December 2023.
Suicide by Sunlight (2019), December 2023.

For once, could the coming year actually be better? It will have to be enough that at the end of this one, we are all still here. Happy New Year. A healthy new year. Af tselokhes.

Comments

[chanter1944]

Bless you, ever so much. Bless you and yours for the coming year with riches uncountable, categorized as effortlessly and fluidly as flows your lyrical prose.

Ah-hem. I may have had a little of an inhibition-lowering substance or so tonight. I mean what I say, however.

[radiantfracture]

Hmm I wish I'd said all this stuff. Need more cognac.

[sovay]

Bless you, ever so much. Bless you and yours for the coming year with riches uncountable, categorized as effortlessly and fluidly as flows your lyrical prose.

*hugs*

Thank you.

[radiantfracture]

A healthy new year to you! (and a sweet one)

[sovay]

A healthy new year to you! (and a sweet one)

Thank you! Sweetness to you, too.

[sholio]

*hugs* Happy new year, and I hope it'll be a good one.

[sovay]

Happy new year, and I hope it'll be a good one.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

You are still here! And after a bad year, that is an achievement, as are the words that were nevertheless written. But I wish you much, much better in every way for the coming year, if such things can be possible (let us hope so). ♥

[sovay]

But I wish you much, much better in every way for the coming year, if such things can be possible (let us hope so).

*hugs*

Thank you.

[thistleingrey]

Happy 2024!

[sovay]

Happy 2024!

Thank you! Likewise!

[sartorias]

That is really an impressive list of film retrospectives, the more so as you have been dealing with health issues.

[sovay]

That is really an impressive list of film retrospectives, the more so as you have been dealing with health issues.

Thank you. It's very hard for me not to see everything I didn't do; I am working on looking at it the other way, like an optical illusion.

[gwynnega]

Wishing you a wonderful new year. You may not have written as much as you wanted for your Patreon, but the quality and quantity of what you did write really is impressive.

[sovay]

Wishing you a wonderful new year. You may not have written as much as you wanted for your Patreon, but the quality and quantity of what you did write really is impressive.

Thank you.

*hugs*

[sami]

I hope your cat is okay.

[sovay]

I hope your cat is okay.

Thank you. He survived the night when he was not expected to and is currently napping. (spatch and I are completely sleepless.)

[luzula]

I very much wish you a much better year in 2024, health-wise!

[sovay]

I very much wish you a much better year in 2024, health-wise!

Thank you!