Yom Kippur involves less weather magic

[sovay]

Plans to spend the day outside were somewhat revised on account of incoming holidays and I have the kind of headache that is barely a light sensitivity off from a migraine, but I can totally recommend the experience of baking ten honeycakes (and eighteen honeycupcakes) for Rosh Hashanah and then lying on a couch to finish reading the second half of Ruthanna Emrys' Winter Tide (2017). It's good at ocean, good at alienness, good at different ways of being human; it braids different threads of Lovecraft's universe without feeling like a monster mash, although the nature of monstrosity is one of its front-and-center concerns; it has a queer romance around the edges that I'm delighted is canonical. Technically I suppose I could have timed it to fall during the Days of Awe, but that might have been too on the nose. Also, I would have had to wait.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

<3

Feel better soon! (The honey cakes sound v nice, though.)

[sovay]

Feel better soon! (The honey cakes sound v nice, though.)

Thank you. I think they came out well.

[sporky_rat]

I have really enjoyed 'Winter Tide'. I have been told that there is another one soon.

[sovay]

I have been told that there is another one soon.

Next July is not quite soon enough!

[sporky_rat]

I have been following ashnistrike pretty seriously in hopes of further information.