Tuesday: it is warm!
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walkitoutIt is warm!
I walked with M. in the morning. We will probably do this for the week, because it worked out well and because it is going to be warm so walking later will be a lot less comfortable.
I have a cut and color this afternoon. I am jittery with excitement. Or nerves. Or something. Who knows!
I read _All These Explosions are Someone Else’s Fault_, by James Alan Gardner. I loved the Expendables (League of Peoples?) series. I was super happy when I finally started reading this — I bought it a while back — that there is a sequel! Woot! This is such a romp. It reminds me of when D.T. ran RPG games and when we got tired of D&D we would try out other things. I have no detailed recollection of my character when he ran a short Champions game, but this book recognizably grew out of that system and I sooooo love it for its irony and sense of humor and good natured breaking of the whatever wall.
Four college students — three women and one person who used to identify as a woman, but who is at least really, really, really into messing with the binary if not full on non-binary themself AND whose superhero identity is ALSO non-binary! — are helping the boyfriend of one of them pick up some stuff after hours at the University of Waterloo, when there is an explosion. They go to investigate, encounter a portal to another dimension and experience their Origin as superheroes. Ok, Sparks.
In this universe, there are Darklings (vampires, werewolves, demons), who start out as humans and who undergo the Dark Conversion, taking their life and bestowing on them all kinds of nifty powers and there are Sparks, who, through the Power of Science, also have nifty powers (do not look at the Science too closely). Darklings have Shadows; Sparks have Halos. There is conflict. There are meta-groups who enforce Rules. On the Sparks side, there are supervillains and mad geniuses, and the central
HEY SPOILERS!!!!
Bad buy in this outing is the person responsible for the explosions and rifts to another universe. He is basically “helping” Darklings gain Super powers, but he is totally Anti Darkling, so his overall game plan is actually very different. And he is super anarchic. Fun!
The rifts get bigger as our Super Heroes, the Too Many Cooks, get better at using their powers. They figure things out, they have big fights, they win, they make deals with questionable consequences, and the viewpoint character has all kinds of backstory with a couple deeply ambiguous Darklings.
Delightful in every way! Soooo looking forward to the next book.
I walked with M. in the morning. We will probably do this for the week, because it worked out well and because it is going to be warm so walking later will be a lot less comfortable.
I have a cut and color this afternoon. I am jittery with excitement. Or nerves. Or something. Who knows!
I read _All These Explosions are Someone Else’s Fault_, by James Alan Gardner. I loved the Expendables (League of Peoples?) series. I was super happy when I finally started reading this — I bought it a while back — that there is a sequel! Woot! This is such a romp. It reminds me of when D.T. ran RPG games and when we got tired of D&D we would try out other things. I have no detailed recollection of my character when he ran a short Champions game, but this book recognizably grew out of that system and I sooooo love it for its irony and sense of humor and good natured breaking of the whatever wall.
Four college students — three women and one person who used to identify as a woman, but who is at least really, really, really into messing with the binary if not full on non-binary themself AND whose superhero identity is ALSO non-binary! — are helping the boyfriend of one of them pick up some stuff after hours at the University of Waterloo, when there is an explosion. They go to investigate, encounter a portal to another dimension and experience their Origin as superheroes. Ok, Sparks.
In this universe, there are Darklings (vampires, werewolves, demons), who start out as humans and who undergo the Dark Conversion, taking their life and bestowing on them all kinds of nifty powers and there are Sparks, who, through the Power of Science, also have nifty powers (do not look at the Science too closely). Darklings have Shadows; Sparks have Halos. There is conflict. There are meta-groups who enforce Rules. On the Sparks side, there are supervillains and mad geniuses, and the central
HEY SPOILERS!!!!
Bad buy in this outing is the person responsible for the explosions and rifts to another universe. He is basically “helping” Darklings gain Super powers, but he is totally Anti Darkling, so his overall game plan is actually very different. And he is super anarchic. Fun!
The rifts get bigger as our Super Heroes, the Too Many Cooks, get better at using their powers. They figure things out, they have big fights, they win, they make deals with questionable consequences, and the viewpoint character has all kinds of backstory with a couple deeply ambiguous Darklings.
Delightful in every way! Soooo looking forward to the next book.