Hello!

[cpolk]

I'm glad to have an excuse to come back to this style of online socializing.

I'm going to have a look around and figure out how I want to tweak various access filters, but for now I'm going to keep it simple and get more complicated later.

But for now, hello! I'm glad you are here! I hope to get up to nonsense very soon.

I used to write a lot of longer posts on this style of platform back in the day. I'm not sure how often I will do that now. 

I'm aiming to be interesting, if brief, and to drop in here pretty regularly. 

If you would like to drop a comment to say hello, please do! and look around at any other commenters you see and say hello to them too.
if you don't know what to say, I have a few things you could tell me:

what is a subject of interest you would like to start learning more about?
what music have you had on repeat lately?
if you cook, what's something you're cooking now that the seasons are shifted?
what do you feel like reading, described with tropes and vibes?
what is the most fascinating activity you've been doing lately?
what is your favorite hot beverage recipe of the moment?
what are you making/building/creating/designing right now?

what is something you'd like to ask other commenters?

I have a question for those of you who have been on DW more regularly: are there communities you are fond of that could be of interest? my tastes are wide ranging so that could be anything, honestly.

Comments

[lcohen]

this was the list i came across:

https://ew.com/books/10-best-lgbtq-romance-novels-of-the-last-five-years/

i've read 7 of the 10, so far--relying on the library to get me things. wide range of reactions--some i went in search of more titles by the author, others, not so much. only author i'd read before was cat sebastian, whose books i absolutely love, so if you're wondering where my taste tends, now you know :) . but it's been fun to try new authors and see what i think.

[ravenna_c_tan]

Oh, I have read some of the ones on this list! Interestingly, 3 of them were also books being promoted this summer at Bookstore Romance Day and their authors were all in the queer romance panel (via Zoom) that I moderated for the Harvard Bookstore in August. So I wonder if some of them were included because those were the "hot" books being touted by Avon and other houses' publicists...

[lcohen]

well of course now i want to know which ones you read and whether you liked them. i accidentally started re-reading Unmasking by the Marquess after responding to you, because of course i did.

[ravenna_c_tan]

My fave of the bunch was Red, White, and Royal Blue, which I read while Trump was still in office and really it was the fantasy book about US government I didn't know I needed. And how wild that it came right before all the Harry and Megan stuff blew up, as well? They're making it into a movie now! Can't wait