Lilith Saintcrow's Blog, page 54
January 24, 2023
Eggs, Bitter, Wondrous
My dreams have been somewhat feverish of late, but not in a fun way–the kind that I can glean bits of stories and imagery from. ...
January 23, 2023
Soundtrack Monday: Take Me Out
It’s time for another Soundtrack Monday! Today the track is Franz Ferdinand’s Take Me Out, which I listened to obsessively while writing the casino shootout ...
Change Is the Constant
There are Things Happening On the Roof, even at this early hour, and Boxnoggin is utterly beside himself. I can’t decide if he wants to ...
January 20, 2023
Moss, Rust, Poetry
I’ve been obsessed with the #Mosstodon hashtag lately. It helps that I live in the PNW, where moss is…well, let’s just call it a given. ...
January 19, 2023
Truly Reliable Unreliable Narrators
Just because you don’t personally understand a story’s narrator does not make them “unreliable”. Being an asshole does not make a narrator “unreliable”. And a ...
January 17, 2023
The Rock of Morning
Read a little Anais Nin in bed while my alarm clock finished waking up–it’s one of those sunrise clocks, where the light begins simmering gently ...
January 16, 2023
Soundtrack Monday: Your Protector
Occasionally a song will end up on not one but two soundtracks. It’s rare, but it does happen; rarer still is the piece with lyrics ...
January 13, 2023
Fire and Gnomes
(Apologies to James Taylor.) The portable firepit has rendered signal service; we’ve roasted marshmallows over bits of the downed cedar and spent a lot of ...
January 12, 2023
Adulting and Pruning
Yesterday was a flurry of adulting. Correspondence needed tackling, decisions had to be made, pruning to be done–and the firepit required tending, since limbs, branches, ...
January 10, 2023
Superlative, Swimming
I’m staggering around blinking blearily this morning, feeling rather like a frayed wire. The coffee is sinking in, Boxnoggin is very eager for walkies, and ...
