More bits and pieces

[dolorosa_12]

If you know anyone on other fannish platforms thinking of making the jump to Dreamwidth, goodbyebird has set up a fantastic comm, starterpack, designed to help new users get to grips with this platform (which can be quite a steep learning curve if you're used to Twitter or Tumblr). Feel free to share it around!

With naye's encouragement, I think I'm going to try snowflake_challenge this year. It's not great timing (as we're moving house on the 5th), but I'll do my best.



I've been spending the day trying to sort out various things relating to moving house before everywhere closes for New Year's Eve. I've also had a chance to do a bit more reading. I've read:

'The Long Tail', a free online short story by Aliette de Bodard, which the author describes as being about 'war, work shifts, and how to get out of sticky situations using statistics.'

A Sky Beyond the Storm, the concluding work in Sabaa Tahir's dystopian fantasy YA series. I really enjoyed the preceding books, and I liked this one for the most part, although it felt a bit bloated and a lot of the plot and character tensions seemed to retread the same situations and problems repeatedly, to the point that it felt like overkill.

'Seven of Infinities', the latest in Aliette de Bodard's Xuya universe of space opera stories. This one is about a sentient space ship and a human scholar teaming up to uncover a mystery, and it draws very heavily on the Arsène Lupin stories, of which de Bodard is a huge fan.

I hope everyone's been having a good day.

Comments

[superborb]

FYI that startpack user/comm appears to be incorrect -- I get that it's not currently registered when I click through

[dolorosa_12]

Thanks for letting me know! I made a typo, it should read starterpack.

[charlottenewtons]

Good luck with the house move!

[dolorosa_12]

Thank you!

[regshoe]

Ooh, starterpack looks like an excellent resource—thanks for linking!

[dolorosa_12]

No problem! I hope it encourages more people to try Dreamwidth — I can't imagine trying to do fandom through Twitter!

[rekishi]

yay someone to do this with!

[dolorosa_12]

Hooray!

[merit]

Best of luck sorting out the technicalities - that was the bane of my existence (hello anxiety) though the actual move day turned out fairly well and one of the smoother moves in my many moves history

[dolorosa_12]

Thank you! Matthias has dealt with most of the fiddly little things (changing internet over, deregistering with the council and reregistering with the new council, utilities), and I have dealt with the bigger things (hiring removalists, booking a cleaner for our current rental property), so as long as people show up when they're supposed to, it should all go fairly smoothly.

I live in mild terror that the government will ban house moves due to the lockdown, but they have not done so in previous lockdowns, so I'm hoping that pattern will hold.

I haven't moved house for a long time, so I'm out of practice, but at 18 years old I managed my family's move from a giant four-bedroom house in Canberra to a three-bedroom flat in Sydney (my mother was at work all day so my younger sister and I had to deal with the movers, clean the old house from top to bottom, etc) and nothing could ever be as difficult as that move, so...