I really like A Conspiracy of Truths and A Choir of Lies

And having spent another a Saturday mostly lazing around reading, finished The Angel of the Crows and it's very good. Addison says in her Author's Note that it started as Sherlock wingfic abd I'm glad she said so because I was certainly picturing Cumberbatch the whole time.

Or as someone on another forum put it: poly drama with an overlay of power & manipulation.

I have to admit, it read like every poly drama I have witnessed, down to the manipulation. The only extra thing was the power differential because they're all in the same industry .

And it is interesting how much public attention is on Bear instead of Lynch...

This is where I'm at - I'm a fan of Lynch's work (or, well, probably past tense now) but watching this play out in public it's been really uncomfortable watching everyone take sides for or against each woman involved while he gets to stand on the sidelines being performatively apologetic while not admitting to actually having done anything wrong.

yup.

I've been weighing whether I should say something in this thread or not (I'm aware I have big mid-sized stompy feet and friends involved) - but I posted some general threads today too about abuse. A lot of the things happening feel really uncomfortably similar to a previous iteration that took place here / in the literary world, and I'm dealing with a lot of feelings about that as well. Plus I'm watching the Myke Cole/Sam Sykes and others discussion get absolutely forked because of what feels like someone getting (and I am certain this is true) very hurt and then putting up a lot of messy relationship laundry in the middle of the other discussion. Which was and is a conversation that needs to continue. (I don't know where I'm going with this. Just frustrated on a universal and cellular level.)

ETA (the third or fourth now) - what Atropa said, and Jess also. And Dana.

hippocampus, that seems to be the take of the other people whose opinions I trust as well.

hippocampus, that seems to be the take of the other people whose opinions I trust as well.

Same.

in the middle of the other discussion. Which was and is a conversation that needs to continue.

OOf, yeah. It absolutely needs to continue, but much like the things I'm watching go down in the gaming industry version of this, I'm not entirely convinced the culture will change the way it needs.

I recently read an e-book, "Just One Damn Thing After Another", in which historians time-travel back to observe events in real time. It was quite entertaining. I was pulled in by the line, "Exactly how far can you fling a dead cow?" (determining the range of a trebuchet). It struck me as a very Buffista book.

Just One Damn Thing After Another

I think Suela was the one who recommended that series to me a few years ago, so yes, a very Buffista book!