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jenettSeveral years ago, I ran a series of weekly salon posts, where I'd post a topic to get us started, people would show up in the comments, and conversation would ensue. Now seems a good time to try them again!
(You should not feel restrained to keep on this topic! Start other topics! Encourage topic drift! That's part of the point. Feel free to ask random questions, there's a chance someone might know about the thing.)
What are you learning right now that you're really interested by? (That might be a project for work, for personal stuff, a gaming geekery thing, a book you're reading, a podcast you're listening to, the fact you're learning a lot about Dreamwidth and how it works this week, or anything else.)
What do you like about it? What are you finding more challenging?
I'm currently reading Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones, which is well-researched and has a really interesting structure where he's looking at different pieces of it through small slices (individual people, towns, situations) and tracing back to the origins as much as possible. I really like books where the information part is well done, but the structure creates connections between pieces of information in helpful and new ways.
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If this works this week, I'll do an updated FAQ and continue.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
(You should not feel restrained to keep on this topic! Start other topics! Encourage topic drift! That's part of the point. Feel free to ask random questions, there's a chance someone might know about the thing.)
This week's question
What are you learning right now that you're really interested by? (That might be a project for work, for personal stuff, a gaming geekery thing, a book you're reading, a podcast you're listening to, the fact you're learning a lot about Dreamwidth and how it works this week, or anything else.)
What do you like about it? What are you finding more challenging?
Things currently contemplating
I'm currently reading Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones, which is well-researched and has a really interesting structure where he's looking at different pieces of it through small slices (individual people, towns, situations) and tracing back to the origins as much as possible. I really like books where the information part is well done, but the structure creates connections between pieces of information in helpful and new ways.
Notes:
* Consider this a conversation in my living room, only with a lot more seating. I reserve the right to redirect, screen, and otherwise moderate stuff, but would vastly prefer not to have to.
* If this works this week, I'll do an updated FAQ and continue.
* If you don't have a DW account or want to post anonymously, please include a name we can call you in this particular post. (You can say AnonymousOne or your favourite colour or whatever. Just something to help keep conversations clear.)
* If you've got a question or concern, feel free to PM me.
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i love this icon for such things.
Date: 2017-04-12 05:40 pm (UTC)Tor.com is doing an H.P. Lovecraft Re-Read, which they describe as 'two modern Mythos writers get girl cooties all over old Howard’s original stories'. They acknowledge a lot of the crappy bits and enjoy the good bits (the dude had a way of making the back of your neck crawl). I have found that some of it helps? They aren't glossing over his bad bits.
(And there's an ebook available of all the actual written stuff if you want to read some of it as well without actually buying it. Legal, even.)
Re: i love this icon for such things.
Date: 2017-04-12 05:57 pm (UTC)I'll check out both the Player's Guide (I have to fsmliarise myself with the new books I might need anyway). and the Re-Read. Thanks for pointing them out.
Re: i love this icon for such things.
Date: 2017-04-12 06:09 pm (UTC)Re: i love this icon for such things.
Date: 2017-04-12 06:14 pm (UTC)Right now, I am trying to get a better grasp of Rovagug and I am hoping the Mythos research will help with that... Care to trade headcanons and mixing techniques?
Re: i love this icon for such things.
Date: 2017-04-12 07:58 pm (UTC)Also, there's a good recent podcast on Lovecraft from Stuff You Missed In History Class (done at their show recorded at Salt Lake City Comicon: it aired a couple of weeks ago) I liked a lot for context.
I am also holding off on reading Ruthanna Emrys's Winter Tide until this weekend when I can stay up reading, but only barely.
Re: i love this icon for such things.
Date: 2017-04-12 08:16 pm (UTC)If you want the entire collection of his original stuff, here's an ebook of it - epub and mobi.