Oh hey, I made in through 2022.


The cat remains terminally cute.



See? Terminally cute. No cure.


Storygraph tells me I finished 31 books this year, which includes comics and fiction in French and English and non-fiction in English only. I think I'd like to read at least one non-fiction book in French in 2023. Read more in French in general. I'm curious to see if my thoughts about written in French SFF vs written in English SFF hold true with a larger sample size. I'd like to read more than than one book not written originally in French or English, too.

There was only one book this year I disliked to the point that I'd happily call it the worst book I read this year: the French translation of Agustina Bazterrica's Cadáver exquisito (French title: Cadavre Exquis; English title: Tender is the Flesh). I had been told I'd be getting insightful societal commentary with body horror; I got teenage vegan edgelordy mysogynistic boringness. I wish I knew what other people saw in it.

There was only one other book I'd willingly put on a "worst books" list, but I since I don't want to do such a list and all the other books would only be there by default and undeservedly, I'm not going to.

Have a bunch of "Best Books" instead.

Best Fiction (English): Vespertine, by Margaret Rogerson. Hands down, no context. It's been a while since I read a book in one sitting and I'm currently ~60% of the way into a reread. This book is "Joan of Arc meets Venom". My favourite bbok I read this year, no questions.

( BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS: fiction, comics, non-fiction )

Anyway, if anyone wants more details on any of them please ask. There are a few I want to talk more about, but not now, and I might forget (memory whomst).


I gave blood twice (anemia ;_;) and co-ran sunflower_auction with yuuago (which, sadly, will need to run again this year and I hope I'm in health enough to do so). I mentionned these two things to my therapist as objectively good things I had done and she said she was happy for/proud of me for recognising that because I couldn't/wouldn't have done so when I started seeing her. Turns out is in fact both possible to achieve and reasonable to want a good grade in therapy!


Also schneefink stayed at my place for a bit and dealt me a grievous emotional blow by subjecting be to the last 10 episodes of The Magnus Archives s4 it was very nice.

(I am very happy Ukraine won. And that's all I have to say for now.)

I did not expect to crash like I have since Thursday night, but alas I crashed HARD.

I pened the bidding forms and finished formatting the data for the entries then posted the entries on sunflower_auction (yay automatisation, it would have taken so much longer without the scripts I coded earlier -- will code more stuff later for later parts of the process) then went back and spent 10 minutes looking at "sherlock homes" trying to figure out what was wrong with that tag did more tag clean up. (Btw it turns out you cannot include "&" in either title or tags via the xml api) And then I went to bed. I had forgotten to do a bunch of stuff, like the goddan idiot that i am. yuuago deserves so much more thanks than I can give for handling everything like a champ.

On Friday, I was 20mn late to my first health appointment of the day. (I have seen three doctors in as many specialties in as many weeks -- and that's without counting the blood draw and the xray i still have to do) Things at work are Not Great. I guess all of this (plus some other stuff) is why, despite doing nothing but sleep on everyday I've had off work since, I'm still Tired. Urgh. I'm so tired of being tired.

Took a paracetamol this morning. look at me, getting over my ~Trauma of that time the doctor didn't weigh me and prescribe too big a dose and I ended up on my way to a progressive paracetamol overdose woop woop

Yeah, so huh, that was my weekend. Not as bad as my dear friend Jonathan Harker's, at least?

This is the google appscript to auto publish DW posts based on data from an auction spreadsheet. Hopefully it's as user friendly as possible. It requires: copy-pasting the below code into the appropriate Google sheet's appscrit editor ("Extensions" > "Appscript"), inputting the relevant URL/username/password, running the "makeData()" function (approving the script), editing the data generated and then running the "makePosts()" function.

"makeData()" makes title, post content (including links to auto-generated bidding form and answers sheet) and tag list. "makePosts()" then creates the post and add a link to said to the reference sheet.

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( my l33t code skillz let me show u them )

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I should probably do a better instruction guide with pictures and things, but rn i am tired. idk, thought it might be of interest to some people. Any feedback welcome!

Things I have done today: Swam 1600m. It has been so long since I last swimmed.

I have also used my l33t skillz at coding to create 2 pieces of code that, together, will greatly simplify the life of any auction mods using them. It generates: entry title, taglist and html DW post content for each line in a spreadsheet with the form answers. (This may need some manual cleanup, eg if someone typoed their fandom). Posting all individual offer posts (to get something like this) now takes minutes once aorementionned data is cleaned up, because I'm calling the XML API's postevent method. I'm so happy? I made a thing! It works! It's going to be useful!

I don't currently have time to make instructions understandable to people who don't know code before I leave to visit family over the Easter weekend, but I will after.

I was watching a documentary about Volodymyr Zelensky, and it referred to him as a "saltimbanque" ("entertainer/comedian (very pejorative)" -- it can also mean someone useless/worthless) and I got Mad, because Art is important, dammit and comedy is Art, dammit.

And apparently that was the push I needed to seriously start brainstorming the pro-Ukraine/anti-war fannish fundraiser I mentioned last post.

Here's what I think I need, please let me konw if I forgot anything:

• One (or more) charity to support (any from https://www.standwithukraine.how/?)


• People bidding


• A way to track bidding


• People offering stuff to bid on


• A way to track offers


• A space to run it


• An email account


• A schedule (one week each for setup/offers/viewing/bidding?)


• Rules?


• A co-mod???


• Places to advertise?????