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Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
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American TV is fairly shit at anything other than shiny pretty (young) people or Tortured Old Men, it's true.
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I mean, even that time's idea of a grandmother stuck granny in a box and forgot she might have been a lawyer or a doctor or a teacher or a scholar or even the central pivot of a mutual aid network, even if she might have been technically "retired".
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It seems to me that the US has been in low-grade violent civil conflict across a number of axes for nearly three decades, all the way back to Kaczinsky (sp?). It doesn't look like the Troubles because it has more than two sides & fewer than two governments. (It's definitely intensified since 2016.)
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My mother also narrowly missed the Talbot St. bomb.
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This conversation is reminding me of the Mrs Pollifax novels by Dorothy Gilmore. Platonic Ideal Grandmother joins the CIA, becomes international woman of mystery.
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Sort of fossilised somewhere circa 1992. Or 1982.
(Not recalling, of course, that the Platonic Ideal Grandmother might well be a champion swimmer and a notorious cardsharp among her actual peers. That side is and was invisible, once you put her in the box marked Granny.)
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The Platonic Ideal of the grandmother. With the perm, and the scent of clove oil and mothballs, and the musty-smelling handbag, and the knitting.
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Good luck and grace attend you.
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Also, if you have had a competent supervisor, you wouldn't be here right now if they were worried you'd be turned back at the final hurdle. This is a formality. A big one! Critically important to proving the work is your own, and that you have command of it. But largely a formality.
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It was the advice my supervisor gave me, more or less. Helped me not to freak out too badly.
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Has the reviewer met many grandparents, one wishes to ask.
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Another very excellent piece of work.
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I guess what I was trying to short-hand is that she's properly grown up, in the "stable career and seeing children she's cared for leave the nest" stage of life and not in the physical decline part. So somewhere in the middle?
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Middle age is a really long span right now. Over 30 is "proper grown up" and 60 is "not old yet" at least in our society. (30 years of youth, 30 years of middle age, 30 years of aged?) I read her as "about my age" (38, still just about) but, I mean.
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SECOND BOOK SOON!
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You write middle-aged protagonists in the most compelling fashion.
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(Mostly racist? I'm so fucking sick of racist bullshit. It's a bloody metastasising cancer, the maggot in the meat of all of our communities.)
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If you'd like more practice, I think I can probably provide some more praise for The Witch Roads. :D
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In that case, congratulations on not arguing with praise! :P
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You've no call thanking me for the truth!
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It's a discussion of your work with people whose job was to read it and think about it, carefully, critically, and thoroughly. There is no other time in your life when this is guaranteed. So enjoy at least that aspect.
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Forget about rough and smooth breathing marks: it's hard to tell them apart and if there's an accent there, it's impossible. Do not recommend.
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Font is tiny and reminiscent of Courier (though narrower). Line spacing is inconsistent. In many sections of the facing notes font size is inconsistent from one line to another. The type is at times almost blurry: either so small or so unclear that it is hard to tell diacriticals apart.
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Congratulations! I'm delighted for you all!
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Maybe it's Warrior Nun.
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I cannot think of many examples, still, but perhaps there are more than there used to be. (Perhaps it is that nuns are less sacred and less "awe-ful" - if you'll excuse the pun - than they used to be. Perhaps it is another way that SFF tends to alienate the aesthetics of religion from religiosity.)
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the university as an accessory to predation if not as a predator itself, an indifferent machine that grinds up those desperate enough to take a devil's bargain in debt and crushes them if they falter even for an instant?
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Not Catullus yet?
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Yell about how you can't win and you've talked yourself right out of any action at all.
It bothers me, this reaction. This nihilism.
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It always puzzles me: you (the general you) don't think you can win. So you don't fight. But what are you saving your effort for? If you don't fight, you can't win. If you fight, even if you don't triumph outright, you can *lose less badly*. Force a negotiated settlement. Preserve some ground.
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It's a really great book.