Bookstores should group fantasy with horror instead of scifi. Both fantasy and horror are purely creations of the author's mind; scifi is tethered to factual information.
If you need to group scifi, I'd put it with mysteries and thrillers.
@Uair@benetnasch@bookstodon I think it depends on the amount of world building for the story. If it’s just a story about a haunted house then not so much, but if that house then contains a parallel universe in which a child gets to confront her fears and question her place in the world as in a book like Coraline, then totally different thing to write.
Genres are there as shortcuts for readers but it doesn’t mean that the worlds can’t be original and challenge the tropes of that genre. Instead of having a rickety old haunted house maybe it’s a brand new apartment block in a city. Also doesn’t mean the characters can’t question the structure of society or experience complicated emotions. I think the key here it’s to convey a story as clearly and as simply as possible and that can be hard in any genre.
@Cat_LeFey 😄 I have the same problem with acorns. It’s lovely when you reach your hands into a pocket of a jacket and you find one that you forgot was there.
Woke up with a fever, so my Beltane celebrations will be subdued, oh well. I am still absolutely giddy at seeing the little baby leaves erupt from the trees and the daffodils in their full glory.
Wishing a blessed #Beltane to all my fellow Pagans conjuring summer in!
So @ahermitforhire told me about his relatives in years past having coke and corn nuts. So I thought I’d give it a whirl. Honestly, I really like it! #food
Took a walk down to the lake as part of my Full Moon activities, and I interrupted some deer having a drink. They stayed close and I got to watch them for a bit. Feels like a blessing.
@Firlefanz I log the dates I write and what type of writing it was. Then I give myself a sticker. It really helps keep the doubt monsters away, helps encourage me to keep trying and is an awesome excuse to collect stickers :blobcatwinkanimated:
@SpiritBearDreaming Thank you for sharing! I love things like that. I was riding a hairy Highland pony onetime and we were coming around a large hillock in the middle of an open area. We decided to canter (normally pretty laid back) but this time all the horses had a bounce to their stride. Off to one side of us a herd of red deer came bounding down the hill with two stags clearing a fence to get next to the ponies. We were galloping now and for a second or two the deer were running across our path. Happily no accidents, they were too fast to get close but wow the feeling!
As someone who loves cooking Japanese food it's sad that I struggle so much to find shiso and mitsuba. Probably if I ventured into Vancouver or Richmond it would be easier, but the Asian shops here are not super well-stocked.
After having such amazing success with leca and my monsteras and pothos I'm thinking maybe I can just grow my own? I don't need huge amounts, so a smol little pot would likely do just fine.
Ordered some seeds off a gent on Salt Spring Island!
@MsHearthWitch Shiso is an awesome plant. The kind I had, grew beautiful dark red leaves and it has little flowers at the end of the season. It pretty much looks after itself. I intended it to be a small clump, it ended up a small bush. Made some shiso juice which was lovely with fizzy water.
So tomorrow, before April 1st, before Mercury retrograde, the love-mates and I are going to clean our Altar and set it up in preparation for Mercury retrograde. We figure doing it as a team would be the most effective and we can choose what stays up there and what gets put away, and cleaning everything together will give it good juju. I think it is a really important step just before such a monumentous retrograde. We picked up fresh candles fresh waxes and scents even got new journals to do Shadow work in. We're going to do our best to make this retrograde be as painless as possible.
In other news,
Our lives are so busy that Woody and I did not realize that this past Wednesday was our 19th year anniversary. We were aware of it coming up back in February, but then life just gets so busy and it went right past us. We're both really hoping that next year we don't sleep through our 20th anniversary.
19 years is pretty impressive. A lot of people don't get this far. Or if they do they're not doing it happily. We've been together 19 years and we still love each other, and respect each other, and appreciate each other, and are so grateful to have one another in each other's lives it's crazy. It's been a wild ride absolutely unpredictable and worth every moment.
Omg, I have an interview tomorrow late afternoon for a job at a therapy horse barn and I am unreasonably excited about it. It would be such a good fit and I think I could do the job really well!!
@westerling@MsHearthWitch Ooh! Happy Birthday to you both! That’s so cool. I love when things like that happen. In my buddy group at college at least 3 of us had birthdays days apart it was weird but awesome.