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ottsatwork

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Comix, cats, gay stuff. Black Lives Matter. Bahamian + Filipino living in Seattle 🇧🇸 🇵🇭 If you’re an artist, weirdo, or horny, I’ll probably boost you.

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It was a dream to work at Wizards of the Coast when I first moved to . And I wasn’t even hardcore into Magic … beyond buying a bunch of cards on eBay. I applied for so many jobs but never got an interview. Great interview with Richard Garfield.

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Switzerland's Nemo wins the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing their nongender identity. Read more from the AP, including how the audience responded to Eden Golan, the Israeli singer who spent the week under tight security in Malmö. https://flip.it/3Z-pjc

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@CultureDesk Dang, put it behind a spoiler warning. 😡

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Curious about all the purples in the . I tend to think of greens and yellows, but what do I know? Any idea for the color shift?

ottsatwork,
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Thanks for all the replies on the purples in the . Re-posting this graphic with ALT text. Shout-out to nitrogen.

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@gairdeachas Just found out that there’s more books in this world. Gotta finish The Craft Sequence first.

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Book 11: “A Trick of the Light” by .

This mystery series is starting to feel predictable, which can be a comfort and largely why I read one every winter. But I’m tired of the bitchy exchanges with Ruth (they’re not even funny or endearing), the constant need to refer to Myrna by her size and Blackness … The addiction angle in this one was shallow, but at least there’s developments with Jean-Guy, Clara, and Peter.

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Oof, people really beat up on me at work today. 🤕

ottsatwork,
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@matthewconroy Thanks. Having to put up with this comes with the promotion, I guess. And people having no empathy, lots of hurry-up-and-wait, etc.

ottsatwork, to random
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Unexpectedly, we will be hosting 5 parakeets for the next month. Our friend lets them out of their cage during the day but said it’s not required if we can’t do it (he strongly hinted he preferred it though). They’ll be confined to my office, but I have posters, paper art and projects all,over the place—are they gonna fuck with it? Tear it up? Anybody know what they’re like?

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What do you call that stupid feature on a smart phone camera where it decides which photo you actually meant to take when you take a picture of something in motion?

ottsatwork,
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@MLE_online I think those are Burst Shots or Burst Mode?

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1pm and 2pm

Missed the bus and drama at work. “They were so cute.”

A Black woman with dreads and glasses is at my desk asking: “Can you re-print more posters? A couple of little old ladies stole ours.”

ottsatwork, to Seattle
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7am

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Well, I’m moisturized and medicated, full of pastry from the Belgian bakery next door, and nothing planned all day except reading, napping, and more pastry before the next performance tonight.

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Book 1: “The Famous Magician” by .

Originally written in 2013, this meta novella asks the author to choose between Magic and Literature. Are the two, in fact, the same? Or is Magic a transcendence of Literature? A quick, fun read that’s sitting with me the more I turn it over in my head.

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Book 2: “Burma Chronicles” by .

This one felt different from Delisle’s other work: more episodic, more editorial commentary, more dad jokes. I didn’t like those bits as much, but as ever, his drawing is wonderful. A little comics journalism and memoir gives us his particular experience in this country where his wife is in Medecins Sans Frontieres. The silent stretches were often my fave, as well as the Water Festival and Buddhist retreat.

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Two maps, the first is a world map with a highlighted area. Text: Myanmar. Official name since 1989, adopted by the U.N. The second map is a close-up of Myanmar, showing its location between Bangladesh to the east and China, Laos, and Thailand to the west. Text: Burma. Former name, still used by countries that do not accept the legitimacy of the government that took power in 1989. Such as France, Australia and the U.S.
Guy peeks out from his gate. Panel 1 narration: “Day 4. I’d be happy to stay home and dry today, but I need to go to the M.S.F. office to see if their internet is working.” Panel 2: “Mine is down and I’m expecting an important email.” On his bike, an arrow indicates Guy’s path around the splash zone of a man waiting to throw a bucket of water on him. Several silent panels show him dodging more water tossers but arriving soaked at the MSF offices anyway. He sits at a computer, soaked and annoyed, then peeks out from the MSF gate before dashing home on his bike, missing all of the people ready to douse him. Before he can get inside his gate, he looks down at an old woman holding a bowl of water and smiling. Hunched over, he turns around and lets her pour it down his back.
Guy walks blearily inside a Buddhist temple with his head down. Panel 1 narration: My first day comes to an end. It’s 9 p.m., I’m tired enough to go to sleep. Panel 2: an analog alarm on the floor. Narration: The alarm rings at 3 a.m. The second day begins. Silent panels depict Guy sleepily following a robed monk with a shaved head down a hallway, crescent moon above. Inside a large, open-spaced meditation room, people sit cross-legged on mats under individual mosquito nets. A statue of Buddha is at the front, lit halo around his head. Guy sets up his mat and net and sits amongst the others.

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Book 3: “Lost in the Moment and Found” by .

The Author’s Note broke my heart. I’m finding it difficult now to talk about this book and what it reveals about this series and the world(s) McGuire’s created.

I always loved that this series was fantasy with an edge. But the realization of the cost of all that wonder, for both the characters and us readers, cuts deeper this time. Book 8 and my favorite of The Wayward Children series.

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Book 4: “Eastbound” by .

I read the Archipelago edition which was very pleasing to hold and touch. Its physicality really influenced my good opinion. A simple story contained inside a small book, set on the cramped spaces of a train on the Trans-Siberian railway.

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Book 5: “Early Light” by .

Three short stories, all featuring a drunk, somewhat useless man. I liked the second and third, about a writer’s ambivalence towards Mt. Fuji and a woman who ends up happily working at a bar to get away from her broke, no-good husband, respectively.

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Book 6: “System Collapse” by .

It’s been long enough between books that I looked up a recap of where we last left Murberbot. Glad I did, because then I was able to just enjoy this one. It’s more of the same, which is what it’s felt like for a while with Murderbot, but that’s OK! Very incremental character development on their part, but the character is interesting enough that I’m happy to spend more time with them.

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Book 7: “The Road to the City” by .

Such histrionics! " ‘You're playing at being sick. I'm the one who is going to get sick, working as I do morning and night, busting my arms for you all. When I pick up my plate I can't even eat I'm so tired. And you enjoy watching me die.’ ” Or,

" ‘Are you in such a hurry to see me die? I'll live to ninety just to spite you,’ shouted my aunt, hitting her on the head with her rosary.” 👀🍿 Cackling.

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Book 8: “The Tusks of Extinction” by .

“The Mountain in the Sea” was my favorite novel of 2023, so I jumped on this. A novella this time—of course I wanted more. Still, Nayler is able to tell a compelling story involving animals, technology, and humanity’s immense capacity for destruction and cruelty. For all the book’s brevity, or maybe because of it, the betrayals are deeper between these characters. The ending is not without hope though.

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Book 9: “What We See When We Read” by .

Girl, look: I have an MA in literature. I did not plod through tons of literary theory including French deconstructionists—who here understands Derrida? La ferme! Stop your lying!—for some book jacket illustrator to repackage reader-response criticism and tell me it’s new … Oh! Look at all the pretty pictures!

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Book 10: “In the Act” by .

The tiny annoyances that accumulate in a marriage erupt into a delightful what’s-good-for-the-goose-is-good-for-the-gander story. Wonderfully petty. A quick read that could easily work on stage, as a Black Mirror episode, or a movie. Eat it up. I need to look up more of Ingalls’ work.

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Book 11: “A Trick of the Light” by .

This mystery series is starting to feel predictable, which can be a comfort and largely why I read one every winter. But I’m tired of the bitchy exchanges with Ruth (they’re not even funny or endearing), the constant need to refer to Myrna by her size and Blackness … The addiction angle in this one was shallow, but at least there’s developments with Jean-Guy, Clara, and Peter.

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Book 12: “We Could Be Heroes” by .

This just made me sad. Sad that I fell for yet another poorly written superhero story. The premise is so good! A hero and a villain with amnesia run into each other at a support group and decide to help each other. But all the tension and unexpected places this could’ve gone are wasted almost at the start. I skimmed the final battle. Not even worth commenting on the problematic “inclusion” of gayness. 🙄

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