OTW and other things
Sunday, 18 June 2023 20:33Man, the OTW stuff is really just like, a fractal constellation of awful, huh? On multiple sides and levels, honestly. ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
niqaeli made the very apt metaphor the other day that OTW is like the Centralia coal fire - it's been burning for a long time even when it's not visible on the surface, and generally making the place miserable.
(I've seen people say they feel betrayed by these revelations, but I've been vaguely aware of organizational dysfunction for nearly as long as the OTW has been active, which is why I don't give them money, lol)
I have mostly been taking time to work on other things in the midst of this - working on my basement reno, getting Lolibrary set up for translation, working on some little personal projects, and getting a bunch of Dreamwidth work done which hopefully will go live Soon. And I've ended up with friends-plans the last three weekends - two weeks ago I went to Six Flags for the first time, last weekend was Pride, and today a friend had a little backyard brunch because she wanted to see people after finally coming out of the haze of the first month of New Baby.
Also been reading a bunch of books! Last finished was New Suns 2, which had a lot of really fantastic stories in it - I'm going to have to check out longer works by some of these authors in the future. I'm now back to slogging my way through Stendhal's The Red and the Black which I am... largely not enjoying, but I'm bad at abandoning books midway through, and there's enough little gems to keep me going. Next will probably be back to some modern SFF though I haven't decided what yet.
niqaeli made the very apt metaphor the other day that OTW is like the Centralia coal fire - it's been burning for a long time even when it's not visible on the surface, and generally making the place miserable.(I've seen people say they feel betrayed by these revelations, but I've been vaguely aware of organizational dysfunction for nearly as long as the OTW has been active, which is why I don't give them money, lol)
I have mostly been taking time to work on other things in the midst of this - working on my basement reno, getting Lolibrary set up for translation, working on some little personal projects, and getting a bunch of Dreamwidth work done which hopefully will go live Soon. And I've ended up with friends-plans the last three weekends - two weeks ago I went to Six Flags for the first time, last weekend was Pride, and today a friend had a little backyard brunch because she wanted to see people after finally coming out of the haze of the first month of New Baby.
Also been reading a bunch of books! Last finished was New Suns 2, which had a lot of really fantastic stories in it - I'm going to have to check out longer works by some of these authors in the future. I'm now back to slogging my way through Stendhal's The Red and the Black which I am... largely not enjoying, but I'm bad at abandoning books midway through, and there's enough little gems to keep me going. Next will probably be back to some modern SFF though I haven't decided what yet.
