Book meme pt 7

25: A book that you think about and you cringe because of how terrible it was
Well, most recently, Newton's Wake by Ken MacLeod, since FUNETIK AKZINT NOPENOPENOPE. Other than that, Tuija Lehtinen's Mopo (a Finnish-language nongenre YA book) was assigned to us on 7th or 8th grade, and it was terrible. It was like watching paint dry. It's slice-of-life about *quick google* 10 boys and 1 girl who own mopeds. The words are used on describing mopeds and their maintenance, and the idiotic pining that most of the boys are engaged in. Ugh.

26: Do you read from recommendations or whatever book catches your eye?
A little column A, a little column B. I also read stuff that has a fandom already, which is how I got into Vorkosigan and TGE.

27: How/where do you purchase your books?
First Amazon, then after they discontinued free shipping to Finland, Adlibris and Booky.

28: An ending you wish you could change
Well, more of a middle, but: no het for Honor Harrington. She can be ace, or she can get together with Mike Henke. (Or some other woman, but Mike preferred.)
Oh, and in the Revelation Space series, Volyova A) does not die, and B) gets together with Ana Khouri.

So I went on a nostalgia trip...

And now I'm being all entertained by my Animorphs Fan Forum days! Ah, the loads of 20something Murikan Xtians who would obsessively wank about marriage equality, abortion, and climate change, and how all those things were wrong. The mod with the Harry Potter hateboner. The Cassie hate. The Cassie Defense Squad. The time when one person set up a Tobias hate thread with a long OP dissing Tobias since he wasn't ~relateable~ enough, and the aforementioned mod set up individual hate threads for all the other animorphs, clearly patterning it all off that one thread. The Tobias stans.

And, looking at my fic there, I think the biggest improvement in my writing happened between FFN and AO3, and during my AO3 time. AFF and FFN, I wrote comic crackfic, but on AO3 I finally got the handle on how to write other things, too.

The trip was prompted by a few FFA descussions that left me desiring Visser Three/Alloran mind screw dirtybadwrong, Elfangor/Arbron either before or after Arbron got stuck as a Taxxon, and/or an AU where the Taxxons all acquire human morphs and become sentient human beings who will have sentient children, as opposed to fucking boa constrictors.