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Author, Beat Sabreuse, Skunks
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Recovering techie with an MFA, working on like a kajillion writing projects at once. Check out the Post-Self cycle, Restless Town, A Wildness of the Heart, ally, and a whole lot of others.
Trans/nb, queer, polyam, median, constantly overwhelmed.
Current hyperfixation: SS14
⏳ Slow Hours | 🪔 Beholden
🫴 Hold My Name | ✨ Motes
🌾 Rye | ★ What Right Have I
🌱 Dry Grass | ⚖️ True Name
🌺 May Then My Name
Icon by Mot, header by @cupsofjade
Going to be working on some Post-Self stuff (Marsh, in this case) on stream, if you would like to come chill and chat:
The main impact of Post-Self seems to be turning people into skunks and turning systems into clades.
A chapter from Toledot by Madison Scott-Clary. It's available as a paperback, ebook, or free to read in the browser!
The whole post-self cycle is amazing, and reading it changed me, but Toledot is its heart and crown jewel. It's spectacular. It's visionary, and it lays the runway for the books that come after it to soar. The book before it, Qoheleth, is also amazing, all of them are, but it can't quite give the world the breadth or the life that Toledot does. Don't just take my word for it, go read it
I have a system for books to:
a) avoid filling my relatively modest shelf space with books i never get around to reading or don't really like
b) start reading them in the first place because lol my executive function is BROKEN AS HELL
First I buy them in ebook format and read them opportunistically on a reader. Then, if I like them, I buy the physical copy to own, as a real object, in perpetuity.
I bought the entire main Post-Self quadrilogy on the strength of, mostly, Toledot alone.
Toledot has received the most varied feedback of all four books. One of my friends said "it's alright, but nothing really happens in it, does it?" Another review said that they thought the writing was competent, but that they hated shady types in black suits (which, okay, I do but think is an accurate representation, but I can at least see where they got it from). A third bemoaned the trope of there always being an 'evil' headmate in plural stories (I do not think this is fair, but also I will not dispute that this could be a reading for one of the characters, especially in retrospect).
However, my partner said that she enjoyed it, that she could tell I was thinking about how 2021 was the year all my friends died. And hearing stuff like this is really, really heartening, because it's hard not to get caught on the problems others have brought up. Thank you both for saying this <3
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