#the salt book

[utilitycaster]

I should note, I hate the soulmates "we would fall in love in every universe" trope for the aforementioned "where's the tension and interest and really anything worthwhile" reasons. However, "we would find each other in every universe" fucking rips. We would interact meaningfully in every universe but sometimes we are lovers and sometimes we are friends and sometimes we are bitter enemies and sometimes we'd simply both be in the same HOA.

#for more on this see: the years of rice and salt #yet another of the books that did not survive the crossing (is possibly in my parents' basement)

[tiffanyachings]

it would have been very beautiful. camilla would have had to cook (horrible bone soup)

#HELLO back at it again #tug introduced groundbreaking new findings about soul permeability but my mind bypassed all that in favour of this au #the division of labour is as follows: #dulcie reads the instructions; snacks; and changes the radio station every time she doesn’t like a song #if you complain she will remind you she's literally dying. life is too short and mediocre songs are too long #pal gets stuff from high shelves and battles his constantly fogged up glasses #he tried to help with prep once and promptly got himself banned from using knives for the rest of his life #cam does 98% of the actual cooking #trivia section - #you can tell i am new to this because i arranged them in the wrong speaking order. let’s all practice our right to left reading #cam has a silly novelty apron because a) the idea was unbearably funny to me and b) i need to spread the gospel (aroace cam) #the cookbooks next to dulcie are ‘a few teaspoons of salt’ (by ianthe tridentarius) #and ‘saintly feasts: food for saints and scholars’ which is a real book! though not written by cassiopeia the first #* #dulcie septimus #dulcinea septimus #camilla hect #palamedes sextus #the locked tomb #field sketches #<< i get to have an art tag now!

[onedivinemisfit]

Seeing Cavill’s departure it’s like. Yeah. This is what happens when you bring the dedicated weeb on set, then fool yourself into thinking he will sit there all obedient like a Good Boi as you mangle canon to fuck and back.

#the witcher #henry cavill #no wonder he’d jump ship in the end #season one was passably changed #then we fucking went off the rails in s2 #i stan his decision #this is the only salt i will allow myself #i’ve been politely shutting my mouth about twn for two years lol #bc i know what us book fans get called #but see #cavill’s one of us mwahahahaha

[fullcravings]

Salted Butterbeer Cookies with Butterscotch Frosting

#salted #butterbeer #cookies #butterscotch #frosting #harry potter #film inspired #book inspired #recipe #butterscotch chip #caramel #brown sugar #cream cheese #halloween #kids #creative #bluebowlrecipes

[your-local-lucifer]

So I read "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson and I

#spoilers #THR FUCK DO YOU MEAN THE ORIFINAL SALT WAS IMPURE???? #GFHRHRRGRGGEGEGEGEGRHRHEHHRHRHRHHRRHHEGEEHRH #ALSO THIS JS WAY BETTER AND MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE WAY POP CULTURE HAS INTERPRETED IT I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE #WHENB JEKYLL WOKE UP AS HYDE TOWARDS THE END I OUT LOUD WENT “oooh...” YES I LIVE FOR THE BODY HORROR OUTSIDE OF GORE #dude i dint even get to post much about my last fixation #ill probably post the art of my ocs and then im going to hydepost everywhere #jekyll and hyde #henry jekyll #edward hyde #gothic horror #book #books #photopost #lucifers wrath #lucifers gluttony #you will be hear much much more about this though... #...mark my words #:) #j&h #lucifers inferno

[toothbrushfingers]

personally i like this more than what we got in httyd 3

what could have been 😔

#httyd #how to train your dragon #httyd fandom #httyd movies #hiccup haddock #hiccup #hiccup horrendous haddock lll #httyd 3 #httyd thw #thw #thw salt #the hidden world #concept art #httyd art book

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Come see me on tour!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

My next novel is The Bezzle, a high-tech ice-cold revenge thriller starring Marty Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant, as he takes on the sleaziest scams of the first two decades of the 2000s, from hamburger-themed Ponzis to the unbelievably sleazy and evil prison-tech industry:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

I'm taking Marty on the road! I'll be visiting eighteen cities between now and June, and I hope you'll come out and say hello, visit a beloved local bookseller, and maybe get a book (or two)!

21 Feb: Weller Bookworks, Salt Lake City, 1830h: https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/store-cory-doctorow-feb-21-630-pm

22 Feb: Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, 19h: https://www.mystgalaxy.com/22224Doctorow

24 Feb: Vroman's, Pasadena, 17h, with Adam Conover (!!) https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Cory-Doctorow-discusses-The-Bezzle

26 Feb: Third Place Books, Seattle, 19h, with Neal Stephenson (!!!) https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/event/cory-doctorow

27 Feb: Powell's, Portland, 19h: https://www.powells.com/book/the-bezzle-martin-hench-2-9781250865878/1-2

29 Feb: Changing Hands, Phoenix, 1830h: https://www.changinghands.com/event/february2024/cory-doctorow

9-10 Mar: Tucson Festival of the Book: https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?action=display_author&id=15669

13 Mar: San Francisco Public Library: https://sfpl.org/events/2024/03/13/author-cory-doctrow-bezzle

22 Mar: Toronto: Wendy Michener Memorial Lecture: https://events.yorku.ca/events/wendy-michener-memorial-lecture2024/

24 Mar: NYC: Word Books (with Laura Poitras): https://shop.wordbookstores.com/event/word-presents-cory-doctorow

29-31 Mar: Wondercon Anaheim: https://www.comic-con.org/wc/

11 Apr: Harvard Berkman-Klein Center (with Randall Munroe) https://cyber.harvard.edu/events/enshittification

12 Apr: RISD Debates in AI, Providence, details coming soon!

17 Apr: Anderson's Books, Chicago, 19h: https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1

19-21 Apr: Torino Biennale Tecnologia https://www.turismotorino.org/en/experiences/events/biennale-tecnologia

2 May, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Winnipeg https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337

5-11 May: Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/

6-9 Jun: Media Ecology Association keynote, Amherst, NY https://media-ecology.org/convention

Calgary and Vancouver – details coming soon!

#LA #San Francisco #Seattle #Vancouver #Calgary #Phoenix #Portland #Providence #Boston #New York City #Toronto #San Diego #Salt Lake City #Tucson #Chicago #Amherst #Torino #Tartu #events #the bezzle #books #book tour #meatspace #pluralistic

[bb-8]

okay so I've read If We Were Villains, These Violent Delights (gay), Summer Sons, In Memoriam, The Wicker King, The Secret History, As Meat Loves Salt, and The Dove in the Belly... now what? where do I find my homoeroticism and co-dependent gays?

#please someone give me a rec #books #the secret history #if we were villains #these violent delights (gay) #as meat loves salt #summer sons #in memoriam #iwwv #tsh #datvd #lgbt books #book recs

[aclue-aclue]

Blue's Alphabet Book for gameboy color

#Steve #Blue #Blue's Alphabet Book #baby bear #mr salt and mrs pepper #Shovel and Pail #Sidetable Drawer #Gifs #Gifset #Moodboard #Blue's Clues Game #Gameboy #slipery soap #gameboy color

[freckles-and-books]

These are three of my favorites reads this year, and they all feel like they’re in conversation with each other. Each deals with fairytales in ways that go beyond mere retellings, and each one has stunning prose that really made me fall in love.

#books #fairytale retelling #juniper and thorn #ava reid #the last tale of the flower bride #roshani chokshi #the salt grows heavy #cassandra khaw

[bluedietcoke]

books i would sell my soul to read again for the first time:

the way i used to be - amber smith

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid

house of salt and sorrows - erin a craig

if he had been with me - laura nowlin

these violent delights - chloe gong

dance of thieves - mary e. pearson

the silent patient - alex michaelides

caraval - stephanie garber

all the light we cannot see - anthony doerr

#books i would sell my soul to read again #ya fantasy #ya romance #book recommendations #the way i used to be #the seven husbands of evelyn hugo #evelyn and celia #house of salt and sorrows #if he had been with me #these violent delights #chloe gong #roma montagov #juliette cai #dance of thieves #jase ballenger #kazi #the silent patient #caraval #caraval series #scarlett dragna #all the light we cannot see #sad books #booktok #books #enemies to lovers

[99percentprocrastination]

#all my homies love tor dot com novellas #tordotcom #a psalm for the wild built #a spindle splintered #the haunting of tram car 015 #silver in the wood #untethered sky #binti #fireheart tiger #the past is red #upright women wanted #the ballad of black tom #spear #the empress of salt and fortune #all of these books I've read and recommend btw... though I'm sure there are more I'm forgetting #mp

[ride-a-dromedary]

Since you know like 10000000x more about the elven language than me, what are your thoughts about the meaning of the name Halsin?

I like this question, because based in interpretation*, the name does suit him! We're going to use what we have access to in DnD elvish, as Tolkien elvish is a different language entirely and they don't have much overlap.

We'll have to break his name into pieces, and that can be done a variety of different ways, depends what you choose to do. I figured easiest ways are: Hal - sin

Very cut and dry.

or

Ha - l - sin

With the "l" being an adjoining tonal letter. In both cases, "sin" would likely be broken up into a combination of "sy"or "syy" + "-in"

Now the meaning of the pieces:

Hal/Hol: "pale, weak" OR "precious" (Side note: Astarion's "The Pale Elf" might be said "Hal'kesir/quessir" - very close to "Tel'quessir")

Ha: "free, freedom"

Sy: "wild"

Suffix -in: "brother, sister, sibling"

So, directly, it could mean:

Hal-sin = "Pale/weak or precious wild brother"

OR

Ha-l-syin = "Free wild brother" (Which I would phrase more like "Brother of the free wild" or just "Brother of the wilds")

I am inclined to lean towards the latter definition/meaning, as I believe it suits him very well, and aligns with the relationship between him and Thaniel. Naming himself as a sibling of the free wild indicates that his relationship with nature is the forefront of his personality (nature being his very first friend), and indicates a closer connection than others might have. Judging by how Halsin speaks of his connection with Thaniel shaping who he was as a person, this may imply he's named himself after how intertwined it all is to his being. Familial familiar and inseparable.)

(It also sounds more in line of what he would name himself than the alt. - I wouldn't really assign the words "pale" or "weak" as something Halsin would name himself...

...unless he is implying, as he was most likely at the point where he was the last of his kin and the only child left, that he was the "weaker" choice of sibling to be left of their line. So "weak brother of the wild". Pales in comparison. But I feel like that's a stretch.)

FUN BONUS, in elvish, Halsin could have written his name like this:

Or like this (A variant of Espruar, the alphabet of the moon elves that was used to transcribe elvish, used around 1372 DR - since retconned. And since Halsin would have likely learned to write between 1147 DR and 1152 DR, probably not used by him, but possible he learned as he would have been around 120 by then):

*Disclaimer that DnD elvish, at its core, has had a very contradictory lexicon over the many years, and most words are drawn from 2e and 3e materials - elven also has several words for singular things, single letters that can change the meaning of a word or sentence entirely/thrown in to make a word flow better and have no meaning otherwise, and is a very tonal based language in that you could physically be saying one thing, but another elf would hear something entirely different in the intonation. Therefore, everything I write here is interpretive based on the materials we have access to, with a little extra HCing and logical assumption.

#BG3 Musing #Halsin Posting #Jemi gets asks #autistichalsin #sorry i just word vomitted #a side note: in regards to how halsin's name is pronounced #Rath (and a little Wyll) pronounces Halsin's name as “Hol-sin” which is absolutely a result of how the accent pronounces the short “a” soun #which could suggest that's an alternate way of saying it - but as Halsin pronounces his own name #with the 'a' sound i'm taking his pronunciation as how it's meant to be said #source: if you listened to anyone else about how my name is pronounced you would be pronouncing it incorrectly so tend to trust #the being named #basically dnd elvish is homebrew fuck it we ball but using the scraps we had access to in like...maybe four or five collections #and books - and how much of that is 'canon' is debatable - honestly take with a grain of salt

[jeansyvesmoreau]

Okay but. I feel like these are The two quotes that sum up six of crows as a whole. Life hasn't been fair to any of them. It doesn't owe them anything, it doesn't owe them justice, it doesn't owe them fairness. And what do they do? They carve out their own justice by going on the heist to get their money and make their own life, where they can create their own fairness. Then in crooked kingdom, when they've been run to the ground in their hometown, they make the odds turn in their favour through their own means. They've all lived a lifetime of unfairness, each in their own way. But they're here to demand fairness of it anyway, and I think that that's the core message of the duology. That if things are unfair you have to ability to make it fair. And I think that's beautiful.

#I don't want to salt on the show anymore I'm tired so I'm just going back to loving the books with my whole heart #six of crows #grishaverse #leigh bardugo #crooked kingdom #soc #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #nina zenik #matthias helvar #kanej #wesper #helnik

[brissot]

is it true that camille desmoulins said that marat was 200 years ahead of his time. if so he was right. marat should have lived in a time with ibuprofen and twitter

#my source is the mark steel comedy book which i am taking with a very large grain of salt like a himalayan salt lamp size grain #frev #marat

[nebuladreamz]

SUN BELOVED I HAVEN'T DRAWN HIM IN A HOT BIT

#nebula art and doodles #fnaf sun #fnaf sundrop #fnaf y/n #fnaf dca #fnaf daycare attendant #starlit skies #fnaf starlit skies #i just think sun having to show restraint whether because of himself or the virus is neat as fuck #fuck around and find out gamers #dca community #daycare attendant #hes so fucking dramatic even if im taking the theater thing from the books with a grain of salt #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #fnaf 9 #fnaf 9 security breach