Early morning meeting was cancelled, yay?

Read: “The Black Pages” (Nnedi Okorafor): Modernish Timbouctou, a local boy returns from abroad and gets mixed up with a djinni while the Taliban are burning libraries and shooting people. Not a lot of plot, but lots of doom.

Read: Dark Matter (Mage Hand Press): I am conflicted about this game. It’s fun to read, with laser swords, giant space amoebas, screwdrivers that make noise, saucer-flying cattle mutilators, jumpgates with mysterious maintenance crew, etc, etc, plus D&D in space, but it explicitly includes everything ever published for 5e, which is some TFOS-level nonsense, and it’s all spindled, folded, and mutilated to balance with people waving sharp sticks in caves, which makes the character options that have appealing flavor text a lot blander in practice. Plus it’s D&D, so roll a d20 every five minutes and maybe if you do it long enough, you’ll get to do something meaningful. Maybe.

Watched: Encanto. It was very sweet, and 0% romance! Could have used more capybara, though.

Words: FAIL. I’m not doing a good job of protecting my writing time.