things that were cool and bad about last night’s dinner with the parents
Cool thing: They agreed to back the Myst 25 year kickstarter so I’m totally getting the linking book (with LED screen) and i’m so happy. it’s for my birthday in december but because the physical rewards will ship in november it works out. fortunately it’s my 30th and also my parents spent a lot on my siblings this year so they were willing to do that for me.
Cool thing 2: that kickstarter has community goals that non backers and backers alike can take part in to get free stuff for the community. My myst song (Oh My Sons) and haiku tweet both helped those goals be met (they’ve made 16/25 of the community goals and i’m regretting not getting my tattoo because that would have counted for one of the unmet ones)
**KICKSTARTER LINK HERE IF U WANNA CHECK IT OUT THERE’S 5 DAYS LEFT**
Cool thing 3: mum gave me more stewed apple so that i can make more apple pie. or apple crumble. or maybe that spicy choc-apple cake.
Bad thing: Mum wants to buy my poetry book
Bad thing 2: mum wants to BETA my poetry book.
this poetry book that has one or two *THIS AUTHOR IS BI* poems and an entire section called “Shifting Nightmares” which features some heavy topics (warnings will be included) and one of my favourite poems which is about an angel burning her wings to love a devil.
so i kinda wish i’d never mentioned it because its cool that she’s supportive of my book but just. i don’t think she’s going to like it. it’ll be like when i bought Dad the book about the chess match whose name currently escapes me He asked for it for a birthday I bought it for him, gave it a read first and was like HOLY SHIT, gave it to him anyway with a note in his card saying that if he wanted I would return it and buy him a different book because I didn’t think he would like it. (there was some serious sexual violence that went on in that story and while I’m used to that author being incredibly descriptively gory he gave the same level of detail to the violence in that book and it made me uncomfortable as fuck)
anyway i think i’m going to stick to my plan of eventually asking for a couple of beta readers on here for the book and then just not talk about it around my parents for a while.
Bad thing 3: i had to hang out with my parents. and its hard because they don’t think they did anything wrong. or are doing anything wrong.
