holiday wishlist XD

[quillpunk]

Alright! I'm too shy to shove this at holiday_wishes, but I thought of a few things *blush*

• Dreamwidth Points: I want more icon slots! To my understanding for that I need to 1) buy extra slots and 2) have a premium account? Like, the extra slots are only usable if the account is premium? Did I get that right? So DW points!


• Help promoting tinyfandomflash and hcfest around Dreamwidth (and other places!). I've promoted TFF on a few comms around here before but don't remember when or where, LOL, and hcfest has never been promoted anywhere. I can't find any spoons for that, sigh.


• Recs for sci-fi books! Please note that I'm not always in the headspace for books with female POVs/main characters; I'm generally fine with being mistaken for a woman in real life but the idea of playing a female character in a video game or reading a female POV in a book sometimes makes me wanna scream. Like just. Ouch. :( (I don't know why my brain is like this.)


• Anything from my wishlist! It's mostly books; I like books XD


• I have a Kindle these days, which means I sometimes actually use the US Amazon kindle store. I've been wondering about the Amazon gift cards for the .com store and if they'd work for my ebook purchasing. I don't know what the minimum amount of money you need to put in the gift cards is, but if anyone is willing to help me experiment, PM me for the email :D


• I tag wrangle on SqWA sometimes, and lately have been having a lot of fun slowly changing all the parenthesis' to brackets (that's what SqWA prefers according to the wrangling guidelines) in the fandom tags! But it's a lot harder finding all the tags with parenthesis in them when they're not handily available in a browsing page. If you spot any tags with parenthesis in them while using SqWA, please give me the link/name of the tag! I genuinely am having a blast with this, but I'm almost out of fandom tags to fix :(

Comments

[shadaras]

What kind of sci-fi do you enjoy/are you seeking out? It's a broad genre space, and I'd prefer to give recs that are related to themes/tropes/subgenres you like!

[quillpunk]

oh, there are so many! :D

aliens!, set in space, survival/horror (no bad endings), political shenanigans, adventure, other planets, queer sci-fi romance, military sf, alien invasion, and probably more things i'm not remembering at the moment XD

[shadaras]

So, basically everything! :D Fun! Here's a list of equally varied sci-fi books in return.

- The Archive Undying - Emma Mieko Candon (mecha sci-fi, male protag)
- The Genesis of Misery - Neon Yang (mecha sci-fi, nonbinary protag)
- Murderbot Diaries (series; All Systems Red is bk1) - Martha Wells (action/social sci-fi?, agender protag)
- Foreigner (start of series) - C. J. Cherryh (social sci-fi epic, male protag)
- An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon (dystopic generation ship; protag has a complicated relationship with gender)
- Gamechanger - L. X. Beckett (near-future sci-fi, multiple protags [female, nonbinary, male/AI])
- Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold (mostly male protagonists)
- The Prey of Gods - Nicky Drayden (near-future sci-fi, multiple protagonists of varied genders)
- The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling (horror sci-fi, female protag)
- The Quantum Thief - Hannu Rajaniemi (space opera + heists, male protag)
+bonus rec for a book I haven't read but keep hearing about (and I like the author):
Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky (it has space spiders?)

[quillpunk]

thank you for the recs! i recognize a couple of books (i had Children of Time on hold at the library for so long but i think the current lender has run off with it or something because that loan expired months ago and i was first in line but i sure never saw it :( so eventually i just put it on my christmas wishlist all like "well i guess you leave me no choice huh" lol) and i look forwards to exploring! XD

[profiterole_reads]

Here are some sci-fi book recs with male POVs:
- The Darkness Outside Us by Eliot Schrefer
- Winter's Orbit & Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell
- The Bloodright trilogy by Emily Skrutskie
- One Verse Multi by Sander Santiago
- Fractured Infinity by Nathan Tavares

Here are some sci-fi book recs where it's complicated:
- The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- Activation Degradation by Marina Lostetter
- Spectacular Silver Earthling by Mara Lynn Johnstone

[quillpunk]

thank you for the recs! i have The Darkness Outside Us and Winter's Orbit and darn it, one day i shall actually get around to reading them XD

[yourlibrarian]

Just suggesting you do post the request at holiday_wishes as people wanting to support Dreamwidth are looking for people to donate points to, and some have been directed to that community.

[quillpunk]

i'll think about it :)

[senmut]

psst, as a former poster over there, the community around it is a very good one!

[quillpunk]

thank you, i'll think about it :D