Yes I have a cold, it is not covid, it is deeply miserable, and I recommend not getting one if you can avoid it. I'm a bit annoyed as I've been as careful as I can be, I've masked everywhere I've been indoors with other people except at my parents' house (and they don't have the cold) and now I'm coughing my lungs up. Ho hum.

Quick media catch up: We finished watching the most recent season of Umbrella Academy (which was... interesting). We'll probably watch the final season when it comes out but I'm pretty annoyed with Netflix in general at the moment for their habit of cancelling shows just as things are getting interesting.

Next season of Legend Of Vox Machina comes out on Prime in 9 days and I'm looking forward to that a great deal. I'm still slowly rewatching campaign one of Critical Role and I'm nearly sure I'm past the point where LOVM #2 will end, but gosh I'm excited about a lot of the casting. The Fonz as Pike's grandfather? Yes please.

I've moved over to Storygraph to track my reading instead of Goodreads, so if you do Storygraph let me know? I want to approach that tracking in a different way this year and I really don't want to be driven by just numbers. No, Goodreads, I would not like to read more this year, I would like to read as much as makes me happy.

On which note, this week I've read Not Your Sidekick by CB Lee which was immense fun - YA set in a future where an apocalyptic event unleashes superpowers in a small percentage of the human population and superheroes are part of society, but are the villains truly villainous? I think that personally I prefer the Velveteen approach to this worldbuilding (Seanan McGuire, the books are hard to get hold of but the stories are all on her website), but Velveteen is definitely not YA, and Jess is still a delight.

I've also just finished reading The Unbroken by CL Clark, which has been on my to-be-read pile for quite some time (and I'm so grateful to the person who sent the paperback to me as a midwinter gift!) which is high fantasy, very into the politics of what it takes to run an occupied settlement as part of an empire, and what it's like to be part of the population that existed there before occupation. It's epic, it's queer, its unflinching, and I've added the sequel to the tbr already.

Sone years I do Snowflake challenge, some years I do not. It looks like this is a year I do not, which may be due to low energy because of the dratted cold. I'm also not very connected to fandom at the moment and still haven't watched last week's Critical Role (I miss Taliesin at the table and hope he gets well soon).