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Csepp 🌢<p>Finally finished reading <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/WatershipDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WatershipDown</span></a> .<br>I have a lot of feelings about it, will try to write a proper "review" later.<br>For now I'll just say it's one of the best novels I've read.<br><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
rostiger<p>Reading about the history of the Longo maï movement, one of the oldest, still existing agricultural, anti-capitalist/anarchist co-operatives in Europe that I had the pleasure of visiting in Limans last summer. <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
wrack<p>Reading Steve Lowenthal’s Dance Of Death: The Life Of John Fahey, American Guitarist, from 2014.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Csepp 🌢<p>I feel like <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/Storycraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storycraft</span></a> on <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/SecondWind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondWind</span></a> is kind of underrated. This is a really interesting interview with the duo behind <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/BlackTabbyGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackTabbyGames</span></a> on creating interactive storylines that makes NPCs feel like real people and not just resources used in a puzzle:<br><a href="https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dkY8etQ4yVk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=</span><span class="invisible">dkY8etQ4yVk</span></a><br>cc <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLudarium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLudarium</span></a> but also kind of <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a> ?? (does IF / VN stuff belong there? I'd argue it should.)</p>
Devine Lu Linvega<p>I think this has got to be one of my favourite lines in Middlemarch:</p><p>"Only I was afraid you would be getting so learned," said Celia, regarding Mr. Casaubon's learning as a kind of damp which might in due time saturate a neighboring body.</p><p><a href="https://www.literaturepage.com/read/middlemarch-283.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">literaturepage.com/read/middle</span><span class="invisible">march-283.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Csepp 🌢<p>Reading <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/WatershipDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WatershipDown</span></a>. El-Ahrairah help me, poor bunnies. :neofox_sob: (not gonna stop reading tho)<br><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
mccd<p>Brought my thoughts to the importance of archiving.</p><p>From The Analog Sea Review. </p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Devine Lu Linvega<p>Forty-Four Esolangs<br>The Art of Esoteric Code<br>by Daniel Temkin<br>coming out on September 23, 2025<br><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087/forty-four-esolangs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553087</span><span class="invisible">/forty-four-esolangs/</span></a><br><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
wrack<p>Woke before dawn to a cool breeze through Wrack’s open hatches, the boat rolling gently. </p><p>I’m taking advantage of the solitude to re-read my friend Jenni Fagan’s 2017 novel, The Sunlight Pilgrims.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
cathos<p>Reading Wayne Moore's 'Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy'. It's fascinating (if you like tools, machining, math, and metrology).</p><p><a href="https://pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/15_Mfrs_Publications/Moore_Tools/Foundations_of_Mechanical_Accuracy.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pearl-hifi.com/06_Lit_Archive/</span><span class="invisible">15_Mfrs_Publications/Moore_Tools/Foundations_of_Mechanical_Accuracy.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theWorkshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theWorkshop</span></a></p>
Bad Diode<p>on a bit of a low mood recently so I'm re-reading Transmetropolitan to cheer myself up</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Devine Lu Linvega<p>Found a very pretty edition of Hesse's Glasperlenspiel.<br><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
R E K<p>Just finished reading Tsukumizu’s Girls Last Tour. I cried damn hard. It has put me into such a weird funk. Going to need the entire day to get over it :neofox_cry: </p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Devine Lu Linvega<p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
A.Z. Device |<p>Little over halfway through 'The Three-Body Problem' by Cixin Liu. <a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Devine Lu Linvega<p>Found a really pretty edition of Butler's Butterfly Revolution.<br><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
wrack<p>A simple map of early Polynesian/Melanesian migration voyages across the Pacific in open sailing canoes, without navigational instruments, relying on centuries (and thousands of sea miles) of memorised data — observations and experiences shared orally and via intuitive visual references, like stick and shell charts of archipelago swell patterns.</p><p>This map is just an outline — barely a preçis — of Pacific peoples' extraordinary achievements, which are equal to those of any of Europe's much-vaunted sailor-explorers.</p><p>Evening reading: David Lewis's We, The Navigators (1972).</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
wrack<p>Don't ask me why it took so long for me to pick up Annalee Newitz's extraordinary 2017 novel, Autonomous, but now that I have, I can't shake myself loose from it. </p><p>The last work of speculative fiction to grab me like this was William Gibson's Pattern Recognition, back in 2003.</p><p>Come to think of it, there's an unlikely commonality — and not just in style — between Gibson's protagonist, the brand-savant Cayce Pollard, and Newitz's underground (and underwater) pharma' pirate, Judith 'Jack' Chen.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
Devine Lu Linvega<p>While waiting for the fiberglass to set, I went to trade some books at the thrift store, got some new ones for the summer.</p><p>The 10th anniversary edition of Ancilliary Justice is so pretty.</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>
wrack<p>" ...it took the war to teach it, that you are as responsible for everything you saw as you were for everything you do. The problem was that you didn’t always know what you were seeing until later, maybe years later, it just stayed stored there in your eyes..." </p><p>– Michael Herr</p><p>[from Dispatches, 1977]</p><p><a href="https://merveilles.town/tags/theLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theLibrary</span></a></p>