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A being of word given flesh who loves rats, trees, and escaping the hellworld of ecocidal capitalism in which she lives - when she's not plotting its decimation and replacement.

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2025 Reading Goal

58% complete! juliana has read 7 of 12 books.

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The New Topping Book

Mostly disappointing and some questionable views on consent

I wouldn't consider myself an expert or super experienced in the subject matter (BDSM/Kink) which is why I wanted to read this book, to learn more. However it didn't have much to say that I didn't already know. That might be a sign that I've had good mentoring so far or that the book is quite shallow, or possibly both. It really only touches on basics and spends a lot of time with telling stories of the authors' amazing adventures, which tbh I wasn't really interested in.

Slightly amusing was the way these let's say slightly older authors talk about online culture in terms the "the Net" and "Netfolk". They really could have asked someone who's a bit more at home online to proofread this for them.

What really stuck out was a section where they argue that, as a top, you're supposedly obligated to follow through with dates and …

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Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy: The New Bottoming Book (Paperback, 2001, Greenery Press (CA))

Two books that fell out of time

Just like The New Topping Book by the same authors, which came out after this but I read first, this book very much shows its age. It is from a time when online resources like Fetlife were far more scarce than today and someone coming newly into kink would have had real difficulty finding any useful material. That is no longer the case and these books today read like someone did maybe a week’s worth of internet research to compile them.

They cover a lot of the basics quite well, but if you already have some experience, even just a little, and especially if you had even just a halfway decent mentor who introduced you to kink, they don’t offer much new insight.

I’m sure they were useful 20 years ago but I wouldn’t recommend them today.

They also have a few issues that you’d expect to see in books …

Karen Traviss: City of pearl (2004, HarperCollins Publishers) No rating

Three separate alien societies have claims on Cavanagh's Star. But the new arrivals -- the …

I read this book (and the entire Wess'har series) back in late middle/early high school, and it had an enormous impact on me. I've never re-read it, so I figured it's time.

I'm about halfway through and it's frankly astonishing how deeply the perspectives of book are reflected in my life, both directly and indirectly.

I'm really curious how I feel about the series's overall theses when I get to them in earnest; I was nowhere near intellectually active the last time I read it.