@mythopoetica@hcommons.social

mythopoetica

@mythopoetica@hcommons.social

SFF Author and Rhysling-Award nominated poet, music student (piano, classical guitar, composition, music theory). Codexian. Literary Academic (Senior Lecturer).

Fiction in Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, Strange Horizons, etc.

she/her (cishet)

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Bibliography: https://mythopoetica.com/bibliography/

My debut novel WATERMYTH (2024) is out now!: https://mythopoetica.com/2024/01/10/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook-discount-period/

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mythopoetica, to StardewValley

for

  1. Yummy South Indian Lunch with 4 types of veg, juicy fried chicken drumstick and shrimp curry. Hey, it's Monday and I needed the fortification for teaching.
  2. Listening to The Cure all day because the weather requires it.
  3. Finally catching fish on . I'd all but given up because fishing is so impossible on the iphone.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to music

Hi Masto, I'm home. The day began with the wind and rain which had me wanting to listen only to The Cure during my commutes and while I was prepping for class. Can the eyeliner be far behind. I jest. My eyes are far too sensitive for eye makeup these days and all of my fancy eye makeup palettes are going to waste.

It was an okay day. Another Drama Lab with my Oral Literacy MA Students. Their big project for this semester is connected to The Lady's Not For Burning. My approach to Oral Literacy is Oral Literacy x Pop Culture x Performance Studies. I'm enjoying it! I always enjoy teaching performance as it takes me back to some of those roots (I did two years of a performance studies x literature PhD before I defected fully to lit to be a Gothic scholar)

@academicchatter

mythopoetica, to music

for a very rainy and windy

  1. The music of has been keeping me super-chill for the past two frenetic weeks. I've been listening to A La Sala on repeat.
  2. Did a whole lot of work on articles and other stuff this morning, clearly in my Super Academic phase. By end of the week I'll be an exhausted and limp bundle, though.
  3. Scored a jar of peach preserves although it required me extroverting myself enough to ask a nearby tall stranger to grab it for me from a tall shelf. (I'm 5"6 but the shelf was considerably higher). Tall dadbro (with toddler) was momentarily puzzled but acquiesced. Whatevs, I was embarrassed but YAY I finally got a new jar (finished the other one already).

@threegoodthings

mythopoetica, to 3goodthings

for Monday 😴

Peaches! Peach trifecta edition.

  1. Last week I discovered the local store was having a sale of peaches from Egypt so I bought a carton. When I got home I discovered to my delight they were YELLOW PEACHES. To explain, whenever there's stone fruit season, locally they tend to stock only white peaches when I really prefer the more tart and juicy kind (aka yellow peaches) which I had in abundance in Australia. So I went back the next day and bought another two cartons. 😹
  2. The local pharmacy's store brand body shower had peach scented variant which possesses all the things more upmarket brands could not give me. Also at a member's only discount of...RM8. For a TALL BOTTLE.
  3. Peach and coconut scented candle is burning right now to complete my peach fragrance bliss.

Guess how much I love peaches.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica,

@3goodthings If I had time and energy to spare plus an ice cream machine (which requires counter space that I do not have), I'd be making peach ice cream.

mythopoetica, to music

I've been so obsessed with Flore Laurentienne's music that I've been listening to it every night before I go to sleep. Here's a live session at

https://youtu.be/QQdbo-EWvAk?si=QBYCunG_sykUJXh8


@experimentalmusic
@contemporarymusic
@composers
@electronicmusic

mythopoetica, to Shoegaze

This is an AMAZING track from

"Frog in Boiling Water"

https://youtu.be/_EzFiRyiij8?si=nyjviBdb5Ip5XxfV

mythopoetica, to AmbientMusic

Currently keeping me aural company while I work (I woke up, couldn't go back to sleep and decided to dive back into the blasted article), Noveller's Fantastic Planet (2015)

Here's the first track.

https://youtu.be/-XMIA0dqCN8?si=nLcidR_WYjXyy5rF

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic


@academicchatter

mythopoetica, to music

Music of choice for today's academic writing spurt in trying to try to meet scary academic deadlines:

Sharing this enthralling performance on for you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHNVQ2PHTr4&ab_channel=KEXP

(I am also keeping it to watch later since I can't watch the whole thing right now, deadlines*!)

@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic

  • Am sure fellow academics know about the blasted key performance indicators and how they put your neck on the block.

mythopoetica, to StardewValley

for a gloomy

  1. Toasted bagel with beetroot-cured salmon, cream cheese, chives and capers for breakfast.
  2. (Apple Arcade version)
  3. 10 years later, 's Singles has become my emotional support album of 2024 because I can't stop playing it and it starts my day right.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to random

Watermyth is on the SFWA Nebula reading list and even though I was told a couple of weeks back that it had been submitted, I still cannot get over seeing it there. Pinching myself black and blue.

https://www.sfwa.org/forum/reading

(I'm joining SFWA later this year, btw)

#writinglife #writingcommunity

mythopoetica, to fantasy

I'm thinking about the recent romantasy turn in fantasy/romance novels and how the Cantata books may have fit, say, 10 years ago. But in that time I grew old and then decided I didn't want to force spiciness onto my novels and removed most of it.

I still think one of the spiciest scenes is when they are reading books together and...not a single piece of clothing was discarded. 😉

Slow burn indeed. Mind you, I enjoy reading #romantasy every now and again. I'm just not sure I'm the right person to be writing it. Spiciness is just too much work and I'd rather be focusing on other things!

There's a fair bit of romance in Cantata of the Fourfold Realms but most of it is low-key and organically building up.

Info on purchasing Watermyth (Book #1/ebook) is here: https://mythopoetica.com/2024/01/10/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook-discount-period/

#bookstodon #fantasy #writingcommunity #amwriting #books #booklovers #bibliophile #bookaholic

mythopoetica, to music

Well, since I still appear to be on Masto today, here's another .

  1. I wrote three poems today which weren't half bad. Good start to my National Poetry Month challenge (a day late but three poems means I'm still ahead...for now)
  2. Today's music: PJ Harvey, Grizzly Bear, Andor soundtrack, Jessica Pratt, Hauschka
  3. Managed to gather enough energy in the evening to make my beef stroganoff which I shall pair with buttered papardelle for the rest of the week.


@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to 3goodthings

Been awhile, but I guess I could do a today.

  1. Unravelled a knot that had me stuck in a chapter of
  2. Listening to The National all morning while working on my Oral Literacy lecture.
  3. Enjoying teaching (and in so doing learning more )about Literacy. Fascinating field, many intersections with my focus in Popular Culture, Literature and Philosophy.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to newmusic

Lately, I've been really obsessed with the music of Flore Laurentienne.

L’Île-aux-Oies — Flore Laurentienne

https://youtu.be/W7EJ45_I-CI?si=XB6EWfbboIuYv9R7

More ambient/electronic/new music here: https://www.growingfins.com/2024/03/24/dancing-with-euterpe-24-03-2024/

@composers
@electronicmusic
@experimentalmusic

mythopoetica, to ethelcain

I've updated Growing Fins with a handful of playlists ranging from Ambient/Electronica to classical/new music (featuring @womencomposers ) plus some indie darlings new and old.

https://www.growingfins.com/

(I figure static playlists are better, otherwise everything I post here will disappear anyway)

Enjoy!

#indie #music #classicalmusic #womencomposers #ambient #ambientmusic #electronicmusic #dancingwitheuterpe

@contemporarymusic
@experimentalmusic
@classicalmusic
@electronicmusic
@composers

mythopoetica, to ethelcain

Well, goodnight masto. I leave you with some Benoît Pioulard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUn-61El6fw

@experimentalmusic

mythopoetica, to music

I've updated my music & media blog (finally!) with three posts of curated playlists, including all of the classical/new music I've posted here over the past week (since this auto-deletes every 7 days):

https://www.growingfins.com/

@classicalmusic
@experimentalmusic

mythopoetica, to random

How would you describe your work-in-progress's ideal reader?

I have been saying this since my teens -- "I'm writing for that lonely booknerd who discovers my book by accident in a library or bookstore and when they read it, they will feel like they are coming home."

I feel this is a rather tall order, really. But if even one lonely booknerd feels like my words are like coming home, I've fulfilled my brief.

mythopoetica, to random

239 -- How does your MC feel about babies, children and teenagers?

Aila's kind of ambivalent about it. The reason is because in previous versions of and , she was already a mother and grandmother but then I realized it didn't ring true for her character and the nature of her connection with [spoiler]. But definitely she's nurtured plenty of the people on the island and in things are going to get somewhat interesting where that is concerned. 🌹

mythopoetica, to Ds9

for

  1. Avocado hair conditioner at a fraction of the price of my usual conditioner (I'm downscaling most of my beauty/haircare). Smells great!
  2. Salted peanuts rock my world.
  3. The peculiar friendship of Odo and Quark always has me smiling.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to tea

What's one of the weirdest things that happens in your story?

You mean I have to pick just one?

goes to some pretty strange places storywise but I don't want to spoil things for both AND

But I can tell you this much. Tea. Lots of Tea. You think this is not weird? Well, context is everything. It's where they're having the tea 😉

mythopoetica, to 3goodthings

for , which was not too bad, all things considered.

  1. A moment of appreciation for stuffed vegetables in any shape or form. They exist across cultures and cuisines. They are splendid.
  2. I'm still on my Iced Latte kick and they still make my day.
  3. Passionfruit and sunflower oil shower gel.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to classicalmusic

Have been earwormed by Fauré all day so I'll drop this video for you before I bid you goodnight, Masto.

The famous Berceuse from the Dolly Suite, op. 56, but as a classical guitar duet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgmN__KNRzs

Performers: Kaiser Schmidt Guitar Duo

@classicalguitar
@classicalmusic

mythopoetica, to music

Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet 2 (Canzonetta) -- Phyllis Tate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK6_1B6PoLA

Clarinet: Mark Walton

@womencomposers
@classicalmusic
@contemporarymusic
@composers

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