@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 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, to Shoegaze

This is an AMAZING track from #DIIV

"Frog in Boiling Water"

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

#shoegaze #postpunk #music #today

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

#noveller #ambientmusic #music #electronicmusic #academicchatter #academiclife #amwriting #today
@academicchatter

mythopoetica, to music

Music of choice for today's academic writing spurt in trying to try to meet scary academic deadlines: #m83

Sharing this enthralling performance on #kexp 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.

#music #electronicmusic #shoegaze #dreampop #academicchatter #academiclife

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)

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 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/

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 tea

#WordWeavers #29

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

You mean I have to pick just one?

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

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 😉

#tea #writingcommunity #bookstodon

mythopoetica, to books

Trying for again:

  1. Kumquats and a yummy mini papaya granola bowl for breakfast.
  2. Quiet reading time on a Sunday evening. I'm still reading Jenny Colgan's Mure series.
  3. Watermelon and lemon-scented shower foam.

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to books

This is the last week re: the discount across ebook platforms for WATERMYTH (ends 29 FEBRUARY 2024), although I am participating in 's promotion period in March so you can wait till then if you were wanting to grab a copy via smashwords.

Short description: Regya has been set a task: to take the potentially deadly Mermaid Storytelling Exam. She has been placed in Yrejveree, the mythical island of exiles to which many Amors have brought their Psyches. Can a mermaid armed with the powers bestowed by her storytelling craft, her Javanese engineer housemate and her mermaid landlady defeat these beings intent on conquest?

https://mythopoetica.com/2024/01/10/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook-discount-period/

‘Sprawling and wondrous strange, Watermyth is a gothic story to lose yourself in …’

–Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns–

mythopoetica, to music

New music from #Warpaint!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626djSCSEuo

#music #indie #indiemusic

mythopoetica, to books

#3GoodThings for a sleepy Saturday night

  1. Hanging out with a friend, officially my first social Saturday in years (though we've hung out on weekdays before). Trifecta of great convo with a fellow introvert, great food and bookstore met.
  2. Top-notch instant ramen and buffalo wings for dinner while watching DS9 s3, "The House of Quark" which had me laughing so loud.
  3. The fact that it's a Saturday Night and I'm about to crawl into bed with a book.

#reasonstobecheerful #bookstodon #bookstores #books #bookworm #ds9 #startrekds9 #startrek

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to academicchatter

Question for the

Which brutal peer review has words stuck in your head for years and which you occasionally use yourself.

I'll go first:

  1. Infelicity
  2. Scuppered -- as in I scuppered theory. Thanks, I think.

Both instances, I both winced and marvelled at the usage of said word.

@academicchatter

mythopoetica, to classicalmusic

LET HER MUSIC PLAY marathon organised by the DONNE foundation is happening right now.

Here's the info on all of the performers and when they'll be performing: https://donne-uk.org/lethermusicplay-lineup/?fbclid=PAAaZ5zUb022Z8DsDN-349YlMRJCoVcRQIfxqFJVbHFOP7JvsA3p-K-TRWc0w

And here's the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1YBtoPlYlo

@womencomposers
@womenoftheclassicalguitar
@classicalmusic
@composers
@classicalguitar
#classicalmusic #womencomposers #womenoftheclassicalguitar #newmusic #classicalguitar

mythopoetica, to random

#WordWeavers #22

Does my writing bring me joy?

I guess we have to be a little in love with our storyworlds to sustain a life in writing, right? So yes, absolutely. Every now and then I reread something of mine and go, "Whaaat? I wrote this? Really?! Coool!"

But, there are also (like most of us on this hashtag, I suspect) moments when I am absolutely mortified by ungainly paragraphs, purple prose, awkward phrasing and typos by the million. And we all know draft zeroes are things that most of us dread to return to reading.

But, the moments of joy are what sustain me. I suspect they sustain (most of, your mileage may very) you too.

#writinglife #writingcommunity

mythopoetica, to books

Do you like slow-burn epic fantasy mashed up with domestic fantasy? Ever read an epic fantasy that started in a kitchen and thought, "Damn, I wish there was more of that!"

Well, so did I and that is what I took into writing this series!

Think kitchens, a Kitchen Witch, lots of loving descriptions of food amidst byzantine conflict, political machinations and wars between merkingdoms. Plus, mermaids and faeries in a postcolonial portal fantasy universe. That's the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms, and Watermyth is the first novel.

https://mythopoetica.com/2024/01/10/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook-discount-period/

mythopoetica, to music

Also enjoying the new stuff from Caroline Polachek. That collab with Weyes Blood is everything.

mythopoetica, to PokemonGO

for a in which I am trying to recover from work-related trauma/awfulness.

  1. The fact that I am 40 candy away from finally having a !
  2. Sales have been super slow in February compared to January so I was happy to see three books sold this morning. (yes I put D2D on block site so I would stop refreshing sales reports but apparently that did not work)
  3. My favourite shanghai noodles and salt-roasted chicken from a teenhood favourite restaurant. 🤤


@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to sciencefiction

Ahhh, I found the new site for Toasted Cake and therefore, if you want to listen to "Murderbunny's Magical Moonlight Ride", the link is available:
https://www.toastedcake.com/home/season-6-2018-2019/221-murderbunnys-magical-moonlight-ride

#sciencefiction #bookstodon #writingcommunity

mythopoetica, to PokemonGO

for

  1. My own print copy of finally arrived! I'll post the picture on my blog later (since this feed auto-deletes after 7 days).
  2. Listening to all day.
  3. Dratini hour on . Woot! Now, if only they'd do a Magikarp hour sometime soon...

mythopoetica, to books

In 1996, I wrote a 17-19 page* poem revisiting the myth of Cupid and Psyche from the perspective of a Psyche who never found her Cupid again. A year later, I created a hypertext project about the island upon which my Psyche found herself. In 2009, I began the project that would become the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms, around the premise of "What if instead of ONE Cupid, there was an entire civilization of them?"

Watermyth, the first book of my slow domestic fantasy takes over epic fantasy with mermaids, sirens, faeries, weremaidens and a whole lot of myth and history,

Find out more below:
https://mythopoetica.com/2024/01/10/places-to-purchase-watermyth-ebook-discount-period/

‘Sprawling and wondrous strange, Watermyth is a gothic story to lose yourself in …’

–Angela Slatter, award-winning author of The Path of Thorns–

  • (I can't remember how long it was honestly but between those two numbers)
mythopoetica, to 3goodthings

Since I'm posting here again despite still in the thick of grading here's my #3GoodThings for #monday

  1. Since I took the day off for some home-related emergencies I also got my grocery shopping done and don't have to be stressed about it for the rest of the week.
  2. Leftover banana-cherry pancakes and home-made chicken sausages for breakfast.
  3. Found kumquats at the store!

@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to 3goodthings

#3GoodThings on a rainy #Tuesday when my body, mind and soul is still in trauma-recovery mode and post-bloodletting mode

  1. Chocolate Fudge and banana cake
  2. Star Trek
  3. A nice snuggly blanket (from IKEA because I'm bougie trash)

#Reasonstobecheerful
@3goodthings

mythopoetica, to random

#WordWeavers #23

If your book was a movie, what would it be rated and why?

I'm talking about Blood Orange Orchards this month and it's a short story not a book. The first version of it back in 2014 would likely be R (unsure about newer rating systems so bear with me) because things got a little raunchy there. But the current version has no romance in it except in memories so I would say somewhere between a G and a PG (for descriptions of war and death etc).

#amwritingSFF #writingcommunity #writinglife

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