Date: 2021-11-17 07:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] vass
*waves*

It's like someone turned the gravity up, and all tasks are effortful.

Yes, that's how I feel too, and I don't even have a job. I imagine that at your work (and, fuck, everybody's workplace) there's a compounding factor because it's all of you, so the normal thing where if somebody's having an off day then everyone else picks up some of the slack, doesn't apply? Which would be hard work just for one day, even if you weren't the person having the bad day; but in this case it's not just one day, and it's everyone. So it's exponentially hard. No wonder you're exhausted.

That photo looks like a Baby-Sitters Club cover for a book called Chewie and the New Girls.

The Just City by Jo Walton

Yeah, I didn't like it either. I wanted to. I loved the concept, and I know it's an idea she'd been wanting to write for a long time. But it was just Too Fucking Rapey for me. I remember saying when I blogged about it that I lost count after the first five rapes.

- and the rapist became something of a hero?

My take on it, at the time when I read it, was that the book's secondary theme was "can my friend be both a sexual assailant and a good person?" and that it was almost immaterial whether she handled that theme well or not compared to how much I didn't want to read that. (Side note: The Just City came out in 2015. The René Walling thing at Readercon (cn: sexual harassment) happened in 2012, and it's my understanding that they were good friends. I don't know Walton personally and she hasn't written anywhere I've seen it about there being a thematic connection, this is just me speculating, but... yeah.)
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