Long-form writing

2026-07-20 — How I Became the Rules Lawyer of the Group
2026-07-14 — What Changed the Second Time Through New Sun
2026-07-06 — Why I Don't Trust a Rating I Give Too Soon
2026-05-06 — I Pushed Ancillary Justice on the Wrong Person
2026-02-16 — What a Bad Deposition Day Does to My Reading
2025-11-27 — The One Genre I Still Can't Get Into
2025-11-10 — I Named My Cat After a McCarthy Villain
2025-11-09 — The Co-op Bargain Bin Habit
2025-10-18 — The Twilight Imperium Night That Ended at 1 A.M.
2025-10-15 — Ithaca Winters and the Books That Survive Them

I work as a freelance legal transcriptionist, mostly depositions and the occasional arbitration hearing, which means my job is to sit with dense, unbroken, often difficult language for hours at a stretch and get every word of it exactly right. I think that's why I don't scare off the way some readers do when a book asks for real patience, four hundred pages of invented anthropology, a biology monograph nobody assigned me, a novel with no quotation marks at all. I read across genres on purpose, literary fiction one week, hard science fiction the next, a piece of theory or popular science after that, because staying in one lane bores me fast. Board games are the other half of this blog, mostly the heavier end of the shelf, long strategy games and co-op horror and the odd MOBA-in-a-box, played with a rotating group of friends who are far more patient with my rules explanations than they should be.