Things I'm into right now
Last updated August 2025.
Playing (tabletop)
Beam Saber: a mech war game. I am gnashing my teeth about the gradual thawing of my married-to-war ice king. He is slowly discovering terrible truths about the empire he serves and I love it.
Hunter: the Vigil: my wife's running a Hunter parlour LARP in which occult knowledge gives people Abyssal curses. I'm playing a cute paramedic who's doing their best and so far they've become severely poisoned (now cured), got a Promethean boyfriend, and have semi-adopted a runaway teenager.
Playing (videogames)
Animal Crossing: I am greatly enjoying pottering about in the early part of the game. I've seen my family play but having my own island is new to me!
Reading
Murder Most Unladylike Series by Robin Stevens, a delightful interwar series starring plucky girl detectives Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells. I've read it before, but am reading it to my child at the moment. We're both enjoying it greatly.
The Borgia Dove by Jo Graham, a historical fantasy about Giulia Farnese, mistress to Rodrigo Borgia. The shapes of the Numinous World books have some familiarity by design, but always feel fresh and vivid.
[Mélusine][(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9lusine_(novel)) by Sarah Monete. I first read this around nine years ago and am slowly rereading. I'm really enjoying its messiness, its denseness, and its voices.
Diana Wynne Jones: I've been revisiting her work along with listening to Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones. So far I've reread The Ogre Downstairs, Eight Days of Luke and The Time of the Ghost. I'm partway through The Magicians of Caprona and Fire and Hemlock. They hold up marvellously.
Listening
Pathologic 3 ripped OST I am constantly listening to this right now and am waiting eagerly until I can buy it myself.
Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones: as a DWJ superfan I get a huge kick out of listening to two very smart DWJ superfans analysing her work and social context. Tremendously good.