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I got the most amazing package from executrix. Thank you so much. *hugs* Every single book in this box is something I want to read. :)

I finished Trigger Warnings. I didn't like it as well as Gaiman's other short story collections. The Sherlock Holmes piece was exceptional, and a couple other stories were very good but I was pretty take it or leave it on the collection as a whole. He included a fair amount of poetry in the collection, most of which I didn't care for, but one poem about a witch was wonderfully done. Glad to have read it, but nothing to re-read.

I've blown through Uprooted in the past couple days and will be able to post a review of that soon.

I want to read some very, very sad fic. Anybody have recs for tearjerkers? Any fandom or pairing, but I would be especially grateful for newish HP recs.

I keep thinking I am going to make some awesome meta-tastic post about Penny Dreadful or Game of Thrones and then not doing it, so here's the truncated version: ( spoilers for both )

Speaking of Victorian horror, I know that werewolf (and other skin-changer) stories already existed in folk tales and fairy tales, but is there a nineteenth-century novel that popularized the werewolf the way Dracula did for vampires? I suppose that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a kind of werewolf story, but not really what I'm talking about. Did werewolves really only enter the literary public consciousness in the 20th century? Is there a seminal werewolf novel (trying to think of one and failing), or does our pop culture sense of werewolves stem entirely from film?

I started reading Neil Gaiman’s Trigger Warnings, and I think he has some insightful things to say about trigger warnings and our understanding of and expectations for literature.

I don’t think his discussion of trigger warnings in the introduction to the short story collection applies to fanfiction, though.

I would never suggest a monolithic fandom umbrella under which we all shelter, no one set of standards or rules or social mores that govern fandom at large. I think fandom is more like a school of jellyfish—each jellyfish one central body (canon) from which thousands of tendrils drift in a variety of currents, moving in different ways and to different places and sometimes overlapping. So while I would never posit a One True Fandom Experience, I do think that many fannish spaces have a thing or two in common, one of which is a sense of community.

( such a herd of tl;dr )

I’m really looking forward to this collection. I think Gaiman’s real strength is as a short story writer, so I anticipate a good read.