Sunday, Sunday, Sunday; November 26 2025

Glad Day book market! It’s happening this Sunday, November 30th, and I’m going to be there! I really hope to see people, familiar and unfamiliar, because I’m sure there’s going to be a ton of fantastic indie literature for sale. Supporting artists is more important now than ever, with the rise of genAI and all the pointless pulp it’s flooding the market with.

I’m nearing the end of my first university semester. I’m thrilled with my marks in some classes, and want to work harder in others. My highest mark so far is a 93% in sociology, though, which has me downright giddy – I’m going to have to celebrate it somehow!

But after the final. Trying not to put the cart before the horse, here.

Also exciting (maybe not as exciting in the grand scheme, but I’m thrilled) is that I’ve got more free time to read lately! I actually got to pick up a book and read the first chapter, and once I wrap up work-related stuff today, I plan on reading more.

Here’s a fun fact: I read more fantasy than horror.

It’s weird, given my overall Everything. I love horror. The problem is, I don’t always trust that whatever horror media I’m consuming has more to say than just ‘wouldn’t this be fucked up?’

Don’t get me wrong, sometimes that’s exactly the type of horror I’m craving. The haunting hypotheticals. The stuff you know is 100% impossible and unbelievable, but it’s still fun to be freaked out. But I’m a sucker for social commentary, and I want horror that makes me think.

Fantasy, whether it’s dark or complex or whatnot, is strangely better at doing that than horror is. Well-written fantasy holds a mirror up to our society, exaggerates and minimizes what it needs to, and there’s an element of horror in that I find fascinating. What do we normalize? What is such a given, in the world we live in, that we can’t imagine a fantastical society without it? What’s considered magical, without being magic?

It's just cool. Fantasy says so much about our current social climate whether it intends to or not.

Oh god I already view everything from a sociological standpoint. I’m only just realizing this. Suddenly I understand why it’s my best subject right now.