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Hello! I love cozy games, if you ever want to share any you're working on 

Hello! I think writing fanfiction is pretty cool! I read a lot of it but have never managed to write any myself, despite enjoying writing.

Any particular fandoms you enjoy writing about?

Coincidentally, I did a short book binding workshop a few weeks ago at the Coventry Book Fair, which was very enjoyable and involved no specialist tools or equipment.

We made little notebooks out of:

• Pretty paper for the covers (apparently wallpaper cutoffs make for good covers but any relatively thick paper, not card, will do)
• Plain or lined paper as you like for the pages
• String to bind them

The only equipment we needed was a hole punch and pritt stick glue, but the pages and covers etc were already cut to size so I imagine a guillotine or similar would also be very useful for cutting multiple pages accurately

Friday works better for me, but I can make either work!

I'll be late if it's the 30th as I have another evening commitment and will also need dinner, but I'll nevertheless join in! 31st I'm completely free

[Folk of the Air]

That sounds really interesting, I'll have to add it to my list of books to read! If you like Chinese alternate history fantasy, I can solidly recommend The Poppy War trilogy by R F Kuang, if you haven't already read them!

My reading this year is going pretty well, I'm over halfway towards my (unreasonably large) goal of reading 104 books this year.

Most notable recent reads:
The Folk of the Air series by Holly Black. YA fantasy based on classic Celtic mythology about Faerie. The plot follows Jude, a mortal girl who is taken to the Realm of Faerie along with her twin sister Faryn and older sister Vivienne, who it turns out is actually fae herself. They're taken to Faerie by Madoc, a redcap and Vivienne's father, when he murders their human parents. Very enjoyable read, but then I almost always like Celtic mythology based fantasy.

Katabasis by R F Kuang (yes the same author I recommended above. I think she's brilliant). A Cambridge PhD student goes to hell with a rival magician in order to rescue their PhD supervisor after he is killed in a magical accident. Borne out of the notion that 'academic is hell', I feel a lot of people here might appreciate the general take on the life of an academic. It should be noted that she wrote this while studying herself for a PhD at Yale and preparing for her wedding. Some people are almost too productive.

Malice by John Gwynne. This one is a classic medieval fantasy, where dragons and giants are awakening and the fate of the world hangs in the balance...Much more complex than some of the other books I've read lately, which was actually rather welcome for me, but I wouldn't recommend getting into this unless you're willing to commit to quite a long book with a complex cast of characters.

Being fathers day in the UK, I know we intend to be away but we should be home in the evening so I will do my best to drop by

I'm afraid I shall be in South Africa visiting my husband's family so I don't think I'll be able to make it. If I can, I will drop in to say hello

Either work for me as well, although I'll likely be a little late if it's on the 26th

Update: I can only be around late on the 12th as my usual Thursday commitment is being extended into later in the evening than normal. Totally free on the 13th though

I have no problems with an earlier than usual pub and am free for both of those dates 

Either works for me 

I will be in the middle of nowhere visiting family with extremely minimal internet access so I'm afraid I can't make any of those! But I hope you have fun!

That works for me 

I could make it later in the evening on the 23rd, am fully free on the 24th and am unavailable on the 30th (I'm going to a queer fantasy event at the British Library - very excited!)