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sitcomtheory readsable

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Reading Sable

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artivadar readsable

13 hours ago

Hi!! Thank you for following me!

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readsable maschinensturmer

17 hours ago

Thank youuuu for following!!!!! You brought me to 100!

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17 hours ago

2025.09.17 // Maybe this isn't too important but I have really been wanting a genre classification for my book this whole time. It's just a lot easier when people ask what you are writing. Sable is: speculative encyclopaedic metafiction!

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readsable 17 hours ago

I would be remiss not to mention the real star of the show, the Martes zibellina. Go look at how cute they are when they run!

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readsable wasongo

1 day ago

"I fill the bird shaped hole in my heart by collecting bird shaped things." -- same here /^v^\

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2025.09.16 // Well two days ago I woke up, put on the over-ear headphones, and listened to /The Sign/ in its entirety, as usual. I can't write without Amelia's favourite album running through my head, duh. Is it time at last?, I thought--enough brain space after weeks of helping two separate parties move house? Then I saw a sticky note reminding me to update the glossary. Ch. 10 still awaiting transfer from brain to

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keyboard. Alas. However, friends, the world of the Hex, which won't even pop up in the narrative for a few years, is much more expanded in the glossary now. So many types of jobs with which you can while away your frames.

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readsable 1 day ago

If anyone is ever like, I'd like to know what the hell is going on with this story but I don't feel like reading the whole book so far--rest assured, email me and I will send you a 3k word, hypomanic screed about any and all of it.

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readsable 1 day ago

Well today is the day to get my gecko a new front-opening terrarium, I think. Sometimes I'm like, why did I set myself up for a chapter like this. "Dune-scale sci-fi epic about sentient trees" playing out while the main character narrates through a massive dose of THC? Literally two chapters ago I had to research and think up a whole opera.

readsable 1 day ago

And then I recall that this isn't my style, necessarily. Karim/Cuprate *cannot* turn down a challenge, even his final and greatest challenge of writing a story about himself. So of course he's going to make ch. 10 happen. As his invisible god, I can't let him down.

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readsable mycelion

1 day ago

Thank you for adding me to your button wall!! I love how your "about" page features a footnote, loved the "Death Road to Canada" article quite a lot as well.

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mycelion 18 hours ago

Thank you so much ^_^ I love how simple yet beautiful your website looks. Can't wait to finally read Sable!

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readsable 13 hours ago

Thank YOU so much; although most of the work is the writing, I take a lot of pride in visual design. My code is probably garbage but it seems to work.

tomakewithpencils readsable

2 days ago

Thank you for following me :D

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readsable etheric-turbine

5 days ago

Hi! Thank you for your reply to my poetry post last week. I didn't recall hearing of Lear, but I have plenty of respct for any fan of birds. And as a fan of Zhuangzi, Li Bai, and follower of Lao Tzu, I think I'd quite agree with the philosophy behind literary nonsense.

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readsable 5 days ago

Furthermore, I think neologism is one of the finest arts in poetry. :)

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1 week ago

2025.09.10 // Land of the Lustrous (宝石の国) final volume being released in English on 4 Nov!!!!!!!!

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1 week ago

2025.09.09 // Waking up and not knowing what to read is worse than waking up with your last pack of Spirits on empty. The drive to read the next book I've *planned* is overwhelm---What's this? Moby-Dick; or, the Whale? The Arion 1983 paperback edition I picked up for $5 because it looks like someone dipped the edges in the UV machines they use in hotel air purifiers? Don't mind if I do.

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readsable 1 week ago

This copy of Moby-Dick is a reprint of an unbelievably fancy version from four years earlier. Some gorgeous hand-set thing that sold for $1k *in 1979*. You can now pick one up for $22,000, or $50k if you'd like the white-bound version.

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readsable zazilicious

1 week ago

Hi Lexi, thanks for your response to my post about poetry last week. I agree on all three of the qualifiers (haunting, beautiful, relatable) you attributed to Plath.

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readsable 1 week ago

I read some for my roommate from my poetry anthology. Refreshing myself on her biography reminded me that I never read The Bell Jar! So that's on the shopping list now.

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zazilicious 1 week ago

awesome!!

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2025.09.07 // Check out my first review with the Reading Project here on Neocities!!! I was going to review MYRR there next, but I finished it too quickly. Um, read it!! It's really funny and great. The narrator sucks so bad oh my god. Just a horrible friend, I love her.

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readsable 1 week ago

Coming in late November I'll be reviewing Alan Moore's Jerusalem. Check out Reading Project, if you somehow know of my page but not theirs. It's quite the collective database.

readsable floralchai

1 week ago

Hello! Thanks for responding to my post earlier this week. I've looked into Xuan Quynh, who is unfortunately not featured in my Norton Anthology. In English, I found a few paragraphs of biographical information on one webpage, four poems translated by Thanh Kha group, and one by K.T. Tuan. Archive didn't even have any books by her :( However, I did find a YouTube video of "Top 5 Bài Hay Nhất của Xuân Quỳnh", recited

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readsable 1 week ago

by Viet Thanh. The translated poetry I read was so wonderful and song-like, more so than most poetry by a long shot. My favourite was "Heart sings". I found myself smiling softly quite often, the unknown quality of these translations nonwithstanding.

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readsable 1 week ago

After listening to the original Vietnamese, I understood much more why they feel so song-like. Thanks again for the recommendation :)

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floralchai 1 week ago

I'm glad you enjoyed "Heart sings" poem, there is also "Waves" and "Noon rooster", are the poems I like a lot. And yes, I think you do realized some of her poems has been set to music a long while now :]] Maybe I would post some of my favorite poem translations to the site and link the sources

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readsable 1 week ago

That's a wonderful idea!!

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2 weeks ago

2025.09.03 // With 10 comment a day limit, I will be getting back to all the poetry recs over the course of the week. I have some exciting news regarding a group here on Neocities I will be collaborating with--more info Friday!

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readsable 2 weeks ago

Also good news--my bookstore finally got MYRR for me! I finished it in <48hr haha. I would give my review but... there are relevant reasons for which I must wait!

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readsable girl-wonderlost

2 weeks ago

Hello, thanks for responding to my post the other day, and for recommending Audre Lorde! I read your two recs, as well as Coal, Echoes, and her essay "The Master's Tools..."

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readsable 2 weeks ago

I turned to my old Norton Anthology to see if we had read any of her work in my courses, and I immediately remembered Coal. Her enjambment makes her work very fun to read aloud.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

I also read the brief bio on Lorde on Poetry Foundation. My personal favourite line of anything I read was the second from Hanging Fire: "and my skin has betrayed me". To speak of lived experience, this is mine every day! Take care.

readsable 2 weeks ago

To be clear, the line is likely about race and/or puberty, but it really hit home re: autoimmune diseases. I think some variant of that line every week it seems.

readsable 2 weeks ago

Oh, finally, I was excited to hear about *Zami: A New Spelling of My Name* as it brought the term "biomythography" to me. I'm quite passionate about the seamless blending of truth and lies in the context of fiction.

girl-wonderlost 2 weeks ago

so happy you dived into her work, her legacy and words are so so important to me. and totally agree about the enjambment, she's also such a great orator and and hearing her read her own work aloud is so satisfying

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readsable 2 weeks ago

Wow! You're right; she is so very sonorous.

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readsable asterion

2 weeks ago

Thanks for replying to my post. I do remember hearing about the Smith version, now, but not the fact that the second stanza shifts ahead to a fallen London, reclaimed by nature. Real cool to hear from the early 19th c.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

I ended up on a tangent via Wikipedia, finding "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" by Barbauld. It presages the hegemonic rise of the U.S. by 130 years, somehow.

asterion 2 weeks ago

A belated thank you for stating that I had been featured on the front page. I was wondering where all those views had come from. :)

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2 weeks ago

2025.08.30 // I'm having a Bernstein bears situation with "But *I have* loved the pilgrim soul in you", and I feel like it hits harder. Maybe it's romantic but I like the idea of the speaker grabbing the reins here in first person.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

Dear 76 followers, who is your favourite poet? No wrong answers.

asterion 2 weeks ago

I don't follow poetry enough to give a qualified answer. I liked (and continue to like) the poem "Ozymandias" (both versions) even before it became cool again.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

That's a completely valid option. I was just considering that if I only cite Wilde and Yeats it'll eventually become evident I never actually went to grad school. Besides, that poem whips.

readsable 2 weeks ago

See, right there, I didn't even know the Smith version. Thank you!

readsable 2 weeks ago

Also, asterion, congrats on making it to front page, gob dam.

girl-wonderlost 2 weeks ago

i love love audre lorde's work so much, "hanging fire" and "from the house of Yemanjá" were my introductions to her

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floralchai 2 weeks ago

I don't read much overseas poetry, only known pretty much Vietnamese poets. So I guess Xuan Quynh would be my favorite for her focus on childhood memories and inner self

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zazilicious 2 weeks ago

Sylvia Plath. I find her work to be haunting, beautiful, and relatable in a way that few other poets have managed.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

Sorry, extremely busy day today. Plath is one of my faves too. Will be reading all of those tomorrow.

etheric-turbine 2 weeks ago

Well... You'll laugh, but it's Edward Lear 😁

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2 weeks ago

2025.08.28 // I've added an author photo, a quick threshold edit (to match my site style) of an illustration by @iggydrawing. Money well spent.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

@iggydrawing employs colour and transparency brilliantly in his works. I don't believe he is on Neocities, but search for him on Reddit, Bsky, etc.

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readsable 2 weeks ago

I became aware of his work while browsing r/LandoftheLustrous. Thank you Iggy!!! I love my wistful fox depiction.

readsable 2 weeks ago

I've also added an author email to replace the UUID string that was there previously. Feel free to reach out to aeb877 at proton dot me!

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mycelion 2 weeks ago

I love the art <33

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readsable 2 weeks ago

Yea check him out! His handle changes sometimes across platforms; I don't have insta but I believe he is active there. reddit: user/iggy-drawing

readsable dirt410

3 weeks ago

A Ghastly Tale of Pizza is very fun and up my alley!!! I have some of those types of techniques going on in ch. 2 of my book. Thanks for following!!!

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