Happy New Year!

[auroracloud]

Happy New Year, friends and subscribers and anyone else who happens to read this! I'm already in 2020, and I'm sure those of you who aren't here yet will get here just fine. I'm just back from a get-together with friends, and I've had too much sugar! And rather too much tea! And I'm very chipper! And very awake! I haven't had any alcohol despite what it may seem! But I've really had very much sugar!

I should probably get some chamomile tea and read something queer to start the decade right, before I head to bed. I think I'll do just that. Take care, my dears, and may you enjoy your New Year celebrations if you have any and they aren't over yet! *blows kisses*

PS. Does anyone else feel that 2020 sounds like a very science-fiction year, not like it's now but somewhere in the future? Though I guess we'll get used to it.

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Happy New Year. We've just made it!

[auroracloud]

Yay, welcome to the 20s! We've made it here!

[hebethen]

Absolutely it sounds SFnal. It's got the round numbers thing of 2000 AND the doubling-up AND the handy dandy memetic chantability. "TWEN-TY! TWEN-TY!"

Hop nyer!

[auroracloud]

Yeah, it also sounds like the sort of imaginary distant year that people would slap on their futuristic fiction about the far away space year 2020, when we all move in flying cars and eat meal cubes (why would you want to do that? well, I guess not everyone is as interested in food as I am) and dress in silvery plastic jumpsuits (but our phones still have cords and our supercomputers print out everything they do). Not like something you actually live in. But here we are! How strange!

[fucktheg0ds]

Happy New Year! I've had 13 hours (counting sleep time) to get used to it being 2020 but it still seems like a sci-fi year.

[auroracloud]

We may need more than 13 hours. Where's my personal jetpack?

[senmut]

One of my first roleplaying games was Cyberpunk: 2020. It was an update from the one set in 2013. So yeah, this feels so unreal.

[auroracloud]

It's so weird to be living in all these sci-fi futures.

[merit]

It does sound very future-y and I can see myself staring at the year a few times in disbelief. People in the past should have set it way, way in the future! ^^;;

I just finished Witchmark by CL Polk which was delightfully charming m/m mystery!

[auroracloud]

To be fair, we do have many science-fiction-y things - just look at the internet, or smartphones - but still we're not so much in the future as it sounds.

I've heard a lot of recs for Witchmark, and I'd love to read sci-fi based on that era, but when I tried it, it felt a bit too dark for me. (I have mental beasties that make it a bit hard to deal with wartime environments and other really dark stuff - it's a bit complicated what sets them off and what doesn't, because I also have some rather dark things I totally love, but anyway.) I'm thinking I'll give it a new try in a year or two, when I'll probably feel more up for it, because it seemed super interesting and well-written. Glad you enjoyed it, anyway! It sounds like the kind of book that deserves appreciative readers. :-)

[merit]

Best of luck! Because, yes, finding the *exact* thing I like can be a mission itself. I'm trying to use tags on Goodreads to assist!

[cornerofmadness]

Happy New Year and yes it does sounds very Sci-Fi

[auroracloud]

Thanks, and happy New Year!

[cornerofmadness]

thanks

[thisbluespirit]

LOL, yes, we are definitely in a weird SF future now, so all I want to know is why don't we have jet packs and how did we wind up in one of those dystopias instead, but I think I know the answers to that.

Happy new year! ♥

[auroracloud]

Yes, and where is my sparkly jumpsuit? (Well, actually, this autumn/winter if anything would have been a good time to acquire one, seeing as jumpsuits came back in 2019; but I no longer have the figure for it. At 20 I could still have pulled it off, I think...) And when can we apply for jobs on space stations?

Happy New Year to you, too! ♥

[thisbluespirit]

Is it ever truly too late for a sparkly jumpsuit?? ;-D

[ysilme]

Happy New Year to you, too! You seem to have had a really great evening and passing into the new year! :o)
I've read the other day that it's never been (or couldn't be?) proven that sugar intake causes hyperactivity or whatnot, and I wonder if it's got similar roots like some people being fully convinced they'd never sleep _at all_ if they drink coffee after 3 p.m. Like my late paternal grandmother, or my mother-in-law, who now drinks green tea instead, preferably Mate, which affects her (difficult) sleep not at all, though coffee does, even if it's just a regular cup of coffee with milk at 4 p.m. and she goes to bed at 10 p.m. ;op. Of course other factors are involved, but I'm convinced that sometimes people are affected by something because they believe it to be, and not because it really happens.

I totally think 2020 sounds cool!

[unavee]

Happy New Year!

I wrote the date in my journal today, and it was very weird to put down 2020. Definitely still sounds like a science fiction title.