I guess it’s just the thoughts that are unmentionable, not the festival itself? Anyway, hope you had an obscure one!

Went to the office, ate crispy chicken fried with cheddar, did some work I guess.

Read: Cheerful Amnesia vol 1-2 (Tamamushi Oku): A young woman loses three years of memory (in that neat way of fictional amnesia), forgetting how she got a girlfriend or what having a girlfriend was like, but it’s okay because when she wakes up to find the girlfriend next to her hospital bed, she immediately falls madly in love all over again. Genki idiot x stoic butch, rampant horniness, moderate high jinx, very silly.

Read: Tournament of Ruses (Kate Stradling): Second book in the trilogy, a young woman from country nobility gets sucked into the capital after the upheaval of the first book and doesn’t like it much but manages to make do and find a boy and save the day and only get killed a little bit. Still very conventional, still cute.

Read: Partridge in a BEAR Tree (Murphy Lawless): Sequel to OctoBEARfest, the cousin of the male lead from that one discovers the drummer of the female lead is her fated mate, and shenanigans ensue. Major shenanigans that I was not expecting, and also a crossover with the non-Virtue, non-Renaissance shifter books I haven’t read. But, gay shifters! The Virtue books were so conventional as required by the Zoe Chant Collective that I wasn’t sure that was even possible.

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