bubbalu [they/them]

my anxiety is too bad for video games anymore

I’ve only read the two, but I remember being skeeved out when I read it and feeling very validated when I read Galatea.

I think Richard Powers is a sex weirdo who comes up with elaborate novel structures to contain his tulpa gf’s in. I was really put off by the woman in the last short story who goes from bimbo to sexy ghost. That felt prototypical for how he sees women. He also admits to stalking and creeping on one of his grad students in his autofiction Galatea 2.2. The short stories were beautiful but the novel itself felt poorly executed with a lot of cut plot threads.

I read this novel a while ago and also really liked it! It was mostly an aside, but a stand out moment comes when Bazarov and Arkady are cuddling in the grass in Bazarov’s father’s estate and his pops is just like ‘that’s nice :)’ For whatever reason, that was the moment I felt the most like ‘this is a different culture and era.’

simply stop gaming. you can run tetris in your web browser. what more can you need?