What I'm reading

This week I finished City of Stairs, the first in Robert Jackson Bennett's The Divine Cities series.

There's a lot going on in this story. The flip/flop of colonialism: a not!Europe that once oppressed not!India and is now being oppressed by its former colony. Gods who act in the world, but who can be killed, whose miracles disappear with them. A woman from a progressive culture, doing her undercover/diplomatic/investigatory job in the midst of a traditionalist culture.

What impressed me most (and I had to look back at the title page to verify the author was really a dude) was that the authority figures were female. Mayors, generals, ambassadors -- there are men with agency here, but most of the movers and shakers are women.

Also, the climactic fight against a kraken set on and under an ice-covered river absolutely rocked.

Looking forward to book 2.

Cut tags from an external link

A couple weeks ago I contacted DW help, hoping to find a way that I could preserve a cut-tag in my DW posts, for users who arrive at the post from outside DW. For instance, if I tweeted a link to my post: I wanted the person visiting from Twitter to have the option of seeing or not seeing a spoiler that I had hidden behind a cut tag.

Here is the suggestion I was given, which I shall test by hiding it... ( behind a cut tag )

. How recursive!

ETA:I think it's working.