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Anthony RappI’ve also been encouraged to write an #introduction post. Here I am! My name is Anthony Rapp. For my work, I’m primarily a professional #actor, as I have been for most of my life. I’m also an #author and #filmmaker and theatre #director and #activist (especially regarding #queer issues and #progressivepolitics ) and avid #reader (lover of all kinds of #books especially but not limited to #SFF literature & #modernworldlit & #modernamericanlit ) and avid #DnD enthusiast (as both a player and DM).
R0B0 G0D@albinokid Welcome to Mastodon, Anthony! Great to see you here!
Crystal@albinokid what’s the last great #SFF book you read that you’d recommend to the rest of us? Always looking for the next great story.
@Wildlyng the last 5-star #SFF read for me was the #UrsulaKLeGuin story collection The Unreal and the Real. The last 5-star SFF novel I read was the #RobinHobb novel Fool’s Errand, but that’s a part of a longer series which begins with another 5-star read called Assassin’s Apprentice. The last 5-star SFF stand-alone read for me was a reread of the classic #KurtVonnegut novel Slaughterhouse-Five. If you read any of these, I hope you enjoy!
@albinokid For anyone looking for the Robin Hobb books - the series is called the Farseer Trilogy and THEY ARE AMAZING! An excellent recommendation! I haven’t read the others. Thank you so much for the picks. Looks like the rest of my weekend is officially … “booked” 🤣 #SFF #books #reading #RobinHobb
@Wildlyng I love to be *emotionally* invested in the books I read, and #RobinHobb is masterful at doing just that for me. Sadly, there aren’t too many other contemporary #SFF writers whose work *moves* me. #NKJemisin at her best does. #UrsulaKLeGuin consistently does. There are others, but not many.
Briggsy@albinokid so glad to see you over here! I was an MT major in '96. Been a fan ever since. Now even more for your POV and activism. Thanks for being awesome! And truly - if you don't love DnD - can we even talk?
Autistic Goblin@albinokid glad to see you here! Check out https://fedi.tips/ and you can also follow @feditips and @FediFollows to help you get started.
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@albinokid So glad to see you here Anthony!!! Hopefully we can build a nice community here!! #StarTrek
Dave@albinokid welcome to the community loved you in Rent and love you in Star Trek Discovery
hanselpal 🏳️🌈@albinokid mushrooms. don’t forget the mushrooms 🍄
Jeremy J. Littau@albinokid Welcome! You're so fantastic on Discovery.
dernkat@albinokid yay! Welcome to the fediverse! 🖖🏼
MavandBransMom@albinokid this makes my heart so happy. ❤️❤️❤️
호호호🎄@albinokid Ooooh, huge fan of your work!
Juliette Wade@albinokid Great to see you here!
Dr. Maddkap, Werepsychologist@albinokid Didn't realize you're a DnD fan! Are you in or running a campaign now?
@albinokid That's fantastic! So is anyone from Discovery a DnD fan too?
@drmaddkap yes, we’ve been doing a streaming game on Twitch, although because of schedules we’ve had to pause it for a bit. We have a YouTube channel that has all of our sessions archived. We call it #DiscoDoesDnD
@albinokid That's got to be fun, I hadn't heard about the Twitch stream. I'll check out the YouTube channel. Thanks a lot! It's a pleasure to virtually meet you. 🙂🖖
@drmaddkap thanks, you too!
enargeia@albinokid Hello and welcome! What have you read recently? 🖤 👁️
@detondev most recently I read Stephen King’s second novel ‘Salem’s Lot.
@albinokid Nice! I'm unfamiliar with Stephen King, do you think this book would be a good introduction to his stuff if I were to start with it?
MrCopilot@albinokid Welcome Anthony, good to see you round these parts of the federation. #LLAP
Lavinia@albinokid Welcome from someone else who’s #NewHere. 😁 And gotta add… I didn’t follow you over from That Other Place, but I was binging part of S3 of ST: Discovery tonight, so seeing your post was a lovely instance of worlds colliding. 😁
Antiqueight@albinokid a rock and a star
JW prince of CPH@albinokid there you are - so glad to see you here 😊👍👏
Carsten Bergner@albinokid welcome here. 🖖🏼😎
karmamule@albinokid Welcome! Nice to see you "over here". \o/
Still learning the ropes too.
Jay Reding 🇺🇦@albinokid Welcome to Mastodon! It's great to see more people make the migration over here. Love your work on #StarTrekDiscovery and greatly looking forward to the next season!
Phil Loring@albinokid welcome!
Bill Bittner (he/him)@albinokid Super glad to see you here. Any recommendations of any of the books you read this year?
@billybitts my 5-star reads this year (so far) have been Another Country by #JamesBaldwin ,Tales from Earthsea by #UrsulaKLeGuin , The Black Prince by #IrisMurdoch , Too Like the Lightning by #AdaPalmer , Slaughterhouse-Five by #KurtVonnegut , Fool’s Errand by #RobinHobb , The Poisonwood Bible by #BarbaraKingsolver , and The Unreal and the Real Volume 2: Selected Stories by #UrsulaKLeGuin : Outer Space & Inner Lands.
@albinokid Awesome. Thanks!
Materially Matt@albinokid @billybitts Slaughterhouse-Five is good but Cat's Cradle is amazing. Excited to check out some of these!
@momentarilymatt @billybitts agreed that Cat’s Cradle is also amazing.
@albinokid @billybitts Great minds think alike! I will spare you my fanboying, other than to say, I really appreciate your work!
pia@albinokid @billybitts So. Just finished the original Earthsea trilogy, will defend Robin Hobb to the ends of the Earth(sea) and have been a Vonnegut fangirl for far longer than I care to admit. If this isn’t a sign to go and read the rest of your list immediately, I don’t know what is…
@albinokid @billybitts I’m sure you are aware of these, but I’ve really enjoyed Michael J. Sullivan’s Riyria universe as well. Great world, a bit of humour thrown in there, what else could one ask for?
@pia @billybitts I’ve heard of these books, yes, but I haven’t read them at all.
@albinokid @billybitts Well there’s a lovely pile of books you can enjoy, then 🙂. The Audible versions, read by Tim Reynolds, are very good as well!
uhlissuh@albinokid @billybitts The Poisonwood Bible is one of my favorite books. I also loved Slaughterhouse-Five. I’ll be looking up these other books now too!
@uhlissuh @billybitts great, I hope you enjoy!
John Koen 🏳️🌈 🎶@billybitts @albinokid how did/are you doing with the Bingtown/Pirate/Rain Wilds books? It took me until the second time through to really like the Liveship Traders books, and #spoiler
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only the #LGBT & other relationships of Rain Wilds to get me through them 🐉 🏞️⛴️🐍
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only the #LGBT & other relationships of Rain Wilds to get me through them 🐉 🏞️⛴️🐍
@johnkoen @billybitts I loved the first book in that trilogy, and while I didn’t love the second and third books as much, I still think there’s so much richness there.
@albinokid @johnkoen I bought Ship of Magic (but hadn't read yet) when I was working on a tall-ships/fantasy story and wanted to read some examples.
Currently, I'm writing an early industrial fantasy. More Dickens than Jules Verne. But I'm thinking of reading the Liveship Trilogy now since the tall-ships era and the 19th century are similar technologically. Plus I've read little fantasy outside of the Tolkien type other than Strange and Norrell and Cornish's clockpunk/biopunk Foundling trilogy.
@albinokid @johnkoen And if I may, I HIGHLY recommend DM Cornish's Foundling trilogy.
Imagine Great Expectations or David Copperfield as somewhat-twee, 18th-century YA fantasy. There are monsters and creatures, but not really any magic. Instead, magical-like abilities acquired through surgical alterations. Though it takes place in a clock-punk level of technology, much of the stuff is done via biology/chemistry. Also Bob Cratchet-y desks, powdered wigs and flintlocks. Like the movie Amadeus.
Janarchy Targaryen@albinokid
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Hiya! Welcome! 🖖🏻💖🖖🏻
Lady Homealot 🖖 not going back@albinokid So glad to see you over here!
Melissa Comeau@albinokid Hello and welcome! 
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YouDamnKids GetOffMyLawn@albinokid thrilled to find you here tonight.
huertanix@albinokid Welcome to the Fediverse! 🖖🏽 There's a small island of Trek kin at tenforward.social if you ever want to check that out.
Tabbytha 🏳️⚧️🖖@albinokid welcome!!!
David Alexander McDonald@albinokid
*waves* I’m extremely happy to see you here.
*waves* I’m extremely happy to see you here.
Picard's Little Teacup@albinokid omg what #dnd settings / worlds do you like to play / run
@picardsteacup Any in 5e. I homebrewed a setting for the campaign I’m running, with little side adventures sprinkled throughout that I adapted from various sources.
@albinokid omg, tell me about your homebrew. Classic greyhawk? Sword and sorcery? Eberron magical renaissance? Treasure Planet spelljammer? You can't just say you homebrew and not tell us what 👀
@picardsteacup it’s pretty much sword and sorcery, but I’ve tried to find ways to infuse a sense of it not just being Eurocentric. The first chunk of the campaign took place in a utopian city in the middle of a vast desert, for instance.