#jordan taylor

[raapija]

Not a day goes past when I don't think about them.

Bonus Kamui content with Nando wearing the Rodney Sandstorm uniform (again) 💅✨

[monochromiamen]

Jordan Taylor (Elite) in “Closer” by Cecilie Harris

[ryo-hirakawa]

louis deletraz, colton herta and jordan taylor celebrate their win at the 2024 12 hours of sebring (with orange juice for some reason) 🍊

[frenchcurious]

Antonio García, Tommy Milner et Jordan Taylor - Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTD - 12 Heures de Sebring 2023. Ph. Chuck Andersen. - source CorvSport - Corvette Obsessed.

[porsches]

garage 56 besties 🫶

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[raapija]

Searching for Daytona content (my latest hyperfixation) and found this great clip of Fernando proposing to Jordan Taylor

[curlycargirl]

[ryo-hirakawa]

everyone go home jordan taylor wins the funniest driver competition

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[robinfrinjs]

JORDAN TAYLOR NASCAR DRIVER ERA

[watchalltherennsport]

Jordan’s Brother (2017 IMSA Champion)

[vincaminor42]

Who is really really bad at actually getting around to continuing the plan she started over a month ago? This gal!

Okay, I am way way behind on my short fiction reading (I could blame the 2024 Hugo ballot coming out and me focusing on that, but to tell the truth I haven't been working on that much either >.< I'm gonna have so much reading to do before July)

But I did finish the Jan/Feb '24 issue of Uncanny, so let's get some thoughts down on the last few stories

"An Elegy of Soil" - Natalia Theodoridou - 6/10; on the longer side at 17k words, a woman returns to her childhood village to care for a dying father (again with the old/dying parents theme) and has to deal with a soil-based curse from a mountain god. Felt kinda long, and the bit with the priest just felt weird

"A Recipe for Hope and Honeycake" - Jordan Taylor - 7/10; short, sweet, cozy, but felt like it could've been fleshed out more. A fairy makes honeycake to help with a hard year in a village.

"La mandíbula del río" by Ana Hurtado - 6/10; magical realism about friends dealing with drama set in a South American eco resort, with a (possibly hallucinated?) shape-shifting pink river dolphin as the only actual fantastical element.

Will I be more timely in getting to the next post? Will I actually read any of Mar/Apr before May starts? Who knows!

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

[ahb-writes]

Book Review: ‘Dragon and Ceremony’ #3

Dragon and Ceremony, Vol. 3 (light novel): God's Many Forms (Dragon and Ceremony by Ichimei Tsukushi My rating: 4 of 5 stars Moreso than the two previous installments, DRAGON AND CEREMONY v3 is a measured attempt at literary fiction through the lens of magical fantasy. One can be forgiven for entering this novel series precluding the author will earnestly merge magic, fantasy, and adventure. But three novels in, the storytelling framework is quite clear: qualitative rhetoric over quantitative action (character dynamics), magicology over magic (story dynamics), and partisan subversion over law and loyalty (character agency). DRAGON AND CEREMONY v3 yields to this framework, making the novel a slow and engaging title whose occasional pinch points suffer less from a lack of purpose than a lack of polish. Ix the apprentice wandmaker makes his way to the sleepy border town of Estosha. Once there, he's instructed to take up a collaboration at a monastery, making staffs for the local monks. Stoic and grateful for the work, the young man partners with a brilliant young apprentice, Shuno, and whiles away the hours as winter blankets the land. Life is good. Except, Estosha is a hotbed for insurgent religiosity. Numerous, fantastical ghost stories plague the nighttime hours. Threats of violence loom over forthcoming festival events. And the highly choreographed visit of a certain captive delegate of Lukuttan ancestry suggests any outsiders visiting this little village on the border could be in for more than they are aware. DRAGON AND CEREMONY v3 focuses strongly on the rhetorical tools wielded by religious zealotry and ascendant, presumed masters of statecraft. Of note, the New Order of the Maray Church regularly hosts clandestine meetings to articulate and document its newest interpretation of its so-called scriptures. Yuui is pulled into this miasma of doctrinal priestcraft, some of which is clever, but most of which is undoubtedly fallacious and delusional. As such: Readers encounter a fanatical preacher who privileges circular logic; readers encounter an academic clergywoman who privileges constancy of scripture over its practical application; and readers encounter an itinerant priest who cautiously foregoes doctrine in favor of the needs of the people (Gustavus: "The people want an explanation, not theory [..] In the real world, meaning is found only within the individual," pages 96, 98). The author's articulation of state religion as just another mechanism of greed, control, power affinity, and presumptive authority is deftly worded not through these characters' blatant zealotry, but by way of their characters' willful acquiescence to the inexact and delusive reasonings of theological discourse. Luckily, there are exceptions. For her part, Yuui may be a political puppet, but she still has a will of her own. Meanwhile, Ix struggles to insert small and infrequent, but justifiable acts of human goodness into otherwise distorted and illogical standards of faith. As is often the nature of novels of this type, the characters succeed and fail on varying levels. One awkward shift in trajectory comes by way of Shuno. DRAGON AND CEREMONY v3 introduces another secondary character by way of an agender wandmaker who is equally hyperosocial and hyperinsecure. The book's intervening tale of Ix and Shuno's latent curiosity into the capricious origins of wandmaking are clever and intriguing. This dynamic guides readers through several funny and enlightening conversations on why people hunt for an amorphous assumption of the truth, and by extension, what qualifies as the "ultimate" wand, how one would conceive of it, and who is worthy of crafting such a thing. Shuno is a distorted reflection of Ix, and thus doesn't have much to add at first, but the two characters get along well and aspire to help one another succeed. DRAGON AND CEREMONY v3 struggles to find the right trajectory for its thematic premise, and doesn't settle into an effective balance until the latter third of the story. Nevertheless, the author's late-breaking and admittedly grim picture of the convulsive integration of defective statecraft and religious hypocrisy is worth the wait. The only real question is whether the novel series' protagonists have the wherewithal to survive it.

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