Recs if you like The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses...

Nonfiction that makes me think of The Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir.

Or: reasons I'm not hopeful about our increasingly apocalyptic circumstances, and a defense of despair

I believe hopelessness is unfairly pathologized and scapegoated for our collective failure to take meaningful action against ecocide. Climate catastrophe is accelerating. Collapse is underway, and you're not crazy for noticing. You don't need to feel bad about feeling bad.

SISTER LIST: forthcoming

Would you believe me if I said I wasn't of this world?