“In Polynesia, they used kites to fish, flying baited lines over the water to catch fish — a method that's also still around." (Lindsey Johnson, “A Brief History of Kites,” in Make:, #93, p. 53)

After reading this quote, I had to look into kite fishing more. Not only is it still around, I found someone in Dauphin Island, Alabama (near where I grew up) who's kite fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. It's possible (though I make no guarantees) that if I had been introduced to kite fishing, I would have found fishing more interesting than I did and wouldn't have given up on it.

• 3 November
  • I'm in Love with the Villainess (manga), vol. 7 (Inori)
• 5 November
  • Library Wars: Love & War, vol. 6 (Kiiro Yumi)
• 7 November
  • In the Land of Simplicity: A Novel: An Account of the Unusual Peoples of the Former United States & a Sojourn Through the Exurb Zones and Other Unsecured Territories by an Intrepid Explorer from the Coalition of Secured City-States (Mattie Lubchansky)

When I applied to a tag wrangler at AO3, they said not to write asking about the status of my application until 5 weeks had passed. That was last week, so I wrote and inquired. They wrote back saying they'd had more applications than expected, so to wait until 5 November, so I'm still waiting.

I stumbled on a list of word counts of famous novels and discovered that my longest piece of fanfic is approximately 16,000 words longer than Moby Dick!