I frequently comment on the somewhat chaotic order in which I encounter material for the Project. The closest I come to any deliberate program is when I seek out (or prioritize) publications on a topic I want to cover in the podcast. So it's often happened that, after blogging a book, I find myself encountering the author's earlier work that went into that book. Sometimes I'll write a post that's pretty much just a pointer to the more previous blog (Or, conversely, I'll be covering a book where I've already covered articles that returned as chapters, with a pointer in the other direction.) But it's also the case that I tend to blog articles in more detail than books. So re-encountering the material as a separate article is a chance to dig a little deeper, or to comment from angles that are informed by reading I've done in the mean time. In the current tranche of articles I have lined up to post, there are a couple of "re-runs" of this type.
There's been a bit of an unintentional gap in LHMP postings since the two on The Female Husband that I blogged at the beginning of the month as background for yesterday's podcast. I had several articles written up but then got distracted by posting The Theory of Related-ivity. I do wonder a bit at the mental whiplash I may have caused to people who come to the blog for lesbian content and encountered half a month of Hugo Award analysis--or who came to read Related-ivity not realizing the more usual content here. I used to post a greater variety of topics on this blog, but these days I'm more likely to post non-Project things on Dreamwidth or in shorter form on Bluesky--places where I have more confidence that they'll actually be read and where I have some hope of getting interaction. (Yes, this is me once more moping about how blogging feels like talking to the wall.)
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