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My partner is (finally) reading TSA so I get to vicariously relive the first read thru

#Brandon Sanderson #Stormlight Archive #sa

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1926: “This girl has all of [the] trends and she’s not loath to wear them at once: bell earrings, a dog collar worn as a necklace, a large beauty spot on her cheek, an ivory cigarette holder, a design to cover the vaccination mark on her arm, heavy bracelets, an anklet, a photo of a boyfriend on her stocking, an anklet watch, fancy garters worn below the knee and a mirror fastened to her wrist.”

Waiting for wristwatch anklets to make a comeback

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I've put a few new drawings onto my site. www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

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#GNU Terry Pratchett

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If you can't be bothered to learn the difference between a rock and a mineral, well...

Based on a submission from stubeardsly.

Want me to doodle your D&D party? Commissions are open! Check out my profile for the posting, or e-mail yourdndstories at gmail subject 'Doodles' for more information.

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make fun

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i think it would be rly funny to be buried with extreme pomp and ceremony in a neolithic burial mound so in 2,000 years new wave archaeologists get confused and have to consider that 1. we never stopped using them or 2. at some point we just started using them again (for reasons other than it being funny)

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I've just finished reading "The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" (Wayfarers Series, Becky Chambers) - which sat on my to-read list for far too long and which I loved! Its been a bit since I've last read through a book in one go, completely forgetting time - So here's a little sketch of Sissix & Ashby. :)

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Big news from Tartarus I'm just so proud of him

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Question for German speakers

What's the difference between "Aschenputtel" and" Aschenbrödel"?

I know they're both alternative names for Cinderella. "Aschenputtel" is the name the Brothers Grimm used and is more of the "standard" German name for her, while "Aschenbrödel" was used by another 19th century folktale collector, Ludwig Bechstein, and is used as her name in the German version of Three Nuts/Wishes for Cinderella: Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel.

But what's the difference in meaning between the two names? "Aschen" means "ashes," of course, but what do "-puttel" and "-brödel" mean? Even though I studied German for a year, those were terms I never learned.

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If you are watching a TV show, it can be live action or animated.

But not when you're reading a book. Much to think about.

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There’s a release date and blurb for the final Cemeteries of Amalo book!

Coming 11 March 2025

In The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison returns to the award-winning world of The Goblin Emperor, deftly wrapping up The Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy.

Thara Celehar has lost his ability to speak with the dead. When that title of Witness for the Dead is gone, what defines him?

While his title may be gone, his duties are not. Celehar contends with a municipal cemetery with fifty years of secrets, the damage of a revethavar he’s terrified to remember, and a group of miners who are more than willing to trade Celehar’s life for a chance at what they feel they’re owed.

Celehar does not have to face these impossible tasks alone. Joining him are his mentee Velhiro Tomasaran, still finding her footing with the investigative nature of their job; Iäna Pel-Thenhior, his beloved opera director friend and avid supporter; and the valiant guard captain Hanu Olgarezh.

Amidst the backdrop of a murder and a brewing political uprising, Celehar must seek justice for those who cannot find it themselves under a tense political system. The repercussions of his quest are never as simple they seem, and Celehar’s own life and happiness hang in the balance.