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isfjmel-phleg · 8 months

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September 2023 Books

The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Fairy Tales compiled by Alfred David and Mary Elizabeth Meek

Well, that certainly was a fairy tale collection. Some of these I hadn't read before. Some were more interesting than others.

The Dean's Watch by Elizabeth Goudge

I have nothing intelligent to say about it, but it was beautifully written and well characterized, as I have come to expect from Goudge.

13 Treasures by Michelle Harrison

An initially interesting premise that I found less interesting in execution. Rather a slog to read by the end.

The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones

I enjoyed seeing more of characters from Deep Secret. The worldbuilding was intriguing, and it's got twists like all Jones novels. One of these twists had implications for a major relationship that I didn't think were fully explored and resolved.

I Want to Go Home! by Gordon Korman (reread)

What if Mike and Psmith were set at a summer camp in 1980s Canada? Because that's what this book is, and it's as entertaining as it sounds. I would love to know if Korman is a Psmith fan because the similarities between this book and M&P, down to even some minor details that have parallels, seem too many to be coincidental.

Jane of Lantern Hill by L. M. Montgomery (reread)

It's been a while since I've read this one, and I found just as enjoyable this time.

The Sky Is Falling, Looking at the Moon, and The Lights Go On Again by Kit Pearson (partial reread)

I read The Sky Is Falling a while back and enjoyed it as a fictional portrayal of the experiences of young British evacuees in Canada during WWII. But I can't say I enjoyed the rest of the series as much. The third book isn't so bad, but Looking at the Moon is less historical fiction than it is one of those supposed-to-be-relatable tales of a teenage girl experiencing her first crush (...on a young adult) and puberty and all that Blossoming Womanhood sort of thing. Which is not a genre that I've ever been able to enjoy.

The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan (partial reread)

I read the first book ages ago as an undergrad and figured I might as well finish out the series. Can't say I have particularly strong feelings about it, but it's been entertaining. Even if Riordan has no apparent idea what downtown Denver is like :P

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

I was not the target audience for this classic. Which has nothing whatsoever to do with its quality.

The Noonday Friends by Mary Stolz

I picked this up in a local antique store and was pleasantly surprised to find it a readable tale of life in a financially struggling family in 1960s Greenwich Village. Even the adults are thoughtfully characterized, which I appreciated.

Comics

I read every appearance of Chris Kent, who has joined the ranks of Superhero Children Whom I Am Concerned About. There are getting to be a lot of those.

#random personal stuff #overall not much a month for new reads that I really enjoyed #hopefully this month will be better

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thatrandomblogsays · 8 months

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I’m so happy for them

[Image Description: Castiel from Supernatural is saying I love you, underneath is an image of Dean Winchester with the caption: “After four months of striking the WGA has a reached a tentative agreement & finalizing the contract. If all goes well writers will get to return to work with better pay and protections. They did it. Go unions”]

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glo-shroom · 3 months

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yes & no by Natalie Wee | Trigun Ultimate Overhaul

#THIS HAS BEEN COOKING. FOR TWO MONTHS #trigun #vashwood #vash the stampede #nicholas d. wolfwood #vash #wolfwood #trigun maximum #mine #edit #trimax #trigun edit #tw suicide mention #for that one line #and #tw blood #hopefully there's nothing else I'm forgetting #long post #i guess #pls feel free to critique me on the alt texts I've never done it before and would love to know what I can do better #but uhhh yeah otherwise. enjoy my baby. I'm very proud of this #I do however need to not look at it for a while now #so aside from the IDs if there are mistakes. no there aren't <3 #AND THANKS TO MY QPP EEE FOR LISTENING TO ME ENDLESSLY WORK ON THIS AND OFFERING ME INPUT AND CRITIGUE!!! <3333 #god. it's finally done #edit: btw I could write so much on my choices in this and what I'm going for and little details. but I leave it to the masses to interpret

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sporeclan · 3 months

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Leaf-bare again and we're already off to a bad start :')

#clangen #clan generator #warrior cats #warriors oc #sporeclan #my poor girl finchpaw cant catch a break ever she keeps getting ill </3 #btw with petunia. the reason it says he got better was because literally in the game his infection WAS cured #and then the literal message after that was that his wound got infected AGAIN. sigh #sc:fennel #sc:fennelacorn #sc:finchpaw #sc:fadedtuft #sc:petunia #sc:cliffthicket #sc:dawnpelt #sc:mousegrove #sc:spottedfrost #sc:puddle #sc:crowstar #yall im so sorry ive been so slow with the updates i wish i could say im busy but really ive just been gaming this whole time #ive blazed through like 2 and a half f!re embIem games in like a month and a half. plus i read all of dunme5hi #plus i did take a lil break to draw other stuff than cats for a bit just so i didnt burn out #ive been looking forward to the next moon for a while so hopefully it'll be up fairly soon #sc moons #tw blood #tw injury #tw illness

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icewindandboringhorror · 7 months

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I know this is just a silly bad quality random screencap of a screencap that I found on facebook lol, BUT it's a succinct enough image to easily describe the concept in a quick/accessible way hopefully :

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(and of course, feel free to elaborate in tags, etc.! (especially elaborating about other senses as well.. can you "hear" in your mind just as well as you can "see"? taste? etc.) It's an interesting topic to me, as someone who's like a 4.5 at MOST lol. I'm curious what option will be the most common :0c )

#tumblr polls #hrmm... a little poll perhaps.. about a subject I find interesting.. since this image came across my facebook today #still really not feeling that well. no longer shaking violently and such but I still feel weird and weak much more than usual #They did say my markers for like infection or inflammation were elevated but that they werent sure of the cause so hopefully #it's nothing too serious. they did also say a lot of different things can cause that thing to be higher than normal but didn't go into spec #fics of what. maybe some of them are relatively benign or something. I still havent felt much back to normal since #I got really sick that one time though. I feel fine on and off but then little bouts of feeling weird and sick happen. hrmmm #ANYWAY.. looking for small ways to be productive. such as little doodles on evil ipad or editing game videos #or posting polls or cat pictures or some other like not very labor intensive things #I WISH I COULD FOCUS on writing HHRGGhh... I need to finish my game.. it would be so freeing.. a project that's been looming #over my head for like 5 years even though througouht that 5yrs I've probably spent a total of 3 months working on it lo.. ANYWAY #I still partially really cannot beleive that people CAN see stuff in their heads. There's always part of me that's thinking like. well mayb #e everyone DOES see the same exact thing but we just describe/conceptualize it so differently that we think we're talking about #different things when we're really not. But I have been assured by people I've talked to about it that they can GENUINELY really see #stuff in their heads like as vivid as an actual picture in real life or something. And the other senses are neat too. Like for exmaple I #can hear in my head much better than I can see imagery. I still CANNOT hear vividly like as if I were listening to actual music out loud..#but I think it's developed more than my sight. AND interesting how this varies the creative process. a friend I was talking to on the phone #said they write by literally just watching stuff play before them like a movie. where my process is COMPLETELY different. AND that affects #the content/what details we focus on as well as our individual styles of writing have differences that can be traced back to that.. hrmm

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thunderpot · 1 year

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I just remembered that I was to post this pic heeere! Ayo Ayo. This pretty moshang piece is based on Mihály von Zichy's Romantic Encounter. It’s brought to you by my awesome patrons! I’ve learned a lot doing this one tbqh, and also very happy with the final result!

#moshang #mobei jun #shang qinghua #I've been very forgetful this month #well #these past months really #but hopefully it'll get better soon come february o)--(

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bizarrelittlemew · 5 months

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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE 🎉

big enormous thanks to all dear mutuals and followers who have made this year so much better, I adore you all and look forward to being just as unwell about this show with you in 2024 💗💗💗

#we made it through this year #yes i remade this gif from scratch because i'm a better giffer now than i was 3 months ago #ofmd gifs #ida.stuff #ofmd #our flag means death #now renewal soon pls #though all i really want for january especially is for chemo to go well and hopefully give my mom 2-3 cancer-free years #🐭📓

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sualne · 25 days

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was checking my emails before going to bed only to find out my endocrinologist casually scheduled an appointment at long fucking last

#described in alt text #my art #he's wearing the agender fit from the transgender skins set i drew a few month back #was checking if anyone left a comment on me fic and found this out like okay. crying for a millions years thank you #idk why this is my celebratory doodle. last summer i restart my rewatch of op cause nothing was changing in my life no matter what i did #sent dozens and dozens of job applications but nothing. kept calling doc without ever getting an answer. so i figured i could spend #the foreseeable future watching one piece and hopefully i'll have an answer before im done! did Not happen! lol. had to wait longer. but no #ive got a job and will see my doc & finally be able to start transitionning. im even getting a tattoo. 〒▽〒 woaw #summer hasnt started yet but its already unimaginably better than last one

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pangur-and-grim · 2 years

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"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man." - Patrick Rothfuss

here are three prey animals wearing the skins of their predators! please don’t ask me how a capybara managed to kill a jaguar!

the pre-order for these enamel pins is now open at greerstothers.shop

#gonna wear the first one on my winter coat #also thank you to everyone who's been supporting my store this month 😭 it's made me feel a lot better about my upcoming medical costs #I have a doctor phone call scheduled tomorrow and hopefully it will end with an iron transfusion being scheduled!!#I cannot wait to have blood!! I want to have blood so badly!!! please doctor give me blood!

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galedekarios · 17 days

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people need to start understanding that blocking someone is a way to curate your online experience in a mature and healthy way.

it's not a moral or a character failing to block someone.

it's not "aggressive", it's not "bizarre", it's not a "lack of respect", it's not "throwing a fit", it doesn't mean you can't respect different opinions and it doesn't mean you should get "off the internet" to "get some air".

it's simply a 'i don't vibe with your content and don't want to see more from you.'

#let me tell you it's a whole lot more mature than putting someone on blast in several posts weeks & months after the fact #over an untagged censored disclaimered not rebloggable post from an account who had you blocked for a while #sending them gotcha asks to bolster your essay on them #or creeping in someone's comments to project some sort of villain arc onto them for not liking your very fave very special ship #while preaching about accepting different points of views & bettering fandom culture #bldwvers be normal challenge #this is hopefully the last i'll have to say on this matter #text: personal #fandom critical

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trollsluvr · 6 months

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floyd up and about!!!! go emo boy go!!!!!!!

#floyd trolls #dreamworks trolls #trolls band together #tbt floyd #pushing my “floyd has mobility issues after the events of tbt.”#this is mainly me projecting lol but ALSO!!!!!!! there is No Way he is just like perfectly fine mentally or physically after 2 months.#also gave him a shirt. floyd my guy put a shirt on.#ALSO ALSO ive never drawn him before so hopefully i get. Better. at it.

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protagonist-art · 2 months

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i may have problems and issues 🥳

#buck has a stocky working horse kinda build :3 i dont think i got that across BWHWHA hopefully i can draw him again #ive been ruminating on this for MONTHS #john marston is called john dory for the sake of laughs and making real john dory insecure until he meets him and realises this is the most #awkward emo man on the planet #john is a country troll!!#terrier has the same kinda legs as sadie!!#i wanna design the entire van der linde gang but idkkkk if I'll get to it #the o'driscolls r called the troll driscolls because there's literally no other choice #eagle is sadie's bounty hunter name :3 #jake adler is called sage!! because marigolds protect sage from harmful bugs n insects and yeas ironic... but her revenge business keeps it #making sense #also look at me getting better at drawing cowboy hats >:o)#protagonist ocs #red dead redemption #red dead redemption 2 #rdr #rdr2 #trolls #trolls world tour #trolls band together #sadie adler #john marston #sean macguire #arthur morgan #oc #kinda #hehehehe

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pharawee · 5 months

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All four drafts of the marriage equality bills have passed their first reading with a vote of 360-10, with one abstention. Next up are the second and third readings.

[Update] A 39-member committee has been established to conduct a thorough examination of the four marriage equality bills for potential amendments, with the government-sponsored bill being the primary focus. The second and third readings are scheduled to commence at a subsequent meeting.

More news on the marriage equality bill via the Thai Enquirer.

#queer stuff #thai politics #it's the 'government-sponsored' that worries me #i think i'll just collect the news here for better understanding #now people are saying this hopefully passes before pride month #ughh

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macomico · 5 months

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