Ides Of January Reading Update
Ides of January Reading Update
The Cloisters got DNF'ed. I don't like to do that, but I had to. It was so fucking boring. The stuff about tarot was interesting, but it would only be focused on for like two paragraphs and then utterly forgotten so the protag could whine some more about not being cool enough. It was also all tell, no show. At one point, it's said that the MC has been having trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality and might be having full-blown hallucinations. And....that's it. We never get to see it at all. If it weren't for that line, there'd be no way to know that was happening. And it's like that with everything. Awful book.
Babel is good, but it's taking me forever to get through it. I like it, it's just slow going.
So This Is Ever After is the only romance I've ever enjoyed reading. It's funny, sweet as hell, and Queer af. I don't even know why I decided to read it because I don't really like the romance genre, but I'm so glad I did.
Maus made me cry and that's all I'm ready to say about that.
Iron Widow is one of the best books I've ever read. Wu Zetian is an absolute gold medal badass and I love everything about her. I don't know if I want to be her friend, her girlfriend, or just be her; I'll even accept being her enemy if I have to. I'm just obsessed and want her in my life somehow. It's fucking brilliant and I cannot wait for Heavenly Tyrant.
The Weight of Blood is very good so far. It's a Carrie retelling set in a 2014 Georgia high school about to host its first integrated prom. I'm only about a third of the way through it right now, but I'm really enjoying it so far.
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I work at a grocery store and I am constantly staying over my scheduled time by hours, or going in on my days off.
Content creators have to basically push out new content at all times, and it's expected to be quality content at that.
Even fanfic writers have this expectation that they will constantly be putting out new chapters, one shots, headcanons, etc. And they're not even freaking paid for it.
It's just this constant, ever looming, abjectly terrifying pressure and expectation that you will always be working. Always be producing. And never stop until you have an absolute breakdown, for which you will get very little sympathy and expected to recover from asap so you can get back to work.
I am in an absolute mental panic right now over this
I will be playing some more Diablo III on Twitch tonight at 10:00 EST
You should come watch
This isn't so much beef but when I was back in school we read the book Unwind and we got to the part in the book where one of the characters was being unwound and how it happened and it scarred me a little bit. I also remember hating most of the characters. I haven't read this book since then, though.
I don't know anything about this book, but thank you for sharing with me
Just finished replaying Dragon Age Origins and uh I forgot to deal with the dragon at the Temple of Sacred Ashes
Didn't realize it until I saw the slide at the end about all the failed attempts to deal with it so they could actually get to the urn
Um.....oops?
Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon
Bakugou vs Artemis Fowl.
I actually really want to see that now
Your current fictional fav gatekeeping you from your first fav <3
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