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I am pretty sure I just drove through the Other World from Silent Hill. So much fog in Ottawa tonight.

Screenshot of a direct message that says: "listening to Spotify at work and a song with the Roslin and Adama theme starts but not sure which one it is, so I got to look." Below is a screenshot identifying the song as So Much Life by Bear McCreary, from the Battlestar Galactica Season Four soundtrack. Below that is three sob emojis in a row.

Thanks, @bearmccreary.bsky.social, I needed to cry today.

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2025 Reading Life on Kobo!

I won't be finishing any more non-board books this year, so finally ready to put together my full book bracket of 2025.

I am still hoping to get some more books finished before the end of the year, but the current graphics are pretty neat.

#GoodreadsYearInBooks

This is Imriel. He was 11.5 when he died in August.

I miss my dog.

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Happy #SpotifyWrapped2025! No big surprises, though I feel like between working in the office more and having a toddler, things might be on the verge of change.

Every time I listen to the Dragon Age: Inquisition soundtrack (currently on the Dark Solas theme, and Lost Elf is next!), I so desperately want to play it again. Top-tier score from Trevor Morris; he should have been asked to come back for Veilguard.

I thought I had lost Whamageddon already, but I just checked the rules, and I guess it doesn't start until December, so I'm still in it! Here's hoping the person in charge of the music at my daughter's gymnastics classes gets it together!

I see the book piracy discourse is going around again and all I can say is I know more than one writer producing acclaimed work that is considering jacking it in or reducing the amount they write because they don't make to justify it vs a job job.

It's not only piracy, but piracy is costing us art.

This will however not prevent me from checking back to see what my number in the queue is once a week or so 😅

Very interesting thread, especially as I have a story in the Tales & Feathers queue right now. I had noticed the responses submitted to Submission Grindr were in batches.

The office ice cream is now gone (fair enough, as there is snow on the ground). But if there was some, I would definitely have had at least one by now because toddler was awake at 3am until nearly 5. At least it's peppermint mocha season.

Alt text: Image showing four text messages about fae in romantasy books: Message 1: “Romantasy question: are the fae open source? I had only known them from SJM books, but didn't expect to see them in Quicksilver!” Message 2: “Didn't have getting dragged in the comments on my bingo card today. Thank you to those that were kind. I'm new to romantasy and fantasy in general. Until I had read SJM, I hadn't encountered books with fae described like that. I didn't make the connection between Celtic folklore, fairies, elves, or sprites with being fae since their characteristics and mannerisms are drastically different. Tink is tiny. Puck has goat legs. The closest I encountered were elves in LOTR, but those were not faeries.” Message 3: “Forgive me for not knowing fae were inspired by Celtic folklore. I'm not Irish. I was never told these stories. I was just surprised two separate book series shared very similar interpretations of fae. I've enjoyed the genre of romantasy bc it's really gotten me back into reading. That's the goal, right? To continue to learn and escape into stories and discuss theories and celebrate the beauty of imagination? At least, that's what I'm gonna focus on.” Message 4: “Clarifying my original point: I never said SJM invented fae. My post was only comparing how Quicksilver and SJM depict fae characters (their traits, dynamics, etc.) and whether THIS interpretation of fae is common in romantasy books, not the origins of the mythology. I also didn't grow up connecting fairies, elves, and fae as one mythology. They were always separate in my mind, so I'm still learning how interconnected they are across folklore. Thanks to those who pointed that out respectfully.”

It hits different reading this whole thread.

I found one in my spam folder this morning from Toni Morrison. Amazing that she was so excited about my non-existent book that she came back from the dead!

Signs my two-week long cold is finally getting better: I can now hit the A5 in Golden!

No promises for how good it actually sounds, but I can get to it.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

It’s basically Deep Space Nine.

Could we sneak Joe Carter into this game somehow?

Welp. He is still the best Bieber though (it is a very low bar).

Come on, best Bieber!

I also watched the first episode today! I immediately distrust the husband because Rufus Sewell was the villain in too many of my favourite films.

Gonna need at least one more extra hour tonight to recover from that 9th inning.

😭😭😭

Baseball is stressful.

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Country with massive housing shortage not sure what to do with all these empty office buildings