Ten pounds of personality in a five-pound bag
My friend said: “I want a lending bookshelf of the first books of different series”
So I gave them
Sabriel
Gideon the Ninth
His Majesty’s Dragon
The Fifth Season
Mistborn
The Way of Kings
Shards of Honor (surprisingly NOT Sanderson)
Curse of Chalion
Stealing from Wizards, Book 1: Pickpocketing
Someplace To Be Flying
Akata Witch
Binti
Her Soul To Take
What are your suggestions?
I’ll do standalone books in a different post.
I realized today that part of my personality is that I constantly feel like a fuckup, to the point that I just embrace it and make a point to learn how to do better next time.
It’s like kaizen but worse.
Now come, be a fuckup with me. Know better, do better, fuck it up in different ways next time.
Today I saw this Instagram video about Monopoly as an analogy to redlining and white privilege in America, and it really stuck with me.
Standard note that intersectionality is a thing and race is just one of many axes of privilege/oppression! (Anyone reading this probably knows that already, but just in case.)
I’m currently on Book 3 and I would die for Princess Donut.
The audiobook narrator is incredible.
I expected the genre to be fantasy. It’s horror instead. Be warned.
Carl is nontoxic masculinity personified. He’s always protecting people even when it puts himself at risk.
I don’t understand why people don’t like Lit RPG as a genre. This is better than Greenwood. Hell, it’s better than Salvatore.
“Lud in the Mist” by Hope Mirrless. Really delightful story that inspired Stardust by (damnatio memoriae). I’m inspired to turn this into a roleplaying setting in the vein of PBTA or one of the Sanity mechanics games.
Everything I loved about it (the lush descriptions of the English countryside) are the things people hate about Tolkien.
But I did finally look up what “pleached” meant.
Earlier this year, I listened to “Starter Villain” by John Scalzi on audiobook. It was very good! Wil Wheaton is a great voice actor.
I’m enjoying my audiobooks on my commute.
I think I already posted about Era 1, but I just finished Era 2 and it was so heartbreaking at the end. This is not the post for spoilers. But there are so many good quotes in there.
“You’re meant to be helping people.”
I think one of the most important life skills I have cultivated is the ability to just take people at their word. To believe what they say.
Doing this requires some degree of “if you get hurt, I’m okay with that.” You have to turn down the empathy dial here. If a person lies to you (whether on purpose lying or not) about being okay when they’re really not okay? You have to be comfortable with the fact that any hurt they experience from you taking them at their word is their own fault.
But they will be hurt nonetheless. Even though it’s not your fault. And you have to deal with that.
Because you know what’s worse, in the end?
Not respecting your friends enough to believe them when they tell you things.
Being so arrogant that you think you know their inner mind better than they themselves do.
And the pretzel logic we all get into when we try to anticipate and guess what everyone actually means, rather than just taking them at their word, hurts everyone involved.
So just…believe people when they tell you things. If they lie, return the awkwardness to sender. You did nothing wrong by believing them.
Looks like I’m not the only one who finds Skeletor inspirational!
https://bsky.app/profile/skeletorinspires.bsky.social
I approve.
This came up in discussion today and I wanted to note it here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
I think this may be what’s going on with the earlier Contrapoints issue, but I’m not positive.
