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I play Disney Dreamlight Valley and EVERY TIME I go to/near the Fairy Godmother's house, I hear the "PSPSPS It has tendincy to resett to pumpkins" part of Desiderata's letter to Magrat in Witches Abroad.

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Shout out to Tamora Pierce for taking the "airhead noblewomen who's only good at embroidery" and giving us Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, who is kind and brave and sensible and loves embroidery and fiber arts so much that the other noblewomen think she's weird for it.

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Do we ever stop to think that ART saved its whole entire self behind a password. And the password was the name it calls Murderbot. Do we ever think Murderbot needed its own name to save ART's life. Its whole entire self. Protected by Murderbot's name.

Do you ever cry.

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You know the problem with reading a book? You get hooked and then it ends and you feel sad

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Discworld - A‘Tuin

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Me yesterday: I am a Responsible Adult and I can be trusted in the thrift store.

Me today: *goes to the Sunday market for bread and comes back with a knitting machine*

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Too bad the prophet Cassandra never met Odysseus

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Title: The Undermining of Twyla and Frank | Author: Megan Bannen | Publisher: Orbit (2024)

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"If I had a copper for every time I heard a woman say, Don't mind me, I'd build my own coin fountain and swim in a pool of my riches. Let's face it, honey, if people minded you more often, you probably wouldn't be in here crying on some old lady's alter."

Grandmother Wisdom The Undermining of Twyla and Frank by Megan Bannen

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While browsing the art supplies aisle for Christmas gifts for my nieces (I'm making artists out of them whether they like it or not!!) I saw some scratch cards and felt like trying that for once. Death seemed like a good subject for a first attempt at the medium.

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TdF Day 2

Haven’t had a whole lot of time to spin today bc I’m dog sitting. Bingo challenges: spin something yellow and spin a fine wool. So I made a start on my merino autumn leaves mixed bag

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Ok, I'm on chapter 24 of Swordheart, and I don't normally put this much of a chunk out, but this is just such a beautifully well-written interaction and example of solidarity and sense that I cannot cut it any more than this:

Not handing over one of your own to a stranger with blood on his hands is just basic common sense. And it somehow feels actively heroic and brave in 2025.

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books read in 2024: swordheart by t kingfisher

There were so few people who kept a sense of humor when they were miserable, you learned to appreciate it.

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The thing is that I would absolutely play a video game about a young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbour’s cat in a small village in the mountains if — and this is extremely important — it was a Discworld point and click adventure game and the cat was Greebo and the process of searching for him unearthed a secret invasion of some kind of malevolent supernatural force in the Ramtops.