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Big Cats, Birds, and Books
greetings, y'all. call me A! she/they. aroace. welcome to my corner of the internet, which is a time-killing, stress-relieving collection of things i love, and also (frequently writing-related) text posts tagged as "text". basically what it says on the tin, plus an increasing amount of knittery and yarn nonsense. always down to talk stories/books/birds/(big) cats/fiber crafts (:-- icon by asexualbookbird (isn't it adorable!!!) --
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An African leopard (panthera pardus) rests on a tree. Photographed by Aamir Khatri.
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in related news: i did NOT mean to write eight (8) pages from alces' pov, but here-we-fucken-are, i guess
(one of) my toxic writer trait(s) is that i TELL myself i can skip around and only write the good bits, especially when it's just for fun because Who Cares??, but then i Actually Get To A Place Where It'd Be Fine To Skip and i simply cannot do it, and this is how i keep accidentally turning short stories into short novels
#text#personal#writing#aw#lucius#jorge#alces#not 8 pages today no worries#only uh#........6#fuck lmao#anyway good words day i guess ᕕ( ՞ ᗜ ՞ )ᕗ
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(one of) my toxic writer trait(s) is that i TELL myself i can skip around and only write the good bits, especially when it's just for fun because Who Cares??, but then i Actually Get To A Place Where It'd Be Fine To Skip and i simply cannot do it, and this is how i keep accidentally turning short stories into short novels
#text#personal#writing#aw#lucius#jorge#alces#listen im up to five pages of JUST ALCES in this jorge short story what the fuck am i doing 💀💀#anyway plan for evening is to crush this alces bit and call it#i know where i want it to End#i think im p close#if i can get lina and vanya outside im basically golden#and then tomorrow ljorge :)#maybe ljorge and njeri comforting xandra we'll see#then so much sleeping and then lucius sends the Signal to njeri#then some sansa stuff maybe? or maybe do the sansa stuff out of order so we can end with jorge#GASP AND JORGE AND NIKOLAI SOON!!!!#GOSH WHAT A TIME#idk if ill finish it by tuesday but. we'll see.
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Books of 2024: FUGITIVE TELEMETRY by Martha Wells.
Keeping the murder mystery/thriller train going after KILLING FLOOR! It is ALWAYS time for a Bot Reread, honestly, and I love that Bot could Annihilate Reacher.
#books#books of 2024#fugitive telemetry#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#martha wells#i really do try to thread my TBR together when i can#good for the ADHD brain#AND i started this one on audio on a road trip at the beginning of the year (hi liz)#never finished it (i can't take Kevin DesertBluffs seriously as bot i'm sorry....)#and now It Is Time >:)#ez join meeeeeee#(except you should reread NE not FT)#(for no reason whatsoever)#.....forreal though i'd love for reacher to threaten one of bot's humans lmao#love to see bot smear him all over a bulkhead somewhere#it just seems like good enrichment to meeee
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Finished this! Held my interest, even though it had me eyerolling at the sexism (gee, glad we have this badass lady cop so she and Reacher can fuck practically DAILY for the week their lives overlap, great, because we'll DEFINITELY need her as a helpless hostage later) and the fatphobia (dude: come on). I did appreciate how Reacher was Very Wrong about a few load-bearing plot things, and how information was revealed over the course of the story. Quick read! Gave me interesting genre things to percolate on.
Books of 2024: KILLING FLOOR by Lee Child.
This isn't a genre I typically read; HOWEVER!: my dream agent was on an episode of the Writing Excuses podcast about beginnings, and they said this one is Very Good, so I borrowed my dad's paperback copy to give it a whirl.
I'm low-key hoping this will help me sort out some Genre Issues™ I suspect I'm having with a writing project, too, which is a nice added bonus! Excited to see how this goes.
#books#books of 2024#killing floor#lee child#jack reacher#i will not be reading more reacher i dont think 🫣🤣#like it was Fine but it wasnt Great#hype on the book cover was overblown#actually started slower than i thought it would--not sure if thats 1997 conventions or Representative Of The Genre#it toed the line between mystery and thriller tbh#and i think i can Work With That#writing#aw#lucius#in the meantime: im gonna get back to writing a fluffy breakfast scene 🤣
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y'all i had a GREAT indie bookstore day!! :)
*shoves my softly sobbing now-empty wallet under the floorboards and runs*
#text#personal#books#indie bookstore day#listen i PLAN for this okay#im up to uh. four (4) indies who are Beloved#well. three are beloved and one is close to work and therefore delightful#ive been battle planning this shit for months 🫣#so i got two calico books from prologue (since they introduced me to the line)#two preorders from brilliant (since theyve been struggling and preorders are quickest cash for them with delayed work effort)#three from downbound (yeah okay mostly to hit the free shipping threshhold BUT i could only ask for 3 for birthday so it worked out)#and then Joseph-Beth was doing buy3 get1 paperbacks again#so i Browsed and Conquered :)#ANYWAY WHAT A GREAT DAY#books: replenished lmao#gosh im gonna need so many shelves if i ever get a houde#*house
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Books of 2024: KILLING FLOOR by Lee Child.
This isn't a genre I typically read; HOWEVER!: my dream agent was on an episode of the Writing Excuses podcast about beginnings, and they said this one is Very Good, so I borrowed my dad's paperback copy to give it a whirl.
I'm low-key hoping this will help me sort out some Genre Issues™ I suspect I'm having with a writing project, too, which is a nice added bonus! Excited to see how this goes.
#books#books of 2024#killing floor#lee child#jack reacher#i think i used to read more stuff Like This in high school??#because it's my dad's big genre and he'd let me borrow books lmao#but i think i drifted away from it because i found out there was other weirder shit going on in different genre corners#and i love weird funny fucked up shit#no shade on the thriller genre it's just not something i've read much of lately!#this will be Good For Me haha#and yeah okay dongwon and MRK talking about it made me more likely to pick it up than my dad at this stage of my life#but he still had a copy so now i have a copy (borrowed) :)#don't get me started on the 'does this mean we can reopen book borrowing' convo he wants to have tho#like no sir you wrecked my paperback LOCKE LAMORA and i'm still salty about it#because you didn't care about it#and you think storing books in our dank-ass basement is taking care of them and it's NOT#we have different standards of care and you don't meet mine#and you eat in bed all the time and i don't want your greasy ass hands on my books >:(#so i don't FEEL like it's hypocrisy not to want to share#but did i look at HPB and B&N for copies of this because of that?? yes yes i did.#i did not find a used copy i was willing to pay $4 for#and i sure as hell wasn't gonna pay $10 for it new so.....#borrowed here#library was my next stop but. he found it.#ANYWAY#i'm gonna log off and go read past the first page i think#(oh sidenote the Genre Issues are:#aw#lucius
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Sandhill Crane with its 3 week old colt by Mark Stevenson
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HAPPY ENDING: MY PAKIGE IS HERE!!!
in all ways but physical, i am pressing my face against a window muttering, “pakige?” at increasingly frantic intervals
#text#personal#yarn#knitting#the blue is Perfect the notions are Perfect#i admit i was slightly disappointed in the MONSTER TEETH because i was expecting orange/yellow/green/purple#and what i pulled out was orange/yellow (no green/purple)#but i went back and reread the listing and uh. yeah thats on me lmao#ANYWAY I GOT YARN BABEEEEY#(and ofc today ill be buying More because i have Project Needs)#but after that i swear ill pump the brakes#(so i can buy a bunch of books on Saturday 💀)#if i cannot access creative dopamine i WILL go for pakige dopamine do NOT try me
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ENJOYED THE HELL OUT OF THESE, WHAT A RIDE!! READER, I TEARED UP, I GASPED, I LAUGHED OUT LOUD, I HAD SUCH A GREAT TIME!
Books of 2024: THE GREAT CITIES DUOLOGY by N. K. Jemisin.
#books#books of 2024#the great cities duology#the city we became#the world we make#nk jemisin#book photography#my photography#YOUR HONOR I LOVE R'YLEH TOO#PAULO#FUCKEN MANNY#ALL THE BOROUGHS#THAT FUCKING ENDING (not the coda the actual Baddie Resolution 💀💀🤣🤣)#AAAAAAH HOW AM I SPOSED TO RECOVER FROM THIS!!!!!
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Shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), family Balaenicipitidae, order Pelicaniformes, Uganda
This bird is the only member of its family.
The taxonomic affinities of this bird have long been debated. It currently rests within the order Pelicaniformes. It was, in the past, often placed in the Ciconiiformes (Storks).
Its closest living relative is most likely the Hamerkop.
Photograph by Gian Luca Tognon
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