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Cosmere x Mass Effect

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Get yourself a friend who will come over and listen to you bitch about how shitty your weekend was, give you a massage, get you off a bunch of times, and then eat after sex gummy bears with you before taking off early enough you still have some time to read or play video games before you have to go to bed

Current mood:

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Fridge Four designed by ModernMerida commissioned by flyingquill

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this meme totally tanked on Reddit but maybe you guys will like it (or maybe it’s just bad, that’s okay too)

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Oh reading update I should have given you guys a couple of days ago!!!

Wow this ended up being longer than I expected. Preview of what I talk about below the cut so I don’t take over everyone’s homepage if you’re only here for cosmemes: Priory of the Orange Tree (Samantha Shannon), The Slow Regard of Silent Things (Patrick Rothfuss), Kings of the Wyld (Nicholas Eames), The Broken Eye (Brent Weeks)

I finished priory of the orange tree. I loved it, but I felt like the last 300 pages or so dragged until I got to the ending. It could just be me though, the changes at work really cut into my reading time so I spent more days reading that book than I’d planned. Definitely recommend, it’s got dragons and politics and court intrigue and queer rep and spies and secret sects and all sorts of things.

Then I read the slow regard of silent things in one night. It was cute and weird and a lot of fun. I wouldn’t consider it essential reading for kingkiller chronicles, but it IS Auri’s pov and she’s definitely my favorite character so I could t skip it. Another highly recommended, and it’s spoiler free so if you just want to read a week in the life of a quirky girl with maybe OCD and definitely anxiety living in the tunnels under a city, I’d recommend it. The tunnels are cool, not icky, there’s an abandoned ballroom down there!

Now I’m reading Kings of the Wyld. I’ve seen it described as the A-team reunited and someone’s wild dnd campaign. I’m only on page 70 but I’m already comfortable saying those people are wrong. This is a 70s rock band trying to hold a reunion tour in 2010 when emo reigns. I’m really enjoying the campy humor especially after priory of the orange tree, which was so so so serious.

I’m also about halfway through book 3 of lightbringer (the broken eye) too on my audiobook. I’m liking that series a lot. Brent Weeks isn’t great with characterizing women and I’ll never argue with that but I think people overstate how bad he is. The women of Night Angel seriously needed some personality but the women in lightbringer actually have agency and a lot of depth. They’re not perfect and Karris is more motivated by men than she probably should be, but she still makes decisions for herself. And Teia might be my favorite female character he’s written. So it’s not all bad, just depends on how sensitive your meter is for unintentional sexism. For me, I tend to be more forgiving of older books than newer books, especially when you can see the author is making an effort to improve.

I think that’s all I’ve got. Based on how fast I’m going through kings of the wyld in the rare opportunity I do get to crack it open, I’ll go through it pretty fast, so I’m already starting to think about what I’ll be reading next. I’ve got a few things standing out on my bookshelf to me right now but we’ll see how I feel when it’s time for the next one. Mood reader problems I guess 😂

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Choose your fighter

Yes I realize that I made a typo on both. I didn’t feel like fixing it. Leaving your typos is a form of self care

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I posted before about how insane work is right now because I’m learning TWO new roles at the same time. I literally went from focusing on research and one highly specialized subject of consulting to having almost 0 time for research (that I still have to do) to having to consult on SO MANY THINGS the last month. And that’s just for one of the new roles. The other new role is being our technical lead’s backup, which I agreed to do 1 week ago and only really started training on today. But guess what the tech lead is going to be out all next week and somehow IM SUPPOSED TO BE IN CHARGE

The thing is I’m doing great. I’m not even “faking it til I make it” I actually do know what I’m doing. But like

HOW DID I GET HERE

WHY DO I STILL HAVE IMPOSTER SYNDROME

I’m 36 years old and I have a PhD. If it hasn’t gone away yet I don’t think it’ll ever go away

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Rereading Words of Radiance again and Eshonai and Venli are once again driving me insane. Like. What if we were both driven by knowledge and insatiable curiosity but you wanted freedom and I wanted power. What if you wanted to understand and I wanted to win. What if we were sisters. What if I lived my entire life in your shadow but now it is my chance to protect — what if I could make you stronger, faster, better. What if your trust in me was your un-doing. What if my trick could grant you power but you never wanted power in the first place. What if I gave you my heart’s desire but it was never yours. What if I found your body at the bottom of a chasm. What if I lived to become everything you could have been. What then

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It’s all her fault. Get her, boys

3,500-year-old burial of Nubian woman reveals 1 of world's earliest known cases of rheumatoid arthritis

The 3,500-year-old pockmarked skeleton of an ancient Nubian woman could be one of the earliest known cases of rheumatoid arthritis in the world, scientists say.

Archaeologists discovered the woman's skeletal remains in 2018 while conducting excavations at a cemetery located along the bank of the Nile near Aswan, in southern Egypt. Analyses revealed that she would have stood around 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall, been around 25 to 30 years old when she died and lived sometime between 1750 and 1550 B.C. The researchers published their case study in the March issue of the International Journal of Paleopathology.

Because the skeleton was so well preserved and contained most of its bones, including its hands and feet, the researchers were able to conduct a thorough osteological analysis of the remains. Read more.

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Q is for…

Quellion!

Cosmere Alphabet Game

Let's go. I'll start!

A is for... Alikk!

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I have the hardest time doing the weirdest things. I finally worked up the energy to get my car washed today. I need you guys to understand, I go to a full service place. All I have to do is put my car in neutral for the wash bay thing, and then after I sit here while they clean my interior. Why is that so hard??? Idk but I’m gonna be proud of myself for getting it done anyway

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the thing with Kal and Adolin is that their charming aura doesn't work on each other. So at first their every interaction is like:

Adolin:

(meaning a little bitch)

to which Kal is like: takes one to know one (also meaning a little bitch)

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This is literally me right now. I need to get up and get ready for work. But it’s Friday and I’m so tired so instead I’m laying here scrolling tumblr.