#remainders of the day

[tinynavajoreads]

Just One More Page's March Book Photo Challenge

March 2, 2023 - Currently Reading

Another day, another picture so far! This one about what book I'm currently reading and I'm reading Remainders of the Day by Shaun Bythell. I've been reading his books since I got his first book as an advanced reader's copy from ALA 2018. He has a dry, sharp wit that makes me want to keep reading and kind of want to own my own secondhand bookshop.

That, or visit his in Wigtown, Scotland. Don't know which will happen first. I do hope he keeps writing these work diaries, I love knowing more about what the day-to-day life of owning a bookshop is like.

What are you currently reading? Is it a known author you're reading, or a new author?

[tudorblogger]

‘Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown’ by Shaun Bythell

‘Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown’ by Shaun Bythell

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction – Literature Published: 2022 Format: Hardback Rating: ★★★★ Another really brilliantly funny year in the life of a second-hand book seller. I didn’t want to finish it too quickly as I wanted to enjoy some of the humour, and I had to look up some of the obscure book titles mentioned that people ordered – one of my favourites was ‘The History and Social Influence of the…

[melancholialapelada7]

Unlike previously believed, sheep do not blindly follow a dominant leader. Instead, they tend to follow the most experienced and wise individuals in the flock.

These leaders are usually older sheep that have demonstrated successful behavior in foraging and avoiding danger. Choosing leaders based on experience helps improve the survival of the flock as a whole.

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Hello, happy Valentine's Day! a little late but I hope you had a good time, some narilamb to end the day.

(Also random explanation that no one asked about the heights because I realized too late that I made the lamb more smaller than I intended)

[sysig]

Betty’s Wish (1/?) (Patreon)

It’s definitely weird that Betty, with all her Magical abilities, never met a Wishmaster, right? I think so

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[louisianimal]

FRNT/SIDE/BCK

[weltonlasso]

green goddess 💚🎄

[skitskatstudios]

HC that Saiki’s friends have realised that he won’t leave the house unless dragged out by one of them, so they’ve made a rota for who hangs out with Saiki and when.

It’s organised in a way that’s so complicated, no-one remembers it exactly (which means Saiki can’t read their minds to predict when they’re coming.)

Saiki absolutely HATES this, but goes with it anyway because getting him to leave the house once in a while seems to put his friends’ mind at ease.

[sercj]

Alright, I'm finally typing it out. Gather around, all, for the tale of the time my friends and I kidnapped a blueberry and drug them into the Vault of Glass.

Once upon a time, I used to have friends I would play Destiny 2 with regularly. None of them that feature in this story still do, to my knowledge, but at the time we were pretty cracked on the PvE side of things. At the time, we were raiding semi-regularly (when schedules lined up), and as Vault of Glass had just been added to D2 recently, it was our raid of choice that one, fateful evening.

We, like any sane PC player, were using Discord for comms, and so I had hopped into the channel to wait, and headed to the Cosmodrome for my favorite time-killing passtime - blueberry watching. For those of you unfamiliar, blueberries is an affectionate term for new destiny players, named after the color of the low rarity gear they end up decked out in, blue. The Cosmodrome, being the first public area a New Light ends up in, is often a place where you can see adorable new players getting the hang of things.

At this time, the voice channel began to fill up, and one of my compatriots joined my fireteam. We initiated some hug emotes with a blueberry and were just all-in-all chilling when we got word that one member of our team would be unable to join us. Then someone (I forget who) suggested 'hey, what if we took this blueberry along with us?'. It was a patently absurd option - we had no communication with them. Their mishmash of blue armor and crappy weapons would clearly be outclassed by the raid, leaving them unable to damage enemies and likely to die instantly if any of the vex even looked in their direction. But we started to plan a bit - really, we could do every encounter with just 5 people. We'd have to protect the blueberry, but that could be done, theoretically.

I think, in the end, we came to the conclusion that we'd try it, but they weren't likely to stick through it. After all, we weren't (and never did) using the in-game VC, or text chat. The two of us hanging out with them in the Cosmodrome sent a fireteam invite. And the blueberry accepted. So we joined the rest of the team in orbit, and launched Vault of Glass.

I could go into our specific strategies for each encounter, but for the most part it was pretty same-y. We'd use emotes and shooting to get the blueberry into a defensible position, then 5-man the encounter. And somehow, this worked. I have taught many, many people many raids in my time (including many people from this friend group!), and I have never seen someone pick up so quickly on what we needed them to do. With no actual words passing! An absolute, biggest-brained legend of a guardian.

We did get this guy all the way to Aetheon. And with some tricks (and good RNG), we were able to even defeat Aetheon. With some random blueberry nobody knew, or talked to! Unfortunately, they didn't get Mythoclast (can you imagine, though!), but they did celebrate with us with their default dance emote, and we all went our seperate ways. Nobody friended them, we just re-released them into the Cosmodrome like they hadn't just helped us save all of time or whatever the point of Vault of Glass is.

Now, perhaps this was a returning player, or someone on a new alt, who already kinda or entirely knew what was going on. But there's no real way of knowing, and it's just as (if not more) likely that this was a brand new player. Can you imagine what kind of a 'first experience' that new player had with the game? How puzzlingly odd to begin with, developing into concern as the activity we brought them to was clearly beyond them, to the 'fuck it we ball' attitude to stick with it all the way through. A true champion.

And imagine the lore perspective too. Fresh guardian, still got gravesoil in their armor, hasn't been to the tower yet, and they get scooped up into the Vault of Glass? Battle Aetheon? AND WIN!? The reaction from Shaw, or hell, the Vanguard as a whole would be amazing. Our guardians getting reprimanded for taking some fresh new light and dragging them through such a crazy difficult experience they weren't prepared for. Fun stuff to think about.

I wonder how that player is doing now. If they still play, how this particular experience flavored their perception of the game and its community. I know the community at large can be extremely toxic (and worse), but I still strive to embody the community impression we made on that day. Patience and Understanding, being goofy and silly about it, inclusive and kind. Dunno, maybe that's just me being sappy about a fun memory with friends gone by.

[the-remainder]

Two hours left!!

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[algirdasgiedraitis]

22/05 renegade chests and lost horses

renegade chests: x271, y247, on mr & mrs hill's grave x290, y181, wolf den x296, y211, abandoned mine (upper level) x326, y222, behind shipping containers near the germans house x337, y233, right in front of the bear cave

lost horses: x268, y189, south-west of the western wolf den entrance x306, y200, by the sandpit x308, y179, by the start of the red string trail x326, y166, right behind firgrove champ

shovel: x297, y241, by a stall near the vet

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Book Mail, or: I Really Need To Go Back On A Book Buying Ban, Huh.

[aaandbackstabbed]

Beakley, talking about Goldie: I say eat the bitch

Scrooge: bitch I’m trying

Beakley, disappointed, disgusted:

Scrooge: I wasn’t supposed to say that out loud.

[fantasiawandering]

TFW you find out your workplace is refusing to give you the 20 years of service employee recognition award because some of that time was spent in the part time unit.

[dustofthedailylife]

HAPPY WHITE DAY! 🤍

They did Ayato. I'm so happy!! Look at him! He is so sjdjdjdj. Delicious art! Scrumptious! Mwah! My eyes have been blessed 😭

Xiao and Itto look so good too!

[oh-jail-for-mother]

okay so they made Van survive a plane crash, a plane explosion, a wolf attack, and almost getting burned alive and now they give her cancer WHO DECIDED THIS SHIT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A WORD

[dumbfilmschoolkid]

not to put pressure on tomorrow’s episode but the future of the entire rtd1 era tumblr fandom depends on what they’ll do with it. like not to who too hard but we’ll either get some peace of mind or get pissed off for the rest of our lives for an arc that was supposed to have ended 13 years ago. deluxe tumblerina experience