A Christmas Carol (Doctor Who Style)

Ahhh, yes. Now I get it.

NASA: we used to have 9 planets but we now only have 8 Pluto: Stop telling everyone I’m not a planet! NASA: Sometimes we can still hear its voice

Absolutely!!

just wanted to share the National Down Syndrome Society’s message for this year’s World Down Syndrome Day (21st March) 💛💙

Just saw this for the first time. This is some powerful music; this and his song Sick Boi.

Ren - Hi Ren (Official Music Video)

Kaladin and Dalinar

"Will I never stop hearing about Dalinar storming Kholin? Kaladin thought."

I freakin' KNOW this is foreshadowing 👀

Tress quotes

Re-reading one of my favorite books of all time, Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. Actually, I'm listening to it on Audible this time, with the incomparable, amazing Michael Kramer narrating. I'm convinced Hoid is the funniest character narrator ever, but also somehow the most poignant; Sanderson is incredible. The thing that gets me about this book is the quotes. For example:

"One of the great tragedies of life is knowing how many people in the world are made to soar, paint, sing, or steer, except they never get the chance to find out. Whenever one does discover a moment of joy, beauty enters the world. Human beings, we can't create energy; we can only harness it. We can't create matter; we can only shape it. We can't even create life; we can only nurture it. But we can create light. This is one of the ways-the effervescence of purpose discovered."

The end of Words of Radiance

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So when Adolin kills Sadeas at the end of Words of Radiance it is so damn satisfying that I actually laughed out loud and said "YES! FINALLY!" while listening to the audiobook. But then...all I can picture is Adolin nonchalantly chucking Oathbringer out the window, "alley-oop!" dusting off his hands and then whistling as he ambles away down the corridor to find his friends "Heeeey guyz, I waz here in this other corridor all along... nothing to see down that way!"

And I'm just dying 🤣☠️

First post

This is my first post. It's nothing special. I agonized over it for weeks, trying to think of something clever or original, but unable to think of the "right" or "best" or "perfect" thing to post first. #perfectionist problems

Anyway, this is it. And now at least it's done so maybe I can get to posting some other thoughts and ideas I've had.

If you're curious, I'm a stay-at-home mom in my late thirties. I have one incredibly smart child who is going to public school (for now) so I have way too much time on my hands and yet never enough time to do the things I want or need to do. Mostly lacking in energy and motivation more than anything else. Also definitely lacking in creativity and talent. I'd like to be someone, to create or do something special, but I'm not and I can't. In school I excelled with academics and getting good grades. Now I pretty much fail at everything, so that sucks. In case you couldn't tell I struggle with anxiety, depression and self-hatred. That's about all anyone would need to know.

I've given you exactly 0 reasons to follow me, why are you still here? If you got this far I'll tell you this: humans are amazing. I love quotes so there will probably be a lot of those. Thanks for... listening? Reading?

Stormlight, finally

I've read (and loved) almost every single Brandon Sanderson book so far, except the Stormlight series. I just finished Warbreaker and now I'm finally starting The Way of Kings. Wish me luck...

This is true for my 5-year-old, we have this conversation nightly and she has to be reassured that we won't be around when the moon recedes from the earth in 100,000 years and when the sun burns out 😅 Though her science book said it's more like 4 billion years...

ReDawn revelation

Did Alanik really just imply that Tolkien preserved some of her people's language in the Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit?!