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Yep, it's another fab installment of the Young Reader Epic Series Keeper of the Lost Cities and it's yet another example of why this series is so AWESOME!
The best part about this one is that you can feel the characters growing up in it. Shannon Messenger has definitely created something truly amazing with this series! READ MORE. 
SJM's writing has been sliding downhill fast since the wrap of the Throne of Glass series and this latest installment of the A Court of Thorns and Roses series is an atrocious example of just how far she has truly fallen... This novel is absolutely
a DISGUSTING and PROBLEMATIC DISPLAY OF SHAMEFUL MENTAL HEALTH HANDLING... I really cannot explain in sufficient viciousness how frustrated it makes me that poor, unsuspecting teenagers are reading this with no understanding of how damaging it is to absorb the perceptions it promotes as 'healthy' and 'progressive'... READ MORE HERE. |
IT'S SHARK WEEK!
And that is something I take VERY seriously. Discovery Shark Week has officially been running for 34 years now, and I've been watching for at least 20 of them. Sharks are pretty well universally feared and culled by their millions, murdered out of raw fear and cruelly butchered for psychotic levels of capitalist profit. We kill WELL over 100 million sharks per year (Smithsonian). Conversely, you are actually NOT very likely to even encounter a shark within a 100 sqft area of ocean, let alone be injured by one. 
Considering how perfectly evolved Sharks are to be the ocean's apex predator, sharks are not actually all that threatening a danger to humans. Certainly, they are not as much a danger to us as other humans are.
You are 25 times more likely to be bitten by a New Yorker than by a shark. So take a few minutes to learn more about these amazing creature, what Shark Week does to help them, and what you can do to contribute to the effort (no money required). In celebration of Shark Week, I may be writing up a few more Shark-themed posts during this time, but I will definitely be pushing myself to get more Fanfic chapters out to literally bribe what audience I have to address into thinking differently about sharks. I sincerely hope that all of you take these animals to be the beautiful, critical creatures that they truly are!!!! READ MORE. 🌊🦈🌊🦈🌊🦈🌊 |
As another installment of the Grisha Verse, I knew this would be a good one, but Leigh Bardugo pulled out all the YA Fantasy stops to create a truly epic MASTERPIECE! The accurate depiction of psychology alone makes it extremely well worth reading, and the healthy depictions of coping mechanisms (and the explicit calling-out of unhealthy ones) is just an exceptional example of beautiful writing and elegant storytelling is properly nuanced literature. READ MORE.
The Last of Us Part II was SO promising. I wanted so badly to like it, and for much of the time it took to play, I really did enjoy it. But the ending was abhorrent and it made a lot of the middle-game pieces I didn't enjoy feel a LOT less tolerable. It was one of the absolute most fun video games I've played in a while, but it was also crippling in how chock full of triggers it was... Not to mention how egregiously socially-irresponsible some of the messaging was... So much was simply inexcusable and as much as I liked parts of it, the overall assessment I have to give it is not one that could ever be construed as favorable. READ MORE HERE. |
Whelp, June did not go as planned. I definitely felt very rushed and cornered because I bout of depression-based executive disfunction caught me by the throat (this whole job-search thing is really starting to get to me...). Beyond that, Star Wars has kind of taken over my life a bit, which is a new obsession that I've allowed myself to dive headlong into because it was something to be excited about in the midst of feeling like an abject failure on most other counts...
I wound up with a final daily average of 2,608 and a final count of ~78,250, which is technically a better result than last month, but I got less of the goals I'd set for myself even half accomplished... It means I'm both mildly pleased and disappointed in myself for it all, but READ MORE to see how it breaks down! |
A work of fanfiction depicting a crossover that I didn't know I wanted until I was halfway through writing it! This started as a plot bunny that I let off the leash in sporadic moments of downtime, and it's evolved into my current focus for posting in my list of active projects.
The plot follows the Winchesters (& co.) and the Bat Family (primarily Tim, Jason, and Dick), after Tim screws up and gets yanked into a parallel universe. The primary pairings are Destiel (Dean x Castiel) and Red-Squared (Tim x Jason), with a lot of brotherly / found-family bonding in between. There are two versions of this fic, one from the Bat Family's PoVs and one from the PoVs of Team Free Will. I highly recommend that you read both of them, because each one will cover different conversations / events that involve both sides but are only really necessary for one sides' development. Chapters post weekly on Saturdays (alternating for each story to have a bi-weekly routine) and are up 2-4 weeks early for Patrons to read pre-edit! |
Announcements:
Due to the rigors of Job-Hunting and my involvement in various Special Projects, I'll be city-hoping on rather short notice, so updates may be delayed and irregular.
I may even be entirely absent for extended stretches of time, but I'll be back and posting eventually!
Wish me luck! (Or better yet, get in touch with me personally.)
I may even be entirely absent for extended stretches of time, but I'll be back and posting eventually!
Wish me luck! (Or better yet, get in touch with me personally.)
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