I’d like your opinion on (if you even recognize) any of these childhood series that I totally adored but can barely even vaguely remember now. Included multiple because you might not recognize any.
1: Deltora (I was going to say Deltora Quest but I think maybe that was just part of it?)
2: Gone? Lost? Something about a bunch of kids getting stuck in a city with no adults by a barrier and starting to develop powers.
4: A kid with a doorway to another world in his basement and he and his friend would go through to have magic adventures? I think it started with a D.
5: A crazy rich kid gets a book that seals monsters which is good cause there are sudddnly evil fairies everywhere and a shady Templar group. I think the first book was called the Shadow King.
6: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (actually finished this one! It, like any of these, would make a great anime.)
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The only one that even slightly rings a bell is Deltora, I'm afraid. Which I vaguely associate with a sort of very crunchy choose-your-own-adventure book series (as in you had multiple stats whose values were tracked and such)? The rest all sound entirely new to me.
Gone is one of the GOATs, it's written by Animorphs co-author Michael Grant (Applegate's husband). The setting may be very different but it has a lot of the qualities I liked about ASOIAF actually.
I read Cinder House (Freya Marske) the other day and really enjoyed it. I think I've been a bit snooty and pre-judgmental about tor.com novella stuff*, and also the glut of fairy tale retellings, so when I heard this was a good book I was just like eh idk. But this was really nice. The main characters (Ella and others who I won't spoil) all felt complex and compelling to me. The house embodiment stuff was really cool, well-described and with lots of surprising detail. And I like Cinderella (I mean, magical costume/persona transformation, true love and connection against all odds, shitty family-- I just like it. I like happy endings a lot) and I was surprised at how Marske re-interpreted things. (See spoiler under cut.) It's short and good and I'd enjoy talking about it with whoever.
* I do think that Tor, like some other publishers, has a problem of same-voiciness/same-editorness in a good chunk of its work. (But not all!!)
Spoiler:
SURPRISE TRIO SITUATION. SURPRISE EPISTOLARY SCIENTIST PAL IS THE BEAUTIFUL GOTHY SORCERER PRINCESS. EMO PRINCE WHO LOVES TO DANCE. HOUSE AND GHOST AND FAMILY AND SHIT. SEXY STUFF. COOL AND GOOD.
Parent ranting, please skip if you aren't up for it
Today is my mother's birthday and the first day of Pride. It's extremely stupid that this will continue to be true, like, forever, for certain values of forever
I feel as if I lack consistency in my approach to my parents. Sometimes I withdraw and sometimes I extend myself a little. I can understand why that might feel confusing and hurtful. To them, I mean. Because if you don't accept that you've done anything wrong, my behavior is just another thing I'm doing to hurt them.
But that's bullshit for several reasons that I seem to need to point out to myself. First of all, I need to be able to decide what I do and don't do based on what I think I can tolerate, and that doesn't follow any system of consistency or propriety that anyone else can apply. It has to be me listening to me. Second of all, like, are we forgetting the yearslong cruelty and transphobia and homophobia against both me and my loved ones? Why is it that no decisions I make, none of my current behavior, gets to operate under that lens?
I think now other members of my family are beginning to understand, and my decisions actually *do* get to operate under that lens. (Though I'm afraid they don't.) It's my parents who don't believe it, because of course they don't, and why should I care what they think. But they're my fucking parents, and I was conditioned over a period of 30 or so years to care about what they think above all else.
It really fucking sucks that I can't like... celebrate who I've become with them. This person who is still me but truer and happier. They just do not give a single flying fuck. (And they think of themselves as liberals, too, which is wild.) I still love them and I think they think they still love me. It's so easy to get caught up in these details about how to act on this day or about this event or whatever the fuck, when the basic truth is still just that I did something they didn't want me to do and they rejected me summarily, and I'd been dreading that possibility my entire life and told myself it was irrational, but clearly it was a response to who they were and what they were showing me, and I don't think they need me to mollycoddle their fucking feelings about how I don't want to go to a birthday party when my mom won't speak of my partners or acknowledge that I'm trans.
I do not know what the fuck to do with this pain. I can't, like, solve it. I know I'm better than I used to be but for fuck's sake.
what are people's favorite niche ice cream flavors. mine are superman and blue moon (specifically from the midwest like michigan/indiana/wisconsin), van leeuwen's royal wedding cake, and jeni's wildberry lavender
My first Fire Emblem crush was (and still is) Lyn ;; w ;; 🙏💖💕💕 I just totally envision her as this super hot, gay, oblivious jock and I am in love with her 😭💦👏💖💕✨
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