The Platonic Ideal of a Girlboss

Song of Songs 8:6. Catholic. Barefoot woman working on a car in the driveway. "I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm doing it a lot." (why-bless-your-heart) Sq 220/180, B 160, DL 280, C&J (135)105

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You want fantasy with dragons but no child soldiers? Temeraire.

Fantasy with monsters and wizards and a protagonist who cares about children and protecting them? The Witcher.

Fantasy with cool powers and a big scary evil controlling despot who needs to be defeated? Mistborn.

Western where the adults care about the children and try to protect them even if they sometimes fail and are ultimately fatally flawed? Lonesome Dove.

Science fiction with robots and no children in danger? Murderbot.

Wacky hijinks science fiction on a spaceship with no children involved? Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

World building (literally) science fiction? Children of Time.

Alien contact science fiction? The Three Body Problem or The Winter World.

Other just, really,, good sci fi? Anything by Andy Weir

Saving a magical kingdom with no children involved? Spinning Silver.

Fantasy world setting with a fun adventure to save the world but the children are not in real danger and their parents care about them? Dark Lord of Derkholm

Sci Fi on a spaceship to find out why the universe is collapsing and also fight an evil empire? The Divide series.

I could go on, but you get the point. Find what you want to read. Read what makes you happy. Stop reading things that are clearly upsetting you. There are so many books out there and no reason to waste your time on ones you don't like.

My Goodreads, if you're interested.

I have a writing sideblog now, hinc-dracones.

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I have got to put more books in boxes

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I've filled four boxes with books and it's starting to look like I own a normal person amount of books.

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I have got to put more books in boxes

[quonunc]

The woman who wrote the piano curriculum that I learned from and somewhat pioneered the pedagogy philosophy behind it once gave a talk at a piano concert I went to about how so many people say "oh I used to play piano" and how her philosophy was that her curriculum should give piano students the foundation to continue playing for their entire lives even if they don't continue as consistently as they did while children

And as a child I was like "pshh what nonsense"

And I dont profess to be any type of expert in music pedagogy so I really can't say if this is actually due to that curriculum or simply some natural stubbornness on my part but if people ask me if I play an instrument I do still say "I play piano" without any reservation, even if it's been months since I actually practiced because I know that I can at most moments bang out a passable version of at least part of the Turkish Rondo without warning which is impressive enough to most lay people

But I also hear lots of other people say "ahh I used to play piano" and I'm proud to say that I retained the snobbiness of my childhood self because this does now cause me to think of my old piano teacher and raise my eyebrows to myself and go "pshh what nonsense"

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whoops

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The good news is my keyboard parts for Eternal Father, Panis Angelicus, and Old Hundredth are all still pretty respectable so with a week to practice I should be ok. As long as I don't crash out.

[queerofthedagger]

the fun thing about having a mental health crashout in your thirties is that sure yeah you're crashing out, but at the same time there's a part of you standing across the room smoking ben affleck style, going yeah yeah you're crashing out. you crashed out before you will crash out again can we wrap this up yet. and the most annoying part about it is that they're right, and that that does Not stop you from crashing out even a little. love and light on planet earth.

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I need someone else to appreciate this taco place's name

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whoops

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HMMM.

[loreleywrites]

im always saying this

[targetedknowledge]

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Yeah I play the challenge version of Silksong called "no skills no tools" because I need my silk to heal and I take so many attempts to beat bosses that I run out of shell shards if I use tools so yeah you could say I'm a challenge runner

[thememedaddy]

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I love the YouTuber bit where a guy puts a t-shirt on his head to act as the woman character in a skit, 10/10 every time

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Time to see if I can get heat stroke sitting in the parking lot at church

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I am unfortunately a sucker for the re-version of Hades + Persephone to be she chooses to stay but also I refuse to let anyone forget that HE DID KIDNAP HER stop making this some sanitized thing

[river-of-wine]

Hades gives Orpheus a trial he knows he himself could never succeed at, but it isn’t just that Hades knows he would turn around. Hades has been failing this trial every single year. He shows up too early. He turns too soon. He is so full of doubt that even the natural order of the world, that Persephone will return to him, is not something he can trust. Hades would fail the trial he has given Orpheus, and he already has. All alone, his blood runs thin.

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He kidnapped her.