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I don’t know what I find more hilarious, that there are men’s food and women’s food or that men aren’t supposed to read or write because it’s not manly, only women allowed to be scientists, mathematicians, historians and artists is fucking awesome

[aliens-correspondent]

Sooooo

How many parties are there in this conflict???

Who are those men wearing black and that man with the crescent scar who’s hunting and killing the radiants?

What is the king of Taravangian, the king of Kharbranth, working toward? Killing all those highprinces for?

Are the Ghostblood working for or against Odium?

Good question, who is working for who/what?

I probably should reread this

I’m 60% into Words of Radiance and I’m still confused as hell.

[aliens-correspondent]

currently reading the bands of mourning and someone tell me why it feels like an Indiana Jones story but Mistborn edition?

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I’m Iraqi.

I was a child when the US invaded us. I was learning to read and write. I read whatever I found, newspapers, books I wouldn’t understand, street signs and posters. Mostly it was TV news because that’s what was constantly on.

I would sit in front of the TV to read the news on that moving bar low on the screen. It showed the same sentences but with different numbers.

“At Tayran sq. a bomb killed 172 people and injured 200.

At Cairo st a US missile fell on a house suspected to harbor Al-Qaeda and kill the family inside. 4 children are dead.

..”

This is how I learned to read.

I still remember what I read, it didn’t register as a child but I since understood. I didn’t cry then but I’ve been crying since and it hurts constantly like it’s a fresh wound.

I’ve not read a single book (I’m always reading) since Oct 7th. I’m only reading the news. Each hour a death toll is announced, with pictures and videos and stories.

I’m living both my past and this present. I’m mourning my people and the Palestinians both. My grief is consuming and eating me.

[aliens-correspondent]

So basically the shattering of the shards of the Cosmere is the equivalent to the big bang theory of our universe

right? right?

[aliens-correspondent]

"the stark, utter, silently screaming terror—that if he got too close to the edge, then something would take over, and he would find himself walking to the edge of a cliff top and then he would just step off into space. It was as if he could not entirely trust himself, and that scared Richard more than the simple fear of falling ever could."

- Neverwhere, Neil Gaiman

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˝He couldn’t understand how he had failed to see them before. Old age, he thought; he would soon be twenty-three.˝

- Neverwhere, @neil-gaiman

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I'm reading Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman, started it this morning and I'm loving it so far. Neil Gaiman has a unique writing style, easy to read but sounds fancy and fun and magical, every word he writes sounds magical. And I'm falling more in love with him.

Neverwhere, the story plot, is fascinating, not that it's a brand new idea (from how far I've read) but it's told in a very fun way and the weird and bizarre names of the characters makes it even more unique.