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Happy birthday! 🥳🎉🎉🎉🪅

thankssssssss 🥰🥰🥰

[avalonjoan]

5 and 13 for the pitt healthcare workers asks :)

answering them in reverse order because WOOF is 13 a good one.

13. stupidest thing you’ve said to a patient?

to set the scene: hibiclens is a topical chlorhexidine product that we use to clean the skin

it is a beautiful color--a rich, clear pink.

enter our hero: I am doing a skin tag removal with my boss

the skin tag is located on the patient's vulva. she is draped in a way that does not allow her to see what I'm doing.

I am prepping the area with the hibiclens and say out loud:

"it's such a pretty pink color"

after a beat, my boss says, "the soap that we're using the clean the area. is a bright pink color."

I realize that perhaps looking at a patient's vulva and commenting without any lead-in about something being a 'pretty pink color' is perhaps not the best thing.

we all have a good laugh

truly my Mel King "I see hair!" [crickets] "Baby hair!" moment

5. if you needed someone to calm you down during your own medical emergency, which pitt character would you feel most comforted by?

for docs, Cassie Mckay. I think that it would be comforting to me that she's older than I am. And I think she'd do a good job of keeping me calm post-seizure, which is historically the main reason I've been in the ER.

for nurses, Perlah. she's good at matching people's energy and has a very soothing voice.

pitt asks for healthcare workers

[clotpolesonly]

The post jordan's death declan/hennessy fic you mentioned 👀 if it ever leaves your brain; i'd love to read it

it is incredibly vague ngl, i just think the vibes would be off the charts, Declan and Hennessy clinging to each other as the closest thing they each can get to the person they really loved while simultaneously hating and hurting and blaming each other for somehow being the reason she's gone, it would be TRAGIC and it would be HOT!!!!!

[clotpolesonly]

14 for the ask culture game 😁

14) if you could give a TED talk on anything, what would you talk about?

it would probably have to be some kind of critique of a fandom thing, i'm not well versed enough to speak at length about anything else 😂😂😂 but i have a great many opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of my beloved books and shows

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ask me thingsssss

[klainelynch]

Hi there! Could you do 9 and 17 for the book ask game :)

Thank you for these questions!

9. What’s one book you think everyone should read? 

I'm biased because it is my favorite book, but I do think that everyone would get something from The Count of Monte Cristo. It's exciting, dramatic, and grapples with questions of morality about how you should respond to betrayal/injustice and when/how revenge is morally permissible.

17. What’s the weirdest book you’ve ever read? 

This is a GREAT question that I wish I had a better answer for. As I was flipping through my Storygraph and trying to remember which books I've read that could be considered weird, I realized that most of my books are pretty normal. I want to try to find a truly weird book for this year 😆 Anyway Meanwhile by Jason Shiga is a choose your own adventure, and it spans genres and tones in a way that makes me feel ok listing it as a weird book. Definitely a fun time and a time suck in the best way!

[dalniente]

15 and w3 for the aging tumblr asks, please

yaaaay :D

15: do you collect anything?

not really! mostly just clutter, lol. clutter and trivia. i have tried to start various collections over the years, but none of them have stuck. if i ever do wind up collecting something, it'll have to happen organically

23: what's the coolest place you've visited?

so there's this little town in Hungary called Újszász, and i swear to god, the water that comes out of the bathroom taps in a particular boarding school there is the best fucking water i've ever had in my life. idk about "coolest" but man it's gotta be somewhere in either Hungary or Romania, and that's the first place that came to mind. (also that school made. the best drink. some kinda honey tea? idk but it was fucking incredible.)

i'll try to remember to reblog this this weekend and give some actual memories of those trips because DAMN i had some fabulous times and formative experiences with my choirs.

[klainelynch]

Hello! For the end of year book asks: 17 and 39 😊

Ooh these are two great questions, thank you!!

17. Top five books of the year

I'm excluding rereads from this, and some are ones I've mentioned before, but here's five new favorites from this year, not in any particular order:  1. Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins. I had a sense of what I wanted and expected this book to be, and Collins hit every note for me in ways that were richer and deeper than I could have predicted. I read another book this year that was set within an established world, and while the cameos in that book felt contrived more often than not, the ones in this book added to the plot and character development in such interesting ways. And as always, my advice to anyone who's reading it for the first time: have a copy of Catching Fire close by when you read about what happens inside of the games; you'll really get to see what choices Collins makes as an author for how plot develops theme. 2. Raise the Roof: The Inspiring Inside Story of the Tennessee Lady Volunteers Undefeated 1997-98 Season - Pat Summitt & Sally Jenkins. I've had this book in my classroom library for years and finally read it, and I absolutely loved it. Pat Summitt was such an incredible person and makes me proud to be a Volunteer even with all the *waves arms at everything Tennessee these days* but she always centered her players in a way that many coaches claim to do but she actually did. If the ask had been for best books, this one might not have made the cut, but it's certainly one of my favorites. 3. Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle - Shannen Dee Williams. I started this book in 2024 and finished it this month. This book would fit right in a college reading list, and that's part of why it took me so long, but it was well worth the effort. The Catholic Church has a lot of sins that people are well aware of, but this was a new area for me, and I found so many new lows for my people 🫠 Williams did a great job at holding individuals and institutions to task while showcasing how and why individuals fought to keep a place in a church that didn't deserve them. I wish I could make this book required reading for every American Catholic. 4. Mighty Millie Novak - Elizabeth Holden. When people learn that I play roller derby, they often ask if I've seen Whip It (yes, though I didn't see it until a few years into playing). That movie has so many little derby things that are fun to point out as a player, but since it's banked track and more of a coming of age story, the derby things aren't as much of my experience. This book? Had me SCREECHING at the derby moments!!! Specific drills, the dreaded 27-in-5, muscle aches, punny names—if you want to know what it's like to be a roller derby player, this is absolutely the book you should read. Add in a sweet romance and I'm totally sold on this book. 5. Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents - Octavia E. Butler. Is it cheating to put both these books together? Absolutely, but I don't care xD I read these because the first book is set in 2025, so it felt appropriate to return to Butler (who I first met in college with Kindred). There is no way to describe what happens in these books without feeling reductive of Butler's power as a storyteller. Yes, they have incredibly depressing and horrifying moments. Yes, there are some incredibly bleak parallels you can draw with our world today. But they are so much more than that, and even though she gives us a satisfying resolution each time, she doesn't tie it up with a nice neat bow or insist that the suffering her characters endured caused this ending. There's pain because that's life. There's life because her characters choose to keep living. It's hard, and it's enough.

39. Five books you absolutely want to read next year?

My reading goal for next year is to have my Storygraph goal be 4 stars or higher, so I want to be more selective with what I read (rather than just trying to get more books in). These are five I know I want to read: 1. Persuasion - Jane Austen 2. The Spear Cuts Through Water - Simon Jimenez 3. The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler - John Hendrix 4. Six of Crows: A Darker Shore - Leigh Bardugo 5. Beasts of the Four Nations: Creatures from Avatar: the Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra - John O'Bryan, Bryan Konietzko, & Michael Dante DiMartino

Thank you again for sending me questions from this ask game!

[clotpolesonly]

💝 + Ourself behind ourself concealed

💝 ourself, behind ourself concealed + What is your favourite part of this story?

oh god, that's a hard one..... maybe the progression of working Noah's deadness into it. him becoming more and more obviously Less Than Alive as he uses up all his energy staying corporeal enough to be touched. playing with temperature, the inconsistent presence of his pulse, the mask of aliveness slipping to show corpse beneath it. i had a lot of fun with all that.

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