#About Jenara

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Playlist Masterpost

Fuck it, Spoofy playlist masterpost be upon ye! Some of them encompass more than one OC!

Atticus and Birdie - Old Lovebirds reuniting their fondness for each other.

The Stormfront - Coming like the Storm itself - tearing your world into disarray.

Suburb Kids - An axolotl, a frog and an alligator's outings to the skate park.

Mizz Riptide and the Undertow - Setlist for the Human-Fronted Monster Rock Band

Astrid - Women want her, Men also want her, fish fear her.

Cécé - That one macaw that loves EDM and hates shoes

Demetrius - Lynx Demon living as a summon in Nova Scotia

Ectibod - The Bug Demon. The Papa Roach, if you will

Einar - The Troll-Fae Hybrid Vagabond

Elijah - The Witch studying Fae

Flamma - World's Angriest Firecracker

Flint - World's Worrisome Pebble

Freya - Most Professional-Looking Shadow

Haniel - Tyrannical Seraph Hellbent on Victory

Ira - Vampire "Mommy" Beats to Suck Blood To

Izzy - Scene Game Dev that's a lil silly

Jenara - The Heralded Ice Skater Fairy devoted to the Moon

Juni - The By-The-Books Royal Fairy that cosplays as an office worker.

Karl - The absolute Mad Lad Incubus

Laivas - The Puppeted Witch with Mal

Lysander - Tiger Demon Bodyguard with a voice of gold

Narcissa - Hell's Sleepiest Girlie Slob

Niles - Disgraced Teacher-turned-Mad Scientist

Noxxy - The Shadow Being that "rawrs", ecksdee

Oliver - The Were-Rabbit Teacher-also-Inventor

Ophira - The Witch-Unicorn what will - if you ask - step on you

Paolo - The Wine-Making Goat and a chill dude

Quyen - Displaced Witch with a Possessed Hat and an owly companion.

Ramone - Love Witch Student, also a Prince fanatic

Tamisra - The Baddest Cambrion Bitch in the world (Her words not mine)

Tarmo - Battle-worn Fairy Looking to a Future

Techko - Angsty Lab Assistant and Gecko-Enthusiast

Thermuthis - DIY Crocodile and a Dadlike

Valerio - Reluctant Main Character, Wants a Quiet Life

Waryck - Vampiric Demon, the one LITERALLY raised by Bats

Wilbur - The Grandpa Cat who runs a Curiosity shop and doesn't run short on butterscotch sweets

Yalanda - Avid Baker, Chronic Romantic and Metalhead

Ysrael - Dragon Hitman Living Too Closely to the saying "Fuck Bitches, Get Money".

[galactic-rhea]

*guy who is so normal about surgery voice* surgerylesson…what is surgerylesson…

HEY, I'M NOT NORMAL ABOUT MEDICAL STUFF EITHER, LET'S BE FRIENDS-

Ah, yes, yes, that's meant to be a little oneshot from...some whumptober list i completely lost, but it was Anakin saving Ahsoka from some building collapsing during a mission and getting separated from the rest in an empty city, but Anakin being Anakin (aka, the guy with the worst luck ever) got a nasty wound and Ahsoka didn't notice until Anakin pretty much falls to the ground and starts writhing in pain.

Ahsoka's voice trembled, failing to finish any logical sentence. He grimaced, not out of pain, but because he had never quite seem her so distraught, so scared, she never looked more like a child than now. "It's fine,Snips,just…some blood loss," He made sure to press the wound harder, not that it was helping very much. He closed his eyes and focused, Ahsoka said something, but he couldn't spare too much of his attention on it, he needed to think. "The medkit," he breathes, then doesn't wait to see if Ahsoka heard him at all. "Does…Does master Jenara still teaches padawans nursery basics?" He thinks Ahsoka's answer was a not yet. He couldn't remember exactly when or why, but he remembers where; he remembers the twin suns' implacable warm and the pained voice of his mother stating how important was to keep the sand out of the wound, somehow. He remembers crying and being scared of needles for months. And then he remembers being an older padawan, and being alone with Obi-Wan in some jungle with bloodsucking bugs, and Obi-Wan's pained voice trying to make a snide comment about Anakin's rather clumsy sewing, 'No more Caff for you, my young padawan'. "Use the scissors,cut the fabric away," he explains even before she has opened the kit. "I don't…" Ahsoka kneels beside him, starting to uncover the wound. "You'll have to," once again he closes his eyes and focuses, he's pretty sure something made its way deep into his flesh, glass…perhaps. "Steady breaths, Snips, count to ten and then back to one. I'll tell you what to do." "But, Master, I don't…you—, I've never—" He feels cold, but then again, he always has been sensitive to anything that isn't a blazing sunset. He bites his inner cheek until he tastes blood and momentarily imagines Ahsoka holding his dead body, and that's something he can't allow her to ever see, that's something no one should've to deal with, he couldn't allow her to be left alone. "You'll see worse, this is wa—" he falls silent.

Wip title game! let people let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, then post a little snippet or tell them something about it

[le-trash-prince]

Okay here is the final list of all the books I’ve finished this year! (since it doesn’t look like I’m going to get anything finished or even started this week.)

I tend to not finish things if I’m not enjoying them (two exceptions on this list because sometimes I am spiteful), so I liked all of these—but the ones in bold are those I particularly loved (I only bolded one per series or it would just be a wall of The Murderbot Diaries lol).

LGBT+ books read: 48

wlw books read: 22

trans/nb books: 17

I’m very happy with my year in reading. I hit my new year’s goal of 52 books finished. And I read a lot of things that I really fucking loved. Lots of robots. LOTS of scifi/fantasy sapphics which I am SO happy about. Some good horror, some good fucky “romances”. A lot of things written in response to the Trump era or written during 2020 lockdown.

I also enjoyed partaking in online book fandom for the first time in possibly ever! Especially Murderbot fandom, which is very active and creative and lovely.

(If you followed me for my bookblogging, thank you for enduring my Thai BL vroom vroom omegaverse brainrot. It will not be stopping anytime soon.)

For 2024, I am going to keep my goal at 52 books and save any extra time I have for rereading old things.

Anyways the list, for posterity:

After Midnight: A History of Independent India by Meghaa Gupta

The Old Place by Bobby Finger

Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell

The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae

Women and Girls With Autism Spectrum Disorder by Sarah Hendrickx

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg

Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk

Strictly No Heroics by B. L. Radley

Love after the End edited by Joshua Whitehead

Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela

All Systems Red by Martha Wells

The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores

Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

Network Effect by Martha Wells

The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho

The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi

Flux by Jinwoo Chong

Burning Roses by S. L. Huang

In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune

Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed

The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi

What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

The Witch King by Martha Wells

A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon

We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird

Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree

Galveston’s Maceo Family Empire by T. Nicole Boatman et al

Blood Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Galveston’s Red Light District: A History of the Line by Kimber Fountain

Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake

In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard

The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Linghun by Ai Jiang

Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger

The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie

Spear by Nicola Griffith

The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older

Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starking

Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri

The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Iona Datt Sharma & Katherine Fabian

System Collapse by Martha Wells

Silver Nitrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele

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Bibliography: books posted on this blog in 2024

Sara AHMED (2010): The Promise of Happiness

Cat BOHANNON (2023): Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Holly BRIDGES (2014): Reframe Your Thinking Around Autism: How the Polyvagal Theory and Brain Plasticity Help Us Make Sense of Autism

Johann CHAPOUTOT (2024): The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi

Caroline CRIADO-PEREZ (2019): Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Gavin DE BECKER (2000): Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Virginie DESPENTES (2006): King Kong Theory

Annie ERNAUX (2000): Happening

Lisa FELDMAN BARRETT (2017): How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Shaun GALLAGHER (2012): Phenomenology

David GRAEBER (2015): The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy

Henrik HASS and Torben HANSEN (2023): Unconscious Intelligence in Cybernetic Psychology

Yuval Noah HARARI (2024): Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

Sarah HENDRICKX (2015): Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

Sarah HILL (2019): This Is Your Brain on Birth Control: The Surprising Science of Women, Hormones, and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Luke JENNINGS (2017): Killing Eve: Codename Villanelle

Bernardo KASTRUP (2021): Decoding Jung’s Metaphysics: The Archetypal Semantics of an Experiential Universe

Roman KOTOV, Thomas JOINER, Norman SCHMIDT (2004): Taxometrics: Toward a new diagnostic scheme for psychopathology

Benjamin LIPSCOMB (2021): The Women are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

Dorian LYNSKEY (2024): Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of the World

Kate MANNE (2024): Unshrinking: How to Fight Fatphobia

Mario MIKULINCER (1994): Human Learned Helplessness: A Coping Perspective

Jenara NERENBERG (2020): Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for

Lucy NEVILLE (2018): Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: Women and Gay Male Pornography and Erotica

Peggy ORNSTEIN (2020): Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

Lucile PEYTAVIN (2021): Le coût de la virilité

Lynn PHILLIPS (2000): Flirting with Danger: Young Women’s Reflections on Sexuality and Domination

Stephen PORGES (2017): The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe

Joëlle PROUST (2013): The Philosophy of Metacognition: Mental Agency and Self-Awareness

John SARLO: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing the Body, Healing the Pain

Jessica TAYLOR (2022): Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women’s Trauma Against Them

Manos TSAKIRIS and Helena DE PREESTER (2018): The Interoceptive Mind: From Homeostasis to Awareness

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January 2023 Reads

Partners in Crime - Alisha Rai

Never Ever Getting Back Together - Sophie Gonzales (thank you, carrie!)

The Key to My Heart - Lia Louis

A Little Bit Country - Brian D. Kennedy

Funny You Should Ask - Elissa Sussman

A Guide to Being Just Friends - Sophie Sullivan

Mysteries of Thorn Manner - Margaret Rogerson

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries - Heather Fawcett

Wildwood Dancing - Juliet Marillier

Really Good, Actually - Monica Heisey

Dead Collections - Isaac Fellman

Ms. Demeanor - Elinor Lipman

They Never Learn - Layne Fargo

Five Survive - Holly Jackson

The Silence Between Us - Alison Gervais

6 Times We Almost Kissed - Tess Sharpe

The Star That Always Stays - Anna Rose Johnson

Illuminations - T. Kingfisher

The Witch Boy - Molly Knox Ostertag

Witchlight - Jessi Zabarsky

Hawkeye, Vol 1 - Matt Fraction

Hawkeye, Vol 2 - Matt Fraction

You Can Do All Things - Kate Allan

Divergent Mind - Jenara Nuremberg

The Swedish Art of Aging Exuberantly - Margareta Magnusson

Unraveling - Peggy Orenstein

Windfall - Erika Bolstad

Quit - Annie Duke

Portable Magic - Emma Smith

Little Pieces of Hope - Todd Doughty (thanks, kim!)

This is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch - Tabitha Carvan

Two Old Broads - Dr M.E. Hecht and Whoopi Goldberg

Year of the Tiger - Alice Wong 

Spare - Prince Harry

Hello, Molly! - Molly Shannon

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love - Yotam Ottolenghi

The Blue Zones American Kitchen - Dan Buettner

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts:

This was a really good reading month to start the year with. I was able to get to quite a few of the books on my physical TBR and really enjoyed the two books I was most looking forward to: Mysteries of Thorn Manor and Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries.

Goodreads Goal: 37/400 

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads |

2022 Reads | 2023 Reads 

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book wish list

hi! this is different from my typical posts ig but if there's one thing i love it's making lists! here is my wish list for books that i want to get as of now

The Hate U Give; Angie Thomas

I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter; Erika L. Sanchez

You're Welcome Universe; Whitney Gardner

Leah on The Offbeat; Becky Albertalli

Picture us in the Light; Kelly Log Gilbert

The Red Scrolls of Magic

The Music of What Happens; Bill Konigsberg

Cupid Painted Blind; Marcus Herzig

The Dangerous Art of Blending In; Angelo Surmelis

Mexican Whiteboy; Matt de la Pena

Ball Don't Lie; Matt de la Pena

Bloom; Kevin Panetta

We Contain Multitudes; Sarah Henstra

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story; Kheryn Callender

Been Here All Along; Sandy Hall

You Asked For Perfect; Laura Silverman

The Music of Dolphins; Karen Hesse

Silence; Deborah Lytton

Accidental Love; Gary Soto

Every Day; David Levithan

Me Before You; Jojo Moyes

Artemis Fowl; Eoin Colfer

Unspoken; Sarah Rees Brennan

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell; Chris Colfer

Snakehead: Alex Rider; Anthony Horowitz

Fablehaven; Brandon Mull

Virals; Kathy Reichs and Brendan Reichs

His Dark Materials: Northern Lights (or the Golden Compass); Philip Pullman

The Last Apprectice/The Spook's Secret; Joseph Delaney

Disney After Dark: Kingdom Keepers; Ridley Pearson

The Thing About Jellyfish; Ali Benjamin

Pan's Labyrinth; Guillermo del Toro

History is All You Left Me; Adam Silvera

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heros; Edith Hamilton

Starfish; Akemi Dawn Bowman

Mosquitoland; David Arnold

Challenger Deep; Neal Shusterman

The Ghosts we Keep; Mason Deaver

The Passing Playbook; Isaac Fitzsimons

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality; Jane Ward

Holding up the Universe; Jennifer Niven

All the Bright Places; Jennifer Niven

Renegades; Marissa Meyer

The Female of the Species; Mindy McGinnis

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder; Holly Jackson

Such a Fun Age; Kiley Reid

She Gets the Girl; Rachael Lippincott and Alyson Derric

Kisses and Croissants; Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

Red, White and Royal Blue; Casey McQuiston

The Librarian of Auschwitz; Antonio Iturbe

The Rise of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

The Shadow of Kyoshi; F.C. Yee

Love and Olives; Jenna Evans Welch

The Midnight Library; Matt Haig

The Spanish Love Deception; Elena Armas

Every Word You Never Said; Jordon Greene

When We Were Lost; Kevin Wignall

The Gravity of Missing Things; Marisa Urgo

We Are The Ants; Shaun David Hutchinson

Iron Heart; Nina Varela

Coming up for Air; Nicole B. Ryndall

Unmasking Autism; Devon Price

Planting a Seed; Kate Gaertner

Period Power; Maisie Hill

Disibility Visibility; Alice Wong

Queerly Autistic; Erin Ekins

We're Not Broken; Eric Garcia

Divergent Mind; Jenara Nerenberg

Loveless; Alice Oseman

I Was Born for This; Alice Oseman

there is for sure some that i am missing so there will definitely be a part 2 to this at some point

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

The Shadowlands Outtake #1

Anna awoke at dawn, shivering and heartsick.

Dim light was beginning to fill the clearing where they had lain to rest, signalling a new day of marching, but she could not bring herself to move. She lay where she had fallen asleep the night before, her arms curled protectively around Jarred, feeling her entire body tremble with the memory of what had occurred the day before. Jarred. The Grey Guards. The whip cutting into Jarred's back, causing him to scream. The blood dripping onto the grass at Jarred's feet as they stopped to make camp for the night, a spot of crimson against the browns and yellows of the half-dead land. The taste of bile in her mouth as she vomited from the sheer horror of it all, feeling the tears run rivulets down her sodden cheeks.

She struggled to hold down the bile that she could feel surging up her throat. She suppressed a shudder. The memories resonated deeply inside her soul, horrible and haunting, filled with blood and darkness. She did not think she would ever be free of them, however much she tried to forget. It terrified her, to know that.

We survived, she told herself firmly. We may be bloody and battered, but we are alive. That was what she should focus on. However, she knew that if Jenara had not chosen to help them as she did, they would both have perished- Jarred from blood loss and herself at the throw of a Grey Guard's blister. They both owed their lives to Jenara, who now lay sleeping some feet away, her cheek pillowed on her arm, and to the woman who had helped her; Kaldi, Jenara had said. Jenara had agreed to stay with them, to Anna's relief and pleasure. She had grown fond of the girl, and not just because Jenara reminded her of her lost daughter. Anna had come to respect the Jalis girl and care for her, and was glad that she had decided to befriend her. It had made the march at least somewhat more bearable than if she had not.

The girl in question stirred, and opened her eyes to gaze at Anna. 'The Grey Guards are waking,' she said.

And she was right, Anna could tell- the sounds of grumbling and rustling of limbs could be heard just outside the clearing. Soon the Guards would call the march to order again, shouting their captives into submission, forcing them to move. It made her sick to think of the increase of pain it would give her already unbearably aching sprained ankle, but she knew nothing could be done about it. The march had to go on; the only other choice was death, and that Anna could not do, not with Jarred there with her.

She rolled over to face Jarred, searching him intently for any sign of infection. She had seen it occur before; her own father had died from a wound gone bad, having been unable to find a healer capable of helping him properly. It was partly why she had chosen to delve into the art of healing and medicinal herbs- she had had to be sure in herself that if she ever found herself in such a situation, she could be of some use, unlike most women in Del who knew nothing of the sort, being too caught up in their duties to their family business. She had never truly thought that she would have to put such skills to use in this way, but now the time had certainly come.

There was a slight sheen of sweat on Jarred's forehead that worried her. His skin was cool to touch, however, and she could see no obvious swelling to the wounds on his back when she crouched and peeled away the makeshift-bandages to look. His breath, when she felt it, was only slightly warmer than she thought it should be. It caused her anxiety, but she knew nothing could be done. She did not have any of the items and herbs she used for healing, and she could not search for any amid the dry, dying shrubbery. She could only hope, and pray that he was strong enough to avoid infection, and combat it if it did come to it.

Gently she shook his shoulder, and he opened bleary, bloodshot eyes. 'Yes, dear heart?' he muttered, clearly still half-asleep.

'You must wake up, Jarred,' she said quietly but with urgency. 'The march is to begin again soon.'

Immediately he sat up, swaying slightly, gritting his teeth from the pain Anna knew he had to be feeling. Automatically she reached out a hand to give him support, concern almost consuming her. If Jarred were to collapse during the march, or even before... Anna suppressed a shiver at the thought.

‘I must see to…’ she began, gesturing to his back. Even as she said the words sickness rose in her again.

Jarred waved her away, almost carelessly. 'I am alright, Anna, truly,' he insisted. His words slurred together slightly, igniting more fear in her heart. It did not sound-or bode-well for him. But what could she do even if it did? Without her tools and herbs of healing, all of the skills she knew were useless. Her heart ached at the thought.

She frowned at him. ‘You were flogged last night,’ she said. ‘Let me see to it somehow.’

‘And what could you do?’ he said. ‘There is nothing here that will help. The land is dead. It will only cause you pain, Anna.’  

She let him be, even as the pain in her heart swelled. All that day, he was alright, alert and walking without help. Though she could see it irritated him to have her hovering close to him as if he were breakable (he had only suffered a flogging, after all, he told her, exasperated), she could not stop herself. It comforted her to see no worsening in his condition; hope bloomed in her, a change from the dull weight of despair she had felt for the past days. He was strong enough. He had to be, she thought desperately. She did not know what she would do if something happened to him.

That night, as they both lay down to sleep, he was alright- there was no fever, no swelling, no pus. With hope aching in her chest, she fell asleep curled in Jarred's arms, taking comfort in his body resting beside hers, and his quiet, even breaths. Silently she gave thanks; it did seem like he was in no danger.

It happened so quickly. Quickly, and unexpectedly. One moment, she was asleep, safe in the arms of her husband, blissfully ignorant. The next, she was waking to low, pained rasps. In the half-asleep state she was in still, all she could think was that something was burning- something was hot, very close to her. But why? Fire, her mind thought hazily. Fire in First Wood. The tree-house was on fire. She had to go, run, find Jasmine... Put it out somehow...

In her distress, she felt herself move restlessly. Her hands knocked against something, a body, incredibly warm... Reality hit her, and she found herself waking with a painful jolt of awareness. She was not in First Wood anymore, was not watching her home burn down around her. It was Jarred she had knocked against. Jarred's which she had dimly thought felt surprisingly hot. Jarred, who did not even stir at her intrusion, as he should have. He lay against her, his skin like a burning flame, his body trembling, the breath gasping unevenly in his chest.

'Jarred?' she whispered.

No response.

'Jarred?' she repeated, louder this time. She shook him, gently at first, but more forcefully when he did not respond. Panic swelled in her. 'Jarred? Wake up! You must wake up!' She felt hysteria rise, felt her movements become more frantic. Her throat choked with horror. By fate, do not let this be happening, she prayed, almost dizzy with horror.

He was alright when we fell asleep!

'Jarred?' She shook his limp, too-hot body again and again, feeling her breath sob painfully, and her entire body tremble with despair.

'Jarred, wake up. Jarred? Jarred!'

Anna watched as Jarred tossed and turned, his body shaking violently. His eyes were wild, anguished, afraid. His breath was a rasp in his chest that was almost painful to hear. She clutched at his hand but he jerked away, unused to the coolness of her touch against the unnatural warmth of his skin.

Like ice touching fire.

Unbidden tears sprang into her eyes. It had been two days since the fever appeared—two long, agonising days in which there had been no change in his condition. She could not bear to think of what it might mean. Jarred was strong, she knew, in body and mind. In Del perhaps, or even the Forests of Silence, he may have had a large chance of recovery. In either place, she would be able to find herbs and water and other items to help bring the fever down. There would have been tinctures she could create, mixtures she could brew. But they were not in the forge, or in the Forests of Silence. They were in a forsaken part of Deltora's countryside, laying on dry, cracking earth. What chance was there now?

She bowed her head. Footsteps sounded behind her, and she looked up again. Jenara sank to the ground beside her, her eyes dark with concern. 'There is still no change?' she asked quietly.

'None,' and Anna felt her throat tighten at the word. She blinked rapidly to forestall the tears that were brimming in the corners of her eyes.

Jenara touched her arm and said, 'He is strong. I am sure he will be alright.' She said nothing more; indeed, there was nothing more she could say. Jenara did not know Jarred, so she did not feel the insurmountable terror that Anna did. There was nothing really that the girl could say that would possibly comfort her. Jarred may be strong, but the march was hard, and coupled with the harsh conditions and meagre rations of food, it had weakened him. There was no telling if he would survive or not; the fever was not as high as others Anna had seen over the years, but it was high enough that it could be possibly fatal. In more comfortable conditions, there would have been no chance of death, but here Anna was not sure. She could not aid him in any case; he would have to fight it out alone.

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How to build Commander EDH in 2010

It's summer of 2010 and you're looking for a Magic format to play besides Standard and Extended, so you, like Magic players everywhere, are building your first Elder Dragon Highlander deck. The EDH Rules Committee has recently banned Channel, Staff of Domination and Tolarian Academy—Rofellos too, but only as a general.

Choosing your Commander General

While you *can* use a mono-color legendary creature as a general, most people build around a multicolored legendary creature so they can have access to a greater range of effects. For instance, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker looks like a cool creature to build around, but your friend plays a Zur the Enchanter deck and always gets Solitary Confinement out—Gambling for Capricious Efreet seems like a really unreliable way to deal with that enchantment. Instead, you'll probably choose one of the 3-color dragons from Planar Chaos, or a 3-color legendary creature from the Shards of Alara block as your general. There are some 5-color options, but most of them care about specific creature types (3 Sliver legends!) and while there aren't any 4-color legends, some people are okay with letting people use one of the five Nephilims as a general.

Building around your general is important, but make sure that your deck can also function without it! People like to play "tuck" effects that will put your general on the bottom of your library or shuffle it in: Oblation, Proteus Staff, and Hinder are all popular cards in the format.

How Many Lands? Curve Considerations?

Most EDH playgroups use the Partial Paris mulligan: that means you can keep some of the cards in your initial hand and put the others on the bottom, then draw back up to seven. You can repeat that as many times as you need to, but every time after the first you draw one fewer card. The Partial Paris mulligan means you can regularly get starting hands with 4–5 mana sources while only having around 30 lands in the deck in total. As far as the mana curve is concerned—most 60-card decks have a curve that, depending on the format, center on two or three mana. But in EDH, games go long and players have a LOT of life, so decks are jammed full of 6, 7 and 8-mana cards that have big effects; expect to see haymakers like Insurrection, Tooth and Nail, and Titanic Ultimatum. Consequently, most EDH decks have mana curves that center on 3 or 4 mana.

Color Fixing

If you're a long-time Magic player, you might have some original dual lands gathering dust in your closet somewhere—unless you play Legacy or Vintage you probably haven't had any use for them—grab those! If you don't have them, don't worry about it too much—in a 40-life format the shocklands are basically equivalent, and those only range from $10–30 whereas the original duals range approximately $30–80 each for their cheapest printings (there's no good reason to spend $80 on a white-bordered Volcanic Island when you can get a Steam Vents for $25). What's important is that you have at least some lands with multiple basic land types so that you can grab exactly what you need with fetchlands. The painlands also benefit from the higher life total (as does City of Brass). The Shadowmoor/Eventide filterlands are a great option and a little cheaper now that they've rotated out of Standard (same for Reflecting Pool). The original filterlands from Odyssey are slightly worse, but still worth playing. At the moment there are only the allied color pairs—but WoTC might finish the cycle sometime in the next few years (no way they'd wait 14 years to do that).

And in a multiplayer game with all these multicolored generals being played, Exotic Orchard is likely to be able to tap for all of your colors. (Keep in mind that since it's 2010 you won't be able to produce colors outside your general's color identity—so if you're playing a Lord Tresserhorn deck and you Clone your opponent's Jenara, Asura of War, for example, you still won't be able to make white mana with Exotic Orchard to activate the ability.) All that said, if you can't afford to spend $150 or more on your mana base, there are some budget options. The Ravnican bouncelands (aka Karoo lands) are great in EDH—they help fix your colors and essentially put an extra land in your hand. Terramorphic Expanse and its new sister Evolving Wilds can be used to find whichever basic land you need. For 3-color "shard" decks, there's the uncommon land cycle from Shards of Alara; the vivid lands from Lorwyn can also be used in a pinch, as can the refuge lands from Zendikar. If you're on a tight budget, you might find it easier to build a shard color combination than a wedge, since there are more allied-color lands than enemy-color lands.

Ramp

When it comes to ramping your mana, if your general has green in its color identity, you're on easy street. Cards that destroy lands en-masse like Armageddon are considered taboo by most EDH playgroups, so cards that get extra lands into play are pretty surefire ways to ramp. Kodama's Reach (and its new non-arcane counterpart Cultivate), Explosive Vegetation and Skyshroud Claim are all gold-standard ramp cards. Land auras like Wild Growth, Fertile Ground and Overgrowth can be effective too, but they leave you vulnerable to Strip Mine and Avalanche Riders. If you don't have access to green, you're going to have to rely on mana rocks for ramp effects. Sol Ring is definitely the best option here; you can pick up a white-bordered one for around $5-10 (frankly, you should get ones for your green decks too). Its cousin Mana Crypt, on the other hand, is in the vicinity of $100 a pop—firmly outside most players' budgets. In between those extremes, we've got Grim Monolith, Mana Vault, and Gilded Lotus. Thran Dynamo, Worn Powerstone and Basalt Monolith are uncommons and each under $5.

Mana rocks can also help fix your colors. Coalition Relic is an all-star in decks with a lot of colors. The Signets, the Talismans (allied colors only), and Fellwar Stone can help shore up your mana base.

Not a mana rock—but still a form of colorless ramp—is Solemn Simulacrum (aka Sad Robot); an excellent early game play, the robot gets you an extra land when it enters and draws a card when it inevitably dies.

Card Draw

Drawing more than the standard one-card-per-turn is really important in EDH. Multiplayer games are battles of attrition, and you're going to want to make sure you always have gas in the tank. As you may know, some colors are better at this than others: blue is a natural at drawing cards, and black is no slouch either. Green has some ways to draw cards, but they (mostly) depend on having either a lot of creatures, one large creature, or having lots of large creatures.

White and red, however, have... not much to speak of. Mesa Enchantress and... Kor Spiritdancer, I guess, in white. Red's got... Browbeat? (Don't play Browbeat.) Card draw's just not in that part of the color pie; if your general doesn't have access to blue, black or green, you'll again have to turn to artifacts to fill in the cracks. Mind's Eye is a good way to draw a lot of cards, if you have the mana to spend. If your deck can make a lot of X/1 creatures, Skullclamp is there to turn them into new cards. If your creatures have flying, unblockable or double strike, Mask of Memory and Sword of Fire and Ice will help. If your deck gains lots of life, try Well of Lost Dreams.

In truth, those artifacts aren't enough to fill the gaps. Unless you're looking for a real uphill deckbuilding challenge, it's best to avoid generals that don't have any blue, black or green in their color identity.

Removal and Board Wipes

Make sure to include a handful of removal spells and board wipes to keep your opponents in check. The goal is to have some response to their most powerful move—Nature's Claim their Beastmaster Ascension before they attack with 10 creatures—Swords to Plowshares their Rafiq that's attacking for 22—Counterspell their Time Stretch, etc.

Be on the lookout for removal spells that remove two or more things (artifacts and enchantments especially) at once: Return to Dust, Hull Breach, Decimate, Aura Shards, etc. Since most board wipes only destroy creatures, it's crucial to make sure opposing Rhystic Studies and Doubling Seasons don't stick around for the whole game. (Speaking of Rhystic Study—if you or your LGS have got any old boxes of Prophecy bulk, check for copies of this 3 CMC common. It might look underwhelming, but you'll be shocked at how many cards this can draw you in a four or five-person game!)

Speaking of board wipes—EDH games are long and full of ups and downs, and if you want a chance to make a comeback when you've fallen behind, you'll want a board wipe to even the playing field.

White, of course, has the greatest variety of board wipes: Wrath of God and Day of Judgment are clean and efficient; Hour of Reckoning, Mass Calcify, and Soulscour can be near-one-sided board wipes in the right decks; and Martial Coup can leave behind a batch of tokens. Austere Command is probably the strongest due to its modality, but don't overlook Rout either—casting a wrath at instant speed is likely to catch other players off-guard. Black is the next best color at wiping the board. Damnation costs a pretty penny right now, but is the most mana-efficient. Living Death sees a lot of play, and is a good reason to play graveyard-hate cards like Tormod's Crypt. Decree of Pain is an all-star; in addition to clearing the board you'll typically draw at least 10 cards off this one.

Red's mostly got board wipes that clear off small to mid-sized creatures. If you want to kill something big like an Inkwell Leviathan, you're gonna have to invest a ton of mana into an Earthquake or Starstorm. Although we did just get Chain Reaction in Rise of the Eldrazi, which I have high hopes for. Keep an eye out for that one!

The closest Blue's got to board wipes are mass-bounce cards like Evacuation, Inundate and Kederekt Leviathan. Expect to see more of these played at instant speed now that blue decks have a second Vedalken Orrery with the newly-printed Leyline of Anticipation. Green doesn't really have board wipes. It's got some Windstorm effects for clearing away flying creatures, but that's it. How many removal spells and board wipes should you have in a deck? Well, that can vary depending on your strategy, but I'd say that on average decks are playing 4 of each.

Threats and Win-Conditions

So far we've covered color-fixing, ramp, card draw, removal and board wipes: all things needed to get your deck off the ground and preventing your opponents from getting too far ahead. But now we need some haymakers to actually win the game! You have a lot of flexibility here; go raid your trade binder and pull out some big splashy creatures! Kaervek the Merciless, Hamletback Goliath, Stormtide Leviathan, Godsire! Keep an eye out especially for large creatures that have some effect when they enter the battlefield or die; the new Titan cycle from M11, for example, or something like Magister Sphinx. They get you value even if one of your opponents wipes the board the turn after you cast them. Likewise, giving your creatures haste is a big plus—Lightning Greaves is a must-have card for EDH.

Large creatures are great, but you'll want a big sorcery or two to really bring the hammer down and finish the game. I've mentioned some of these already: Time Stretch, Insurrection, Tooth and Nail, etc. That, or have some sort of infinite combo that you can assemble that wins you the game. Kiki-Jiki + Pestermite is an obvious example, but there are lots of others that are too inefficient to see play in Extended or Legacy that you can use in EDH.

Thanks for reading

That's all from me! I hope this helps you have a fun time playing Elder Dragon Highlander! The difference in scale can take some getting used to, but once you do, you can get a ton of mileage out of your deck; since EDH is non-rotating and only a handful of cards from each new set get played in the format, you can comfortably go a year without making any upgrades to a deck and still have it be in fighting shape. The format moves very slowly. Hopefully this means that the advice in this guide, from 2010, will be applicable years and years from now! [DISCLAIMER: most of it isn't]

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Review: Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg My rating: 4 of 5 stars The Divergent Mind isn’t about the the Divergent Series that is similar to the Hunger Games. This is a nonfiction book written by and for those with differing ways, many individuals deal with life and learning. To many, the divergent mind sees things differently than the rest of society.…

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Artist Shout-Outs Shared

“Current AI ‘art’ is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics.” – Alexander Nanitchkov

July's Artist Shout-Outs

Matheus M C Santos

Konstantin Pik

Octambre

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Christine Alcouffe

Letícia Freitas

Martina Campoli

Aleksandr Adulo

Irina Koko

Alicia Portillo

Derval Chambers

Evgeny Romanov

Alex Sayers

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July's Announcements, Streams, and Videos 

Blog Posts

Jul. 1st: Let’s Discuss Some $#!7: June Wrap-Up & Behind-the-Scenes

Jul. 7th: Beware Project 2025! The Conservative Promise

Jul. 7th: Let’s Play Some $#!7!: Resolute Paladin SLARPG Stream - Part 4

Jul. 14th: Let’s Play Some $#!7!: Resolute Paladin SLARPG Stream - Part 5

Jul. 18th: Disability Pride Month Edition: Let’s Read Some $#!7 by Devon Price, Ph.D., Jenara Nerenberg, and Rick Green & Umesh Jain, Ph.D.

Jul. 21st: STREAM ANNOUNCEMENT

Jul. 23rd: Let’s Play Some $#!7 Off The Clock!: Amorous Paladin SLARPG Video - Part 1

Jul. 28th: Let’s Play Some $#!7!: Resolute Paladin SLARPG Stream - Part 6

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Cause of the Month: Diversability

Disability Pride Month Quotes of 2024

QUOTE 1: Jennifer Starzec

QUOTE 2: Jodi Picoult

QUOTE 3: Sarah Manguso

QUOTE 4: Randolph Bourne

QUOTE 5: Pénélope Bagieu

QUOTE 6: Rebekah Taussig

QUOTE 7: Haben Girma

QUOTE 8: Allison Alexander

QUOTE 9: Amanda Leduc

QUOTE 10: Sara Hendren

QUOTE 11: Ashley Asti

QUOTE 12: Erin Clark

QUOTE 13: Steven Magee

QUOTE 14: Jessica Marie Baumgartner

QUOTE 15: Jenara Nerenberg

Check out Diversability, founded by Tiffany Yu, which is “a community of people with disabilities (and the allies who support us), on a mission to elevate disability pride, together.”

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July's Neverending Reading List Shares

Jul. 10th: Book LXV - The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Jul. 12th: Book LXVI - Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids by Susan Cain

Jul. 15th: Book LXVII - Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg

Jul. 17th: Book LXVIII - Laziness Does Not Exist by Dr. Devon Price, Ph.D.

Jul. 19th: Book LXIX - Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price, Ph.D.

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Stupidity Quotes Shared

QUOTE 19: Jonny Garza Villa

QUOTE 20: Craig D. Lounsbrough

QUOTE 21: Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

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Audrey Jenara.

Happy 19, Bub. I'm at a loss for words, my girlfriend is the greatest thing ever. Look at what she made, a lovely song about her feelings, but I'll keep asking how you feel about me every day because I want to hear you tell me that you love me unconditionally, anyway. My happiness is just as simple as her. I appreciate all of our wonderful days spent together, Audrey. I look forward to spending many more priceless days with you, there will be 19 of us!

Yours truly, Hiero.

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Hey hey, ho ho, I do the digital arts now!

I got my friends to give me some ask prompts and placed them here!

Outfit meme belongs to @3lizab3t!

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Self-Help Books

Productivity

Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline by Brian Tracy

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It by Richard Koch

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Little Black Book by Otegha Uwagba

Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day by Holly Reisem Hanna

Write it Down and Make It Happen

The 12 Week Year

The 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

How to Begin by Michael Bungay Stainer

Physical Health

WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source by Alisa Vitti

Mental Health

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by Don Miguel Ruiz

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook

The Inner Child Workbook by Cathryn Taylor

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves by Curt Thompson

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

ADHD

You Mean I'm Not Stupid, Lazy, or Crazy?! A Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

Women with Attention-Deficit Disorder: Embrace Your Differences and Transform Your Life by Sari Salden

What the ADHD Brain Wants—and Why by Dr. Ellen Littman (pdf)

Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD That Restores Attention, Minimizes Hyperactivity, and Helps Eliminate Drug Side Effects by Dr. James Greenblatt

* Living with ADHD: Simple Exercises to Change Your Daily Life by Thom Hartmann

Thriving with Adult ADHD: Skills to Strengthen Executive Functioning by Phil Boster

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You by Jenara Nerenberg

Screwed Up Somehow But Not Stupid, Life with a Learning Disability by Peter Flom

Trauma

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety by Deb A. Dana

Taming Your Outer Child: Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment by Susan Anderson

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenberg

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsey Gibson

@complextraumarecovery bookshelf

Healing Developmental Trauma by Lawrence Heller

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine

The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection by Deb Dana

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it for Good by Kimberly Ann Johnson

Trauma and Memory by Peter Levine

Stephen Porges work

Nurturing Resilience by Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell

Relationships

Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood

Break Your Addiction to a Person by Howard Halpern

Addiction to Love: Overcoming Obsession and Dependency in Relationships by Sudan Peabody

Journey from Abandonment to Healing by Susan Anderson

The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick Carnes

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Dr. Diane Poole Heller

Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment by Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

Love is a Choice: The Definitive Book on Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships by Thomas Hemfelt

Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman

Gaslighting by Stephanie Sarkis

Boundaries by Anne Katherine

Models by Mark Manson

Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab

Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft

I Want This to Work by Elizabeth Earnshaw

The Adult Psychotherapy Homework Planner

Me, You, Us: A Book to Fill Out Together by Lisa Currie

The Will to Change by bell hooks

Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendricks

Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin

Games People Play by Eric Berne

The Chemistry Between Us by Larry Young

Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

Cats Don’t Chase Dogs by Kara King

Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

No More Assholes by Chantal Heide

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer

The Power of the Pussy by Kara King

Why Men Behave Badly by David Buss

Safe People by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

The Deep Life

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks

Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality by Anthony De Mello

Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag

The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

The Defining Decade by Meg Jay

Authenticity

The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are by Alicia Menendez

I Thought It Was Just Me (but It Isn’t) by Brené Brown

Career

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith

How Women Rise by Sally Hegelsen

Own It: The Power of Women at Work by Sallie Krawcheck

No-Fail Communication by Michael Hyatt

Leadership on the Line by Ronald Heifetz

Purple Cow

Dream Manager

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Quantum Success

Influencer

Decide

Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

Switchers by Dawn Graham

The Seven Minute Productivity Solution by John Brando

Entry Level Boss by Alexa Shoen

Mindfulness

How to Breathe: 25 Simple Practices for Calm, Joy, and Resilience by Ashley Neese

Money

Unfuck Your Finances by Melissa Browne

Broke Millenial

I Will Teach You to Be Rich

Clever Girl Finance

We Should All Be Millionaires

Parenting

Expecting Better by Emily Oster

Cribsheet by Emily Oster

The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years by Emily Oster

Grief

The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift by Steve Leder

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FAEBRUARY 2022

Day Fifteen - Tarmo

And now, we move on to a fresh new week, I can’t believe I’m a little half-way there! So here is the new-ish fairy that I need to delve more into - Tarmo Varhvuus!

Tarmo was probably the one OC I made to be someone for Jenara. Also he’s a lot more gruff-looking than Jen, right? I figured he’d fit as a nice contrast for Jen! He’s also got a lot of history, mostly to do with the reason why he evacuated from his hometown, how long he stayed with the Iciclis family and why he retuned, which I hope to explain in this coming week!

Tarmo Varhvuus is a fairy living in the secluded parts of Lahti, Finland. He was born and raised there for his early years, and then had to evacuate to Iceland with the Seelie members of the night fairies. He returns to Lahti to reclaim an abandoned steel factory as his new work place and home. He remains puzzled about his sexuality, as he isn't too troubled about a relationship. His hobbies mainly consist of blacksmithing, exploring factory machinery and modelling with scrap metal. Before he was evacuated by the Iciclis, he was the only child to a mother and father close to the Finnish fairy king. You can see him enjoying his favourite foods, consisting of cloudberries and herring and his favourite place to relax is the sauna. Through his life, he has proven how adaptable he can be and the determination he exhibits puts him in the light of a hero to his team. Despite this, he keeps his traumas and his life growing up private, often feeling paranoid when people pry for the information. This can amplify to his asocial tendencies, but he wouldn't let that falter his image of a leader too much.

[autisticadvocacy]

"Many women don’t learn about their neurological differences until they are adults. The result, Nerenberg suggests, is a 'lost generation' of women who 'have no name for their life experiences and feelings.'”

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Thanks for the tag, @gwendolynlerman !

Alias/name: Lexi

Birthday: sometime in August

Zodiac sign: Virgo

Height: 5’0” / 152cm

Hobbies: reading, language learning, video games, birdwatching

Favorite color: purple!

Favorite book: It’s always so hard for me to pick just one, but today I’ll go with Lireal by Garth Nix

Last song you listened to: “Sixteen” by Thomas Rhett

Last movie or show you've watched: Haikyuu

Recent reads: Recently finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, just started Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg

Inspiration: all the lovely people on langblr/studyblr & language twitter! 💕

Story behind URL: I made this account in my first two years of college/university when I was originally a pre-veterinary student, & I liked it too much to change it when my plans changed

Fun fact about me: I don’t have any actual food allergies, but my skin is sensitive to certain foods, like tomatoes… I can eat them without any problems, but getting the juice on my hands/face will give me a rash if I don’t notice and wash it off soon enough 😅