#Center Ice

[blueysbookshelf]

2024: Book 11 - Center Ice

Center Ice by Julia Connors My rating: 4 of 5 stars I know I keep mentioning in my reviews that I’m not a fan of “accidental pregnancy” and I tend to lump the “secret baby” trope in with that, because it must have been accidental if it was secret…right? That being said; this book was solid, despite the annoyance of a surprise accidental baby. Drew was an interesting character, carrying regret for the way he handled things with Audrey before he left Boston for the NHL and able to accept that he had been in the wrong, however messed up he was at the time. That’s unusual and I enjoyed it quite a bit I also enjoyed Audrey’s growth and the career she and her sister had built for themselves. She was strong and capable…but of course she held a grudge for too long. The only rub…and the whole plot kind of hinged on it, was essentially a miscommunication. And listen, I get that most issues in a relationship are because of miscommunication, but there has to be a better way. Audrey shouldn’t have stopped trying to reach him. sigh The book was good though and I did enjoy it, despite the kid that kicked off the whole plot was there, well, just for the plot. He was constantly being babysat by his relatives and I wonder if that was because the author didn’t want to actually write a kid or what? I’d still probably reread it though. I use the CAWPILE Review method for my reviews (see explanation here), just to keep me honest and help me understand what exactly I liked/didn't like. My ratings are below. Characters: 7/10 Atmosphere/Setting: 7/10 Writing: 8/10 Plot: 8/10 Intrigue: 8/10 Logic/Relationships: 8/10 Enjoyment: 8/10 Total rating 54/70 divided by 7 = 7.7 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🌶️ 🌶️ View all my reviews

[ladystardustsangsongs]

“Rhaenys, Daughter of Elia„

What could’ve been😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

first post chat :D I’m actually so scared of posting this, so pleasee be nice 🙏

this is heavily inspired by a fic I read a few years ago where everyone survived and Rhaenys has vitiligo but everyone thinks shes like cursed or smth?? (the writing is amazing but I think the author deleted it 😔 or maybe its just my dream i cant tell the difference these days)

[thornescratch]

Capitals: Ovi eagerly requested a passer; undoubtedly, Backy was his top choice!

REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD.

[itsloriel]

(via GIFER)

[emaadsidiki]

Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree 🎄

[arlesposting]

making little designs for the probes (+ hubble :3) at the moment but since art takes time and i need to deal with my impatience to share all my stuff immediately after it's done y'all can have another little dialogue shitpost for fun :D

inspired by...

[acotarfrustrations]

Honestly we could REALLY get into the fact that a lot of the insanity in Acotar is an excellent exercise in why you can't really separate the art from the author.

Sjm's zionism is OBVIOUS in the text. The ic destabilize governments to the detriment of people they will never have to care for, steal artifacts from other countries, displace people, cause invasions, commit war crimes for 50 years "for the greater good" all while their own people are living under unchecked brutality and poverty.

They are rich megalomaniacs that care for no one but themselves and their own emotional and material satisfaction and they are PRAISED for it. In fact anyone who even remotely disagrees with the IC is almost always one of the villains in the story (Beron, Tamlin, etc) as if to condition the reader that asking questions that are critical of the IC puts you on the wrong side of the narrative morally.

All of that sounds REALLL familiar huh?

[lonestarflight]

View of the S-IC stage of Apollo 4 Saturn V (SA-501) on Mobile Launcher-1 in the Vertical Assembly Building.

Date: fall 1966

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[not-equippedforthis]

why am i crying over space children. jake going against his father's orders just to teach nog how to read im bawling my eyes out. sisko being so proud of him at the end. oh my god.

[tamapalace]

omg Kuchipatchi fell ice skating at Rockefeller Center!! ⛸️⛸️

[andallshallbewell]

[jonasiegenthaler]

nyr@njd | 22.03.22

[the-soul-starved]

Webber? They're one of my favorites.

Webber my good friend Webber my favourite buggy design in anything ever aside from Antlion.

Best skin is farmspider I think I very much enjoy the concept and I also have a hard time telling some of the others apart from his regular design

Best quotes are these ones from the ones I’ve seen

(Top is reviver WX)

I dont really have any specific headcanons in mind aside from the pretty widely accepted (and implied in canon) that his dad is specifically an entomologist but it’s fun to me because that’s what I wanna be

[puppetmaster13u]

I’ve been thinking about this a lot and basically Danny is Beelzebub from Hellva boss with his own casino performs and the entrance defies reality and all his ghost rouges come in and go as they please and some humans and or mortals stumble in and think it’s just some place where metas party their fucking asses off which wouldn’t be that bad if this wasn’t FUCKING GOTHAM. Danny doesn’t know how they got in Gotham but they just want to party but unfortunately for him the bats hear a rumor some meta trafficking ring has been planning a big raid on a certain casino that’s new ish and they have to stop it so they go in disguise and they get to witness Danny and his rouges beat the every loving snot out of some traffickers

maybe Danny is a clone, maybes he’s reincarnated, maybe he lost a bet, maybe he moved to Gotham for fun, maybe he got tossed across the universe into Gotham

who knows certainly not Danny

but to add even more maybe he travels around the casino on trapezes and circus rings that he just flips around it and has a pole it the middle that reaches the ceiling and at the top there’s this disco ball thing that he can activate to make a small nebula or stars surround the casino and make it pretty

oh oh and maybe with him having the title of beelzebub is like gotten after he beat them as in right of conquest, or maybe beelzebub is kinda like a shared name so Danny fuels them and they go around getting mortal action without having to do work, or maybe it was given to him as a present with a bow on top idk

I have no words for this and just had to draw because the idea of a casino or whatever with like, everywhere looking like galaxies and auroras that shift to the music was such an amazing visualization lol

[thornescratch]

It's 8/19 Day.

[thaliajoy-blog]

Rereading the Dany part of AGOT exclusively has led me to yet unforeseen places of discomfort like the whole Dany & Mirri Maz Duur story even surface level is very tragic & I'm obsessed by what is there what is underneath the surface and what could be in that dynamic (maybe I'll get into it another day) but the tenth Dany pov chapter in the novel is harrowing before the pyre starts because you see the contrast between how Mirri and Drogo are treated and it's distressing. Mirri is tied to a the pyre and whiped so she stops talking. Drogo is washed and clothed lovingly by Daenerys, she even speaks to him, apologizes to him, feels fondly about him, tries to give him a real king's funeral. But it makes sense, tragic sense. Mirri put Dany in an incredibly miserable & and vulnerable place. She murders Drogo & Rhaego. She is more than Dany's ennemy but Dany is not in a position that would make her want to forgive those actions, even based Mirri's trauma that Dany knows all too well about. So it's this fucked up thing where the birth of the dragon is preceded by an hommage by Dany to a man who is very obviously monstrous in GRRM's writing - Mirri murdered a child out of vengeance, but Drogo lead the killing, traumatizing & enslavement of many more children simply because it was in his power. And Dany loves him (and even names a dragon after her - I'm sorry Drogon there's that aside from the fact that your name is pretty stupid my sweet baby), a frightened love born out of the need to not just die from her awful situation as the teenage bride of a warlord. I'm thinking about how like Irri & Jhiqui still see themselves as slaves despite everything Dany does to delegitimize slavery ; in her continued fondness towards Drogo Dany kind of refuses to see her chains and her past victimization.

And it all comes back to Mirri, this monstrous victim, this wise demon, the maegi, the magic teacher, the one who cannot be forgiven. Tied to the pyre. Unwilling witness to Dany's marriage with the fire. This benefits us all to wonder & mourn and ponder about how complex & mindfucked GRRM made this situation (and I kind of love it as it is) rather than to designate one victim & one abuser and rant about how the fandom at large doesn't realize how really innocent one is and how really evil the other is.

Surge of thought on mirri lately brought to you by my obsession with Epic the Musical and how the Horse & the Infant, Just a Man and Ruthlessness kinda fit her I think.