#Stills Yas Island

[noname21sstuff-blog]

February Fun Unleashed at Yas Plaza Hotels: A Month of Delightful Offers and Experiences!

From celebrating the "Year of the Dragon" to cheering for your favorite team in the Rugby 6 Nations, Yas Plaza Hotels promises a month filled with delightful moments

[fyepertine]

Demon at the Temple

[wonderholegifs]

Rhett & Link's Wonderhole

[beatcroc]

what kind of frivolity would you engage in, mecha?

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[puppyeared]

XIN YA MOMENT

[im-still-watching-anime]

one piece is crazy fr like what do you mean you’re following up Everyone’s Dead™️ with Objectifying Women: The Arc™️

[ladyimaginarium]

from mikjikj-mnikuk/turtle island to inuit nunangat to kanata to kalaallit nunaat to anahuac to abya yala to alkebulan to the levant to moananuiākea to sápmi to éire to bhārata to zhōngguó to nihon to aynu mosir to siberia to niugini to nusantara to bandaiyan to aotearoa, from coast to coast to coast to coast, from sea to sea to sea to sea, none of us are free until all of us — men, women, enben, children, queer people, disabled & neurodivergent people, elders, animals and the land and the sea and the sky — are free!!!!

[snom-pixelates]

i am going to wake up in the morning. check the qsmp English updates twitter. and then how the rest of my day plays out will depend on whether that little mustache-wearing Minecraft egg is alive or dead

[lunalunawillow]

Just read Kick It Up a Notch and while the event's story was good why did it do the thing that a good chunk of VBS stories do (especially the more recent ones since Walk On and On) of just dragging the fuck on certain points 😭

Project Sekai's pacing is overall pretty great considering how story heavy and extensive it is! With Leo/Need and Nightcord being perfectly paced and WxS and MMJ having minor yet negligible hiccups but then Vivid Bad Squad's is just all over the place?

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying their story is bad (trust me they do have banger,good paced stories and I'm excited for the heartbreaking plot twist coming up in June) but some of them just drag on for far too long

For example, Toya getting inspiration from the hospital guy is interesting but it loses it's appeal when it feels like 75% is focused on him and not Toya making music (and later getting to appreciate his bond with Akito) which was supposed to be the plot of the event??

And also the aforementioned recent Kohane event with the middle just feeling like meandering to have the ending randomly feel like her version of Vivid Old Tale minus the nostalgic undertone turned sad by more recent info and the much better pacing that event had

I have more examples of this but I don't want make this rant(?) much longer but TLDR vbs please stop making parts of your events go on for far too long 😭

[dracolizardlars]

Tumblr refreshed and lost the post that linked this but

Actually going to kill myself (I am English and have some interest in counties so I'm extremely ashamed of myself)

Link:

[cynosurus]

I'm finally reading the Swedish young adult book series Öppet hav (Faraway Island) by Annika Thor.

I never read it growing up even though it was very popular and much talked about. (Perhaps that was why.)

Turns out in the later books, our protagonist Steffie has both a lesbian school teacher with a "friend", and a lesbian bestie who's in love with her, of course...

[noname21sstuff-blog]

Stills Crowne Plaza Yas Island - Brunch Review

We try the reintroduced Daydream Brunch 2.0 – A European inspired culinary adventure #StillsYasIsland #CrownePlazaYasIsland

[mercerislandbooks]

Book Notes: Where the Dark Stands Still

The adult and young adult fantasy genre has seen so many iterations of fairytale retellings. And many of us are happy to discover our favorite fairytales in inventive new frameworks and settings again and again. I finally noticed the ones I always gravitate towards have a strong Beauty and the Beast theme. From Robin McKinley’s two Beauty and the Beast retellings (Beauty and Rose Daughter, both excellent) to Uprooted by Naomi Novik, to A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer, there’s something about a girl and a sentient house and a curse just begging to be broken that I find immensely satisfying. 

Enter the newest addition to my list, A. B. Poranek’s debut YA Fantasy, Where the Dark Stands Still. When Liska enters the Driada, a forest rumored to be infested with demons, it’s in search of the fabled fern flower. For Liska, the wish the flower grants is her only hope to rid herself of the magic she’s had all her life, magic considered demonic by her pious village. If she wants any chance to live a normal life, the magic must go. So Liska braves the tricksy forest and its dangerous inhabitants. But in discovering the fern flower, she also encounters its forbidding guardian, the powerful Leszy. His bargain for the flower is one year of service to him in his House Under the Rowan Tree, shrouded in decades of neglect. Liska reasons she can endure a year of servitude to be free of her magic, and makes the bargain. Of course, there’s more to the house, the Leszy, and the forest than Liska can know. A year of forced proximity brings to light many secrets, not the least of which is the true origins of the Driada itself. 

As Where the Dark Stands Still draws significantly from Polish folklore, I found myself quickly out of my depth, both in pronunciation and in familiarity. I’d heard of rusalka and hearth spirits from other Slavic inspired fantasies, but the Leszy, the strzygon and many others were unknown to me. It was enjoyable to have a new-to-me framework paired with elements of Beauty and the Beast. And beyond that, Poranek’s writing was filled with delightful moments of wry humor and wisdom, not to mention a simmering romantic thread. It was a pleasure to watch Liska comes into deeper knowledge of herself and her inner strength. For those of you looking for a reading experience with no cliff hangers or loose ends, Where the Dark Stands Still is that rare thing in YA Fantasy these days: a standalone novel. It is the perfect read for fantasy lovers to curl up with during these rainy evenings!

— Lori

[aria0fgold]

My luck in my current save in Stardew Valley is that I'm unlucky in that I Still haven't gotten the 1st and 5th dwarf scrolls (and yet I have 3 copies of the 2nd and 2 of the 3rd, where 1 each is already at the museum). BUT! I'm somehow lucky enough in that I was able to get a prismatic shard from an enemy drop in the mines, for some reason...

[chibitorra]

Revisiting Coral Island again after the better half of a year.

Created a new farmer for beta testing n all and themed her after a Cara-Cara Orange lol.

They also added pets! Though most of them don’t have 3d models yet, but one of the cats profiles legit looks like my old baby girl, Stella, I cried when I saw them... Whoever submitted KitKat into the game, thank you. I can adopt my sweet girl all over again <3 

Though, trying to adopt them seems to crash my game for some reason lol. Idk if we’re meant to adopt them yet.

[poptropician-gamer]

wow i love mythology island!