#The troll also loves generation 4 of My Little Pony.

[fatphobiabusters]

Please help me. My militant, bootlicking sister did a report on Ob*sity in this country and she is showing obvious fatphobia, and I told her about the origins of the BMI system, and she said "I don't support Eugenics, I just want people to have healthier bodies and improved lifestyles!!!"

That is LITERALLY the definition of eugenics.

How can I convince her that she did a school project on why she hates fat people?

The very first post I saw on your blog is in support of a trans person who was harassed by trolls, and yet here you are sending troll messages to another oppressed group.

Despite your troll message being both fatphobic and ableist, despite fatphobia having an immense amount of intersectionality with transphobia (you know, the group you supposedly care about), you'd rather spend your miserable life doing exactly what transphobic trolls do to trans people. It's just okay when you do it because your definition of "equality" comes with asterisks.

Get a life that actually has any sort of value or meaning. Because being a pathetic, bigoted hypocrite ain't it.

-Mod Worthy

[cogentranting]

Ranking Animated Horse Designs Take 3

This time I really am back by popular demand because the other two posts have been getting a steady trickle of notes for over a year now.

(If you're looking for stuff like Disney and Dreamworks there are two other posts. Here we've got mostly random cartoons and also the Pokemon horses)

Starlite (Rainbow Brite) 6/10 Little weird that he seems to be drawn in a style that's like 3x more realistic than any other character in this show but hey sometimes you just ascend to a higher plane of existence. (2014 Reboot Starlite gets a 3/10. I do not trust him.)

Skydancer (Rainbow Brite) 7/10 I bumped Starlite down a point because he wants what Skydancer has. Skydancer doesn't need rainbows to fly. Skydancer has a lightning bolt. Skydancer has the Drama. (The one wiki page said he's a Shire or a Clydesdale and um I don't think so. Maybe a Friesian.)

On-yx (Rainbow Brite) This is a rocket powered balloon animal. 2/10

Sunriser (Rainbow Brite) 5/10 Eh. I like her hair though.

Swift Wind (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power/ She-Ra Princess of Power)

Right (older version) 8/10 I don't understand the wing physics going on here. Also not sure if the horn is part of the mask or just attached to the mask. Diggin the bib though. Also love that he's a ginger.

Left (new version) 4/10 If the older version wasn't there this would score higher because just as a character design I don't think it's bad but if these are supposed to be the same character he seems so cutesy and I do not vibe with it. I don't know either show. So maybe that works. But it feels wrong.

Amalthea (The Last Unicorn) 9/10 They gave the unicorn the split deer hooves, and the lions tail and that is automatic points from me. Bummed they didn't go all out and give us the goat's beard. Rude. Any distance shot, I love. Close-ups of the face creep me out with the giant doll eyes and tiny nose.

(Pokemon and more below)

Honey Pie Pony (Strawberry Shortcake) 8/10 Adorable. Fantastically chunky design. The others from this... show? book? brand? are like 6s or 5s depending. But Honey Pie has the It factor. (The It Factor here apparently being that recurring pattern of only the main character's horse being able to talk?? This is the third. Swift Wind, Starlite and Honey Pie have dark secrets about how they come by this knowledge).

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic "ponies" Just as characters they're cute in a "trying so hard to be cute that they almost miss the mark entirely" way. But this is about how they are as HORSE designs. And these are magical gremlins not horses. 1/10 (WHAT is happening on the far right of this set. I do not approve. Zebra is fine though).

My Little Pony: A New Generation Like if the MLP: FM ponies and the Trolls characters somehow had children. Somehow the main character of Bee Movie was also involved. The one on the left makes TikTok thirst traps. -2/10

My Little Pony Tales 3/10 I can almost tell they're meant to be horses. Plus that one has a tattoo of a comb. So. Full extra point for the comb tattoo.

Bratz Horses I can't tell if there's an official video game or cartoon design for these but in ANY given version I found the conclusion is the same: if you look into the gigantic distended eye you will be put under the horse's curse. 1/10

Boxer (Animal Farm) 4/10 All horses are equal but some are more equal than others, but Boxer is not one of them because his mouth is not okay.

Marvin (Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse) 5/10 I mean. Dude's got spats. Come on.

Ponyta (Pokemon) 3/5 The armpit and middle thigh flames were a choice.

Rapidash (Pokemon) 8/10 Look at his face. The angst. He has seen things.

Mudsdale (Pokemon) 8/10 The classic mohawk, dreadlocks and legwarmers trifecta. Love it. Would love to hug him.

Galarian Ponyta 3/10 It's giving sheep, and it's giving dog. Very little horse.

Galarian Rapidash (Pokemon) 4/10 He's angry because his hair is too long and he can't walk and also he has not eaten enough somebody feed this horse.

Origin Palkia (Pokemon) 6/10 A built-in hoola-hoop AND thigh high Boots?! what fashion.

Keldeo (Pokemon) 1/10 Clown goat.

Spectrier (Pokemon) 10/10 Beautiful goth girl horse floating around like a Victorian ghost who's too modest to show her ankles.

Mudbray (Pokemon) 5/10 He has passed through the depths of existential dread and returned world-weary but unshakeable and with a snazzy bowl cut.

Glastrier (Pokemon)

20/10 ICE HORSE ICE HORSE ICE HORSE. I love him so much. He's punk rock

The Fat Horse (Looney Tunes) 10/10 Queen.

[rocksibblingsau]

Hello!! I’m soooo obsessed with your work!! For me, It’s such a nice escape from everything, and your writing and world building is beautiful!!

Out of curiosity, what other fandoms are you currently in?

Love your stuff!! 🧸💕

Thank you! I'm really glad that something I've made resonates with even one person!

Right now Trolls is my main fixation, but I'm also into Genshin Impact, My Little Pony (Generations 3 and 4), Steven Universe, and Danganronpa. These come and go but as you can see my tastes are a bit all over the place.

I'm not very active in fandom spaces, this is sorta a first for me! Writing for Trolls is surprisingly... not easy but natural feeling to me!

[unluckyplanet]

Roleplay Search!

Looking for more 1x1 rps! A bit about me, I’m a minor, I’ve been rping for 5 or so years, my preferred platform is discord, I’m semi-lit and..... a tad awkward. As in pretty unskilled in the art of casual communication. Rp ideas under cut

Pokemon! I’m keep going back to my pokemon obsession and I have a couple of ideas - Literally just a pmd style thing. Maybe not the humans-turning into pokemon, but a pair of young pokemon becoming explorers and eventually taking down an ancient evil.  - Evil Team grunt x Undercover agent. Or just, platonic. It doesn’t have to be romance, I just really like enemies to friends stuff. One of the characters is a teen/young adult who joined an evil team, and gets paired up with another new recruit who is trying to take down the group from the inside. Could either be casual shennigans, or following the story (from the evil team’s perspective.)  - Ultra beast fusion rp! Lusamine finds out about Nihilego’s ability to fuse with humans, and thinks “gee, what if we could do this with other UBs or pokemon.” So she takes a bunch of kids, children of aether employees, interns or volunteers eager to help, and fuses them with ultra beasts. Those kids would be our characters and.... well, I don’t have any real plot ideas. If it’s interesting I’d love to brainstorm ideas tho

MHA rp idea. Our OCs are some aspiring heroes who’ve been hurt time and time again by hero society. So they become vigilantes, fighting villains while also trying to expose the corruption among the heroes

Magical Girl rp! Our characters are a pair or group of magical girls(or just magical people in general) connected to these flowers called Eternablooms. Slowly they find out that these flowers aren’t as nice as they thought and are actually parasitic and ultimately detrimental to their health

MLP, I love my little pony, and the worldbuilding and general themes of friendship. Also it gives me an excuse to draw ponies - A pair of unicorns are chosen to succeed the princesses (or at least train to do so) and a few days later the Princesses are suddenly snatched up by some evil force. And so begins their journey to find the elements of harmony and defeat (or redeem) whoever threw equestria into chaos.  - While traditional ‘magic’ is restricted to unicorns and a few other animals, it doesn’t stop normal ponies from trying. Like our characters! Two magic enthusiasts who are hornless, but willing to search for ways to master magic regardless.  - Newbie changeling ruler and newly ascended alicorn are forced to work together to face a bigger threat. Preferably, my oc would be the changeling since I already have one, but hey! I’m always looking for an excuse to make more mlp ocs

PJO, a group of demigods arrive at CHB and immediately get smacked in the face by a prophecy.... Do I have an actual idea for this propehcy? Unfortunately, no. I just want to use my demigod ocs

Homestuck, I read this stupid webcomic years ago, and it will never let me go.  - Flarping trolls? I don’t more to add onto this... just... flarping trolls.  - Cherub session! We each play a cherub who are entering a 2/4 player session together.  - Two player session, a pair of wannabe players with no friends willing to entertain them, end up playing an incredibly glitched session alone. The difficultly has been raised drastically, their prototyping has gone horribly wrong and ontop of that their medium just wasn’t built correctly. Humans or trolls work! Or both!

The Owl House, a couple of teen witches begin their slow descent into wild witchery. Probably more casual and school oriented?

And uh, I think that’s enough. Too much maybe. If any of these ideas are interesting send me a pm here or a friend request to Jupiter#7701 on discord!!

[vampire-fanboy]

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☥ Interests ☥

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Interests: Italicized interests are major interests. [Click on a fandom name and it’ll take you to my blogs tag for said media!]

General: Art, OCs, Rats, Vampires, Clowns, Demons, Angels, Zombies, Cats, Birds, Bats, Roses, Horror Genres, Autumn, Halloween, Monsters, Greek Mythology, Merfolk, Pumpkins, Anime Figures, Collecting. yaoi /j

Aesthetics: Vampiric, Emo, Scene, Dark Academia, Steampunk, Circus, Lovecore, Y2K, Early 2000's, Victorian, Gothic, Celestialcore, Angelcore, Horrorcore, Gyaru/Gyaruo, Visual Kei, Medicalcore, Kidcore.

Media: Creepypasta, Monster High (G1 & G3), Ever After High, My Little Pony (G4), Starters, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, Madness Combat, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Tangled/Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Mirai Nikki, Watamote, Love Chunibyo & Other Delusions, The Walten Files, LPS Popular, Mob Psycho 100, Happy Tree Friends, Chainsaw Man, Osomatsu San, South Park, Scream, Invader Zim, Coraline, Corpse Bride, The Owl House, Futari wa PreCure, Bocchi the Rock!, Madoka Magica, ENA, Bugbo, Adventure Time, Sweeny Todd, Popee the Performer, Tinkerbell, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Trolls.

Games: Team Fortress 2, Ace Attorney, Megaman, Cookie Run (OB & KNG), Guilty Gear, Blazblue, OMORI, Don't Starve, Roblox, Muse Dash, Five Nights at Freddy's, Undertale/Deltarune, Life is Strange, Liar Liar, Monster Prom, Cuphead, Doki Doki Literature Club, Night in the Woods, Sally Face, Higurashi: When they Cry, Ib, Mad Father, The Witch's House, Corpse Party, Aria's Story, Angels of Death, Misao, Project Kat, Jackbox Party Games, Skullgirls, Left 4 Dead, Cult of The Lamb, Needy Streamer Overload, Skyrim.

Music: S3RL, Lady Gaga, 6arelyhuman, horrormovies, Brokencyde, BLACK DRESSES, Goreshit, 100 gecs, KOKAYNA, Your Favorite Martian, Slayyyter, Tyler The Creator, femtanyl, Starberry, STYXVII, System Of A Down, Jazmin Bean, Elita, My Chemical Romance, That Kid, Sub Urban, siouxxie sixxsta, The Beatles, Michael Jackson. Hyperpop, Breakcore, Speedcore, Emo, Scene, Early 2000's, Goth, Metal, Techno, Electronic, Vocal Synths (Vocaloid, UTAU, etc), Happy Hardcore.

[DON’T assume I ship something just because I reblog fanart of it, if I want to state my ships that badly then I will. Thank you.]

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Synpaths:

"What is a Synpath?"

-Espresso Cookie-

[For personal comfort I will not elaborate on him being separated from the rest, it's not your business. He still counts as a Synpath to me personally, I will say however I may block you if you claim to be him, or kin him, etc, I can confirm though I am so less strict on this nowadays. Just don't take it personally if I do LOL. It's also encouraged you block me too if you claim to be him/kin him/etc.]

-Jyushimatsu, Todomatsu, Licorice Cookie, Pizza Cookie, Lychee Dragon Cookie-

-Timekeeper Cookie, Tohru Kunikuda, ENA, Spinel, Pinkie Pie-

-Fluttershy, Muffins, Vinyl Scratch, Basil, Tomoko Kuroki-

-Chespin, GIR, Yellow Guy, Gotou Hitori, Sayori-

-Toy Bonnie, Kyle Broflovski, The Collector, Ame-Chan, Simon Petrikov-

-Betty Grof, Flame Princess, Candy Queen, Queen Poppy, Mr. Dinkles-

[These are all characters I relate to for multiple reasons! They aren't "me" I just relate to them! So no, anyone who is kin to these guys or anything alike are not "doubles" to me nor would I be considered a "double" to you. However if me relating to any of these characters despite personally not seeing them As Me makes you uncomfortable, you're free to block me! Put your comfort first.]

If a character is listed here, but their original media isn't listed in my interests. That means I am not a fan of their original media.

-Cats/Kittens, Bats-

[I specifically relate more to small silly looking kittens then cats as a whole, but at the same time I do relate to most cats! I also relate to bats quites a bit too, but not nearly as much as cats/kittens. I however do NOT consider myself otherkin/therian though, to clear up any confusions! These are purely Synpaths for me!]

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ʚ Return? ɞ

[bronyinabottle]

HARD TO SAY ANYTHING THOUGHTS

Romance has certainly been a subject of contention in terms of anything related to Friendship is Magic. As with any popular medium, there is a pretty large shipping contingent of the fandom that will ship any character that even says just one line to another. Or in some cases especially for the background ponies, if they just simply stand with another character.

But when the show actually gets to like canon relationships and crushes it drives the shipping part of the fandom nuts. Or even just the people who don't like romance involved with ponies at all. For the most part early on though romance was more played for laughs or a purposeful subvert of expectations. From Rarity's crush on Blueblood that's completely demolished by Blueblood's true colors in the Season 1 Finale to the absolutely crazy ride Hearts and Hooves Day was (Though the latter was still enough to cause some fans. Particularly those who were Fluttershy X Big Mac fans. Cause even though the fandom was still pretty young. Fluttermac was apparently popular enough that death threats on DeviantArt happened at around the time Hearts and Hooves Day came around. That's when you know you have a serious shipping problem)

It wouldn't be until the first Equestria Girls where there was an actual somewhat serious attempt at a relationship. But it's safe to say that hardly anyone got behind Flash Sentry. It's still kinda the worst attempt at romance in the entire history of this generation of MLP that it's obvious that the staff had to tone it down to the point they had to let it go and in fact ended any chance of Flash still hooking up with Pony Twilight in the fourth EQG movie. Season 4 would have another Hearts and Hooves-esque episode in Simple Ways where the romance is played for laughs and doesn't stick past said episode.

Though Season 5 seemed to have something going on between Marble Pie and Big Mac at their reunion though the fact that they might be cousins did make some fans unsure about the whole thing.

EQG4 would have the return of romance in the EQG films through Timber and the human version of Twilight. Which while I'm sure gets some similar ire like Flash did. I personally think it's not even half as bad for a few reasons that I've already explained. But even if you don't like it, it's pretty obvious it'll stay mainly in the EQG series since it now involves an entirely different Twilight. And I think that's ok, less potential of harming the main series with an important main character being dragged into a rather forced relationship subplot

Though now in Season 7 we have a return at an actual attempt to have a romance and indeed sticks by the end in the show between Big Mac and Sugar Belle. They perfectly acknowledge Hearts and Hooves Day and how a love potion incident may not cause love to bloom between the two, it's possible to just see them as to have struck a friendship after the whole thing and they just teased the CMC for trolling purposes. But the same can't exactly be said for the whole Marble Pie thing. Even Apple Bloom says it's Big Mac's first crush. There is the possibility maybe Apple Bloom didn't see the signs to put one-and-one together but still anyone who saw the whole blushing and the way they looked at one another probably still have the right to at least question that statement and ask why it wasn't mentioned along with the Hearts and Hooves Day thing. Because it almost seems like the new writer was shown Hearts and Hooves Day, but either forgot or was never told about the episode Marble Pie appeared in. You can't just ignore that.

If I may put in a bit of a disclaimer, I'm not a particularly big shipper. So I'm not saying these things to say like I prefer Marblemac or anything. It's just something that anyone's going to at least question if they ever see both these episodes whether they saw Hard To Say Anything first or not. Also for the exception of Rarity's crushes any relationship/other crushes tends to be kept for secondary characters like Shining Armor & Cadence, Big Mac of course, and Zephyr Breeze's crush on Rainbow (Who the latter vehemently refuses any advances). So it's not been that big of a deal really, I'm even kinda fine with Sugar Belle and Big Mac being together at the end. Though the question will be certainly if it even goes anywhere later on or not.

But if I may get to the episode itself. It starts off pretty alright. Buuuuuut once Feather Bangs steps in and the CMC start their rather dim-witted plan of using fairy tales to get Big Mac and Sugar Belle together. To be honest it might be their dumbest plan since some of their early attempts to get their cutie marks back in Seasons 1 and 2. And I think maybe it's because of the previous Sweetie Belle and Rarity episode, but maybe it comes off as quite contradictory when in one episode Sweetie claims to have grown past some of the things that worked for her when she was young but then uses something that was probably part of her earlier childhood in a sense to help someone. It just seems by Forever Filly's logic, Sweetie should also know Fairy Tales isn't going to work very well. It might arguably be a worse plan then their Hearts and Hooves Day one since they didn't know the love potion would have the side-effects it did until it was too late and if they had known probably wouldn't have gone on with it. I do have to admit once it gets to that part of the episode it's a bit of a hard watch on my part between knowing the CMC's plan isn't going to work and the whole Feather Bangs thing isn't exactly making any of the scenes any better.

Though once all that's over it does pick back up at least a bit. Though making that bigger shelf to get them together at last may still seem a little fast because as much as that was sweet. I don't think it'd entirely absolve Big Mac of going along with the CMC's plan earlier. And hey Feather Bangs doesn't just get thrown away after all that is over and even gets a kinda sympathetic ending to him, which is kinda nice since normally those kind of characters in these type of episodes are almost always  kinda treated like an antagonist that gets beaten in the end (On a side note Feather is voiced by Vincent Tong. Gotta say poor Vincent, that's the 3rd male love interest character that probably doesn't have that good of a reputation in the fandom. I'm of course referring to Prince Blueblood and Flash Sentry).

All that said though, this episode may be my least favorite of Season 7 thus far. I don't think it's entirely that bad like I'd still prefer it over some of the episodes that I didn't like so much in the first half of Season 6 but I just don't feel it's quite as strong as the others has been this season. As a big part of it is not something I look forward to rewatching really. Also I have no idea if Sugar Belle and Big Mac's relationship will even go anywhere significant. There is potential they could cover like the possibility of Big Mac leaving the Apple farm to live closer with Sugar Belle. But the question is if they'll even go that far for it. We'll have to find out later.

Coming up next is Honest Apple. And episode that quite frankly has a moral that sometimes the entire internet needs to take heart sometimes.

[daniellethamasa]

Hey all, Dani here.

Okay, before I can really focus on the new month/new year of reading, I first have to wrap up all of last month’s reading and content. While I didn’t generate as many posts as I would have liked, I can blame a lot of that on how work made me feel physically. But I’m happy to say that for the first few months of 2020 I’ll basically be sitting at a desk, which means plenty of time for reading, writing, and blogging. It should be a pretty productive time.

Oh, and the change in work schedule–bleh to having to go to second shift for three months–meant that I actually had to go out and finally get a new car. Mine stopped running in Jan 2018 and I never got a replacement because Damian and I were on the same schedule again, so carpooling was how we operated. My temporary week or two on a different schedule made for some weird times of sharing the car, but we couldn’t sustain that sort of life for three months. And I ended up getting a car much newer and nicer than I’ve ever had in my life: a 2012 Honda CR-V. That’s pretty nice.

So now it’s time to jump into the wrap-up of everything I read in December, which was 22 books. Now, don’t get too excited about that number: 8 of those are Christmas presents I bought for my 2 year old niece, and as always I have at least a couple volumes of manga on the list as well. Yes, I still read quite a bit, but I was really hoping that I would get so much more accomplished in the last 10 days of the year.

I did create a 12-hour readathon event, called #JolabokaflodReadathon, and I read 5 books in that time, so that was a lot of fun, and I’m hoping to make the event even better in 2020, since in 2019 I thought of it a day before I did the readathon.

Anyway, let’s jump into the wrap-up. As always, if I have a review already written then I will include a link back to that post.

Slay by Brittney Morris — 4.5 stars

Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi — 3.5 stars

Tweet Cute by Emma Lord — 4.5 stars (review coming Jan 21)

The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams — 5 stars

Crier’s War by Nina Varela — 5 stars

Little Golden Books: Frozen 2 by Nancy Cote — 4 stars

Little Golden Books: I’m a Unicorn by Mallory Loehr and Joey Chou — 4 stars

Little Golden Books: Beauty and the Beast by Teddy Slater, Ron Dias, and Ric Gonzales — 5 stars

Little Golden Books: My Little Pony: Rainbow Dash Reading Rainboom! by Tallulah May and Zoe Persico — 4 stars

Little Golden Books: Trolls: Branch’s Bunker Birthday by David Lewman – 4 stars

Little Golden Books: The Little Mermaid by Michael Teitelbaum and Sue DiCicco — 4 stars

Reindeers are Better than People by Walt Disney Company — 4 stars

Frozen 5-Minute Stories by Walt Disney Company — 5 stars

The Epic Crush of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee — 4 stars (review coming Jan 3)

My Hero Academia Volume 22 by Kohei Horikoshi — 4.5 stars

Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins Series II #4 by Matthew Mercer, Ariana Maher, Jody Houser, Msassyk, and Olivia Samson — 5 stars

The Magicians by Lev Grossman — 4 stars

Forbidden Scrollery Volume 1 by Zun and Moe Harukawa — 3 stars

Strange Planet by Nathan W Pyle — 5 stars

We Met in December by Rose Curtis — 4 stars

Winterwood by Shea Ernshaw — 4 stars

Wicked Saints by Emily A Duncan — 5 stars

Okay, now with the wrap-up finished, it is time to talk Book Haul, which also means talking Book Unhaul, and OwlCrate Unboxing. So there’s a lot to go over.

Let’s just go ahead and start with the Unhaul portion. In an effort to tidy up the library area, I had to do a lot of shelving books and reorganizing my shelf arrangements. While I was in the middle of that, it only seemed natural to week out those books that I just don’t see myself reading or that I don’t see myself picking up to read again.

Turning in those books to Half-Price Books was actually a nice money help around the holidays. I technically got enough money to buy myself another 3 or 4 books, and I told Damian that I would roll that into books to buy in January since December was a low book-buying month. Though I did pick up a couple books at HPB while we were there as well. But when it comes to non-gift book purchases, I only bought four books for myself (technically five, but B&N was running a Buy 2 get 1 free sale on manga). So I bought both volumes of Fairy Tail 100 Year Quest and got My Hero Academia, and then I picked up Reverie and Children of Virtue and Vengeance. The rest of the manga were either purchased by Damian or they were Christmas presents, and then The Blade Itself, and both The Secret Loves of Geeks books were from that trip to HPB. So since I didn’t technically reach my 5 book purchases in December, again, I rolled the single non-purchase over for January, because I have a feeling I’ll need it.

All right, well now it’s time for the OwlCrate Unboxing portion of today’s post. This ended up being a book that I had already owned for over a month and had already read. I do really like the OwlCrate Exclusive Cover, though. I think I’m most excited about the hand warmer, but it’ll also be nice to relax with the coloring book and colored pencils.

Finally, I guess I need to talk about my TBR for January, and half of my TBR is currently in digital form because I’m really trying to keep up with my NetGalley early copies this year. I might even start trying to work on including some older NetGalley reads so that I can get my review ratio up.

All right, well that is all from me for today. How was your reading in December? What books do you hope to read in January? Let me know in the comments. I’d love to talk books and other plans/goals for 2020. I hope you are having a wonderful start to 2020, and I’ll be back soon with more bookish content.

December Wrap-Up and January TBR Hey all, Dani here. Okay, before I can really focus on the new month/new year of reading, I first have to wrap up all of last month's reading and content.