#november wrapup

[bookshelvesandtealeaves]

✨ NOVEMBER WRAPUP ✨

QOTD: What was your favourite read from November?

It’s SO hard to choose from my 5 star reads this month but I think it’s gotta be Heretic Behaviour by EC Glynn which is OUT TODAY! Seriously go buy a copy. You won’t be disappointed.

Total books finished: 21

DNF’s: 6

Pages read: 6,497

Hours listened: 63.23

Currently reading:

📖 Make My Wish Come True by Rachael Lippincott & Alyson Derrick (11%)

🎧 The Darkening by Sunya Mara (73%)

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-Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (reread) 🎧

-Heretic Behaviour by EC Glynn*

-We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian

-Elizabeth of East Hampton by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding

-Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

-Ribbonwood by Ruby Landers*

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-All the Painted Stars by Emma Denny*

-A Little Village Blend by ‘Nathan Burgoine

-A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal

-Until We Shatter by Kate Dylan

-Make Room for Love by Darcy Liao*

-Spice Road by Maia Ibrahim (reread) 🎧

-Serpent Sea by Maia Ibrahim*

-A Vocation of Violence by Kerrigan Byrne

-The Passing Playbook by Isaac Fitzsimons (reread) 🎧

-The Cold Ever After by Jeremy Whitley

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-Our Ship Must Sail by Lin Lustig*

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-Here We Go Again by Alison Cochrun

-Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao

-Odd Spirits by ST Gibson 🎧*

-Of Knights and Books and Falling in Love by Rita A Rubin

DNF

-Unholy Terrors by Lyndall Clipstone (63%)

-The Great Library of Tomorrow by Rosalia Aguilar Solace * (3% - yep)

-Comes the Night by Isobelle Carmody* (16%)

-Wheel of the Infinite by Martha Wells* (27%)

-The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (44%)

-The Poppy War by RF Kuang (51%)

*indicates gifted product

[ismahanescorner]

November Wrap-up!

i started to get my momentum back!

Books:

The Poetry Toolkit: 3/5 🌟

The Norton Anthology: 2.5/5 🌟

Mind Platter: DNF

Elixir of the Sun (S1): 4/5 🌟

Elixir of the Sun (S2): 4/5 🌟

The Hunger Games: 5/5 🌟

Shows & Movies:

True Blood (S3): 6/10 🌟

True Blood (S4): 7/10 🌟

The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes: 8/10 🌟

bye! ✌🏼🫰🏼

[lizziethereader]

November 2022 wrapup

I did nonfiction November this month, with the challenge of reading (almost) only nonfiction (the actual challenge is not that strict, I just enjoy giving it a try) and I had one of the best reading months this year, I think! There was so much good stuff and nothing was dry or exhausting to read. Good times! 

[not pictured: A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue, Park

favorite of the month: I really can’t choose! There was so much good stuff! 

nonfiction reads (8):  A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park,  Many Different Kinds of Love: A story of life, death and the NHS by Michael Rosen,  Broken Horses by Brandi Carlile,  This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas,  Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May, How We Go Home: Voices from Indigenous North America by Sara Sinclair, Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud,  Traumatized: Identify, Understand, and Cope with PTSD and Emotional Stress by Kati Morton, Schluss - mit lustig!: Wahre Wiener Begräbnisgeschichten by Patrick Budgen

classics (1): The Postman always rings twice by James M. Cain

poetry (1): Queer poems edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan

graphic novel (1): Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, There’s a ghost in this house by Oliver Jeffers

[talenlee]

November 2024 Wrapup!

The ordinary posting schedule on the blog takes a break starting tomorrow, as we move into the season I call Decemberween. That means with this, this may be the last opportunity you’ve got to see me talking smack about game designs and rules and Dungeons & Dragons stuff!

First of all, let’s check out what was in the Game Pile this month:

Cobalt Core, probably my game of the year, where I went from ‘is this good?’ to ‘this is good’ to ‘100% completion all achievements’ to ‘top five speedrunner’ because this game is that good.

Final Fantasy VI (Video), a video form of an old article I wrote about Final Fantasy 6 which tried to grapple with a game made by people at the zenith of one arc of technology before they moved into another.

Not A Video About Starcraft 2 and Just War, a video about how we talk about games, war, crimes, and war crimes in games, and how hard it can be to grapple with this particular silly fun time jape that is just also wildly inadequate at handling how every war is a crime.

Startups, which is a wonderful tight little nugget of Oink game design in which the game itself is what you’re paying for, not some overproduced components.

The Affordances of Atonement, a first attempt for me to turn one of my D&D articles into something for the Youtube experience.

Then there’s the media I put in the Story Pile:

Arcane, Season 1, and I promise I put this article together without being even vaguely aware that Aracane season 2 was going to drop in this month.

Big Trouble In Little China, a truly excellent little gem of 80s cheeseball cinema with a clever twist.

Galavant, a musical comedy by the best minds behind the best part of Beauty and the Beast.

Way of the Househusband, a truly fantastic anime that I adore for its simplicity and its dedication to executing on its premise.

A fun byproduct of how I treat November in the course of my blogging is that every year, whenever I write something and I’m not under any particular time crunch and don’t know if it’ll be relevant to anything, I instead put it at the ‘end’ of the queue — which is to say, starting at the end of November. What that means is that sometimes I’ll write an article, then forget about it for up to a full year and only find out about it when I’m reviewing what’s going to get published in November. What makes this extra awkward is that sometimes these articles may line up with the timing of world events in a pure coincidence. I’m not being mindful about what goes up during an election in another country because it is extremely unrelated to my life and so we got things that just reflect what I already think.

Just as an example, I was being mindful about the emotional challenges of what it means when I write about, for example, Dealing with My Dad. The actual event of my experience of Feeling Bad And Going To The Park was unanchored from when the post went up, and I can say now that going to that park and doing exercise is now something I do semi-regularly, but only when the weather permits and after dark, meaning I now moon around my local park after dark like some kind of ghoul. I don’t like thinking about when I finally committed to writing about Giving up on Fighting Games, because I know when I actually did the giving up.

Still, let’s talk about Dungeons & Dragons, where I wrote about the challenges of defining what is and who represents a meaningful relationship to truth, which is kind of important to inform players (or readers) what they’re able to rely on. There’s a careful approach to whether or not you’re willing to tell players ‘everything you trust in this space is wrong,’ which you have to work with carefully. I wrote about the idea of corporations inventing Warlock Patrons and how horny a truly capitalist system would be for the idea of being able to use predictive text to pre-emptively negotiate meetings, which ties into the idea of, again, a meaningful relationship to truth. Why have the debate if you just know one side will win, as predicted mathematically? Along with that, there’s my writing about the Ardent, a class I love because of how it feels at people very hard, and I also wrote about the Nemuranai system, which is a really cool part of the Oriental Adventures source material, which is just… not a good name, and it doesn’t get better from there. Still, Nemuranai remain a really good piece of setting and incentive mechanics, and people should respect that.

I also did some timely game development and reflection, with pieces on how to onboard players into managing complex math, and the idea of layers of alethic value in game world building. This was also while we finalised steps of prototyping Lysen Co in preparation for its potential release in January.

Then, mixed in with this there’s some miscellaneous pieces I liked that don’t hold to a central theme. I wrote about space gates, about some names in Transformers that I think are funny because they’re dumb, about the way that Haruhi Suzumiya is a fundamentally unreliable narrative space, and also about the way that Flygon, a really cool pokemon, was always going to be done dirty for things that were never its own fault. I supopose there’s some undercurrent about unfairness and truth here, too, but y’know, maybe I’m just laughing at robot toys.

This month’s design is a joke about the sports team ‘The Mets’ which I once joked about being ‘Meds’ and used that to remind people to take their meds baby, time to take ya meds, love da meds. You can buy it as a sticker or a shirt or a mousemat, without or with the shouty bit!

This month marks the wrapup point of the semester. No teaching, no marking, no nothing. Everything is in a holding pattern until the new year, and I don’t even know the schedule until next year. This is not by any means an ideal situation but oh well, we’ll see how things shake out. Of course, since the semester was definitely over, November featured tons of meetings and meetings being cancelled because of other meetings.

Here’s a point of pride: One of my classes had a 100% pass rate. That is, everyone who signed up to do the class finished the class, and handed in enough work to pass. That’s rare for me! I normally have a few students falling away, because, you know, they’re students, they’re adults, they have lives and sometimes they decide university or this degree isn’t for them.

For my future reflection though: I made a deliberate, aggressive plan to finish my marking as fast as possible, to make sure I had my marks done early so that I didn’t hold anyone else up and I could get my marking payroll request done quickly. I got this done so aggressively, and then, forgot to upload those marks until the last possible minute. Because I forgot I hadn’t done it.

I also saw a doctor this month, to start a conversation that runs ‘hey, Doctor, I’m not 25 any more and I understand there’s stuff I need to check.’ Turns out I have high blood pressure, but like, in a really normal way? Not a concern, but, hey, surprise surprise, the person I am is the kind of person who has a lot of tension about him. Strange.

Still, tomorrow is when all the big relaxation starts, because it’s Decemberween and time to relax, chill, enjoy things and share cool things with you!

Check it out on PRESS.exe to see it with images and links!

[aroaceacacia]

end of year season 4 stats wrapup

Note: based on the vods archive sheet that I help curate, so some of the details may be a little iffy in certain places!

the total number of streams by members of lifesteal between mid july and december 31 2022 - a total of 173 days - is 699

the average number of streams per member of lifesteal is about 27.96. this number is very much boosted by the three busiest streamers btw

their busiest full month was august, with an average of 6.23 streams per day! (every other month averaged around 3.5, except november, which was just shy of 3. the average across all months was 4 streams/day)

the most streams in any given day go to august 9th and august 23rd, each of which saw 10 streams - the latter, ironically, is the day terrain crashed the server with the heart glitch, which he'd warned the server members about in advance

he's literally printing - princezam hit go live the most times, at 98 streams! tied for second place are pangi and itzsubz, each with 83!

despite that, im willing to bet itzsubz streamed the most hours - typical subz streams are at least 5 hours long

bormethius was our only guest so far, but that's not the first time a bormethius vod appears on the sheet! ashswag streamed using his stream key once in august, and that makes up half of the ash vods we have from this season!

rekrap is, as far as I can tell, the only lifesteal member who's streamed this year that hasnt streamed season 4 himself once. all 4 rek vods are speedrunning, pvp legacy, or events

just some fun facts for you in the new year yay yippee

[witcherwheeloftheyear]

Molanna

@astaldis (I borrowed your own wrapup post for this, I hope you don't mind)

Imbolc February 2nd: The Glade

On their journey from Toussaint to Stygga, Geralt's Hansa comes across a beautiful glade. But is it safe to make camp here for the night? Friendship (Words: 660; Chapters: 1/1)

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Ostara March 20th: Where the Tulips Grow

Geralt, Yennefer, and Ciri learn that Jaskier has gone missing under suspicious circumstances. Circumstances that hint at a kidnapping. Yennefer leaves Geralt with Ciri and goes to save the bard. But not all goes as planned. The hero becomes the damsel in distress and Jaskier has to save the day. Romance/Yenskier (Words: 23,951; Chapters: 9/9, )

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Beltane May 1st: Belleteyn

Yennefer has a beautiful May Night with her lover. Who the lover is? I had one specific Witcher character in mind when I wrote the fic, but you might fancy a different pairing. So, feel free to decide yourself whoever works best for you, Yennefer/Geralt, Yennefer/Jaskier, Yennefer/Istredd, Yennefer/Cahir, Yennefer/crossover character, Yennefer/You, ... loads of possibilities! Romance/Smut (Words: 3,469; Chapters: 1/1)

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Litha June 21st: A Night to Remember

It's Litha, the longest day of the year, and Geralt is throwing a garden party at his newly acquired estate, Corvo Bianco, the old vineyard in the Sansretour Valley. Milva cannot dance, but Cahir is a good teacher. The delicious wine and Jaskier's newest song also help. And then there are Angoulême's Hansa Games and Regis's hot hooch ... Friendship/Romance/Humour (Words: 4,160; Chapters: 2/2)

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Lammas August 1st: Of Bairns and Banes

It is a beautiful night, fair summer weather, the air balmy, the sky clear and sprinkled with stars. The perfect night for the village’s traditional Lammas celebrations, the feast of first fruits. However, unlike in the neighbouring villages and the years past, there are no bonfires here today. No corn dolls to be burned and bulls or horses to be sacrificed as an offering to the gods. No ritual dances or athletic competitions are held or blueberry loaves baked in the village bake house. This year there is no matchmaking and rolling about in the hay. For the village is in mourning, the villagers terrified. And very much in need of a Witcher. Lucky for them, one has just arrived.

This is the story of Cahir’s first solo monster hunt. Spooky Adventure (Words: 2,977; Chapters: 1/1)

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Mabon September 22nd: Her Idea of Fun

“Finished!” Angoulême exclaims and starts to dance circles around the victim of her wager. “I bet nobody’d take him for a Nilfgaardian now!” she adds with a raucous cackle that reminds strongly of a goose on fisstech …

Cahir loses a bet and Angoulême is having fun. Friendship/Humour (Words: 444; Chapters: 1/1)

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Samhain November 1st: The Present

It is the evening of the last day of October, Samhain, a magical night where the gates between worlds are wide open for those who can travel through space and time. Ciri can, and she has a surprise for her boyfriend Cahir, a very nice surprise. Romance/Cahiri (Words: 1,656; Chapters: 1/1)

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Yule December 21st: Jaskier's Jolly Yule Jumble

Another festive event is coming up in Toussaint and Jaskier has the perfect idea for how to celebrate it with his Hansa. He only needs to convince Geralt and the others that his idea for their Yule party will be fun, lots of fun. Friendship/Humour (Words: 8,681; Chapters: 4/4)

[weirdgirlification]

november wrapup!

stories i enjoyed (or didn't) in the last month

finally finished twin peaks. took a little while for me to click with the return but once i did i really loved it. using dale cooper as a lens through which to explore the evil of humanity is a really fascinating choice that reframes so much of the original show. loved the experimental stuff. i've already said so much about it on here so let me just end by saying it's become my favourite television show of all time

watched 1999 hugh jackman oklahoma to prep for podcast... a musical that continues to fascinate me in all its forms

read idlewild by james frankie thomas + the rehearsal by eleanor catton in a real "books about theatre kids" kind of mood. enjoyed both as a former theatre kid myself who loves to think about Performance... idlewild in particular was a new favourite

neon genesis evangelion... much to say on this. haven't really watched anime since age 15 or so and coming back as an adult is like, there's stuff in here that's really genuinely excellent and also stuff that makes me feel gross for watching it. sucks! so compelled by these characters, could write so much on asuka, misato, shinji... love an exploration of humanity and interpersonal relationships through this christian apocalypse existential horror lens. wish they did not feel the need to sexualise teenage girls though. longer post incoming i think

watched bottoms which i thought was shit. very unfunny but maybe i'm just not the target audience for that kind of comedy. sorry to those who liked it

[godzilla-reads]

📖 November Reading Wrapup 📖

I started off November with 149 books in my pocket and left at 164 books, meaning I read 15 books this month! My top 3 are starred below:

🌎 What You Need to be Warm by Neil Gaiman

⭐️ Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

🪐 Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden

⭐️ Faeries by Brian Froud and Alan Lee

❤️ Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

💍 The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

🗻 So Far So Good: Final Poems 2014-2018 by Ursula K. Le Guin

🧟 Zombie Penpal by Ken McMurtry

🧄 Garlic & the Vampire by Bree Paulsen

🐥 Poems About Birds edited by H.J. Massingham

❄️ The Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (trans. Janet Hong)

🐲 The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

⭐️ Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

🏴‍☠️ One Piece Vol. 6: The Oath by Eiichiro Oda

🍄 How to See Fairies and Other Tales by Charles van Sandwyk

[warrenwoodhouse]

PlayStation 4 Themes to try Out

Ok, so I was thinking a while ago about writing a blog post about my favourite PS4 Themes. Here is my list and I’ll update this post with new Themes every so often. Enjoy!

Dishonored 2: Emily and Corvo Dynamic Theme

Dishonored 2: Throne Dynamic Theme

Dishonored 2: Karnaca Dynamic Theme

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider Dynamic Theme

Dreadnought: Cargo Yard Dynamic Theme

Far Cry 5 Dynamic Theme

Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Within Static Theme

Game of Thrones Dynamic Theme

Ghostbusters Dynamic Theme

Life is Strange Dynamic Theme

Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty Dynamic Theme

PAC-MAN Championship Edition 2 Dynamic Theme

PlayStation 20th Anniversary Dynamic Theme

PlayStation Wrapup 2020 Dynamic Theme

Suicide Squad Dynamic Theme

STEEP Dynamic Theme

Ubisoft 2017 Dynamic Theme

The Order: 1886: Airstrip Dynamic Theme

The Town of Light Dynamic Theme

Dear Esther: Landmark Edition Dynamic Theme

Until Dawn Dynamic Theme

Warframe: Excalibur Dynamic Theme

WATCH_DOGS 2 Dynamic Theme

These are my favourites. Check them out whenever you want.

Changelog

12th March 2024: Updated list

20th November 2017 at 12:08 am: Created post

[sandwichtribunal]

December List Sandwiches and November Wrapup

In December, the Tribunal will be covering Danish Flæskesteg, Hawaiian Flying Saucers, and the Francheezie.

Hello Sandwich fans! It’s December 1st, time to break out a new set of sandwiches for the Tribunal to test, taste, and tack on to our tally of the world’s bready bits of bliss. I’m here to tell you all about them. But first let’s recap November’s tasty topics. We started the month with a deep dive into the history of Eggs Benedict, along with an exploration of a few of its more delicious…

[ivettel]

2022 creator wrapup

this tag game is going around other circles of tumblr, so i figure i'll kick another chain off for f1blr! also tagged by @haydanakin -- thank you, shale <3 happy new year!

list your favourite and most popular creations from every month this year!

JANUARY • favourite: puma singapore 2010 appearance my beloved • most popular: aus 2011 cunt king moment - 510 notes

FEBRUARY • favourite: japan 2009 did you mean babygirl? • most popular: frank iero in the "blood" music video - 1011 notes

MARCH • favourite: hungary 2010 fuckboy press conference (took me ages to colour and match but literally on the list of all time favs) • most popular: lewis and seb mexico 2017 drivers' debrief bitchfest - 901 notes

APRIL • favourite: seb x adobe creative cloud suite edit • most popular: australia 2022 scooter - 2462 notes

MAY • favourite: grand theft auto miami 2022 edit • most popular: monaco 2022 red flag vogue - 1622 notes

JUNE • favourite: baku 2022 weekend wrapup edit • most popular: lewis @ seb "ur doing amazing sweetie" - 1772 notes

JULY • favourite: ferrari seb bleeding heart edit • most popular: 'i don't care about the legacy--HONK' encounter - 2328 notes

AUGUST • favourite: grill the grid finale edit • most popular: sebastian "i heard silly season was quite turbulent :)" vettel - 1249 notes

SEPTEMBER • favourite: abu dhabi 2010 x austin 2013 quote edit • most popular: mcrfirefly gerard way "these are the only legs on stage" - 7209 notes

OCTOBER • favourite: boyzone anakin charli xcx edit • most popular: frank iero singing along to "fake your death" - 2179 notes

NOVEMBER • favourite: luke skywalker's cv edit • most popular: seb abu dhabi instagram live - 771 notes

DECEMBER • favourite: seb's 2022 wrapup edit • most popular: luke and han in the empire strikes back - 1384 notes

no pressure tags! @josefnewgayden @maranello @crusaderkings3 @brawn-gp @toyotagazoo @princemick @andreagrimes @h-f-k @vetterrari @cedobols @kkmeeluqq @leqclerc @queerbenched

[andsalttheearthbehindyou]

November reading wrapup

hmmm pretty good month for quantity but hit or miss for quality, i either loved or hated almost all of these. 💆🏻‍♀️

1. the lover, marguerite duras — tumblr girl classic, ur fav web weaving posts almost definitely feature a snippet of this. like woah 😭 ok very timeless very vivid and real. I did cry.

2. icebreaker, hannah grace — this is EMBARASSINGGGGGG i was going to a hockey game and was like woah let me get into this mindset... into this world… THIS BOOK WAS MISLEADING i thought itd be equal parts hockey world ice skater world equal parts romance and no.. it was nothing of the sort... this was just tooooo porny like WAY too much, even for me. AND I USED TO WRITE SM- *gunshot*

3. throne of glass, sarah j mass — does anyone have any good fantasy series recs that arent this?? like this is what years without winds of winter will do to a woman. im settling for this subpar garbage. but i am gonna keep reading it bc what else do i have, george???

4. mickey7, edward ashton — been on my tbr since rob pattinson was announced to be the lead in this in the bong joon-ho movie… i feel like with the creatives behind it thisll end up being one of those rare bones and all situations where the adaptation is wayyyyy better than the book. but idk. book itself was whatever good concept but didnt even really go anywhere. i thought that i had guessed a twist lie 3 quarters of the way thru but there was no twist literally nothing happened. therefore MID

5. blood meridian, cormac mccarthy — the only other time i had like a visceral tummy churning reaction to a book like this was when i read theons chapters in a dance with dragons 😭😭😭 anyway i like the lack of quotation marks and i also find it easier to write without them SHOOT ME

6. death valley, melissa broder — im really endeared to broder as a writer because i feel like she can only do one thing really well and shes very self aware of that.. which i respect.. also what the protag is going thru here at the start of the book is something ive also gone thru and it felt very strangely accurate and bizarre as a real person reading about a fake person going thru it. and literally within the book the protag references how writers poorly portray their characters accurately 'going thru it' (i keep saying going thru it bcoz im trying not to spoil even tho no ones gonna read my recs ALTHO this one deserves to be read i think) so that was cray and meta but umm what im trying to say is.. melissa i wanted to go to ur book signing i literally had my day cleared in my planner for u. why did u have to cancel the event.

7. indelicacy, amina cain — public announcement i guess but hey girl @noumenongirl i think you would love this one i dont know why but the whole time i was reading i was just like woah she’d love this😭 i liked it a lot

8. the penelopiad, margaret atwood — this is what circe by madeline miller wanted and tried to be but failed tremendously at.....

9. crown of midnight, sarah j mass — was better than throne of glass in the beginning actually but then they halfway thru lost me again..

10. the assassins blade, sarah j mass — im just hate reading at this point like i dont have anything else to do. Celaena youll never be daenerys girl like stop

11. elvis and me, priscilla beaulieu presley — ohhhh…. :,(((( my fav celeb memoir yet i think.....

+ bonus — im gonna add this to my december list but im like 75% of the way with fourth wing rn, good fawking heavens i wishthat grrm could trademark copyright the concept of dragons like i dont think anyone should be allowed to write about DRAGONS only him. like mini spoilers for fourth wing SORRY but WHY DO THE DRAGONS SPEAK ENGLISH, WHY DO THEY EVEN SPEAK AT ALL....cringe. but better than throne of glass at least😭 but it doesnt take much to be better than throne of glass to be fair. OK reading wrapup over.

[killtheartistry]

⭐️ART WRAPUP OF 2022!⭐️

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This year was a wild one! I’ve had a lot of firsts this year! (First time losing 20lbs, winning an art award, being social since 2018, etc) This year also had lots of art improvement in it. I may not have been able to show it all in these 10 images, but that doesn’t matter. I wish all of you seeing this a fulfilling 2023! Happy new year!! 🎊

[lizziethereader]

November 2023 wrapup

Why, yes, this is a November wrapup at the end of December. Work has kept me from doing this earlier, but I still wanted to finally upload this because November was a really fun reading month. I participated in nonfiction November and although it's not a requirement, read almost exclusively nonfiction. The thing with nonfiction is that it's harder for me to get myself to pick it up when there are lots of novels at hand, but I do generally quite enjoy nonfiction as well, so November is always a good reminder of that.

favorite of the month: Having and Being Had by Eula Bliss, Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day

nonfiction of the month (8): The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil, Arrangements in Blue by Amy Key, The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel, Having and Being Had by Eula Bliss, User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant, On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne, Music is History by Questlove, Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day

classics (1): On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne

poetry (1): Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

graphic novel (1): Crawlspace by Jesse Jacobs

[books-and-dachshunds]

November ‘24 Wrap up 🍂

November ‘24 Wrap up #booksky #booklr #bulletjournal #wrapup

Hello everyone, One more month is passing us by.. I gotta say, I’m feeling dread as this year is once again coming to an end 🥲 I’ve learnt from a tiktok from a psychology student that the reason why time feels to go  quicker as we age is simply because our brain love & record new experiences better- thus as it eventually slow down as we age, our brain register less.   November’s feels; On the…

[disappearingmuse]

Wrapup on November challenge and the result

Day 28: Just edited a few paragraphs.

Day 29: Wrote 340 words of some sad-ass shit. I cry every single time I write something angsty about my OTP, I swear.

Day 30: I brainstormed edits in my notebook to implement later (they've all been implemented as of now!)

Final thoughts on this write every day challenge:

Did I succeed? No. I missed one day. But sweetly and simply: I'm glad I did it. "Write/edit every day" was a pretty nebulous goal, so sometimes I wrote a few sentences and called it a day, but I still wrote. I think it did ultimately help me in my goal of returning to a daily writing routine.

And yeah, I'm just going to say this casually for my Academic Dishonesty fam, but the "main project" I was working on may or may not have been shorts set during the Academic Dishonesty timeline. Maybe. Supposedly.