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Books & TV: Top Ten Tuesdays [Wyrd & Wonder Day 30]

I’m back with another Top Ten Tuesday, the last of Wyrd & Wonder 2023! Time really does fly 0.0 but the last prompt is all about magical typography. Typography can make or break the cover of a book and when you’re in the world of fantasy there’s much to be played with. So for today, I’ll be looking at fantasy books and movies past and present for the best of lettering and typography. So without…

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Sci-fi Books on My TBR | Top Ten Tuesdays

My TTT post is up! It's a genre freebie this week, so I'm talking sci-fi!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme brought to you by That Artsy Reader Girl. It was previously hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is “Genre Freebie (Pick a genre and build a list around it. It could be a list of favorites, a to-read list, recommendations for people interested in reading books in that genre, “if you like this, try this”, etc.).” I’ve decided to talk about more…

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Top Ten Tuesday: Isekai

Welcome to the very first Top Ten Tuesday! Well, my first. This series has been around for ages on countless book blogs. Now it’s time for me to give it a try! For my first list, I’ll be covering the Top Ten Isekai. The list will start with my favorites, but since I don’t believe I’ve read ten or more (hoping to change that after this list), I’ll wander out into the community favorites. Villains…

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Top Ten Tuesday: New to Me Authors of 2022

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. The rules are simple: Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone…

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#1: Marcy at the Gates

Ok, so I meant to bring back Top Ten Tuesdays when I posted #2 a few weeks ago. But today is another Tuesday, and I was just thinking about this episode!

Marcy at the Gates is the hands down best character in Amphibia (and one of the best characters ever), at her absolute best, in the best episode of Amphibia. And it was only her first ever speaking appearance! Hard to believe nobody knew a thing about the adorkable nerd until halfway through the show's run. But reality is funny like that sometimes.

And honestly? What is there to say about Marcy that hasn't already been said? Seriously, I can't think of anything. She's an innocent child who wouldn't hurt a fly (unless it was served to her on a tray with other bug appetizers). She's an adventurer. She craves friendship, and this is somehow both a strength and her greatest weakness. She's a brainiac. She's a nerd. She's amazing. She's charming. She is small and cute and needs to be protected at all costs. Some say she's selfish, but she's like 12-13; we can forgive that. She's sometimes so smart she crosses over into being really dumb. She's great at zoning in, not so great at multitasking.

Wait, I just thought of something that I haven't heard anywhere else: that last sentence cost Marcy her life at the hands of King Andrias. If she was paying more attention she would have noticed him and tried to -- you know -- avoid his sword. And hey, something else I've never heard before: Sasha was right that this habit would get her killed someday.

Anyway, I know I'm just going on about Marcy, but come on, this was her episode. Her story. She was the star. She made this episode #1 overall.

But I love details, and the plot was the details here. The first detail is the Plantars finally making it to Newtopia. And the second detail is Anne inadvertently introducing the plot of the episode by showing Sprig pictures of Marcy and telling him about her. Then you get more details about how the city works. You know the episode title, so by the time the hooded figure descends on the wagon, you know you're about to meet Marcy. Right away after the commercial break she makes it clear whose episode this is. Crazy how in just 2/3 of an episode she had everybody like this:

Then you got your standard Marcy mission with a brand new crew (for her). Chock full of twists and turns. Achievement unlocked: 3 new allies join your party! Instavines! Queen barbariants! The process of digestion! And then, a potent penetration and another friendship forged in the bonds of battle later, we finally get to see Newtopia, and the episode came to an end.

(Technically it is Wednesday now, but it's shortly after midnight and I started writing this post on Tuesday so it still counts.)

Marcy is awesome. That's all I'm really trying to say here.

Oh, and I just remembered this, which I posted shortly after this episode.

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Top Ten Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme previously hosted by the lovely folks @ The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl Top Ten Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List I kinda disappeared for a while there eh? I thought it was about time I dispelled my blogging hiatus with a TTT post! 1. The Imperial Uncle by Da Feng Gua Guo 2. Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright 3. A…

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OK, missed a week because of Labor Day, but we're back with Top Ten Tuesday!

#5: Disco Do-Over

I'm so glad they finally figured out a perfect way to utilize Doof!

This was a fun episode all around. From the Murphy Dream Board, to the training montage, to the actual competition, it felt like the universe was FINALLY trying to throw the Murphys a bone by enhancing their routine in order to gift them a win. The signs were clear throughout the episode:

With the Dream Board: they were left with one final opportunity to win it all before the skate park itself closed, so it almost didn't matter how much damage they caused to the place.

With the training montage: they were gifted a son who had learned more about how to evade Murphy's Law in 13 years than Martin had in roughly 3 times that long.

And with the competition itself: Doof was a judge. That's it. That's the sign.

And I'll just end with a couple pictures of the Dream Board because this is pretty funny:

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018! hi hi, loves! i hope you’re all doing well and staying cool (or warm) in whatever hemisphere you are in! i always love doing posts like this, and just reflecting on all the good book options i have for the last six months of 2024 (which feels wild to even type)! but truly, so many good books are publishing over the last half of this year, and i can’t wait to talk about them all with you! 😍 🌞 SUMMER RELEASES ☆ The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark – august 6th ⤷ once again, this book is about necromancers, assassins, and a vow our mc isn’t supposed to remember, but does. it very well could be my new personality very soon! ☆ Mistress of Lies by K.M. Enright – august 13th ⤷ maybe the summer buzzword is assassins, because this queer filipino debut also stars one who is forced to work with two others to solve a magical murder mystery that could also involve vampires. this is truly the debut that i have been looking most forward to all year! ☆ The Crimson Crown by Heather Walter – august 27th ⤷ we love a tuesday birthday, and this year for mine i get a sapphic snow white dark retelling. i am obsessed with this author’s writing and her malice duology that ended up being a favorite of mine. i can’t wait for all the sapphic stories she will give us, but this birthday release one feels very special to me already. 🍁 FALL RELEASES ☆ Graveyard Shift by M.L. Rio – september 24th ⤷ i mean, once everyone saw there was a new ml rio book coming out i think the entire book community let out a breath they didn’t know they were holding. it is “only” a novella (i say this as a novella lover), but it is about a group of night shift workers trying to solve a mystery at the graveyard, involving a gravedigger, and i know it’s going to be everything. ☆ The City in Glass by Nghi Vo – october 1st ⤷ at this point, i will just beg tor for anything that nghi vo writes. but this is a brand new standalone all about angels and demons and a lost city and i just know that i am going to love it like everything else this author writes! ☆ Lore Olympus: Volume Seven (Lore Olympus, #7) by Rachel Smythe – october 1st ⤷ there is just something really happy and healing about waiting for my next preorder of lore olympus to come in. volume six  was actually my favorite so far, so i extra can’t wait for this newest installment for the fall! ☆ Spectacular (Caraval, #3.5) by Stephanie Garber – october 22nd ⤷ i cannot believe we are actually get a caraval holiday story right before the holiday season! i am so curious if we will see characters from both of her trilogies in this, and if we will get some hints for what is to come next! but i love being in the world of caraval and i can’t wait for this! ❄️ WINTER RELEASES ☆ The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong – november 5th ⤷ this is actually one of my favorite covers… ever. but is a new debut about a immigrant fortune teller, traveling from town to town with her magical cat, and i think this is the tale of them trying to help someone in one of these towns! this is going to be cozy and heartfelt and i can’t wait to read. ☆ The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia, #3) by Carissa Broadbent – november 19th ⤷ i am all caught up and so ready to read this new carissa broadbent book! this third full length story is about a character we know and love from books one and two, but i am curious how i am going to enjoy it because i really didn’t love the last novella i read set in this world. but i am still excited to find out this winter! ☆ Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive, #5) by Brandon Sanderson – december 6th ⤷ the fifth and last (of this story arc, before a very big time jump) of the very beloved stormlight archives. i cannot believe it will be in my hands in six months, and i also can’t believe brandon has said it is the longest bo...

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Top Ten(ish) Tuesday: TMC Easy #2

The #2 most checked out picture book from TMC Easy last year was... We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom! This book has come up on both the lists (for the TMC in general AND TMC Easy), and it's been popular since it arrived... and with good reason! It's definitely worth sharing in the classroom, for its themes, as well as its award-winning illustrations. There are a lot of great ideas out there for lessons you can teach from it.

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Books & TV: Top Ten Tuesdays [Wyrd & Wonder 2023 Day 23]

A tag that was originally started by The Broke and The Bookish, now taken over by That Artsy Reader, Top Ten Tuesdays is a list of 10 books that go along with any prompt you chose for that week! The Artsy Reader posts their prompts and you are free to either take inspiration from those prompts or make up one of your own. Day 23’s Wyrd and Wonder prompt is Bite-Sized Fantasy an area I am quite…

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Books on My Winter 2024-2025 To-Read List | Top Ten Tuesdays

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Top Ten Tuesday - Reasons Why I’m Thankful for Books

Today I’m participating in Top Ten Tuesday, which was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Each week there is a new theme/topic, and participants choose ten books that fit it. This week’s theme is Reasons Why I’m Thankful for…

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Top Ten Tuesday: Bookish Goals For 2023

Topic: Bookish Goals for 2023 I posted a blog about this near the beginning of the year, but I’m willing to talk about it again. Having goals is important. Increase my Netgalley completion rate. I am so embarrassed by how low my completion rate is. I picked up so many. I was so excited to read them. But I let time and other books get away from me. This year I plan on keeping up with the books…

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#2: Battle of the Bands

I'm looking back at the blog and realizing we never completed Top Ten Tuesday! So since today is Tuesday, we're picking up where we left off.

The idea of a one-off fun episode sandwiched in between plot episodes at the end of the season can be a drag if done wrong (Gravity Falls - Roadside Attraction), but in this case (The Dinner / Battle of the Bands) it works.

In this pair of episodes we get a glimpse of what the home life of Anne, Sasha and Marcy might have been like prior to their involuntary vacation, we get a look into how the Plantars treat guests, we get a surprising glance at what Grime's career choice might have been had he not been born into a species-based caste system, and we get one last adventure in Wartwood before the excrement collides with the rotating oscillator.

Last episode was all about Grime, Sasha, and the Plantars trying to bury the hatchet with each other, but Grime and Sasha still having other plans to make this the Calm Before the Storm. Which did happen, but not in the way they expected.

This episode was all about just genuinely enjoying the calm period. As the mayor said, "we could all use some levity," and this was the perfect way to do it.

The idea of Anne, Sasha and Marcy having their own band back home felt a little forced to me, but it made the episode carry that much more weight. The #1 cause of bands breaking up seems to be creative differences among the members. So when that inevitably happened with Sasha quitting (and us still knowing she had another trick up her sleeve for the next episode), it was easy to see an ending where she did not rejoin her friends.

Here's the part of the review where the other bands get the spotlight:

Chuck and his singing tulips. That he apparently grew. Brilliant way to use him. (Side note: I wonder if he grew them in his own yard or in the Plantars' yard while they were away?)

Mrs. Croaker and Archie. Just such a dynamic duo that they needed a song.

Sprig, Hop Pop, Wally and Loggle. An odd pairing, but their use of the jugs... I just realized as I was writing this that Wally learned to play the jug from his father. And since he didn't know before that episode, he learned to play in the time since then.

And Grime. We don't get his whole performance, but it almost feels like he forced a win by ending the show with a 3 hour performance. On point for his character.

Then there was Sasha and Toady. I'll be honest, I was surprised that this act didn't come on stage. But I guess since Sasha already played in the Sharps, she wasn't allowed to compete in multiple acts. That means we never get to see the full version of Heartstomper, although I thought I saw it somewhere on YouTube.

Now back to the main event: the Sharps! I guess Anne's journey through this song sort of mirrored her journey through Amphibia as a whole, in that it started out solo, then Sasha decided to leave because she wanted to be in charge and Anne was left with just Marcy and the Plantars in a charming state, but Sasha ended up returning to make the ending that much more epic. Makes sense, too, because I've also heard that No Big Deal was written prior to the show and was initially considered as a candidate to be the theme song. And, if there's one thing I've learned through writing this blog, it's that much of Amphibia is a mirror.

And the song itself was a banger. My favorite Amphibia song by a country mile. (Come to think of it, there weren't that many songs in this show to choose from.) But still, this one was on par with GF's T8king Over Midnight and all three songs by MML's Just Getting Started.

Overall, just an amazing episode to bring the Wartwood chapter to its natural conclusion.

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now i cOULD go to bed righ t now. OR i could start writing at 3 a.m., as is the usual ritual