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[yuuago]

✿ Going to put it here so I don't lose it - a discussion thread that ended up with a handful of people giving me recs for WWI books and other resources... I should look into those when I have time. :D Since I've been so into that period lately. Kind of funny, though - I mean, I'm such a squeamish person half the time, but then the other half the time I'm like, YES PLEASE, TELL ME MORE ABOUT TRENCH WARFARE.

✿ It's forest fire season! Business as usual. It's super smokey out, ugh. There are some fires in my region, but a lot of the smoke is also blowing over from Saskatchewan. I'm not too worried - this happens every year. But for the time being, it's pretty inconvenient. I'm just glad that I don't have asthma or anything; the worst I have to deal with is watery eyes. Still, not cool. Hopefully we'll get some heavy rains soon.

✿ In a Hetalia-related discussion, anon compared how they see the early stages of Denmark and Norway's intimacy to accidentally eating half a bag of Doritos and... yes. Yes it is. I can't think of a more perfect description than "It's kind of awful, but next thing you know half the bag is gone and you feel a little sick but at the same time you regret nothing". It's so perfect that I'm saving it here for reference, that's what I'm going to look to for inspiration. Because some day I really do want to write about their first time being intimate, which I prefer to imagine was spectacularly mediocre. Just like Doritos.

✿ I've been seeing a lot of discussion of Mercedes Lackey's novels lately and oh man, now I want to give them a re-read. Except I never read most of her work, because I didn't have access to it. But I do remember loving the Last Herald Mage trilogy, and also the Bardic Voices novels. I think I have some of them, I'm just not sure WHERE... maybe after I finish with my Pratchett re-read (which I put aside for a while), I'll pick up with those.

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[yohjideranged]

The Last Herald Mage is on my read list...I just never got around to it with all the other books stacking up. I really need to start disciplining myself to read again or I will never get through the stack. :(

Take care with the smoke...It sounds miserable.

[yuuago]

Maybe set aside half an hour or so for each weekday? If you can partition the time.
I'm able to read during my commute, which is how I manage to actually get through everything. If I didn't have that time, I don't know if I'd ever finish anything at all. xD

[straightforwardly]

I was wondering if that was you I spied in that WWI discussion! I pretty much bookmarked that whole thread, so I could look through the recs later (which... is not an uncommon occurrence with me and the history thread).

I was actually doing a mini-reread of Lackey's novels a few months ago, which was a lot of fun... and then over this past weekend, I read the Last Herald Mage trilogy for the first time. I ended up loving the hell out of those books. So many tears.

[yuuago]

Shhhhh I am the anon-est anon ever, I swear. ;)
I usually stay out of the history threads, because a lot of the time the main subjects are stuff I don't have much interest in, but then sometimes there's something SO relevant to my interest and I just. Yes. So many recs. It's a good thing. /o/

[straightforwardly]

Yeah, I usually don't talk much (or, well, ever, unless you count the occasional comment in the Shakespeare reread) in the history thread, but I do read through them. FFA's very... Roman-centric, and while I'm not uninterested, it's not an area that I'm usually drawn to.

[dhampyresa]

ROMANI ITE DOMUM

/Team Carthage