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eldweena · 1 month
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My wife and I are celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary and Valentine's Day! I surprised her with a Cameo from the guy that does Astarion's voice from Baldur's Gate 3, and some RedBubble goodies. XP She's been in a great mood all day! Good call showing her the video first thing this morning before work then showering her with fandom goodies on her last work break. I love seeing her so excited and cheerful, especially as she's getting over a cold that's had her down. ❤️
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eldweena · 1 month
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Just finished up this BG3 commission for @imperiuswrecked! based off of the 1850 painting of Dante and Virgil, it was a lot of fun to work with these poses 🩸
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eldweena · 3 months
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Blue fantasy flower world.
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eldweena · 4 months
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Dear Ed, I long for you. Every day we spend apart feels like an eternity. I know you don't wanna hear from me, but I write these letters daily, hoping one will reach you. And I know we're not through. I can feel it in my soul. A love like ours can't disappear in an instant. We're joined to one another. Intertwined. We wrote our names on each other in permanent ink. Stede and Ed in Our Flag Means Death season 2.
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eldweena · 4 months
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The way Ed looks at Stede 😭
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eldweena · 4 months
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“I love you.”
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eldweena · 4 months
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“Spongebob: What do you usually do when I’m gone? Patrick: Wait for you to come back.”
"If Stede's Spongebob, he's Squidward. I don't know what that makes Blackbeard." - David Jenkins
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eldweena · 4 months
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Fish on wheels
↳ Behind the Flag: Mermaid Day
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eldweena · 4 months
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#The nod of consent is so important to me 😭
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eldweena · 9 months
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If (like me) you loved House of Salt and Sorrows...welcome home.
This time we follow the baby sister of the Thaumas family, Verity, except she's all grown up. You don't need to have read HOSAS to enjoy HORAR, though, nor do you need to do a reread to refresh your memory. This story is Verity's and Verity's alone.
I was so happy to get to see more of the world in this fantasy series. Last time we were on an island chain, and this time we're in a garden filled with blossoms, statues, and mysteries waiting to be solved. The plot twists and turns and keeps you on your toes. You're never sure who to trust, or even who is real or who is really a ghost, trapped in a beautiful mansion filled with secrets.
I loved the atmosphere and the story and the characters. I was (pleasantly) surprised by how spicy this book was, compared to its predecessor! I even tried drinking hot tea while reading in bed, hoping to fall asleep and dream of Chauntilalie, but turns out that stuff's full of caffeine. At least I was able to stay up and read late into the night. lol
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eldweena · 10 months
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*Review based on arc from NetGalley. This just might be the most original work of science fiction I've ever read, and I was hooked from the very beginning. It had a similar vibe to Station Eleven, but they're very different dystopian takes. If you liked Station Eleven, I think you'll love this book. We follow protagonist Coco from age 12 on. Time has fractured, leaving most people (and animals, insects, and even inanimate objects) looping in place like broken records that keep playing the same section of track, over and over. A select few people are not caught up in these loops and can witness them from outside their restrictive patterns. The problem is, if a looper's path is interrupted, they are driven mad and become violent until they break apart and disappear. It almost had a sci fi-horror element there. Plus, if food is caught in a loop, even if you eat it, it will disappear when its section of looped time resets, and vanish painfully right out of your stomach. But if it's not looped, it won't stay fresh forever. Life is hard, especially when Coco is such a young child, all on her own in this confusing new world. I thought it was brilliant to have a young girl as the main character in this story, so we can watch as she discovers how loops work, even if there's no way she or anyone can know what this all means. She is lonely and hungry and scared, and you feel her struggles as she fights to survive and eventually meets more like her, people living outside of the loops. I enjoyed reading about how people rebuilt a society apart from everyone and everything they knew and loved, carving out new lives with new governments and laws and viewpoints about life and the meaning behind what's happening. The story has a slice-of-life feel to it, even as the plot moves along. Coco makes friends and even falls in love as she grows up, and, inevitably, sets out to save the world. The plot was so unique and original, there was no way to predict what would happen or how things would end up for the characters, or even what would happen the world. As time marches on, part fractured and part new, everything begins to decay and countless loopers have been killed, either accidentally or intentionally. New children are being born to those free of the loops, and they have unique abilities that make everyone wonder whether or not they are really even human. How can time be restored to its normal state, to save humanity and the earth itself? And if Coco and her friends can even accomplish that, what will happen to the loopers? To those that have now lived for decades outside of the loops? To those born in the new world? What should they protect, their lives and the lives of their friends, or time itself? This book brought up so many interesting questions and really made me think about which side of the war for time I would join, and whether or not I could have made the same difficult choices Coco makes throughout the story. You find yourself weighing the same pros and cons, trying to decide whether you would prioritize yourself and your family versus the entire world, if it came down to that. It was provocative and heartwarming and terrifying, all at once. It's the kind of book that you keep thinking about, long after its conclusion.
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eldweena · 10 months
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This book had me hooked from the very beginning and I stayed riveted until its conclusion. I love anything dystopian but the way this multi-layered story unfolded was really unique and kept me guessing for the first three-quarters of the book. You might think you know what's happening, then the plot twists again and you're back at square one.
I loved the main character, Proctor. He was flawed and real and that made him relatable. He makes poor choices and dumb decisions sometimes, but he still tries to be good and kind and do the right thing. The love between father and daughter is a strong element in this book, and I found it especially impactful after watching The Last of Us on HBO. Now I am dying to read more books just like this one!
I felt a lot of anxiety while reading along. You're never sure what's real or who's telling the truth. It was interesting to discover who the real friends and foes were by the end of the book, and the journey to get there had my heart racing. No matter what I guessed, I was never even close to figuring out what was really going on here.
I will say this book has a lot of moving parts, and there are so many characters that when one of them is revealed to be a major enemy, I actually had no recollection of who that person was. So maybe the large cast lessened that impact. But the story, despite its many plot twists, was not hard to follow or visualize, and the ending was so bittersweet I actually cried. I just loved it all so much. I did try to read the author's previous work,  The Passage, and I felt that book moved so slowly I just got bored and couldn't finish it, let alone the rest of the trilogy. I'm glad I gave this book a shot anyway, because it might actually be a new favorite. And now I want to give The Passage a second chance. I can't wait to see what this author does next! I'll definitely be on the lookout. *arc provided through NetGalley from the publisher
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eldweena · 10 months
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There's a lot to love in this book. It brought back fond memories of my favorite childhood mystery series, like Scooby Doo; Murder, She Wrote; and Alfred Hitchcock's The Three Investigators, but it's got a fresh, modern take. Hazel, the heroine of the story, is a great role model for girls. She talks about how it's okay for boys to cry, doesn't assume the nemesis of the story is any particular gender, and mentions no less than three times that she may never get married and have kids, but might just "stick with cats." I wish so badly I'd had books discussing viewpoints like that when I was a kid! (I'm in my 40s now and felt that way as a child, myself, but all media at that time was telling me the opposite, that girls had to marry boys and have kids and that was it. Bleh.)
The characters are fantastic. I always love a brother-sister friendship, so watching Hazel take on her latest mystery case in part for the sake of cheering up her brother was touching. They don't always agree, but they're very respectful towards each other and are genuinely friends as well as brother and sister. Love, love, love to see that.
Adults and parents aren't absent from this story. They play some sensible roles and the parents act like parents while still treating their kids with respect and compromising after having heart-to-heart discussions.
Everything was great about this story, but the thing I loved most is that it's actually a horror story. The ghost is real, and I was surprised to learn that the tragedy leading up to the in-story haunting was an actual event that the author discusses in a note at the end of the book so you can research more about it and even look up photos of the cemetery portrayed in the story. So I learned something on top of being entertained, and the story was actually scary. The spirit had seemingly unlimited powers, and you never knew what might happen next.
It was a fun idea for Hazel to have a podcast and I would love to read more of her adventures in the future, if this book were to become a series.
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eldweena · 11 months
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My pet peeve in any book, manga or otherwise, is false advertising. If the synopsis on the back of the cover does not match the content inside the book, I feel like I got ripped off.
This manga would have you believe it's a cute, fluffy, high school romance. IT'S NOT! It's actually about a super creepy stalker! And I would have been happy to read "Joe Goldberg: the Manga," if it had been advertised as such, but the lying synopsis earns this manga one star and I'm not continuing it.
The girl in this story has no interest in romance. The idea of having a boyfriend never even crosses her mind. She's just a kind person who offers a stranger her umbrella, and that's when she inadvertently picks up a stalker.
So the guy she offers her umbrella to is super hot and popular at school. But he has a secret: he's a creep. The type to fall immediately "in love" with any random girl who pays him attention, until she figures out how obsessive he is and dumps him. This guy waves ALL the red flags. The main character simply shared her umbrella, and the next day he shows up in her classroom to make his "love confession" in front of everyone. She turns him down - having, again, ZERO interest in boys - but he shows up in front of school at the end of the day, waiting to walk her home, anyway. He won't take no for an answer, so she agrees they can hang out until Christmas Eve and see if her feelings change towards him.
The boy is honest, at least, about his intentions. He tells the girl he is "intense" and "crazy." She admits she finds him "tenacious" and "extreme." Suddenly this guy is everywhere she is. He stands outside her house for literal HOURS every morning so he can be sure to walk to her to school. He hovers and eavesdrops when she's with her friends and then records information about her to use later. He stalks her to a family event he was not invited to, and insists she leave with him instead.
He has no real personality or interests of his own. The second they start their trial date, he starts changing everything about himself to try and fit into some ideal guy just based on what he *thinks* she would like. He gets rid of his earrings and cuts off his long hair, even though she never asked him to. He's never real, never really "himself."
His actions and words are both constantly creepy and over-the-top. This is her first "romance" so she asks what girlfriends and boyfriends are actually supposed to do together. His response is, "Be buried together." O.O She looks at her phone and he's blown it up with like 15 missed calls in the last 30 seconds. She loses a hair pin and he spends the night at school, digging through the snow to try and find it. She suggests they make a list of fun things to do together, like trying new food. He writes "MAKE YOU MINE" but then hides the paper so she won't see it. He sees another boy simply talking to her and his face looks like MURDER. I fear for that guy in coming volumes.
If you want a light-hearted, fluffy, sweet romance, this ain't it.
If you want to watch a teenage serial killer in-the-making...enjoy!!!
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eldweena · 11 months
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The premise of this story really intrigued me. I love dystopian fiction and the idea of a group of people forced into quarantine on a ship for literal generations was ingenious! I wish I loved this book the way I expected to, but even though the worldbuilding was fantastic, the characters were so wooden and the plot was so predictable that I just didn't care what happened. The villain was a revolting person, but he was still the best character in the book, in my opinion, because he had a compelling backstory and showed his teeth; everyone else simply felt like a pawn to further the story with no emotion to back up their motives and actions, and I felt I could see the events unfolding well in advance. I'm sad to say I don't have any interest in continuing the series.
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eldweena · 11 months
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Hala Gasienicowa, Zakopane, Poland
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“A Magical Morning” by | Boris Michaliček
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