• Book Review: Misery’s Wife by Joan Tierney

    Misery’s Wife is a retelling of the Portuguese fairy tale, “What Came of Picking Flowers.” (I had to do some poking around to find out what folk tale the book was based on. It was not named in the book summary.) It’s something of a “Bluebeard” but with elements from other tale types. (Note: fairy…

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    • This Update is Triple Vaccinated

      I do not advise getting three vaccines at the same time, I’m just saying. I still don’t feel all that great after getting one earlier in the week. (I have mostly already not been feeling that great due to the entire, “I am a ball of stress and people seemed determined to drive me out…

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      • I Would Prefer A Wet Cold Over a Dry Heat: Donation Request

        Okay. This was written in a slightly different form on my main/fandom tumblr blog. The original post was addressing someone attempting to dissuade me from getting out of what is an increasingly untenable situation. (For which they decided to block me, which is fair. I was attempting to be forthright and informative. This was taken…

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        • Book Review: The Wetworks Miracle, by Caleb Sierra

          Fun Fact: this book was a very fast read, but it was several days before I could get my wits together enough to write the review. The reason? It’s probably the creepiest and most grotesque horror novel I’ve ever read. (And I say this, having read the original short story by Steven King that became…

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          • Book Review: Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous by Autumn K. England

            Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous is a cozy fantasy with some extremely uncozy backstory: In the aftermath of a war involving an Enchantrix backed up by a mind-controlled cult, one of the survivors of that war attempts to gain some kind of emotional equilibrium. Our Protagonist is a magic user named Oaklin, and was…

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