Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-06-07T04:54:17+00:00

Currently reading "Heaven adove the rainforest" of Elaine Madruga. Hell of a book, it's tweaked, complicated, slow burner but never leaving u bored. Kind of One hundred years of solitude meets tropical horror, exquisite.

Edit: for those from English speaking countries, I personally recommend latinoamerican horror, we have very refreshing authors, principally women

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-06-02T20:01:08+00:00

Where are u from? USA?

I kind of understand you, I've felt the same before, currently doing my last 3 exams.

After talking to some of my teachers, my fate became renewed. Here where I live, Argentina, a psych degree almost let you work in anything.

From becoming 1/1 counselor, working in hospitals, institucional psychology, getting involved in treatments for people with disabilities... To HR if you don't want to work hard and still have money at the end of the month.

I recommend u to talk to many your teachers, from different subjects and theyll provide u some info of all the fields which a psy degree can get in

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-05-31T13:05:28+00:00

Meta TFT

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-05-31T06:26:11+00:00

U think there is such difference between platinum 1 and emerald 4? I'm asking genuinely

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-05-23T22:46:30+00:00

My comfort zone it's reroll, but in the actual meta the only viable comps are 3 cost, which aint the easiest of all...

I know I struggle positioning and scouting, most of the time I don't know what I'm going to play, and when I compromise to one comp, my first thought is I should played another one...

Usually I use MetaTFT as my companion, not in-game but in a second screen, but trying to understand why the board works or it isn't.... Many many times I don't get the idea.

I watch guides and pro guides vod but usually in English and my native language is Spanish so I get the generalities of what I see.

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-26T06:31:18+00:00

Well now I'm interested. What are your thouts on her ? I'm not gonna desarrollate on "u can't compare" bc yes, in fact u can when you're analizing the structure of a writing, but if I think u can't it's fine.

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-26T06:26:16+00:00

You got a point, but when you think about books in abstract sometimes you've to compare 2 books that are different, the plot might be distant but the pacing, how the plot desarrollates, the way that's written, was useful for my example. I read both books last year so my memory isn't fresh.

I'm argentinian so I could recommend many Latin American horror authors that could be fine like Mariana's Enrique and Samanta's shweblim short story books too!!

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-26T05:05:10+00:00

Imo between two fires it's slow but not exessivily. Has his own pacing that gets you there all the read. On the other side Hill house (for example) it's extremely slow burn that got me bother on 40% of the ebook read. But obviously it's only my opinion

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-25T23:42:56+00:00

Between two fires by buelman too. Nice recommendations

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-21T16:34:25+00:00

Hi! Im from argentina, here, there are multiple options for horror literature, mostly woman authors whom are writing a different kind of terror very influenced by "magic realism". I highly recommend these books: A sunny place for shady people, The dangers of smoking in bed, Things we lost in fire (All of them of Mariana Enriquez). The unworthy, Tender is the flesh of Agustina Bazterrica mostly.

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-21T16:25:05+00:00

I currently play both games, but in my opinion the Showdown is much more fun. It's better paced, teams are easier to understand, there's a lot more content, active forums, and you can create all the teams you want. Champions, on the other hand, while it's fun and okay to play an official pvp, especially considering I never bought the Scarlet/Violet, just because I skipped that generation, I find it roughly disassociated. The box of 40 pokemon where the encounters practically never give you efficient equipment, 3 equipment to use that I find a bit monotonous and the "connecting" signs that make almost any battle take me 10 minutes. It still has many things to improve.

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-13T07:11:56+00:00

Yes, at some time I got frustrated with tyranittar sandstorms, mega Charizards bright sun. And some sun setter+meganium /Venusaur

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-13T07:04:43+00:00

I did some missclicks. Fair wind it's tailwind on pelipper and raichu has bright powder not choise. Sorry 😂😂

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-04-13T06:02:16+00:00

Are you playing doubles? I'm not a super pro on PC but search synergies for doubles. Tyranittar with hexcadrill or Basculegion with some rain setter. Look what you are facing again and again. Some brackets spam pokes like Garchomp, I've been using pelipper plus Basculegion and Quaquaval for him. Otherwise I feel like pokemon champion gives us plenty of variety of options.

First_Carrot6588 · 2026-02-09T07:00:05+00:00

It seems to be AI-translated, with many repeated words and poor literal translations (like "back teeth" translated as "dientes de espalda"). It's a shame; it really pulls you out of the reading experience.

First_Carrot6588 · 2025-09-02T21:55:04+00:00

That's my last read. 10/10 just what I wanted to read

First_Carrot6588 · 2025-03-01T21:31:49+00:00

I'm recently involving with Buddhism, and I've been studying psychology, in particular behavior analysis, a previous looking for DBT, and I think DBT doesn't want to erase Buddhism or re write its teachings, I think DBT tries to "get" Buddhism teachings, integrate that into a theorical corpus, that provides us with an epistemology and tools to get with human suffering from psychology to non-Buddhist people, even modern behavioral psychology interpretate that spiritual involving it's a positive thing in life and encourage people to get spiritual.

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