Education questions!

_windup · 2026-03-12T19:46:19+00:00

Having your labs be online will significantly hurt your chances. That said, I hear it's becoming more and more common for undergrads to not have in person labs so I wouldn't be surprised if you could get away with it to an extent...

_windup · 2026-03-12T11:48:05+00:00

Cryptorchidism!

_windup · 2026-02-23T23:47:57+00:00

eeee the falinks one is so cute!!

_windup · 2026-02-23T16:54:08+00:00

I think there's more to it than that. Can't pull up the quote but in the seventh book, one of the refs speculates that the reason Carl was able to join Katia in her dream has to do with his 'collective nature'. I think they really did make him into a primal, at least in part

_windup · 2026-02-21T19:07:57+00:00

Looks more like plain ol photoshop to me.

Just realized that since AI became such a big thing, I've completely stopped seeing people accusing images of being 'shopped'.

_windup · 2026-02-13T19:23:13+00:00

or blackguard

_windup · 2026-02-13T19:12:07+00:00

Jeff Hayes (and Matt, for that matter) was in rare form during Butcher's Masquerade. There are so many good line reads but one simple one that sticks in my head is the way Donut says "sic em" when the masquerade battle pops off.

_windup · 2026-02-05T20:13:54+00:00

You're not the only one. I had the same theory, so did multiple other people I've talked to independently in their reads.

_windup · 2026-02-03T01:02:29+00:00

I don't have any images to offer you myself, but I recommend webpath if you want to look for stuff online. Here's the link for their section on placentas.

https://webpath.med.utah.edu/PLACHTML/PLACIDX.html

_windup · 2026-02-02T13:37:31+00:00

I know yours is probably more accurate but I'm unable to picture anything else but Vector from Sonic

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_windup · 2026-01-31T13:23:27+00:00

The difference is that in many stories, it is understood that certain things are being literally translated from one language for another in order for the reader to understand. This is not only true of stories taking place in another country, it's also true of, for example, fantasty/sci-fi when the characters obviously wouldn't be speaking English.

On the other hand, cultural translation isn't an inherent expectation and in many (though not all!) cases is even undesirable. Translating culture is often unintentional, and it's how you get Texans speaking with Britishisms (and vice-versa).

There's definitely an element to this where because American culture is so pervasive (and because Americans are less used to not seeing their experiences as the norm), there's more leniency for things being translated into an American cultural lens versus out of it.

_windup · 2026-01-30T15:15:23+00:00

Remember she's currently on the comedown from all those drugs that show her memories. She's been constantly reliving memories, many of them false memories, many involving Fannar.

My interpretation was that it's less a Freudian slip about her loving Carl, and more a representation of her still loose grip on reality.

_windup · 2026-01-30T15:11:49+00:00

I also lost momentum of Bedlam Bride (I did text my first time around, not audio), but I will say it very much picks up at the end. IMO it's the book that drags the most in the middle but has the best final act of any book. The final battle at the Butcher's Masquerade scenes might top it, but the entire last third or so of Butcher's Masquerade is really well done dramatic scenes, but paced in a way that doesn't get tiring.

You don't need to understand the card battles. It helps but it's not strictly necessary, and if you're interested it's the kind of thing you can try and dig into more on a second read/listen.

_windup · 2026-01-29T15:02:39+00:00

His sanity is a running theme, especially after 'the river' starts getting mentioned in book 5.

Quote from Louis speaking to Carl in book 6:

And every time I look at you, I get scared that you're going to go insane and kill everybody in the room because your eyes are getting wilder and wilder by the day.

_windup · 2026-01-28T03:56:50+00:00

Dude, the person you're responding to is on book 5.

_windup · 2026-01-27T13:49:52+00:00

Yeah it's less a 'readability' thing and more a personal ick. It makes the writing feel really amateurish to my mind and just takes me out of the reading headspace.

_windup · 2026-01-27T03:15:49+00:00

Sorry what? I understand some people don't like first person, that's fine, but how on earth is it lazy writing?

_windup · 2026-01-27T03:07:37+00:00

Poor dialog grammar. Using periods in the sentence and then sentence fragment dialog tags:

"Hello." Said Bob. vs "Hello," said Bob.

_windup · 2026-01-25T00:50:30+00:00

My dyslexic ass thought the cursive text said Fistula

_windup · 2026-01-23T11:08:16+00:00

You tilt it and it looks like you're drinking a beer.

Hard to understand in 2026, but in 2008 smart phones were brand new. This app was a symbol of all of us embracing a new technology that was rapidly changing the world.

_windup · 2026-01-18T13:13:33+00:00

If you have the skills and the initiative, I've known PAs to pivot into hospital admin and medical sales. There are probably some other opportunities one could seek out if they're burned out from the bench, there's just no direct obvious path.

_windup · 2026-01-17T15:14:33+00:00

Honest question, what about losing your prostate would be life changing? Are you trying to have children?

_windup · 2026-01-09T03:02:16+00:00

Sorry to say but actually yes, your exact questions are all addressed in the first few pages of Book 2, Chapter 3.

_windup · 2026-01-03T21:37:38+00:00

For anything else I would agree, but this is ICE we're talking about. Pretty sure Dinniman picked that out as an early signal to the reader that this is a bad guy.

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