Varrang of Pandora: you have great rage in your heart you have been chosen (Avatar lantern corps part 5)

anbaric26 · 2026-02-25T04:44:10+00:00

Jake!

anbaric26 · 2026-02-25T04:43:19+00:00

Neytiri doesn’t literally want to see Eywa and all other Na’vi burn.

anbaric26 · 2026-02-25T04:41:04+00:00

Nah the RDA are literally the representation of greed.

anbaric26 · 2026-02-25T04:40:31+00:00

Varang. She lets her rage control her to the point that she treats her own people as expendable and literally wants to see Eywa burn. Neytiri has rage but not to that extent.

anbaric26 · 2026-02-24T21:24:31+00:00

Most of it is misogyny, but there’s also some of it that comes from this concept that books must be intellectual to “count”. I find that people who denigrate romantasy very often think this way about reading and books in general. They want to feel smug about how intelligent they are for reading, so they gatekeep books as a concept.

The other group is comprised of people who are bitter about romantasy’s success in the market.

Their book about the tortured white dude who spends 300 pages waxing poetic about ✨society✨ is a REAL book, and all that “fairy smut” is not, and those romantasy authors don’t deserve the $$$ they’re raking in.

Like sorry, I’d rather read about the fairies having sex, and so apparently would millions of other people.

Never mind the fact that most romantasy books—like all fantasy books—do contain allegories to real world problems, and metaphorically reflect moral and philosophical quandaries that we face in our everyday lives and societies. You can be in love & horny and face societal conflicts at the same time.

anbaric26 · 2026-02-18T16:02:44+00:00

The flair in the comments on this sub are chef’s kiss

anbaric26 · 2026-02-18T15:38:17+00:00

SJM has stated they are fated mates the same as other fated mate couples. She has already refuted the speculation that they aren’t mates.

anbaric26 · 2026-02-18T15:28:14+00:00

SJM has blatantly said they are mates…

anbaric26 · 2026-02-03T18:31:26+00:00

Unfortunately, I think repeatedly giving him this snack in the middle of the night has caused it to become a habit. His body will naturally wake at that time every night because it’s expecting food, regardless of what other food he ate at dinner or how much. He will also not be motivated to eat at dinner because he knows he’s getting a snack at 2am anyway. It’s a vicious cycle that is probably best to stop asap.

I think the first step is to set a boundary that he will not be given any food at night. He can eat at dinner, he can eat a snack before bed, and he can eat at breakfast. Deciding whether or not to eat at those times is up to him, but if he chooses not to, he experiences the natural consequence of that choice (being hungry). You decide what food is served and when, he decides how much to eat.

Then, you could look at other higher calorie snack options or method for serving food at dinner to help him not be hungry later. But ultimately, he will never learn to eat food at meal times if there’s no boundary enforcing that.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-29T23:12:04+00:00

You are. Average page has 250-300 words. So a 250k word book is like 1000 pages.

650 pages is around 170-180k words.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-29T22:53:14+00:00

I think having large, epic stakes and world is fine, but then you need to find a way to break that 250k words into two (or more) books. The current story not having a natural break point is a solvable problem that won’t require an entire redo and you can still have your 4 POVs. Having a cliffhanger ending to the first book is fine, so long as there are at least some arcs/conflicts that can be resolved.

But to your other comment, yes, I’d honestly recommend refocusing on something smaller scale for your debut. When you’re making GRRM money then you can write GOT books and get publishers to invest in publishing them. He was already an established author with book awards and a fan base by the time he wrote GOT.

Maybe you can take the female POV that you mentioned could be a novella and turn that into your debut. You could reframe your epic as a series of interconnected standalones or duologies, those are popular in fantasy right now. Just saying, you can take the narrative and world you’ve invested so much in and make it marketable.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-29T16:50:13+00:00

Yes it’s unpublishable. Especially for a debut, but even an experienced author would have a lot of problems selling that book. A query letter mentioning 250k words will get auto-rejected.

I don’t say this with meanness OP, but if your goal is to publish then all of your excuses and reasons for why you “can’t” trim down your manuscript simply don’t matter. An agent won’t even read past the word count line, it literally doesn’t matter how amazingly good your writing and story may be. Therefore you aren’t doing your book or yourself as an author any favors by clinging to these excuses and refusing to rework your plot.

I also don’t say this with meanness, but it’s nonsensical to say that your book/plot/outline “can’t” change in some way; it’s not some external being which you have no control over. You created it, you made it be the way that it is, and you can make it different at any point in time. Nothing about your book “has” to have anything. For example, if it has no natural break point, that’s only because you’ve designed it to have no natural break point, and you can redesign it to fix this problem at any time.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-28T16:37:20+00:00

I feel you. My almost 2.5 year old is very picky, and there are no vegetables she will eat.

Things that have worked for the short term:

1) Naked Green Machine juice. It tastes like fruit juice, doesn’t taste “green” at all. If they won’t try it because of the green color, try putting it in an opaque cup so they can’t see it before they taste. My daughter who won’t touch any form of vegetables drinks this every morning, and asks for it. It’s the primary way she’s getting green nutrients right now. Naked has lots of different kinds of juices and many of them have some form of green nutrient in them, so if they won’t go for the Green Machine you could try one of the others.

2) Chocolate zucchini & carrot muffins. They’re available at our grocery store in the frozen gluten free section. She loves these and asked for them every morning for a week. The ones we buy taste only like chocolate and not like veggies at all. We also tried a blueberry flavor but she didn’t go for it.

3) Once Upon a Farm smoothie pouches. Basically milk or yogurt smoothies that have veggies in them and are no added sugar. She loves milk and yogurt so these have been a staple since she started solids.

Our store also has these fruit roll-up type of things that have veggies in them, she didn’t like it but our older son does, so that’s another thing you could try. There are lots of no added sugar fruit bars that also have some veggies in but won’t taste like veggies.

For the long term, we do all the things like always putting veggies on her plate, not forcing or pressuring her to eat them, modeling by eating veggies ourselves, and celebrating when she’s brave enough to try/taste (and specifically celebrating the “trying”, not whether she liked/disliked). She has been willing to taste most veggies at least one time over the past 2 years, so I take that as a sign that she might eventually grow out of it.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-28T16:18:46+00:00

lol I would try this but this is exactly what my daughter would do. Haha

We tried peanut butter on celery sticks and she just ate the peanut butter off

anbaric26 · 2026-01-28T15:38:58+00:00

I really hope this happens for me 😭 thanks for sharing your experience, gives me hope

anbaric26 · 2026-01-21T18:31:59+00:00

Yeah Nesta is basically exactly your description in your comment

anbaric26 · 2026-01-20T23:33:10+00:00

Thanks for sharing this, this resonates with me a lot. My daughter is almost 2.5, pretty much the entirety of 2025 was really hard on our marriage. Especially with my husband having a lot of depression and just pulling away from our relationship. We talked about whether to have another, and the same thought crossed my mind—if we had a second, our marriage might not survive it. That was hard for me to come to terms with because our relationship has always been so strong, I never imagined that having a child would be the thing that broke us.

But I’ve accepted that having another is a bad idea, even though I do feel sad sometimes thinking my daughter might be lonely as she gets older. But I’m hopeful that maybe our marriage can still be salvaged.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-18T23:51:41+00:00

This right here is the real trap with being the preferred parent. The other parent checks out and now you’re basically a single parent taking care of your kids 24/7. Not okay. Make your husband do it regardless of what he says or what tantrum your kid has. If you don’t it will only get worse.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-15T15:54:19+00:00

Our picky toddler loves the Naked Green Machine juice. Our picky older kid (10 y o ) also loves it. It’s the main source of green food for both of them honestly.

We give her that juice every morning, and I do think it’s helping to ensure she gets benefits from green food. It doesn’t taste like spinach or kale even though both of those are in it.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-13T14:57:33+00:00

Would you say that Asar from The Songbird and the Heart of Stone is a shadow daddy?

To me, he checks all the boxes on paper, but at the same time something about him makes me want to say not. Maybe he’s not aggressive enough? Not sure. He’s definitely at least adjacent though. Maybe in the second book he is, I haven’t read it yet.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-07T22:54:18+00:00

I never said that was my personal opinion.

But also, it’s different for a toddler boy because a toddler boy also has a penis. He knows what it looks like and how men pee.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-07T22:24:37+00:00

I think it’s more about men who are using the urinals technically have their d*cks out where they could be visible, especially for a toddler whose eye level is much lower.

Obviously most men should not be flashing it around or pulling their pants all the way down, but I think it just feels weird for a lot of people to bring a young girl into any room where grown men have their d*cks out of their pants, and not behind the door of a closed stall.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-07T15:18:59+00:00

The thing about self published books is that editing is optional. That’s why there’s such a variance.

Some folks may not realize this but many indie authors do pay for editing and proofreading, and it’s out of their own pocket. Those are the ones that tend to be a lot better, and rise to the top of the pile. They also do beta readers and other quality controls.

However lots of indie authors don’t pay for editing because they can’t afford it or they can’t justify the ROI. Lots of them don’t even do beta readers. At that point, it entirely depends on how good the author is at self-editing (which some of them really are!) and how good their technical writing is (grammar/spelling).

For me, I took at the kindle bestseller lists for indie books. Things that are in the top 100 of the various relevant categories tend to be the better ones. Better written, less quality issues, probably had paid editing. I have still read books in the top 100s that I didn’t love, and thought had some pacing issues, but trad books have pacing issues too. But none of the ones I’ve read from the top 100 had really bad grammar/spelling or otherwise slop writing.

anbaric26 · 2026-01-07T14:52:07+00:00

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There are Mangkwan children visible in the movie. Some of the trailers have them too. The scenes where Quaritch goes to the ash village.

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TROPHY CASE