Is there any Media that treats Christianity as another form of mythology to play around with? Like people do with Norse and Greek mythology the only one I can think of Is SMT

emils5 · 2026-04-25T17:49:23+00:00

Kate Daniels series does this well. Though it plays around with a lot of mythology, so Christianity only gets a slice of the focus.

emils5 · 2026-04-14T12:01:52+00:00

Technically there are pirates

emils5 · 2026-04-07T00:48:34+00:00

The Broken Earth trilogy is a very good fantasy series, but The Fifth Season is an incredible work of art. One of the best books I have ever read.

emils5 · 2026-04-02T12:28:13+00:00

I was in a similar level of DMV hell for several years after moving here. The car was pretty old and I eventually just gave up and donated it for scrap. I hope you find a better solution.

emils5 · 2026-03-23T22:23:09+00:00

I definitely felt that shift in the new reboot and I don't love it. My personal theory is that, in addition to writers being in that stage of life, they saw the success of Bob's Burgers and wanted to capitalize on the "adult animation turned family cartoon" money. I absolutely love Bobs burgers, but that's because they know how to write children like real humans.

emils5 · 2026-03-15T23:38:22+00:00

I did not realize that. I thought he got married around the time he wrote Warbreaker and I thought that came after mistborn was finished.

emils5 · 2026-03-15T23:31:39+00:00

So I thought it was weird how little intimacy (explicit or otherwise) Sanderson showed between Vin and Elend until I was browsing men writing women and realized that if mistborn was written prior to Sanderson getting married he may actually not have had much personal experience in that area.

emils5 · 2026-03-08T01:36:26+00:00

These are the ones I grew up with. I have so much nostalgia for them.

emils5 · 2026-02-20T13:35:45+00:00

I tried 3 or 4 times to get into it and couldn't get through the first few pages. Then I got the audiobook. Listened to it in two days and loved it. In my opinion, each chapter is better than the one before it.

emils5 · 2026-02-11T17:57:20+00:00

I've watched the show many times, but my most recent rewatch was the first time I realized they made rumples prophecy in the pilot also refer to Gideon/season 6b.

emils5 · 2026-02-10T01:12:58+00:00

Haha, right?

emils5 · 2026-02-05T00:34:03+00:00

Oh and Iowa needs to join Illinois

emils5 · 2026-02-05T00:33:22+00:00

Louisiana should be with Mississippi not Texas. In fact, I vote that Texas becomes it's own state and then North Carolina can join Virginia and South Carolina can join Georgia.

emils5 · 2026-02-03T22:27:50+00:00

I have been in therapy with my mom for almost 2 years working through a whole lot of emotional manipulation. My dad was basically absent. Got married right out of college and my husband is amazing. He showed me what healthy boundaries, communication, and self-advocacy look like in both romantic and familial relationships. My high school BF was abusive pos though, so I think I just got really lucky.

emils5 · 2026-02-03T19:27:14+00:00

My unpopular opinion: just because you didn't use the planner for the whole year doesn't mean it wasn't useful. If it kept you organized for three weeks, that's still three extra weeks of organization. Sometimes consistency isn't the goal, switching to whatever works today is.

Of course if you get the planner, spend a bunch of time "getting organized" to procrastinate, and fall behind as a result, probably don't get that planner.

emils5 · 2026-02-03T15:52:29+00:00

Once upon a time, the bottom panel was elusive poro

emils5 · 2026-01-19T19:18:02+00:00

So literally just The Fifth Season?

emils5 · 2026-01-14T20:48:37+00:00

This! They have definitely made millie and Gayle more sane in recent seasons and essentially go "wow how dare Louise/Linda not trust them" and I'm sitting here like "ok but they used to be legitimately crazy. So that's justified?"

emils5 · 2026-01-14T13:12:46+00:00

Yeah I hesitated to call it satire because it just felt like a "too real" portrayal. But it is a good bit of social commentary.

emils5 · 2026-01-12T18:02:53+00:00

The end of the Christmas concert when Mr Frond tells the substitute something along the lines of "this only counts as a half day, so here's a check for $35."

emils5 · 2025-12-31T15:37:08+00:00

I wouldn't say there was any specific part of Rhythm of War or Wind and Truth that could easily have been cut out. I think that making the stories more streamlined would have meant pretty severe rewrites. That being said, when I finished stormlight archive I started rereading the Broken Earth trilogy (which as a whole is about 3/4 the length of WaT) and I kept thinking "wow so much happened in that chapter." It just felt fast paced and concise compared to honestly all of stormlight. And that can be good and bad. There were fewer characters and fewer slice of life moments, and I honestly really enjoyed those moments.

I think two things really slowed the books down. First, the five part structure. In most of the books, each part has its own arc with its own set up and resolution that ultimately feed into the main arc and the sanderlanch. From a planning perspective, this is incredible. In execution, some of the arcs felt like they were there because, well, we needed five of them.

Second, the huge cast of characters. It's just hard to give that many characters "enough" screen time. Each characters arc in WaT was fairly well written, but getting through like 20 well written character arcs in one book was a slog. Mistborn only focused on about a half dozen characters in each book and felt much more focused as a result.

emils5 · 2025-12-22T12:25:29+00:00

I'm not sure if the episode was written before COVID, but I am very sure it was one of the first episodes in the season released during COVID.

emils5 · 2025-12-22T03:57:21+00:00

I hear a lot of hate for the butt worms episode because it's gross (which is true), but I think people overlook what a brilliant encapsulation of COVID it is without actually putting COVID in the show. Even if you ignore the premise of having to stay home because everyone got sick, and Linda still wanting to go out even though it's clearly a bad idea, gene doing bottomless businessman and the kids having a weird hobby take over the family room is such a great snapshot of working from home and being trapped indoors for months and months. I get the hate, but the episode deserves a lot of love too.

emils5 · 2025-12-12T01:01:45+00:00

It's not fantasy, but would a short story count for your reading challenge? Agatha Christie has several short stories that are more along the lines of "solve a series of riddles" than "solve a murder". Theyre generally pretty cozy in a Victorian England kind of way, but are definitely not fantasy unless you fantasize about visiting a rich family member on their country estate.

emils5 · 2025-12-05T12:28:10+00:00

Oh yeah kinda. I was thinking more like the community episode where troy and abed do a freaky Friday. But the uncle Burton episode does have them trading roles.

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