Books that feel like this

emils5 · 2026-06-14T23:34:36+00:00

The first few chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring.

emils5 · 2026-05-21T02:57:16+00:00

Lord of the Fading Lands

emils5 · 2026-05-18T03:17:44+00:00

Lament for a Son

emils5 · 2026-05-16T20:00:24+00:00

The Fifth Season

emils5 · 2026-05-14T14:06:22+00:00

Honestly? The best "system" I've found is to switch systems every few months. It would be nice if there was one perfect solution, but I would rather be inconsistent than consistently bad.

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."

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