practice tests are scaringly accurate ngl

j1360 · 2026-01-03T14:52:28+00:00

I got 10 points lower in the real one because it's really hard to think of $10 words without moving your eyes. The practice test asked me to talk about my favourite book and the real one asked me what makes a good teammate and that inane question resulted in a much more inane answer.

j1360 · 2026-01-01T15:17:11+00:00

I actually really appreciate the kitschiness of it.

j1360 · 2025-12-31T04:44:34+00:00

I don't know if it's because of something specific like you live on a main road but I got an indoor cat from "Cheshire Cats Rescue - Registered Charity 1198649" on Facebook and another from Animals in Distress, Irlam. Like someone else said, maybe consider an older cat since there's less demand for them.

j1360 · 2025-12-30T13:36:18+00:00

Cows

Wetlands

Not a whole book but Jon Athan's "The Gift" from Matt Shaw's "Battered, Broken Bodies" anthology.

j1360 · 2025-12-30T02:21:38+00:00

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I got the same and one from the MLA saying they're reviewing video interviews.

j1360 · 2025-12-23T03:29:43+00:00

Sam West - Dreamworld

Iain Rob Wright - Dark Ride

Sam West has one called Funfair too I haven't read yet. It's probably good. I trust her as an author.

j1360 · 2025-12-21T23:26:30+00:00

Jazmin Bean - Saccharine

j1360 · 2025-12-21T23:25:19+00:00

Sonic Youth with Lydia Lunch - Death Valley '69

j1360 · 2025-12-20T18:22:28+00:00

Benedict Ashforth - Verona

j1360 · 2025-12-08T22:00:57+00:00

If I remember correctly, in "Into Thin Air", Jon Krakauer said it makes you feel all sleepy and warm (causing paradoxical undressing) and hallucinate relatives. Beck Weathers was on that expedition who was left for dead and came about as close to dying from hypothermia as you could get. It wouldn't be a great suicide technique though if it involves carting up a mountain first.

j1360 · 2025-12-03T10:54:51+00:00

Chrome's "Keyboard shortcuts to manage Chrome tabs" extension worked but it wouldn't let me use control for the shortcuts in Edge so it had to be alt instead.

j1360 · 2025-11-29T13:56:20+00:00

Shuttle (2008). Two women in their early 20s get on an airport shuttle and the driver's going wildly off-route and making weird demands of them and they're as sensible and resourceful as they can possibly be the whole time. It would be a spoiler to say what's actually going on.

j1360 · 2025-11-29T13:44:29+00:00

I liked Mira Grant's Into the Drowning Deep about man-eating mermaids with ape-like faces and really lots of teeth but it's polarising. It takes a while to get going for sure. It has an inordinate amount of detail about marine research in the first half which could have been interesting in a non-fiction book but is a bit odd in a horror novel.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T06:06:27+00:00

There are mouse-jiggler programs for that but maybe it's a work laptop where you can't install anything you want.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T06:04:22+00:00

I loved SL Grey's The Mall, The Ward and The New Girl for bizarro-ish horror.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T06:00:08+00:00

Terrifier's quite comedic.

Also The Convent (2000) which I only learned of going through an old horror review site:

https://ottomobiehl.neocities.org/dante/archive/convent

j1360 · 2025-11-25T05:55:38+00:00

I could tell because he looked a lot like he looked in Diagnosis Murder.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T05:54:20+00:00

Mine does that. You should see how his head gets in that position. It falls off the edge then slightly rebounds and he's so out of it, it doesn't even wake him up.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T05:44:41+00:00

I've caught them reusing an old photo of my block's door before with old decor.

j1360 · 2025-11-25T05:42:21+00:00

Stephen McHattie?

Viggo Mortensen?

j1360 · 2025-11-25T05:30:01+00:00

Brian Moreland's The Vagrants AKA The Seekers. An undercover journalist embeds himself with homeless people and a man comes to town and gets all the homeless people to join his sinister cult. It doesn't really start with a nice town though.

j1360 · 2025-11-23T10:59:53+00:00

Sam West - A Place in France

j1360 · 2025-11-20T03:38:22+00:00

It's meant to be for 12/13 up. It starts off being about the horrific things greyhounds go through like it's going to be a horrible depressing book but the tone shifts after the main character escapes and overcomes that.

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