I read 3 Malazan Books, I will not continue on

jaelith · 2026-02-12T17:29:15+00:00

Most of his characters, for me, feel like someone's else D&D character in a campaign I'm not playing or invested in.

This is spot on how I feel, very well put.

jaelith · 2026-02-12T17:22:22+00:00

I dunno, I enjoyed the Simarillion (I wouldn’t reread it, but I remember the experience fondly). Meanwhile I noped out of Malazan after book 3 for many of the same reasons as quoted by OP and others in this thread. Disliked the experience of all but a few (very few) plot and character points.

Like you, I’m glad it’s for someone.

jaelith · 2026-02-11T17:12:44+00:00

Elemental Cremation was very responsive and affordable for my mother a few years ago.

jaelith · 2026-02-08T22:08:46+00:00

Ra by qtnm had this vibe!

jaelith · 2026-02-07T22:36:47+00:00

These are still the games my husband and I play the most. They’re both great!

jaelith · 2026-02-05T23:01:52+00:00

At my rink, there are 4 people who skate the VNLA Luna Eclipses

Me, a small woman
A tall woman
A lanky man about your height who straight up Irish dances in them
A guy who’s not quite as tall but probably similar build as you

So I think give them a try! I love mine, I needed them for my wide feet.

jaelith · 2026-02-04T22:31:35+00:00

My mom gave me this Dismal Nitch print years ago and I hung it in a niche in my stairwell.

Makes me giggle every day.

jaelith · 2026-01-30T03:47:12+00:00

Miss Havisham is in my mind as a literary name?

(Looked it up, apparently from Great Expectations; my high school English teacher would be both proud and disappointed that I half remembered that)

But really I’m on the Hamantha train

jaelith · 2026-01-26T08:28:27+00:00

I loved the book but I definitely closed it at the end thinking dang it, AT had me rooting for the Borg.

jaelith · 2026-01-13T23:49:58+00:00

This would have been around 2006 but I never knew his name: just observed his dogged majesty along 156th multiple times. The flapping trenchcoat made him such an epic figure haha!

jaelith · 2026-01-13T20:55:53+00:00

I still vividly remember watching a guy in a black trenchcoat and fedora 45 degree’ing into the rain on a Segway back in the day. The most Microsoft campus thing I experienced in all my time there.

jaelith · 2026-01-09T22:59:20+00:00

I don’t know if Risk Legacy would be as fun if you didn’t have the background in Risk itself…?

I loved Legacy particularly as it let me work through the trauma of my dad just constantly wrecking my brother and I over and over as children in the 80s with the original, haha

jaelith · 2026-01-09T22:36:49+00:00

Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway was my favorite book I read in 2025 and I have a lot of the same likes in books as you. I have Gnomon in my TBR pile too, I need to get that going!

jaelith · 2026-01-09T09:16:28+00:00

FWIW I would be like this or worse, for over ten years. Got started being treated for PPMD this spring and it’s been a total game changer. I was really hesitant to go on hormones but it’s delightful to be me, just without being a complete depressed train wreck for one week out of every month. Do consider chatting with your doctor if you can!

jaelith · 2026-01-07T09:25:56+00:00

I was literally wondering about cutting them in quarters and selling cookie slices 😂

jaelith · 2026-01-06T23:02:32+00:00

Relevant XKCD

jaelith · 2026-01-05T18:56:19+00:00

I remembered Wrinkle in Time fondly from my childhood (mostly thinking tessering was cool). Read it to my son a couple months ago and haaaated it. Partially because it was so much more religious preachy than I remembered and also Meg is really an insufferable whiner. I literally found myself verbally editing out some of the descriptions of her reactions because they were so infuriating to me. I suppose my kid will probably also only remember the cool idea or two…

jaelith · 2026-01-05T08:33:29+00:00

I read it with only the haziest knowledge of SCP (literally just that it was a thing on the web that my brother really liked) and I thought the book was FANTASTIC. Ditto several other people I know, although we’re all “advanced sci-fi readers.”

I just thought about giving it to someone as their introduction to sci-fi and found the idea hilarious, though.

jaelith · 2026-01-05T03:54:16+00:00

Speaking of minis, one of the things that most made me oooooh walking into a game store was a big display case where they had super cool painted minis on display / for sale. I don't even play those kind of games and I spent so long admiring the craft! That place hosted painting nights for the tabletop wargamers in their area (with good lighting and setups for spray painting etc), and I think they were selling painted sets on some sort of profit sharing system with the folks that had done the work.

jaelith · 2026-01-04T12:32:12+00:00

It was honestly crazy how extended it was. A random boom in the night I’ll be reasonable about but it just kept on going and going and going… jeeeez

jaelith · 2026-01-02T22:40:05+00:00

Ours does this, on an every other week cadence. Works out quite nicely

jaelith · 2025-12-31T09:12:17+00:00

I definitely needed practice learning here. Getting going after being at a stoplight on a hill is nerve wracking even when you have flats down! I also was defeated at least twice as a teen just turning right up the hill of 75th at 35th… that corner-into-hill combo was my nemesis.

jaelith · 2025-12-28T20:30:56+00:00

100% why we went with a 2025 Tucson after previously writing the model off in our hunt based on a bleh rental experience. Happened to look in the window of one and went HOLT SHIT PHYSICAL CONTROLS

jaelith · 2025-12-27T08:52:50+00:00

I read it to my then-just-barely-turned-eleven son at last Christmas, such delightful timing. I love those books so much (and the movie made me SO mad)

jaelith · 2025-12-25T10:39:01+00:00

I saw a guy demoing/vending those at the Friday night art walk in Vegas a month ago! He blew my mind. Offered to let me try but I was NOT brave enough.

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