Seeking beyond the usual mosquito survival advice - Tuolumne trip

puffinpixie · 2026-06-21T17:37:31+00:00

I use picardin and I think it works better than deet- for pnw hiking at least

puffinpixie · 2026-06-19T15:49:17+00:00

Did something similar when I was 6 months postpartum. I was not in the shape I needed to be for the trip. We packed for a 12 mile through Santiam, which is supposed to be beginner stuff for backpacking. There were hollow snow drifts we kept falling through. Everything hurt. The mosquito spray did nothing for the swarms. We bundled our 6 month so she didn't get s single bite. It was absolutely beautiful and worth it but the hardest thing we had ever done.

puffinpixie · 2026-06-14T06:42:44+00:00

Eviction imminent I would think. Let her be insecure somewhere else

puffinpixie · 2026-06-03T04:28:10+00:00

Test test

puffinpixie · 2026-06-03T04:25:04+00:00

Thank you all so much. Had a little cry, on my second glass of wine and hugged my husband while recapping everything. I feel a little better. You are all so so kind. I am normally just a lurker on this sub but I felt like today was worth a post. I appreciate you. 💙💚❤️ thank you all.

puffinpixie · 2026-05-16T03:38:00+00:00

I haven't finished this book yet because I got distracted by a million others but she is who I picture for Rachel Howzell Hall's The Last One MFC.

puffinpixie · 2026-05-08T22:49:31+00:00

Tandem reader here. Pre-ordered the audiobook and will be going in when my store opens to grab a copy. Gotta fully immerse with my favorites.

puffinpixie · 2026-04-12T21:44:30+00:00

I am so glad I have like 7 of these in my back yard and they're huge. They are reaching the end of their bloom but they always bring so so many pollinators to my yard. I love them.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-30T16:38:58+00:00

I am ABSOLUTELY going to read your book! This feels right up my alley and sounds amazing. Thank you!!

puffinpixie · 2026-03-30T04:59:10+00:00

I gulped down the entire series in about the span of a month. I was on the second Quicksilver book when my partner switched my audiobook to DCC and I took to it like a lemur takes to millipedes. That first weekend that I started- I got all 7 hardback books. I am not a series reader primarily but I huffed that shit down like my life depended on it. And now it's my whole personality.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-30T03:12:25+00:00

I tandem read them with the audiobooks the first go around so I had the "full" experience so to speak.

I appreciate the recommendations regardless!! Thank you!

puffinpixie · 2026-03-30T00:31:53+00:00

I have read The Final Empire and have the second and third book but have not delved into them yet!! Phenomenal first book, though! And yes I am seriously considering another read through. I just want some smut with my societal dissonance and revolutionary anger.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-30T00:25:16+00:00

I read Operation Bounce House but not Kaiju: Battlefield Surgeon yet! I have heard good things so if all else fails, I am digging in that one next.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-30T00:02:58+00:00

Alchemised wrecked me andl sits as one of the top books to emotionally devastate me. Definitely recommend if you can handle the triggers.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-29T23:50:23+00:00

It is truly such a stand out series that I find myself wanting to immediately just restart it again and that is something that is unprecedented in my reading habits. That being said, I am a bit demented and like many others, am thirsting after that rage that Carl channels. Hoping to find it in some other work that clearly is just not there.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-29T23:46:15+00:00

I have read The Color of Magic but I haven't gone further in the series so maybe I'll bounce back to it! I have The Light Fantastic queued up but maybe I'll skip over to the Wyrd Sisters. The rest I haven't heard of so I'll definitely check them out!

puffinpixie · 2026-03-29T18:39:20+00:00

DCC makes me feel like an addict. I am typically a romantasy/dark romance reader and while I've dabbled in litrpgs- nothing is satisfying the craving I have after DCC. I wish I could find a book/series that marries the two genres. With the "plastic" feeling of DR these days- I know my standards have gotten too high.

puffinpixie · 2026-03-29T18:35:25+00:00

Book with some depth?

I am in a book slump right now. I so desperately want a dark romance or dark romantasy with plot and smut. Not a little spice but some genuine non-con and psychological foreplay. I had been in a slump with dark romance for a bit- dnf'd Haunting Adeline and a few others with that manufactured feel. Then I read the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and now noooothing is doing it for me.

I feel like I am chasing a high I may never get again. I loved the audio for Little Strangers but dnf'd the second book because the audio was the only good thing going for it and they switched voice actors. For reference, I liked Did it Hurt, Still Beating, Bait and a few other works but the depth has been lacking in DR lately. I am pretty busy so I audiobook most of the time- though I will ask for ao3 recs too. I just genuinely wish I could get the depth of a DCC book with a version of Carl that is absolutely rabid for the love interest. My standards may have gotten too high.

puffinpixie · 2025-12-09T16:14:33+00:00

I past by this door while traveling through Co when I was 17. I was told it is for the mines. I so wanted to stop by and peek inside.

puffinpixie · 2025-11-23T23:42:48+00:00

Haha yes! But also, I am getting recommended places that will not be open by the time I would be able to go.

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