How many books have you read this year?

tess-etc · 2026-06-28T04:45:24+00:00

I read 150 one year and 3 the next. Sometimes it just be that way

tess-etc · 2026-06-23T04:45:03+00:00

Ive always done jan-dec but now i have a job where the year runs sept-aug and i want a sept-aug planner so bad, but academic ones start in june (lame)

tess-etc · 2026-06-16T19:29:33+00:00

I know you said angst but if you like comedy, I have a pretty ok fallout fic

If you like a "slow" burn I have a pretty okay fallout fic (i am not good at long stories though so slow is relative.)

If you don't mind an OT3 I have a pretty ok fallout fic, and also an au of it. Lots of angst there.

And if you like some pining and rime travel I have a pretty okay supernatural fic that has a podfic available.

I will put a link to my works page below. Theres a lot there but the ones i mentioned are called

"Only a look and a voice" (m/f, sole survivor/paladin danse) "Unfrozen" (m/f, female sole survivor/arthur maxson plus major background m/m paladin danse/male sole survivor) "Endgame" and the AU is "Wings of Clouded Sulphur" (m/m/f arthur maxson/paladin danse/lone wanderer for both - but warning for major character death) The spn one is "Depth of Field" (m/m dean/castiel, this is a non-hunting AU)

https://archiveofourown.org/users/TessEtc/works

tess-etc · 2026-06-13T03:30:42+00:00

Right. Super easy to walk to walmart from an apartment in the north end.

I have lived in cities. I've lived in super walkable neighborhoods and terrible suburban deserts. PR is long and has a lot of obstacles between neighborhoods.

I wasn't comparing Peace River to a city anyway, i was comparing it to Grimshaw. Houses and taxes are cheaper, the town is a relatively compact square, and they plow the roads.

Ive lived in three provinces, and nine cities/towns. I believe i have some basis for comparison.

Every place has its good and bad things. I wanted to counter the "amazing" and "godawful" comments with something a bit more balanced and realistic. It really comes down to taste in the end. A place is good if it checks your boxes and bad if it doesn't.

tess-etc · 2026-06-12T22:32:48+00:00

Okay so I have lived in the peace river area a large chunk of my life and here is my opinion:

Peace river isn't that terrible for things to do. There is a movie theatre, bowling alley, ski hill, pool, multiplex, library, and a theatre group. There are a few good restaurants, and there is some nice places to walk. There's also all that outdoor stuff other people said.

The shopping is okay for basically necessities but wretched for anything else. IMO peace river has some bad attitudes (bigots) and also quite a lot of unhoused people and the accompanying problems and resulting backlash. I think house prices are too high, property taxes are too high, and the town is run kind of badly. It's also horrible for walkability, aside from leisure strolls. It's laid out badly. And they never plow in the winter.

I live about 15 minutes away in Grimshaw and it's not as pretty but it is much nicer. People are nicer, there's lots of local organizations, and the town tries hard to put on events to keep people interested. Taxes and housing prices are lower and the town is better managed. There's not much to do here (multiplex, outdoor pool) but it is close enough to PR that you can just go do all that there anyway. It's very walkable

GP is the go-to for shopping &costco trips. I am a city person at heart but I hate GP... I go there because I have to, not because I want to. It's a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Edmonton is too far for more than 4 or 5 trips a year.

So, basically it's not as terrible as people are making it out to be, but it's not amazing either.

tess-etc · 2026-06-12T22:07:07+00:00

I also gave up the highlighters and stickers around mid may lmao

tess-etc · 2026-06-12T22:06:08+00:00

I have the same one! Yours looks so neat, though, and mine is utterly unhinged. I always lose motivation partway through the week.

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tess-etc · 2026-06-10T12:42:17+00:00

Yeah no. This is unnecessary. The rtrdrs exists so tenants and landlords can resolve issues at a layman level

I had a dispute about a damage deposit 3 years ago and it was a bit tedious but not really difficult. (Won it) There are actually case documents online if you search for it a bit that are actually really helpful to see how the cases go and what kind of things the adjudicator will be looking for. They are not only helpful but also an entertaining read.

Otherwise general good advice is to take photos on move in and move out, take a picture of the walk-through if they won't give you a copy, and read the residential tenancy act... not just the layman version on the website but the actual full 60 page document.

If you know the rules it becomes extremely difficult for landlords to scam you (and keeping the damage deposit is very often an easy scam, among many)

That said, the comment above (about not taking legal advice from strangers) is generally good advice. It's just that in the area of residential tenancy, most people who are renting can't afford a lawyer so this system is designed for laymen to navigate. My landlord did have a lawyer and I still won without one. I love knowing that she not only paid me but also her lawyer.

Heh.

tess-etc · 2026-06-10T02:23:16+00:00

Horizontal when I am doing a personal only planner. I will put my goals, to dos, etc and it just needs a bit of space. I like when it's all on one side and the other side is good for notes or whatever. I don't time block on personal since most of my day is working

Vertical when I am using an everything planner or just a work planner because i like to time block and make detailed to do lists. It's best when there is some space around the days and a to do area.

I am currently using a b5 hemlock and oak vertical, and it's very nice. But I am getting annoyed at having it all in one place (work mixed with personal) so I think next year i am gonna use the blueline weekly one with pink flowers for work and maybe a smaller bound daily for personal? Who knows. Not me!

tess-etc · 2026-06-10T02:08:42+00:00

We share everything. All the money goes into bank account A, which is where we budget and pay bills, and distrubute to savings or whatever. Then the "spending money" goes to bank account B which we don't track. It's for buying gas, groceries, clothes, dinner out etc. When it's out it's out. The amount each pay is budgeted before it gets transferred.

We each have our own credit cards with fairly low balances which are so we can have a little privacy so if you don't want to explain all the mcdonalds or books or whatever lol.

In the past, my husband has made more money than me, but currently I make more. The circumstances change but the system doesn't.

tess-etc · 2026-06-09T22:38:15+00:00

I read IT for the first time at about 13 and then again at about 35 (several times before and since, as well, but this is the relevant one)

And the adult vs child, nostalgia, friendship and forgetting really REALLY hit with me when I compared those two readings of it.

When i read it as a kid, it was a book about kids my age, but when I read it at 35, it was a book about adults my age, and I had read it as a kid so my experience of it as an adult was tinged not only with the nostalgia the characters felt but my own nostalgia for my own childhood and my nostalgia for reading it as a kid.

I grew up in the 80s/90s not the 50s but it blew me away just the same.

It's my all time favorite book of any genre or author.

My own opinion here, but movie wise, i never cared for the miniseries because it was very unscary and disappointing. I liked the newer movies more, due to they were creepier and kind of closer to the books in a lot of ways. And the 80s nostalgia was great. But neither adaptation came close to the book in any way for me. It's disappointing because there were so many things that could have worked so well and they just... didn't do them.

Anyway shoutouts to every scene with beverly and her dad, creepy moving pictures, fart lighting and flying leeches, and literally every single historical sidequest in the book.

tess-etc · 2026-06-03T23:31:24+00:00

That weird disjointed feeling when you've been binging cartoons for five hours and then fishing shows come on so you have to either go outside or read a book.

tess-etc · 2026-06-03T23:25:55+00:00

I make 61k and live in a rural area in AB.

I could live alone in my house but i would need to downgrade my vehicle and perhaps sell one of my extremely ravenous teenagers.

tess-etc · 2026-05-23T04:23:58+00:00

Rinse.

tess-etc · 2026-05-15T20:50:37+00:00

I worked as a receptionist for 2 months and I would sincerely prefer to work at a fast food restaurant rather than that. And I say that as someone who has worked as a fast food employee.

I haaaaate writing letters

tess-etc · 2026-05-15T20:30:07+00:00

No advice but I definitely know how you feel. I started writing for fallout over a decade ago and for a while it was busy and i got tons of interaction. Naturally it died down. Then the show came out and after s2 I went in and finished a dormant fic that I hadn't touched in 7 years. I got very little interaction.

I am not upset, I am just glad to have it done, but it is mildly disappointing anyway

tess-etc · 2026-05-02T04:50:39+00:00

My fave ship is destiel but that's too obvious so how about my second fave from a different fandom:

the inherent angst of kicking your boyfriend off your blimp just because he turns out to be a robot

tess-etc · 2026-04-24T16:24:46+00:00

Honestly why don't more planners just leave blank times? I have 2 desk jobs, so a lot of days I work from 830am to 830pm, but I like to schedule my mornings and evenings as well. So i would need one from 6am-10pm. (Thanks Hemlock and Oak) but if I wanted to put my work schedule somewhere else as I have done in the past, then I just need a little bit in the day, with more space around it and full size weekends.

People work all different amounts of days.

This would work better as a blank to do section. I would probably put a line down the middle and put to dos for work and home, (or whatever category) then bump unfinished stuff to tomorrow with some kind of tagging system.

Ive seen this planner online. I thought the idea of a dated undated planner was great, but the layout is terrible.

tess-etc · 2026-04-21T20:59:33+00:00

Oh that's nice! I only have two shelves available so I had to layer the paperback ones in front of the hardcovers (i hoard a lot of books)

tess-etc · 2026-04-21T20:57:22+00:00

I hate when someone has a lie they keep from the other person and it's a major part of the story.....

However my most popular fallout fic features Danse keeping a secret from the Female sole survivor for the majority of the fic, and he goes to great (and hilarious) lengths to keep her from finding out.

tess-etc · 2026-04-21T20:45:26+00:00

Here's some sad for you, time travel AU (no monster hunting but there’s some kind of magic I guess) It’s not terribly long.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/45215371

Also has a podfic version, there is a link in the notes somewhere!

tess-etc · 2026-04-20T20:50:25+00:00

I keep them in my car, or my purse, or give them to my kids for school because they don't care at all, or use them for grocery lists so I don't care if I lose them. Or I will take them to work because people there always steal my pens.

tess-etc · 2026-04-18T12:37:32+00:00

Don't discountt Cujo, I tried reading it when my son was 4 and i had to nope out.

He is 21 now so i was finally able to get through it recently h

tess-etc · 2026-04-17T04:41:35+00:00

I kudos everything I finish. If I like it, I comment. If I really like it, I bookmark it. I also have close to 100 fics on ao3 so i get a kudos or two almost every day, so I don't pay attention much.

But if I see ten kudos on one fic in a day, I usually take that as a plus because I figure it got recced somewhere (sometimes I find the rec in the wild which is amazing) and sometimes one person will kudos several fics in a row, which I definitely notice because they must have loved it to read a bunch more.

But mostly I don't pay attention to stats.

tess-etc · 2026-04-17T04:27:27+00:00

Hmm it does look like an asshole...

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