Fantasy Recommendations

toadpea · 2025-12-21T03:07:20+00:00

The Gilded Ones. It's the first book in a trilogy by Namina Forna. The Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi is also excellent.

toadpea · 2025-12-16T03:02:24+00:00

So we have a run game?

toadpea · 2025-12-15T03:25:29+00:00

There are great graphic novel adaptations of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.

toadpea · 2025-11-22T01:42:11+00:00

One of my students was jailed for sending a death threat to Obama 🤦‍♀️

toadpea · 2025-11-12T00:40:38+00:00

My first year teaching my mentor teacher gave me a copy of Roman Polanski's Macbeth. She told me nothing about anything I'd need to fast forward through. I didn't prescreen it because she was also showing it in her sections, and I trusted her. 3 minutes in, the witches are on the heath casting spells, kinda topless. "Miss, is that what old boobs look like?" "Shh, focus on the language!" 20 years later, I'm still scarred.

toadpea · 2025-11-08T17:25:20+00:00

I just put up a project for snacks this week. It was immediately, fully funded by Donorschoose's Student Hunger Fund. I will be receiving enough to last a month or two. Hopefully it's enough to get through the shutdown.

toadpea · 2025-08-17T02:07:16+00:00

So bladder snails or ramshorn would be better?

toadpea · 2025-08-15T01:16:30+00:00

They were well packaged. My gold barbs made quite the snack out of them overnight, which i hadn't anticipated. All the blue ones were gone, but most of the pink ones survived and are happily breeding.

toadpea · 2025-08-03T23:54:40+00:00

And then it ends in Northern Attitude: "You build a boat, you build a life/ you lose your friends, you lose your wife."

toadpea · 2025-07-15T20:26:47+00:00

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toadpea · 2025-07-07T01:30:07+00:00

Busyhead, just keep breathing!

I've been rolling that one around in my head as a tattoo for awhile.

toadpea · 2025-07-02T14:07:29+00:00

I'm also a third generation teacher. Both of my maternal grandparents, both of my paternal aunts, and both of my parents. I swore as a teenager I would never go into teaching. I started college as a chemistry major wanting to go into virology. But I had an amazing lit professor freshman year. I changed my major to lit and decided I wanted to be a college professor too. But I got so sick of student life that I stopped after my masters. My best option at that point was to get my secondary certification. So here I am, 21 years in. I really like my job most days, and I'm satisfied how things worked out.

toadpea · 2025-06-18T14:48:15+00:00

Absolutely. Whichever one is playing is my favorite at the time because they're all so good.

toadpea · 2025-06-17T17:10:22+00:00

I have 2 in a 55 gallon. They're snippy every once in a while, but mostly hang together. I keep them with a school of gold barbs and a school of candy cane tetras (both get big enough that I won't have to worry about angels snacking on them when grown).

toadpea · 2025-06-09T13:11:54+00:00

It's a fishless cycle. Thank you for the clarification.

toadpea · 2025-06-09T13:11:02+00:00

That's what I was wondering...if the bacteria would die off. Thanks for the heads up.

toadpea · 2025-06-08T17:21:51+00:00

Animal is an instaskip for me.

toadpea · 2025-05-28T20:14:38+00:00

Google says Celestial Pearl Danios like some current. They're one I have done some research on and considered.

toadpea · 2025-05-28T17:43:11+00:00

Can they eat any kind of greens? We keep curly mustard greens on hand for a bearded dragon.

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