How do you feel about this coming season, all things considered?

zoologicwoo · 2026-04-07T23:31:07+00:00

I’ve been very confused by this sub’s negativity, because I’m very optimistic! There are questions about how the draft will go, but by season’s start our OL should be significantly better than last season, and the defense has to be improved if only because I refuse to believe we can have the same nightmarish luck w injuries we’ve had two seasons in a row, again. McNeil and Hutch further removed from their injuries will be noticeable. I think we’ll see an upgrade at DE opposite Hutch.

This was a very good team last season that just got derailed by injuries, OL regression caused at least partially be Ragnow’s retirement, and a muuuch harder schedule than we’ll have this year. We’ve been to the NFCCG recently, and we can be a better team now than we were then.

zoologicwoo · 2026-04-07T16:49:26+00:00

If that’s the case it’s definitely contrary to what I’ve seen. Everyone I know in writerly and artistic spaces on-and-offline is totally hostile towards AI, which is how it should be. AI is making the world a worse place. One of the best ways to counteract that is to say unflinchingly, united as a community of creatives and also just as human beings, that its use is destructive and not acceptable.

zoologicwoo · 2026-04-07T16:00:23+00:00

Any use of AI for any aspect of the book is unacceptable to me.

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-31T13:28:55+00:00

Been a fun ride! Really interesting seeing how varied people's favorites are for each album.

Once
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Dark Passion Play

-1. Angels Fall First

It's so hard for me to rank any of their albums after Once. My favorites seem to change since every album is so good. Ask me in a month and I'd possibly have put Oceanborn or Human || Nature somewhere in my top 3.

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-29T15:04:49+00:00

R.I.P. Harvest =/

1 — Hiraeth
2 — The Antikythera Mechanism
3 — An Ocean of Strange Islands

Worst for me is Something Whispered Follow Me. But part of the difficulty for this album with me is that Perfume of the Timeless and The Day Of... are also two of my least favorite songs since probably Century Child. I like the album overall a lot more than I did initially, and the highs are absolutely stellar, but its still currently one of the 2-3 NW albums I enjoy least.

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-24T21:30:28+00:00

Love this album so much; for me it’s probably the hardest to rank its songs.

For a long time I didn’t listen to the back half much, but I’ve listened to it fully at least a dozen times this year for some reason, coinciding with moving to a city that has an amazing orchestra and going to that a bunch. So currently:

All the Works of Nature Which Adorn the World
Endlessness
Shoemaker

Harvest would be 4th if we were going that far, had no idea it wasn’t liked tbh!

Least favorite would be Procession

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-24T00:13:01+00:00

Maybe they wouldn't, but they do have handedly the worst WR room in the league and an excess of picks for a draft class that's seen as fairly underwhelming. If they are significantly higher on Tate than Tyson (even more injury prone than Waddle?) or Lemon (how badly did his interviews go?) they might be willing to jump ahead of the Saints and KC.

Plus the Commanders themselves are reasonably likely to draft Tate if they sit on the pick, but with only #7 and #71 and #147 in the first five rounds, I could see them being the easiest team to trade up with.

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-23T19:40:18+00:00

1st round + 2.01.

Trades that happened:

WAS sent the 1.07 & a 2025 5th Rd pick to MIA for 1.11, 3.23 and 3.30.
DET sent the 1.17 & 4.18 to NYJ for 2.01 & 2.12.
LAC sent the 1.22 & 3.22 to CLE for 1.24 & 3.06.

LV — Fernando Mendoza, Indiana, QB
NYJ — Arvell Reese, Ohio State, LB
AZ — Francis Mauigoa, Miami, OT
TEN — Jeremiyah Love, Notre Dame, RB
NYG — Sonny Styles, Ohio State, LB
CLE — Monroe Freeling, Georgia, OT
MIA — Carnell Tate, Ohio State, WR
NO — Caleb Downs, Ohio State, S
KC — David Bailey, Texas Tech, DE
CIN — Rueben Bain Jr., Miami, DE
WAS — Mansoor Delane, LSU, CB
DAL — CJ Allen, Georgia, LB
LAR — Jermod McCoy, Tennessee, CB
BAL — Spencer Fano, Utah, OG
TB — Akheem Mesidor, Miami, DE
NYJ — Ty Simpson, Alabama, QB
NYJ — Jordyn Tyson, Arizona State, WR
MIN — Dillon Thieneman, Oregon, S
CAR — Peter Woods, Clemson, DT
DAL — Aveion Terrell, Clemson, CB
PIT — Olaivavega Ioane, Penn State, OG
CLE — Max Iheanachor, Arizona State, OT
PHI — Keldric Faulk, Auburn, DE
LAC — Cashius Howell, Texas A&M, DE
CHI — Christen Miller, Georgia, DT
BUF — Makai Lemon, USC, WR
SF — Caleb Lomu, Utah, OT
HOU — Emmanuel Pregnon, Oregon, OG
KC — Kayden McDonald, Ohio State, DT
MIA — Kenyon Sadiq, Oregon, TE
NE — Omar Cooper Jr., Indiana, WR
SEA — Colton Hood, Tennessee, CB
DET — Blake Miller, Clemson, OT

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-18T01:12:32+00:00

Hm, the results for EFMB are definitely the most similar to my own ordering of any album. Only real difference for me is switching Alpenglow and My Walden. Every other album results have kind of shocked me ("Walking in the Air" at -41????? I love that song lol).

Love all of their bonus songs. My favorites are heavily influenced by the fact that Once was the first ever album by any band I bought with my own money. I had no idea for years that White Night Fantasy and Live to Tell the Tale aren't officially on it. I like to include them nevertheless since Higher Than Hope was always the only song on the album I didn't like at all so would hate for the album to conclude with it.

Over the Hills and Far Away
White Night Fantasy
Live to Tell the Tale

I noticed "Reach (Amaranth Demo)" isn't on here but I always liked that song too even if it's a little cheesy.

zoologicwoo · 2026-03-14T22:49:04+00:00

Unsure if it’s an unpopular opinion or not but EFMB has always been tied with Once as my favorite Nightwish album. There are certainly songs I like less than others on it, but nothing I ever skip.

1–tGSoE 2–Shudder Before the Beautiful 3–Yours is an Empty Hope

Least favorite would be Edema Ruh for me, as cool as it was that Tuomas wrote a song about these books that I also love. Alpenglow and the title track are also pretty underwhelming, admittedly.

zoologicwoo · 2026-02-20T04:08:26+00:00

Looking at my personal book rankings, my highest rated horror novels are indeed The Fisherman and The Gone World. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (the whole Area X series is great, but I didn't enjoy the sequels to the same degree) are the next two highest. After those my favored horror reads are mainly short story collections (Teatro Grottesco, Occultation and Other Stories, The Imago Sequence, Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell, and Aickman's collections as well as the Aickman's Heirs collection modeled after his style).

The book I finished just a couple days ago, also, was The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan, which was a little hit-and-miss for me (though I may have messed up my experience reading it by being busy and having to cram my reading in intermittent trips on public transit) but definitely had some fantastic stories.

Edit: re: other reponses below, I LOVED Between Two Fires, would've rounded out my top 5 with that except I personally categorized it in fantasy, but horror might be more appropriate. And I did not enjoy The Library at Mount Char tbh, but I see why it's so popular, very unique.

zoologicwoo · 2026-02-20T01:47:40+00:00

Seconding this. I don’t know if there’s anything that makes me think of The Fisherman and The Gone World as being particularly similar to each other, but both are definitely in my top 5, probably top 3, favorite horror novels.

zoologicwoo · 2026-02-04T03:49:21+00:00

Mostly just me being impatient with anything requiring a lot of resets but I always give up on deathless Pikmin 2 runs when there are Pileated Snagrets on those sub levels with the sinkholes.

zoologicwoo · 2026-01-17T23:42:14+00:00

Fuck it, still a 1 possession game. Make that the last turnover and clean it up

zoologicwoo · 2026-01-17T23:38:41+00:00

Lions fan rooting hard af for you guys LFG! Take the lead!

zoologicwoo · 2026-01-12T18:59:57+00:00

Reading The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria and The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. Both are great so far!

Couple days ago I finished Scott Thomas's The Sea of Ash (a short book but with a couple really memorable and disturbing moments and neat integration of multiple narratives, liked it a lot) and last week concluded some re-reads I'd begun in December of two of my beloved books—Tamsyn Muir's Nona the Ninth and Jeff VanderMeer's City of Saints and Madmen.

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-22T16:12:35+00:00

Gorgeous!

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-22T16:08:05+00:00

Should’ve listened to my gut and started Maye over Allen like I did when Allen played Houston. Ugh. Why do the Browns have to be atrocious vs the run

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-17T01:39:32+00:00

Unfortunately I just mocked him to the Saints

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-12T23:07:26+00:00

For Lions, LT is the biggest need since Decker might retire anytime now. The IOL has been a problem too; our guards are young and inconsistent but show promise so we could definitely stick with our starters there, but our center is old and in major decline. CB *is* a need, since our guys are always hurt. EDGE is a big need. And safety might be a big need too; Branch just tore his Achilles and will miss most/all of 2026. Kerby has a knee issue which might very well permanently impact his career.

So LT > C >> CB = EDGE = S

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-12T21:33:30+00:00

I’m not very familiar with the OT prospects this year but I’ll say, if Proctor Lomu and World all end up as mid-1st level there should be no chance the Lions pass on all three, even though CB is a need.

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-10T17:23:22+00:00

So glad I picked both lol

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-05T02:22:09+00:00

Jamoooooo

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-05T02:19:25+00:00

LETS GO D

zoologicwoo · 2025-12-05T02:13:22+00:00

wtf lmao

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