The ice cream one has more character. Though I'm not sure you should take advice from someone dressed as Gandalf.

Sometimes the price of cuddles can be high.

So it goes

I'd join you but I'm too busy playing Dispatch for the fourth time (I'm trying really hard to blow off Visi and go Team Mandy). I really need to get off this train--but avoiding grading essays is a full-time job on the weekend.

I got two seasons in but after a while, the writing just seemed uninspired.

You're more ambitious than I to get one requiring assembly.

I wish I could say I did something productive with my time but that's the nature of work avoidance.

Thanks for hosting. I have a postcolonial high fantasy novel that could use the love. It's about seeking freedom and reconnecting with one's cultural past (there's magic too).

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Not yet. Definitely if my book gets off the ground.

The main character is a quartermaster in the army. She never wanted to be in the army but was forced to enlist. Now she's trying to escape that service.

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Finally, the story world itself is interesting for me. Our own world feels very bounded, with so much that is mapped and known. The idea of a world with vast wildernesses and profound unknowns (and how that affects the psyche of the people living in that world) is very exciting.

Beyond that, the story presents several very different cultures, which for me is refreshing. So often fantasy stories will have “different” cultures that aren’t all that different in terms of values and beliefs and their connection to the world around them, so it is nice to see something different.

I would say first and foremost what draws me in is the protagonist Tal Ch’kola. I want to know about her life, how she came to be in this frontier town and why she stays despite the danger. There’s also a number of relationships among the characters that I enjoy.
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