"I was just thinking about children ... Wondering how much of their character a family can mold, and how much is innate in the children themselves ... if the evil in a family’s history can be erased, or whether it always passes itself on to each new generation."

-Timothy Zahn, Dark Force Rising

Article talks about the scarcity of the Lee Hays version... Doesn't seem like this one is much better. No ebook/library versions, no option to purchase on the publisher's site. All I can find are $300 eBay listings. Shame! I'd really love to read it.

Thieves Haven for sure

Can't share screenshots cuz it was on our dev server, but the first thing Sharp said to me was, ironically, "Back at it again."
A few mins later, the first idle line he said was the one where he talks about not joining factions & ends it with "For now, I guess I'm stuck with you."
💜
🧵3/3

My angel of a mother-in-law made me a Sharp-themed hat after he shipped. Here is her incredible beadwork. It being a baseball cap especially tickled me cuz of the many "women want me/fish fear me" hats I imagined Sharp wearing after the team settled on his non-combat perk.
🧵2/3

"It's a confusing but also a confused discourse: the desire to destroy coincides with an obsession with preservation. You’d like to prohibit gender studies at all universities, but God forbid anyone criticizes a young adult book that you sort of liked in 1967."
-Adrian Daub, The Cancel Culture Panic

"Love was more than a word, more than a mountain of the best and noblest intentions in the world. It was saying I’ll be here with you when it feels like nothing else is certain...Let the storm come, because I’ll never stop holding your hand."

-Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, A Merry Little Meet Cute

"Love was more than a word, more than a mountain of the best and noblest intentions in the world. It was saying I’ll be here with you when it feels like nothing else is certain...Let the storm come, because I’ll never stop holding your hand."

-Julie Murphy & Sierra Simone, A Merry Little Meet Cute

November reading summary
Finally I can unblock the murderbot spoilers tag on Tumblr. What do you MEAN I have to wait til May for the next one!!
Scared Sexy series has been delightful & getting 3 new Caitlin Starling books in one year makes me feel hashtag blessed. Late thanksgiving post I guess