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Readin' Robbie

Alamantus@wandering.shop

<p>I&#39;m Robbie, and I like reading! Well, I mostly listen to audiobooks and use text-to-speech on ebooks, but I still count that as reading. Anyway, this account is where I&#39;ll write about reading and books and stuff!</p><p>Main: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@robbie" class="u-url mention">@<span>robbie</span></a></span></p>

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    @silverseams@artisan.chat The perpetual reality of Colorado between seasons 😭 Wind is my least favorite of all weather

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    I ordered some nice 12-hole ocarinas from STL Ocarinas (a mini soprano &amp;amp; full-sized tenor) on Friday, and I&amp;#39;m so fucking excited to get them! Absolutely nobody in my life knows I&amp;#39;m interested in/know how to play an ocarina except for my partner (who simply doesn&amp;#39;t understand why I want more than 1 new one), so have nobody to tell!! I&amp;#39;m bursting and I don&amp;#39;t have an outlet!!!

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    Well, I guess I&amp;#39;m reading the Animorphs books now.

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    I just finished the third Animorphs book, and I&amp;#39;m honestly surprised the series was popular enough to get a TV series for kids. This shit is depressing!

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    Favorite #Animorphs quote so far: &amp;quot;That&amp;#39;s why all these dogs are here,&amp;quot; Jake said. &amp;quot;They&amp;#39;re your. . . what, friends? Creators?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;They are our joy,&amp;quot; Erek said, &amp;quot;because they remind us of a world without evil.&amp;quot; —The Android (Animorphs Book 10) pg. 107

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    🐨 Animal #138 🐓 I figured it out in 5 guesses! 🟨🟨🟨🟩🟩 🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 5 https://metazooa.com #metazooa

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    Back in high school, I read The Walking Drum by Louis L&amp;#39;Amour for our AP World History class, and it became one of my favorite books because of the sprawling adventure and interesting depictions of distant lands. But I knew there was an awful lot of gross sexism in it, so my present self has no idea if it was actually a good story or not. I&amp;#39;m re-reading it now, and it already has me hooked on the pirate adventure vibes, and already it&amp;#39;s been super casually sexist... So w...

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    Oh no, I get why people don&amp;#39;t like Ready Player One now

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    @Aaron_Davis It&amp;#39;s not *that* bad, but I&amp;#39;m about 4 chapters in and the 80&amp;#39;s references are already starting to grate on me. They&amp;#39;re references that don&amp;#39;t add anything, simply mentioning them for the sake of saying them like, practically worshipping the idea of 80&amp;#39;s pop culture from the lens of 2010&amp;#39;s idea of the 80&amp;#39;s. It all just feels forced and pointless even *with* the premise explained—like who are you really trying to impress b...

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    @venetiana Mine are heavily fantasy-leaning and more romance than I realized: Travis Baldree&amp;#39;s Legends &amp;amp; Lattes series (retired adventurer opens a coffee shop) has been fun, and T. Kingfisher&amp;#39;s The Saints of Steel series (paladins of a dead god find love) has surprised me! On the less-romance side: Drew Hayes&amp;#39; Spells, Swords, &amp;amp; Stealth series (NPCs in a TTRPg world become heroes) and Jim Butcher&amp;#39;s Dresden Files (long running American wizard detect...

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    Oops, I kinda forgot I had this account! Hello again! Here&amp;#39;s my StoryGraph profile: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/robbie

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    I just saw Death of a Unicorn and it&amp;#39;s sooo good! Very gory, but it&amp;#39;s an amazing horror comedy 💖 🦄

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    I started archiving text content from a list of #Tumblr #folklore links into a Feather Wiki so I could read them without fear of the pages disappearing (some already have!). I still have a bit of work to do (better attributing work beyond linking to old URLs, improving styling, etc.), but I&amp;#39;ve got most of the stories copied if you want to read them too! https://tumblr-folklore.tiddlyhost.com I also linked to some other stories I love online, and I&amp;#39;d love to add more if anyone w...

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    I read a lot of books this year! Several of them were 5-stars for me too 😄 Happy New Year!

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    I just finished book 22 of the Animorphs series, &amp;quot;The Solution,&amp;quot; and holy shit, that was fucking dark