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Name: Amber
Age group: 40's
Country: USA
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Fannish Interests: Cosplay, conventions, charity work, fanfiction, drawing.
I like to post about: My health, photos I take, my daily life, fandoms, movie/show reviews, my church/God (I got back into religion not to long ago), my friends and what were up to, my fanclubs and what were up to.
About Me/Other Info: I'm a 8 open heart surgery patient and pacemaker surgery to my name along with other health issues. I'm introvert. I'm a Hufflepuff. Theme Park pass holder for Universal Hollywood and Disneyland. I collect popcorn buckets and fandom stuff. I love to cosplay and Disneybound. Also love doing Disney markets and game nights. I'm obsessed with reading/painting and doing movie/show binges. Love to attend conventions and sometimes work them. I also love being in my Star Trek clubs (2) and my Ghosbusters club. I'm a huge fan of Fall, Halloween. I hate the heat/summer.

Please no racism, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-science, fatphobia, Trump supports.

Other Fandoms: White Collar, Criminal Minds and NCIS.
OTPs and Ships: Way to many but to start: Kirk/Spock, Kirk/McCoy, Kirk/Uhura, Spock/Uhura, Number One/Pike, Picard/Q, Picard/Riker, Bashir/Garak, Janeway/Chakotay, Janeway/Paris, Paris/Torres, Chakotay/Paris, Paris/Kim, Archer/Tucker, Archer/T'Pol/Tucker, Archer/T'Pol, Archer/Shran, Trip/Reed, Ten/Donna, Ten/Rose, Amidala/Kenobi, Amidala/Skywalker, Kenobi/Skywalker, Kenobi/Sabé, Organa/Solo, Kent/Luthor, Kent/Lang, Queen/Kent, Barry/Queen, Barry/Snow, Snart/Barry, Barry/Oliver/Kara, Ramon/Lisa Snart, Eddie Thawne/Barry, Barry/Spivot, Queen/Merlyn, Harper/Thea Queen, Barry/Kara Danvers, Bonnie/Damon, Elena/Stefan, Elena/Damon, Klaus /Caroline, Elena /Elijah, Magnus/Alec, Simon/Raphael. SO many more.

Favorite Movies: Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter, The Lord of The Rings/Superman, Batman, Deadpool, X-Men, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Back to The Future, Fast and The Furious, Jurassic Park/World, Ghosbusters,
TV Shows: Star Trek, 9-1-1, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Shadowhunters, Teen Wolf, The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Psych, Teen Wolf, Pokémon, Doctor Who, Arrow, The Flash, Superman & Lois, Angel, Buffy, Torchwood.
Books: Harry Potter, House of Night, The Vampire Diaries, Percy Jackson, The Mortal Instruments.
Music: Country, oldies, opera (some). Luke Bryan, Jelly Roll, Alan Jackson, George Straight, Garth Brooks, LeeAnn Rhimes, Shania Twain, Backstreet Boys, NSync, Linkin Park, Pentatoix, Evanescence, Josh Groban, Ed Sherran, P!nk, Eminem.
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Comics/Anime/Misc: Pokemon, Digimon and Card Captor Sakura.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 8 by Kanehito Yamada

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We're back to the "Women in Translation" rec list, with book #10: Consent: A Memoir by Vanessa Springora, translated from French by Natasha Lehrer. This autobiographical novel is the story of Springora's sexual abuse as a young teenager at the hands of Gabriel Matzneff, a well-regarded and prolific French writer, who was in his late forties when he entered a romantic and sexual relationship with Springora (called "V" in the book).

The rest of this review is under the cut, given the nature of the content.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 7 by Kanehito Yamada

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 6 by Kanehito Yamada

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 5 by Kanehito Yamada

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Name: Zumi
Pronouns: They/them
Age Group: 40s
Country USA
Subscription/Access Policy: Public posts in general, with some members-locked ones. Everyone is free to add, though!
What I chat about: Usually whatever random thoughts are going on, particularly any fandom thoughts I have. I want to post more often, particularly in talking about a couple creative projects I've got going on. So, pretty much anything I feel like posting...? With heavy irregularity; it's not unusual for me to go weeks without using my journal, so don't be concerned if I vanish off the face of DW for a while.
I'm looking to connect with people who: Want to chat, whether about random things or fandom things (even if non-shared fandoms). Collaborators, other creators, or people who just want to have ordinary conversations! I'm not that interested in taking part in discourse or anti culture, and I don't tend to post many negative things myself, but if you wanna chat about something and get it off your chest, that's also fair game.

Main Fandoms: Disney Ducks (particularly the wider Uncle $crooge comicsverse) is a big one, as is Fraggle Rock. Pokemon and Digimon are also huge ones cohabitating in my brain. Oh! And also Megaman, especially the EXE series. These are all pretty equally big fandoms in my book. And Red Dead Redemption 2 and RDO; looking to play RDR1 someday, but that's a little out of my reach right now.

Other Fandoms: Dimension 20, Skyrim, Dungeon Meshi, Fullmetal Alchemist, Animal Crossing, Dreamlight Valley, Undertale and Deltarune, Final Fantasy series, Kingdom Hearts, In Stars and Time, Stardew Valley, The Sims, Sherlock Holmes, assorted other older anime, Dragonlance, DnD as a whole, assorted Disney franchises, assorted Dreamworks franchises, been really getting into CBS's Ghosts, really I've been in fandom spaces for a long time there's a LOT here, I KNOW I'm forgetting some...
What I Create for Fandom: Fanart, for the most part. The occasional fic, but mostly it's drawing.
Other Hobbies: Reading, photography, hiking, fishing, video games, painting

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Outlaw of the Outer Stars by John C. Wright

The adventures continue!

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I first read The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison last year, but I never got around to reviewing it, in part because I didn't know what to say about it. My friends had loved it, and while I'd found it enjoyable, I was still percolating on what I liked (or didn't!) about it. Listening to The Witness for the Dead, a book in the same universe, got me thinking about TGE again, so this month I gave it a re-read. This time, it all clicked.

This book is truly such an enjoyable read. The basics of Maia's tale are not unfamiliar—a seeming nobody is thrust into a position of power no one ever expected them to have—but Addison puts her own fascinating spin on it. It has the same feeling I got from The Witness for the Dead, where the story prioritizes doing the right thing and many if not most of the characters in it are striving to be good people (whatever that means for them). It makes a nice contrast to the very selfish, dark fantasy where you know from the start every character is just in it for themselves (and I do enjoy those too, not to say one is better than other!) The protagonist Maia in particular is put in any number of positions where he could misuse his power for personal gratification—such as imprisoning or executing his abusive former guardian, Setheris—but he, with conscious effort, chooses differently. That is not the kind of person—not the kind of emperor—Maia wants to be. And honestly—there is very gratifying fantasy, particularly today, in the idea of someone obtaining power and being committed to some kind of principles of proper governance, of having some code of honor above their own personal enrichment.

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Oof. Today I threw in the towel on Margaret Killjoy's The Sapling Cage because I'd rather be alone with my thoughts than sit through another three hours of this book. This is a fantasy book about a "boy," Lorel, who disguises herself as her female friend to join a witches' coven (She's a transgirl, but her journey on that understanding is part of the book, and she refers to herself as a boy for much of the story.)

First, I will say that I think Lorel is a protagonist written with love; clearly Killjoy wanted her to be relatable and sympathetic, and someone eager for a trans fantasy protag may be willing to forgive the book's many weaknesses for that. That said...

I was shocked to realize this book is not categorized as Young Adult/Youth literature. Lorel is 16 at the start of the book and she's very sixteen. She makes all the sorts of stupid, immature mistakes you would expect from a teenager, which makes her a realistic character, but also deeply frustrating to read as an adult, particularly since the first-person narration puts us right in her head. The book feels young even for a sixteen-year-old; it reads more like a preteen novel about teenagers.

The book itself feels incredibly juvenile, both in prose and in narrative. The writing is simplistic, the narrative barely there, and the worldbuilding painfully thin. The book infodumps on the reader constantly, going into detail about things that are then never relevant again and don't connect into any kind of overarching picture of what this world is like. Reads very much like the author just throwing a bunch of things she thought were cool at the reader without actually thinking about how they would impact her world or the characters in them.

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Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 8

Recent Reading: Consent

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 7

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 6

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 5

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