I'm Just Going To Leave This Here, Because This Woman Said What I've Been Trying To Articulate For Ages

Something about having an universal translator, and learning to understand without it

Because it's just nice to have a pick me up every now and then.

Amazing list any fan should see

90s anime

There are days where I feel this sense of standing on the edge. Not so much a cliff, but the boundary of something to another thing. I spin around a bit looking for a direction to move in, but it's just not obvious.

The feeling subsides when I get out of my head and need to get something done, be it work or family stuff. But it will come back in a strange quiet moment to myself anywhere.

I went to the DC Pen Show in August and ordered a custom pen!

This time I spent my hour perusing the custom corner. Purchased a blank from Turnt Co, then walked around taking a look at shops that would make custom designs.

Came across Little Hollow Customs and loved chatting with them. They were new to me but it was fun putting faith and my dollars in on a small business to get something unique for me.

I felt this. That quote was a gut wrench. Every parent-child relationship is complex, and the love was there. This book series captures so many aspects of love with it's characters.

***Iron Flame SPOILERS****

I am so incredibly disappointed with what everyone is choosing to talk about with this book. Everyone is concentrating on what happens with Xaden but you know what to me was the absolute most gut wrenching storyline in the whole book? General Lilith Fucking Sorrengail.

From the moment we see her again in the beginning of the book she is nothing but supportive and proud of her daughter. Yes, she absolutely made the wrong decision where she stands in the war, and what she did to Xaden was absolutely inexcusable. (Although I do think if she hadn’t done that they would have killed all the marked ones.) But she made all those decisions for her children. Because she did what she needed to to keep them safe. You can’t convince me that even after Violet leaves, that even after Mira leaves, that she wasn’t incredibly thankful for the fact they were together and with Xaden who would never let something happen to Violet.

Lilith went into the dungeons to get her daughter out of there and I am not unconvinced that had Violet not already been mid rescue the General wouldn’t have turned traitor right there to get her out. The scene when Brennen reveals himself to her?? She’s cracking and can hardly hold herself together and my heart felt so sorry for her in that moment. It made me mad at Brennan because he threw it in her face like ammo when Violet spent all of fourth wing describing how his death ruined their mother.

One of the most heart breaking quotes in the whole book is at the beginning of chapter 65:

“Most generals dream of dying in service to their kingdom. But you know me better than that, my love. When I fall, it will be for one reason only: to protect our children.”

General Sorrengail didn’t support the war, she didn’t fight for Navarre she made it clear fron the beginning that she was just a mom protecting her kids, and she did so without second thought. Without hesitation. She didn’t do what she did for the war effort, or even to help everyone on the battlefield. She did it for Brennen, and Violet, and Mira.

Lilith Sorrengail was just a desperate mother and everyone glossing over her sacrifice is bullshit.

Satellites for Sale by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: Astronaut Dale A. Gardner, having just completed the major portion of his second extravehicular activity (EVA) period in three days, holds up a "For Sale" sign referring to the two satellites, Palapa B-2 and Westar 6 that they retrieved from orbit after their Payload Assist Modules (PAM) failed to fire. Astronaut Joseph P. Allen IV, who also participated in the two EVAs, is reflected in Gardner's helmet visor. A portion of each of two recovered satellites is in the lower right corner, with Westar 6 nearer Discovery's aft. NASA Media Usage Guidelines Credit: NASA Image Number: 51A-104-049 Date: November 14, 1984