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hi friends! i'm planning on leaving goodreads in an effort to distance myself from tech monopolies & unbridled consumerism.

i'll be over at oku: https://oku.club/user/betwixtcraft

"If he peeled back her pretty skin he'd find nothing soft or sweet at all, just busted glass and ashes and the desperate, animal will to stay alive."

already 7 books behind schedule for the reading challenge. (┳ _ ┳)

so, micro-goal: by this sunday evening, finish all the books in my "currently reading" with the exception of the artist's way. then i'll be 2-3 books behind and will have a MUCH better chance of catching up.

may this year be a better year for reading goals than 2020.

"The dragon swooped low and spat flame, destroying both manor and hovel, scrawling red RSVPs in the sky. The winged wringer had no time for survivors. She skywrote her grievances, then rewrote them roughly in land-fire from end to end of Geat-realm, her scaly helm shining as she sang insults from the clouds."

"Why the brutality?! Pretty peace-weavers aren't meant to claw, bringing good men down just for looking, innocent oglers sent deathward. Talk about inflated offenses!"

"Nothing like Modthryth, oh shit, remember her? The people's p princess, an utter criminal. Bro, if anyone looked at her in daylight, save her own overlord, she'd deal that man death--"

"They were the cream of the crop, but soon they'd be chaff, scythed from swordsmen into skeletons. She was the one to do it. The horror wasn't muted by the measure of women's strength against men's brawn. Both can hold slaying swords, glazed with gore, and score the boar-crests from war-helmets, warming them with blood."

"Death, no matter our desires, can't be distracted. We know this much is true, and it's true for all souls: each of us will one day find the feast finished and, fattened or famished, step slowly backward into their own dark hall for that final night of sleep."