<link>https://www.17thshard.com/blogs/blog/248-unscheduled-randomosity/</link><description><![CDATA[<p> This is just some random stuff. Lists and stuff. If I feel confident enough to post writing (I’m not very good at it…) I might! </p> ]]></description><language>en</language><item><title>Jameshttps://www.17thshard.com/blogs/entry/1674-james/ So. James.

I often look at my bookshelf and ponder on the significance of James.

I mean, so many of authors on my shelf are named James. And so many are some of my favorite authors.

So...

- James #1- James Ponti

So this guy writes middle grade mystery. The first one I read was called Framed! and it was really good. It was the first of a trilogy. It's about this kid who just uses his theory of "teeny tiny details add up" and whatever. nice mystery.

But my favorite of his is called City Spies. Despite the cringey title (and cringey story behind it) the books are actually really good. Book 7 just came out a couple months ago. Or maybe 9. *counts on fingers* *cant figure it out*

He also is starting a new series called Sherlock Society. Pretty good.

The outlier here is his Dead City series about zombies in New York. It ruins all my organization.

 

- James #2- James Riley

So this guy is WEIRD. but in a cool way. like how Alcatraz is weird.

So my favorite of his is middle grade, called Story Thieves. It's really good an you need to read it. It's basically a "jumping inside other books" thing. However, Riley uses this idea to constantly change genres. The first is classic fantasy and classic science fiction at the same time, the second a mystery with a bunch of flashbacks, the third a superhero book. Then Riley beffudles us all by making the fourth one a choose your own adventure. And it's the best I've seen of its type- not the common kind or litRPG kind, but a genuinely good novel that also feels really fun to choose things. And the choices don't feel forced, and they're a hilarious plot device since the character are aware you're making choices for them and quite annoyed about it. The fifth isn't exactly a classic representation of a genre like the others, but you know, culmination of the series. Though there are some nice dystopian bits.

His other good series is The Revenge of Magic. Really nice fantasy series. Not sure I can accurately explain it. The nice part is how it tosses away the Alcatrazy humor of his other series for seriousness, which I'd previously doubted he was capable of. Really good.

His original is Half Upon a Time, which are some nice fractured fairy tales. There's also a continuation trilogy called Once Upon Another Time.

 

-James #3- Anna James

This author is WONDERFUL.  I just got a signed copy of one of her books!

So her main series, Pages & co. (often called The Book wanderers cause that's the first books name and sounds better and fits it better) is also about traveling about books, but it's more like cozy fantasy. It's about a girl who lives in a nice little bookshop who discovers she can "bookwander" (what a cozy word!) into books so goes to a tea party in Wonderland and whatnot. But the stakes to get higher as the series continues, it becomes more of a normal fantasy, and it's really cool.

She also just started a new series called the Chronicles of Whetherwhy, which is also really good. Great school of magic vibe with a cool magic system.

And, lastly (she spent most of her time on bookwanderers, which is now complete so she's doing new stuff) there's Alice With a Why. Nice Alice in Wonderland thing in the spirit of Percy Jackson and whatnot. Well, actually not like that. It's one of those where people write sequels to classics.

Also, DISCLAIMER: you shouldn't read any of her books on a empty stomach. She loves to mention every meal and somehow makes it sound VERY delicious without feeling overdescriptive. Most of the time.

 

So I'm running out of time, but I'll write Part 2 tomorrow.

Wait a second, nevermind. All that's left is honorable mentions (I think) so I'll just stick them in.

 

Honorable Mentions

 

-James Dashner

You know Maze Runner? Yeah, that guy. It was pretty good. Nothing to go on about for me. Except my Newt rant, which shall wait.

 

-James Patterson

This guy is EXTREMELY suspicious. NO ONE can write that fast.

But the bestsellers list would get mad at me if I was talking about Jameses and forgot to mention him.

 

-James Islington

I can't legally talk about him, as I just got the book today and haven't started reading it. But thanks, @NeverTrustAesSedai!

]]>1674Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:41:32 +0000Some Wordshttps://www.17thshard.com/blogs/entry/1668-some-words/ No, you’re not getting my poetry. Not yet.

These are some words a phrases with interesting or unknown meanings. That’s all.

Plus I need to start posting in my blog.

- Dead Bird Autocorrect

This, I have little idea of. It has an important meaning that no one knows…

- Sesquipedalian

One of my favorite words! Try saying it: ses-quip-uh-day-lee-un. It means long words, or people who use long words.

- Randomosity

Somewhere between Random and Animosity. Actually has nothing to do with animosity, but it felt right. Basically randomness.

- Brick

See Cult of the Slightly Damaged Brick to understand why it has officially stopped looking like a word.

- Frankenstein, Or; The Modern Prometheus

I don’t know why. Something about the title, the punctuation, the grammar, is amazing. I don’t know why. Hence my former member title: “Timing, Or; Always Slightly Behind” which didn’t sound as good, but was very accurate.

 

I might add more when I remember them.

]]>1668Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:17:02 +0000so… im transhttps://www.17thshard.com/blogs/entry/1647-so%E2%80%A6-im-trans/ so…

im trans

a girl

my pronouns are she/her

i came out on cgd 

Something about it makes me really want to post in this blog

this feels like something one of you would post meaningful poetry about

but i am not a poet, so I will just dump some words here

…

*can’t find any*

*decides to recycle past words for some reason*

Spoiler

 

 

help

apparently im being brave today

but i will probably chicken out and not post this

or at least hide it within 5 minutes

 

so

despite my pronouns field

(which i wanted to be “screams in frustration” but the field doesn’t like jokes)

i am assigned male at birth.

and assumed cis since then

but

looking back

for at least a year and a half

i havent wanted to be

iv

really

wanted to be a girl

and I’ve realized and started actually going down that path when i got to the shard

i anonymously followed this thread

and others

and it’s been tumbling to here

and me

being trans

 

 

im just gonna post this right now cuz I’m about to chicken out.

help

hmmm

image.png.8141e9e80b51cf33f21492a323a8b665.png
I’ve been staring at that quite a bit.

it feels… really good

*recycles again*

Spoiler

 

And it also felt like looking at my pronoun field and… well before it was a placeholder while I tried to figure things out, and it felt really fake, like a “out of service” sign or something. And now it feels… good. I’m not very good with conveying feelings…

  14 hours ago,  Hmmm lies said:

words in her mouth

  14 hours ago,  Hmmm lies said:

for her now

*insert very… good reaction I can’t put into words*

I can now say she’s right about being referred to with feminine pronouns!!!

Yes, that is very wrong formatting. Quoting is… weird on my device.

so

I

am

a

girl.

that feels really good…

*continues*

ummm

as I’ve said, I never have conclusions

*tosses in more recycle*

Spoiler

so I remember since a long time ago, the farthest i can definitely remember is year and a half but there could be more I forgot, I would be thinking like

“*sighs* if only i was a girl! too bad I’m not!” and part of me would go *coughs* trans *coughs* but I would dismiss it and stop thinking about it because I thought that, from not quite paying enough attention to my parents, trans people were already born with hormones that didn’t match their body. which I now recognize as a misunderstanding of a seed of not paying attention to the concept or hrt. and during the past school year, it got worse, like “ughhhhh why couldn’t I just be born a girl, or be trans,” and imagining being a girl.

then sometime in March, I started interacting with Lily here on the shard, followed here, and therefore got a bunch of notifications from this thread. and often when not many people are online, I go through the notifications I ignored before because they’re from threads I don’t have anything to do with, like notifications from posting in rps. So I went to the notifications from here, and basically

*thinks vigorously*

the best way I can think of to say it is like being hit by a avalanche. This is a very bad way to say it. It doesn’t match very well. But I’m not good with metaphors.

so

yeah

that kind of pushed me into what I wasn’t seriously considering

and then it was very *word*

I am apparently running out of descriptive words

anyway then it was very… extreme?

it was very very

very

then one time I found one of Lily’s old posts here, I forgot how, where she was talking about signs she saw that she was trans, and it really resonated with me. It was scary.

and then the next was one of lily’s posts here where she said something like “people are wrong when they say ‘cis people don’t question their gender’” and a conversation between Aeoryi and Verdance in a early Yuri of the Day that was something like [I tried typing a summary here for a while, but it was too hard so I’ll just link it] 

and that made me think a lot about if this was just a phase, and if it was a perfectly cis thing to question myself and I would just settle on staying cis, and stuff.

Amd I was surprised when I came to the conclusion that it wasn’t the stuff in the above paragraph

And then I would constantly draft myself coming out here for like a month, but know I would probably never do that. And then today I was doing that again, and just spontaneously jumped on here and posted.

 

]]>1647Sat, 30 May 2026 17:21:38 +0000Greenhttps://www.17thshard.com/blogs/entry/1631-green/ So, I often ask people their favorite shade of green…

so here’s a list! Once I went through, it was surprisingly short. But I started this blog so I need something!

@Through The Living Grub: 

Spoiler

these leaves

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Also, people who didn’t respond: @CoolScrafty7 @GummyDragon

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