Throw TheLiving Silverware

I find Lord of the Rings both incredibly good and incredibly frustrating. I mean, the worldbuilding is insane, and I might sound crazy here but I really like Frodo's evolution. But at the same time, the writing is... well what it is. I would often find myself skip the poems altogether (although that might be a translation thing. I have discovered Clamavi De Profundis' work recently, and it made me somewhat reconsider my stance. Should reread LOTR at some point, either in English or the new French translation.) Then you get Silmarillion, which is this but to the power of ten. One of the best epics ever, after you get through pages of presentation of Fëanor, Finrod, Finwë, Fingolfin, Finarfin, and all their (often irrelevant) extended family. Oh yeah HP. I'd say it's fairly rated, because no one is pretending it's the best thing ever. I don't think I ever held it as high as some (I always preferred Percy Jackson or Artemis Fowl) and unlike PJ or AF I haven't really felt like rereading HP in years.

Really good! Disgusting but really good And yeah, Poppy War is great. Read it everyone if you have the courage to go through that.

I am not made of silver, but I do indeed have eyes. More seriously: You got the height within one inch, and I would definitely wear a SA shirt if I had one. No freckles though (what you see in your spy camera must be the eczema eating my face atm), and hair color is totally off. I am trying to describe my mental image of you but honestly it's just your pfp (and you gave quite a few details in the last pages.) I'll just add that you prefer a wear a slightly too large hoodie.

Is anyone willing to imagine me? PS: I love how most of Kajsa's portraits have exactly the facial expressions I would associate with their Sharder

Wanting to be loved is not petty, it's human. And we'll always be here for you. My PMs are always open for you. *many, many hugs*

I say I don't like the feeling of earbuds. That's true, but the real reason is that I can't place them right in my ears ever. TPBM is excited for Dune part 2.

Patji?

@Ravenclawjedi42 No idea if the format really fits, but I had to do it. Context:

Granted. The world is now a disc resting on the shoulders of 4 elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle. The turtle obeys what you tell them*, but they can't hear you because their ears are in the void and in space no one can hear you cry, so it doesn't matter. I wish for a lightbulb. *Astrobiologists are still debating the turtle's gender.

Adin - 5 Axies - 7 Baxil - 4 Becca Nightshade - 5 Chiri-Chiri - 6 Dedelin - 2 Ellista - 5 Frava - 2 Gaotona - 6 Gaz - 5 Hesina - 7 Jordis - 4 Kaza - 4 Kimmalyn - 6 Lem - 5 Logna - 5 Lukel - 8 Mem - 4 Morriumur - 5 Nikliasorm - 4 Palona - 5 Ranette - 6 Human - 7 Yalb - 8 Heal Human, hurt Jordis. Rest in peace, Walin. You survived the Pits of Hathsin, only to die of being forgotten. May the Survivor, Him who saved your life a first time, find your soul and guide you to the Beyond, in His infinite wisdom.

You are the first one to recognize that quote in all the months I've had it I'm sorry for your dog. Pi/3.14

The Cosmere lego is really cool! Thanks for enlightening me! 9/Pineapple

I had never heard of metallic bonds until today, and I have studied chemistry for a while. I've looked up the wikipedia page, and this thing is indeed weird and really cool. So I learned something too today. And it's the second time this kind of thing happens in this thread even though its still page one. Thanks everyone for posting and educating me! (For the curious, the short version is: metallic positive ions are sharing electrons that belong to neither of them. Also the way it's organized is a crystalline structure with the positive ions making the crystal proper and a "soup" of free electrons between the ions.)

I... didn't ever thought it could be anything else than "of course". Thanks, I guess? I realized fairly recently that the "Bros" in Warner Bros was the same as in Super Mario Bros, and that it was the plural of bro (short for brother).

Really cool! Especially the character dynamics between Levi, Arson, and Phoebe

YKYAASFW your reaction to this is "I need a Stormlight pajama".

I was saying that because at the start it felt like a failure. Two failures, actually: first a failure to moderate my gaming myself in the first place, and then a failure to break from gaming. But you and Raven are right. It works. I am finally putting myself back together. And at last, I can see a world where I don't stress myself to death over homework while not doing it. That is huge, and that is the most important thing.

Thanks a lot mate! Also, unrelated but would you be my Shardbuddy?

So actually... I restarted playing. And somehow, it is not taking over my life. The thing is, when I uninstalled, what I ended up doing was looking for other similar games and latch on it like before. I think I have installed half of this genre games available on Android. One of them turned out to be so insanely addictive, it might have done worse than the other one in just 3 days (and played a big role in my failure at the physics exam). That really put things back into perspective for me. So what I decided was that if I was going to keep gaming anyway, might as well set up rules for it. I tried a first time earlier this month, which as you know was a total failure. And I went back into the loop of trying everything else. So this time, I am making things much harsher for myself: daily limit enforced through a software that I can't bypass (not that it is flawless, but I have blocked in some way every way to bypass it I could find of.) Then, a strict time limit on gaming, with the rule that if I ever bypass it somehow I will have to uninstall for a long time (a day for every minute above the limit. My phone sends me a daily reminder.) All related YT/Twitch channels share this timer, so that I can't just go watch gaming videos after I'm done playing. And finally, after 10PM the game locks itself whatever happens. It's been 3-4 days and so far it's been working okay, to my great surprise. I believe that I actually think less about it now I can't watch videos as much as I want. But there was of course this incredibly stressful and annoying project that we're presenting in a few hours, that took up quite a bit of time recently. I actually somewhat pulled my weight here, even though some days weren’t great but it's still better overall than before. But when this will be done and I will have no other immediate deadline, I am a bit scared of what will happen. Ah, at worst I'll uninstall again. I've done it before, I can do it a nth time. Edit: I know it's not a good solution, but everything else I've tried was worse. Also, presentation happened and went surprisingly well! We have now to finish the report, but we've got a week so I'm not really worried about it. That mess is finally over.

Trying new things recently, didn't work out too bad. Tell you more later, I have a big school project that is due tomorrow morning (and which has been stressing the heck out of me those last few weeks). Actually, I shouldn't even be here now.

*more hugs* *the quiet kind of hug*

You're right, and not an obligator anymore. Wyrn's awesomeness / Lord Ruler's awesomeness

Heal Axies, hurt... why is this so hard... Mem, whoever they are. (Haven't read Skyward/Reckoners/Alcatraz, sorry if they're a fan favorite from there)

Awesome, what can I say more? Obi-Wan/Jar Jar