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Balerion the Cat
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Obsessed with #ASOIAF
current reread ADWD
#booksky 🐾 Banner by Jordi Gonzalez Escamilla http://artstation.com/artwork/g8qQL
On my Will of the Many reread in preparation for Strength of the Few, I forgot just how good it is
November 12, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I hadn't even thought about Stephen Miller bc Mitch McConnell is always the first one that comes to my mind but you have a point lol
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I rewatched my favorite movie yesterday.
#GuillermodelToro #PansLabyrinth
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reading Skin Folk by @nalohop.bsky.social
Holy shit this is so good, dreamy modern fairytales, you have to check it out #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
@babybillybfyre.bsky.social saw this and thought of you. Did you Roanhorse's Trail of Lightning? It's really good.
October 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
October 17, 2025 at 6:04 PM
October 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Then one day, the man who would be president promised the deaths of his own citizens.
October 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Silence is complicity bc silence is consent.
- Maria Ressa
#booksky
September 29, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The quality of a democracy can be seen by the quality of it's journalists.
- Maria Ressa

Her book is fascinating and what she went through is disturbing as hell (& kinda familiar)
September 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Others had started this war, Lord Cregan was heard to say, but he meant to finish it, to continue south and destroy all that remained of the greens who had placed Aegon II on the Iron Throne and fought to keep him there.
September 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nobody does plot twists like Olga Tokarczuk, im blown away by the beauty of it. It's a tough read in our current climate though, everything is a little too real 😭
#TheEmpusium #Tokarczuk #booksky📚
September 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
TOMORROW
August 25, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Im going to be thinking about "And Seven Times Never Kill Man" all day- the cycle of colonizing cultures forging new colonizers, golden eyes smoldering bronze. Are the pyramids psionic soul sucks causing the regression?
July 25, 2025 at 7:31 PM
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Fantasy flies on the wings of Icarus, reality on Southwest airlines. Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true? ...
They can keep their heaven. When I die, I'd sooner go to Middle Earth.
- George RR Martin
July 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Who's read Sandkings?
That ending OMG
July 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
This:
"In Sinners, the maternal isn't just tender, it's sacrificial. Annie buries a child, confronts grief in isolation, loses her man twice; Grace sets herself on fire to redeem the soul of her lover & protect her child, Pearline crucifies herself for a preacher boy she barely knows. And Mary?
July 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
😭
“We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere—something we’ve never seen before...While the world is debating...AMOC in the North Atlantic, we’re seeing that the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts”
July 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Freedom Floatilla has been illegally boarded & the members kidnapped. This is the last image we have. Contact your representatives & government to demand their safe release. They are unarmed civilians on a humanitarian mission.
June 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Try.
June 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Strength of the Few has been announced!!
Look for it Nov 11, 2025
#booksky #📚🩵
March 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This quote captured the intention of LotR for Tolkien:
"There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident &, even if he knows it & consents to it,
February 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Drop something black ⚫
Ged and his Shadow from the Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin by Erkahoth on DeviantArt
February 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM