"... Frozen Fish"
Sea monsters and Things trapped in the ice...

These fallback photos help me get through the winter doldrums, keep it up 👍 🌻

Memory foam pillow and sleep mask for my wife (found immediate use)

10/20

Ignoring recency bias cause the last two years of sets have been fantastic:

Shadows Over Innistrad

What a phenomenal return to horror with the Eldritch spook lurking just out of sight, makes your skin crawl in the best way. Madness!

A person can be a fascist while also being a person. This was one of the great lessons of Nazism that we keep forgetting. Fascists don't spawn fully formed, they are people molded by fear & propaganda into their final form. You can hate what they become, but need to understand how they got there.

As much as I like the idea of these in paper, I can understand why printing two mechanically identical but flavour swapped sets would be cost prohibitive. That said, having digital universes within versions means a higher chance of future paper reprints for appropriate cards, so I'll take that win.

Me and my wife started a notebook, whenever we found a new puzzle we would start a new section for it (though we often underestimated how large these puzzles would get) A lot of them are grids or numbers based. Last night we found a clear link to an old note and scrambled to find the right page!

Old Man's Garden by Annora Brown, How to Know the Birds by Ted Floyd, and for a bit of historical and speculative fiction with your life musings, Greenwood by Michael Christie

There are bots, posters and bad actors out there whose only goal is to seek out things they disagree with and feed off your engagement. Compassionate people have largely given up engaging because of this, they are still there it's just hard to show positivity when the world rewards cynicism.

As an amateur naturalist how am I supposed to focus on work when the Prairie Crocuses are in bloom?