Always the Lass o’ Phobia 🧜🏼‍♀️🌊

yes good well done you and your colleagues

Ooooooo

*vast sigh of contentment* a civil campaign is truly an incredible book, what a satisfying read #perpetualvorkosigansaga

Also a delight: mark and Cordelia #perpetualvorkosigansreread (I know what I said, I’m going 😂)

The urge to binge the last 5 chapters of a civil campaign is *so* strong but I shall nobly refrain and go to sleep 😂 #perpetualvorkosigansreread

And way too much napoleon cake 😂

Actually I love this entire scene with miles and his parents. Like, ok, I love every scene Cordelia is in but this one is particularly great. #perpetualvorkosigansreread

Also! “A life in ruins with vomiting is still a life in ruins.” Poor Miles. #perpetualvorkosigansreread

BUT! Better butter bugs for a brighter Barrayar!! #perperualvorkosigansreread

I was reading memory, komarr, and now half of a civil campaign too intently to remember to post about them. 😂 #perperualvorkosigansreread

Hey those are my blurry boobs back there 😂

Phew, done. #perpetualvorkosigansreread

Ok I have survived the first five chapters of memory. Just gotta get through chapter six and then the worst is over. 😂 #perpetualvorkosigansreread

Is that cuz it’s so good or so much? 😂

Was really struck this reread by how much I’ve enjoyed books and novellas that aren’t normally my faves. Also by the parallels between mark in mirror dance and Cordelia in Barrayar. #perpetualvorkosigansreread

Forgot about this thread. Are you seriously telling me mg reward for getting through mirror dance is the first fifth of memory /o\ #perpetualvorkosigansreread

Pass the parcel, hero quest, or both? 😂

Your face 😜 (also curry quest is a much better episode 😂)

I mean, I don’t know that that’s the whole point of that episode in quite the same way 😂

Today I had cause to remember that Bluey spends an episode perfectly explaining the hero’s journey. God I love Bluey. :D (Curry Quest, obv)

I suppose it’s also why people have comfort genres, and why they tend to be formulaic ones!

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I really want to get up and go, got places to go and people to see, but unfortunately I think my get up and go got up and went without me.

So I got really stuck by this question, which puzzled me, given what a rereader I am, and I think it’s because for me, the comfort lies in the rereading. So I don’t have one, it’s just the fact of revisiting the known beloved that entails the comfort. (Enjoyed my journey through my rereads tag tho)

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Also turns out sometimes when I’m cuddled in an armchair dicking around on my phone I’m just tired and don’t want to move yet, who knew 😂 (it’s genuinely nice and interesting finding that feeling under the ADHD guilt and cajoling) #adventuresinadhdmedication

So I did have quite a lot of trouble falling asleep last night. 😂 I’ve taken the med earlier today, we’ll see if that helps. #adventuresinadhdmedication

But also yes, exactly. I can see it’s not a magic fix, and how it might not always work, but it is still like a switch flipped and the bar is just lower.

EXCELLENT. I’ll keep you abreast of developments.

I mean, CS Lewis is genuinely underrated comedically (cannot wait for you to re-meet Puddleglum) but yeah that is all true 😂