Nice

LETS GO 69!

everything reminds me of her...

I don’t think she’ll get to read those pages because you, being a high schooler, already read those pages and as a result they are stuck together

Unless it's a southern state. The trumpers will be burning the book and shooting at the library.

We had that stupid block system when I went to high school too. Great for wood shop or auto mechanics, but try sitting through 2 hours of literature without a break.

Showing off for the truck driver eh?

"No bird today ... . Bird tomorrow. Always Bird tomorrow."

Replace Bird with Boom, and attribute to Ivanova.

What the fuck did I just read

What was the B5 reference? It hurts my brain to read it again 😅

WRT Sigyn and Skadi, quite probably.

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Norse mythology. Loosely and briefly, in punishment for everything he had done, Skadi (Ice Giant/Goddess) entrapped Loki in a cave, using the entrails of his son as the bindings, and set a snake above him, dripping toxins into Loki's eyes. Sigyn, Loki's wife, stood by with a bowl to collect the toxins, but when it was full, she stepped aside to empty it. Loki, wracked with pain, shook so violently, that that's how we get earthquakes.

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WRT to Schrödinger's Sparrow, it is just a play on the classics quantum mechanics thought-experiment (Schrödingers Cat). (You likely know this one already).

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With respect to Grunthar, no. no reference in particular. Just a stupid random fucking Viking returned from Valhalla in avian form to fuck up my sickness-addled sleep-deprived mind.

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(Edit: There are also very brief throw away references to Les Miserables, "Row, Row, Row your boat", Babylon 5, the late painter/PBS personality Bob Ross, the trope about superior European windows, and the HHGttG. The last 2 are very weak references.)

I have absolutely no idea what the fuck I just read. Is this some reference I'm not getting?

Get well soon, mate. And for the love of Grunthar - keep writing stories. You rock.

Wow, you really delivered! Not the pizza, but with the story

Phenomenal story telling!

This is really gatekeepy and mean. If she likes the author she likes the author.

Nah, she writes (in my opinion) kinda meh women’s fiction, not quite good romance. Go look at r/romancebooks for better quality romance and/or smut. I started reading romance when I was about 14/15 and I took a few years to get loud and proud about it.

Seriously, the romance community is among the more welcoming and un-judgy reading communities out there. Find your people! We’re cool and chill and smart. I’m in my early 20s and will finish my engineering degree next year.

Another good place to look for thoughtful discussion is the blog Smart Bitches Trashy Books. They have a variety of reviewers come and discuss cool romance, romance-adjacent, or feminist books.

Updooted for a great story, well written.

Hope you feel better soon.

I don't know what this was, but the mental imagery has me cracking up.

You don’t understand I HEAVILY ANNOTATED this book. I put my own thoughts, highlighted, i TABBED this shit

In that case let me give you this advice: Do not worry about it, its not even worth sweating over, everything will be fine

Oh no… you poor thing😭 I would’ve emailed her a pdf link of the book or something

Yeah but you don’t understand I HEAVILY annotated this book I mean my own thoughts, highlighting, I TABBED this shit

Don’t slander Colleen she’s a great author

Good point