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Iris

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Book reader, video game enthusiast etc.

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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Super Mario Land really is a very neat game.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
It finally happened!! I feel like I can breathe normally for the first time in months.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Not surprising in the least.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
All the snow is raining away...
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is ominous... hoping it will be nothing.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A new month and a new week on the same day is a sign.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Took much fewer pulls than I thought it would, yay.
A screenshot from the game Reverse: 1999, showing Ezio Auditore.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
7. Hummingbird Salamander (Jeff VanderMeer). I really should have read this with more focus, rather than being interrupted several times - it all rather dissolves in my mind now and that is unfair to it.
Cover of Hummingbird Salamander, by Jeff VanderMeer.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
6. The Knight of the Swords (Michael Moorcock). Comfort reread. One of the fastest-paced books I've ever read; as soon as it has done enough with what's in one part of the book it moves on to the next part without delay (reminds me now of the Mabinogion (and similar) in some ways).
Cover of The Knight of the Swords, by Michael Moorcock.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
5. The Mercy of Gods (James S. A. Corey). Felt very setup-y, but I liked the well enough to want to read more of it.
Cover of The Mercy of Gods, by James S. A. Corey.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
After almost a year the maps I drew for Might and Magic suddenly turn up (I really should keep better order). A sign to get back to where I left off.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I think it is! It's like scratching an itch when you find a high concentration of something. Sometimes I have just sat for a minute watching the planet turn.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Planet scanning is sort of relaxing though.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Much mourning today.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I can't recall the last book I read this way (read one chapter straight through, read same chapter with all footnotes and commentary, read same chapter straight through again).
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Right at this moment I'm firmly convinced that Kirby's Adventure is the most beautiful game ever made.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Have fun!!
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is always the solution!
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
I have now started reading Ulysses again. Last time I stopped indefinitely at about three quarters in, this time I will Definitely finish it. I think.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I hadn't thought of that, that sounds annoying indeed!
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A drastic change?
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This is why I keep away from water if I at all possibly can.
A screenshot from the game Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom, showing a bay full of fishing docks.The same bay, flooded with water; none of the buildings can be seen anymore.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I have again started playing Ground Control, and it's so very good, even with the frequent bits of oddness.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The very dim silver lining of train delays is that at least you have time to read.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
4. Vintage Murder (Ngaio Marsh). Murder in a touring theatre company in New Zealand. A lot of working out timing and alibis etc, fairly well done, also really nice descriptions of the theatre people and the New Zealand landscape. I rather liked it.
Cover of Vintage Murder, by Ngaio Marsh.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
World of aardvarks
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
3. The Black Dahlia (James Ellroy). Reread, occasioned by a recent rewatch of Los Angeles Plays Itself. Fits with the theme of mythologization of Los Angeles history, sort of. It's also full of awful people, but I knew that (although it feels like they lose touch with reality towards the end).
Cover of The Black Dahlia, by James Ellroy
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
2. Herr Nymans Detektivbragd [Mister Nyman's Detective Triumph] (David Nessle). Very lighthearted mystery set in 1908 Stockholm (and the arctic). The mystery is there, but less important than the very well-done depiction of place and comic dialogue. A very pleasant read.
Cover of Herr Nymans Detektivbragd, by David Nessle.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
("and his knife had a magical attribute: ever since he came here no handle would ever stay on it, and because of that he became sick and weary during his lifetime, and of that he died"; "Cai was clever. He could be as tall as the tallest tree in the forest when it pleased him.")
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
1. The Mabinogion (Anonymous, translated by Sioned Davies). Reread. Loved it. So full of things happening, moving briskly from one to the next. My favourite part of it this time was some descriptions in How Culhwch Won Olwen, which, on their own, sound fascinatingly odd
Cover of the The Mabinogion, A new translation by Sioned Davies (Oxford World's Classics)
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
2025 Reading
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Hello 🥰
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Welcome back
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
It really is.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 26/07/2023
Exactly.
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Iris @anathema.bsky.social · 24/07/2023
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