iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Heh. The dinosaur ate the Crichton section of the library only.

“Well,” admitted Douglas the T. rex, “I only ate the ‘C’ section. Honestly—claiming that velociraptors were the smartest dinosaurs? I knew a velociraptor in college, and he failed chemistry. Plus, resurrecting a character just because he didn’t die in the movie? Poppycock, I say!”

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I think the majority of AO3 would agree with this.

Authors write books for one, and only one, reason: because we like to torture people.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Alcatraz and the Evil Librarians is off to a Lemony Snicket-type good time!

Everybody has a grandfather—two of them, actually. Just because you haven’t seen them doesn’t mean they don’t exist. In that way, grandfathers are kind of like kangaroos.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Our main character is not great with the similies.

They looked so dangerous, like alligators. Really fast alligators wearing black. Ninja alligators.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Hoid, you’re pretending we are a Rosharan audience. We have no idea what this means.

The darkness was strangely transparent to her. (And she didn’t even have to burn tin.)

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I was going to say this was Groundhog Day, but apparently it’s actually Terminator.

Let this be a lesson. When you Awaken a device like this, be very, very careful what Commands you give it to follow.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

AI can’t create art. Machines can’t create art.

Art is about intent, Yumi. A rainbow isn’t art, beautiful though it might be. Art is about creation. Human creation. A machine can lift way more than Tojin can—doesn’t make it less impressive when he lifts more than almost any human being.” He smiled at her. “I don’t care how well a machine piles rocks. The fact that you do it is what matters to me.”

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Aww! (Also his friends can eat every single one of their words of doubt)

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“An absolute charm bracelet of a person” is a compliment I need to incorporate into my everyday life.

“And you,” Akane said, “are an absolute charm bracelet of a person.”

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I love how Painter is an angsty teenager who tries to imagine his life is more grim and tragic than it is.

As he did his rounds, he continued to imagine that he was some lone warrior. Instead of, essentially, an exterminator who had gone to art school.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I need to make this my life’s goal. How wonderful is that?

“You can’t manipulate people by being genuine.” “You can’t?” Shai asked. “Is that not how you’ve made your entire career? Speaking honestly, teaching people what to expect of you, then expecting them to be honest to you in return?”

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.” The Black Cauldron Lloyd Alexander (Favorite line from my favorite book!)

No, in truth, he hadn’t ever truly become despicable. He had been more complex than that. Every person was.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Shai and Shallan could do some group therapy together.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This seems an appropriate response to the end of this book.

“How totally unexpected,” he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Well, except for the one who was scalped by her worshippers.

Telrii might not believe, but his children—raised Derethi—would.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Do not read this book unless you like keeping track of the details of multiple religions, many of which are offshoots of the others. Details over which thousands have died. You know, for fun!

Sarene smiled, picturing the solemn seon—essentially a pagan creation—arguing with the head of the Korathi religion.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It’s really a very conventional parent-child relationship.

“I’m glad you occasionally take the time to call your poor old father—especially to let him know when you’ve overthrown an entire nation.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am relieved to have my question answered! But does Elantris have a sewage system? They have exactly one well and zero infrastructure to handle poop.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Uh huh. I’ve been here long enough. That’s the chasm kata.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I mean, obviously you need this one.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Thus far, a pretty accurate description of Raoden.

“Sule, sometimes you’re so optimistic it’s sickening.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

And a very, very gray priest-general.

it was beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

And this is why I think she’s more interesting than Siri 🤷🏼‍♀️. Apparently not a popular opinion, at least at the time of writing the end notes. Maybe an effect of getting chapters over time rather than reading it at once.