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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Years ago my family played a game of Parcheesi, starting out as a perfectly friendly game. Then someone read the rules about sending other players back home and it devolved from there, to the point none of us have touched Parcheesi since then. Fortunately we’re all still speaking with each other!

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You’re talking to me, specifically, aren’t you? *fires up the Libby app*

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yes, let’s burden both new parents and pediatricians with FIVE doctor visits instead of one for absolutely no legitimate medical reason. A masterstroke, sir.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I’d never seen an entire hospital floor-40 beds-dedicated to a single infectious disease before. At our peak we had more than three non-ICU units dedicated just to patients with COVID. Heated high flow and Bipap, usually exclusive to ICU, were standard on the floor because the ICUs were full.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I did verify that it was published well before Fourth Wing. M-Bot and Doomslug are helping.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Reading it got me ranting for a solid ten minutes to my youngest, which he appreciated because I was ranting about a book instead of sending him to bed.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Brandin Sanderson’s Skyward is giving me such hard Fourth Wing vibes. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not Fourth Wing (in that I don’t hate the main character with every fiber of my being) and it’s not stupid (people die because of bad guys, not because they don’t innately know how to ride a dragon).

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🫐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 · 16/05/2026

Head cannon: Alcatraz is Hoid’s origin story. (Everything is Cosmere. I’m 100% convinced the Rithmast is Cosmere. It has magic intricately tied to religion. You can’t convince me otherwise!)

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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 · 05/05/2026

I do appreciate that in this dystopian timeline, where resources are scarce and communities are very segregated with little infrastructure, soda remains an important enough commodity that one of the leads can support a regular soda habit. These are my kind of priorities.

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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 · 02/05/2026

Steelheart: I believe we got a snipet, or a glimpse, of this in the sci-fi short story collection. I don’t watch The Boys because it is too grim. This prologue is gutting. Will I white knuckle through? Or give up before the end?

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Galavant! It was a musical that got two seasons! Everything about it was amazing.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Better Off Ted is one of my favorite comedies and I’m so sad it’s not better known.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Pushing Daisies was funny, and quirky, and a little bit dark, and sweet.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Clone Wars: Aksoka was everything I hoped the Padme character would be (including very cool and not boring). Rex and all the clones. A few of the plot lines went off the deep end, but those four episodes absolutely give me chills.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Doctor Who, Tom Baker through Matt Smith are the ones I watched. The old episode where the aliens started as larva, but it was just some guy wrapped up in green spray-painted bubble wrap is a classic.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I don’t think Avatar: The Last Airbender needs an explanation? Sokka’s my favorite, because he makes color-coded spreadsheets, but Zuko’s arc alone earns it a special place in my heart.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

MLP:FiM is another kids show that just had great production quality and fun storylines. Pinkey Pie was my favorite.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Odd Squad is a PBS Kids show that was fun for parents to watch too. Great characters and excellent deadpan acting by a bunch of kids.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

15 top TV shows ever, gut instinct edition (in no particular order) Star Trek: TNG Gilmore Girls (s1-s3) Firefly Veronica Mars Scrubs Brooklyn 99 Battlestar Galactica Galavant Better Off Ted Pushing Daisies Clone Wars Doctor Who My Little Ponies: Friendship is Magic ATLA The Odd Squad

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

Rusting storms. I was not into this story for a while, and then the ending grabbed me by the throat. It deserves every penny of the Kickstarter. Sanderson is back on my “can do no wrong“ list, despite Elantris. It was lovely.

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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 love how these stories go all in on fantasy, and then make a hard left turn into science fiction (yeah, yeah, it’s all a spectrum, I get it, but let me enjoy it).

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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 · 29/04/2026

Ha! The goth girl who covers all her skin is a horde!

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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 · 28/04/2026

There are more of them on Threnody, but otherwis are the shades any more terrifying than these nightmares? The stories might not all be true, but this fully formed one is legit scary.

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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 · 27/04/2026

I really feel Yumi should have had Painter do some practice stacking rocks before the ceremony. I do not have faith that this will go swimmingly.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I quite enjoy Yumi performing expert-level, ceremonial, artistic stacking. But angrily.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I am choosing to read every (lowly) indicator as the appropriate variation of “fuck.” I’m not entirely sure that’s what Sanderson intends, but I am 100% certain Hoid is ok with this.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

It took me a minute to get into this, because I was reading something else too, but Hoid is a spray-painted coatrack in this because he’s been frozen in time but is still aware and Design is putting him to use, and Hoid is just such an amazing character.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Design and Hoid are well matched. She is completely unhinged.

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

Hoid is narrating this specifically to a Rosharan, so all the analogies he makes make the most sense if you’ve read an additional, like, 5000 pages or somethibg.

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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 · 25/04/2026

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: I was going to joke about how Yumi is clearly Rapunzel from Tangled, in how she‘s thinking about going to a festival she’s never been to before, but then it turns out she is forbidden from cutting her hair, and it’s not a joke any more.

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🫐mashithamel🍌 @rebeccamd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Ending with Roshar. My heart will always be with Roshar, the world most heavily and deeply explored by the books. Plus, you know. Adolin. And Kaladin. The list could go on.

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