Welcome to my reading journal. A common piece of writing advice is that to become a better writer, one should read a lot. There is truth to this, of course, depending on what one reads. Every month, I’ll run down all the books I’ve read, in about 300 words apiece. These aren’t full-blown reviews, but hopefully there’s still some useful information buried in them.

The Magicians by Lev Grossman

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Long time no blog. Been writing a lot, been busy with work. But I've still found time to read. And what better thing to blog about?

I recently finished Mistborn: The Final Empire, the first of Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy. I avoided it for a long time: as a fan of Sanderson's writing, and because of the sheer number of book in the series, I knew it would take up a lot of my time.

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There was a small NCR presence there, people heading to and from Vegas, traders peddling their wares, a beggar who I gave some caps to, and surprisingly enough, some refugees from Primm who fled after the Powder Gangers attacked. A few of them are even preparing to make the trip back soon, since word on the radio is that somebody single-handedly cleared the gang out and restored law and order to the town.

God, this past week has been fucking weird.

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My Totally Serious Entry Into The Cute War:

Well, here is my totally serious entry into The Cute War. Yep, it is meant to be the most serious entry you have seen today. Nothing fishy is going on here. Nope. Nuh uh. Nada.

So I humbly enter my cute face.

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As many people know, my mom and I have been going through a very hard time lately.

If you want to read the full story you can check out my blog entry here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/681951/im-going-through-a-difficult-time-and-fundraiser

Yesterday there was someone who made a very kind donation to my fundraiser.

He has previously made three other contributions and he made another one which I just received in the mail.

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A month or so ago my mom was diagnosed with Vikings Disease which causes bones and joints to curl up to the point where they can't be used anymore. There is no known cure for it. My mom got it from an injury at her job where she shattered her shoulder bones and all of the bones in her wrist. This caused her body to sustain a lot of trauma that triggered the recessive genetic disorder.

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In a press conference yesterday, Trump said they are going to repeal and replace Obamacare the same day with a new bill that was drawn up. The new plan allows for people to earn interest on their insurance policies that they can take out to pay for medical expenses. It basically pays for itself in the longrun. And it keeps all of the best aspects of Obamacare but with little cost because it encourages competition across State lines. There's a bunch of information about the new plan online/ on

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When you think about it, at any given moment, of any given day, a meteor could crash into the earth, we could blow ourselves up with nuclear weapons, we could have our entire civilization destroyed by super volcanoes, or earthquakes, or water covering the earth, or any number of natural or man-made disasters that could eradicate our species.

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If I avoid George R. R. Martin's advice and end Twilight's Secret Journal with a Deus (or Diabolus) Ex Machina, what do you supposed the best and worst case scenarios might be, from the perspective of the characters? I have an idea.

Best Case Scenario: The Meta

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I have constellations as birthmarks kind of all over my body, including the Big Dipper, The Small Dipper, and so on.

This got me thinking of that quote that says people are built from stardust and everything that makes up a human being can be found in space.

I guess my birthmarks are a pretty literal example of that (in some form or another). :P

On a side note, I also have one eye that is a slightly different shade of blue than the other.

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Okay, so there might be one or two other Bronies who live here and are already my friends.

But other than the three people I know, there are literally no Bronies here.

We don't even have a brony convention.

I think the universities might have some brony clubs but they aren't as big as the anime or other special interest clubs.

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Never Give Up

There seems to be a lot of people going through some hard times on the site so I just thought I would share something from my past that might be able to help other people who might be going through the same thing.

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Things just got worse for my mom and I again. We were getting some extra money that helped cover the cost of bills from a settlement. But then the dangerous family member who has been after us for six years took that away.

At the same time my mom got a work injury where she broke her shoulder bones and wrist bones. Now she is also having troubles with her mouth because we haven't been able to afford much of anything for six years, being on the run, let alone a dentist bill.

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She keeps losing weight even though we feed her dry food, wet food, and treats every day. She also had diarrhea and threw up for about three days in a row at the beginning of the week. I am taking her to the vet today to see what is going on. I am hoping that it is nothing too serious. I would hate to see something happen the new little kitty we took in. Especially since she still needs to feed her kittens. It would be bad if anything happened to her since there are six little kittens who

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I want to buy that colorful craft sand you see at the store sometimes and make rainbow colored sandcastles.

If we can put a man on the moon, I can make multicolored sand sculptures. <_<

I don't even have to stop at making sandcastles.

I could make cartoon or anime characters. I could make animals. I could make cute chibi fruits. I could make whatever I wanted.

I could live my dream of making sculptures out of random things no one cares about.

I won't let my dreams be memes.

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Just look at how cool they are!

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Tom the Rock just left me for Maud's pet rock Boulder!

He said I was too 'real' for him.

We were only married for one day. Nuuuuu!

I guess I didn't rock his world.

Back in the day we had hip words like knarly, righteous, and tubular.

These days kids use words like On Fleek.

Let that sink in for a moment.

On. Fleek.

It means 'on point' or something to that effect.

Here is what it looked like in a sentence:

"His hairstyle was on fleek."

Translation: "His hairstyle was 'on point'."

...

Just seeing this attempt to be a 'normal' expression in a sentence hurts my eyeballs.

What the heck is wrong with this generation? <_<

On another site, my posts were getting down-voted by trolls. So I changed my user-name to 'Feed Me Down-Votes' and then I made a post about how every down vote actually gets me paid $10.00 through Paypal because an ad company said they would sponsor my down-vote campaign.

People believed it and they only started leaving me up-votes. So many up-votes that my posts became the most seen on the site.

I was laughing so hard.

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