If you get a hand/wrist brace, it helps a bit.

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So, I stopped reading after Road of the Patriarch because I heard about the shit with Artemis after it. But I have to ask: what fresh hell is this? Catti-Brie is back and knocked up? Presumably with Drizzt's kid? Yvonnel Baenre is back? Or is this a namesake? I am so confused right now.

tempest2004 replied to your link “This Tense Excerpt From R.A. Salvatore's Relentless Features a...”

And that sounds *nothing* like the Artemis I loved. Way too wimpy and flowery in his words. Where's the convicton? The fire? The knowledge of his death being inevitable and being all right with that?

[[ Not just Catti-brie is back, ALL of the Companions of the Hall are back and more than that, they’re all young again. Turns out when they died, Mielikki took their souls to Irudaloon, where she kept them until they were ready to be reincarnated. Catti-brie’s now a super overpowered wizard/cleric double-Chosen of Mystra and Mielikki, Regis is a genasi and a badass fighter, Wulfgar’s still Wulfgar, Bruenor’s got two queens. Yes, it’s Drizzt’s kid. The Yvonnel mentioned here isn’t the original Yvonnel the Eternal but at the same time she is. She’s Gromph’s daughter who was blessed by Lolth before she was born, and also imbued with all of Yvonnel the Eternal’s memories at that time. As a result, she’s by far the most powerful drow who’s ever lived, but rather than rule Menzoberranzan she fell for Drizzt’s goody-goodyness and now lives on the surface and helps the Companions of the Hall, also lowkey waiting for Catti-brie to die of old age so she can seduce Drizzt.

Yeah, what’s done to Artemis is a tragedy and a travesty. He and Jarlaxle have both been watered down, and by the same reason: Salvatore bending them to worship Drizzt and want to be like him, because there’s apparently only one valid way to live life. Giving Artemis a fear of death is something pretty new, appearing as a cheap plot device in the current book, Boundless, and as this excerpt from Relentless shows, it’s meant to continue. 

Six of Rods Reversed

My parents brought newborn-me home from the hospital on my mom's lap, with my 7yo brother riding in the package shelf behind them. (Triumph convertible)

See, that’s what I’m talking about! It’s simultaneously thrilling and COMPLETELY HORRIFYING. 

librarian-amy replied to your post “Iscah was on Sam’s lap and Xholotl was riding shotgun, head blissfully...”

Is Xholotl a person or a dog?

Xholotl is a dog. :D Sam bought a pair of pit bull mix pups, intending to use them as guard dogs after a brutal murder in his hometown. And they are both good guard dogs! But his toddler Iscah declared Xholotl was hers, named him, and won’t be parted from him for ANY REASON, EVER. 

tempest2004 replied to your post “Iscah was on Sam’s lap and Xholotl was riding shotgun, head blissfully...”

I remember riding in the back of a pickup. It's a beautiful memory and I will treasure it always. I feel bad no kids of mine will ever get that experience.

I remember getting the ULTIMATE PRIVILEGE of sitting in the backwards-facing “trunk” seats of an old station wagon that didn’t have seatbelts. It was the BEST. 

kestrelhill replied to your post “delphia2000 replied to your post “Concerning first names - Do not...”

I worked with a guy named Horst Arnold and 90% of his mail came addressed to Arnold Horst.

I literally just posted about that! I can’t believe they did that! I loved that site!

Weird Asks That Say A Lot (ty!)

1. coffee mugs, teacups, wine glasses, water bottles, or soda cans?

coffee mugs and soda cans but especially coffee mugs

6. pastel, hippie, tomboy, preppy, goth, grunge, formal or sportswear?

hippie/grunge!

7. earbuds or headphones?

headphones are more comfortable for me

20. preferred place to write (i.e., in a note book, on your laptop, sketchpad, post-it notes, etc.)?