#thewindthief

I wasn't sure about making one, but since @sunheart tagged me to (and my man is doing his own 2025 reading list), here we are!

- The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) - Howl's Moving Castle (Diana Wynne Jones), from 2023's list... - Illusion (Paula Volsky), which I own and haven't read - A Darkness at the Door (Intisar Khanani), ditto - Entwined (Heather Dixon), a long overdue reread - Pauline Gray Investigates (Louise Bates), borrowed from @valiantarcher - Defy (Tricia Mingerink), next in its series

With the general caveats:

A pair of siblings go on a road trip with a centenarian.

In their search for a myth, two brothers uncover a centuries-old plot - and find a family.

Thanks to an incident on their first trip, this band of travelers will spend at least the next seven years trying to get home.

They started off as the superhero cleanup crew, but became the mess themselves.

A man living in a junkyard kidnaps local schoolteachers; chaos and adventure ensue.

pastel; what is/are your favorite color(s)?

fauna; if you could talk to animals, which do you think would be the bluntest and why? bison because they put the righteous fear of god into man

whisper; what is your favorite book? the weight of glory by c. s. lewis is a sermon not a book but i go insane every time i read it

Rules: name ten favorite characters from ten things, then tag ten people

1. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars)

2. Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

3. Castiel (Supernatural)

4. Eugenides (Queen’s Thief)

5. Merlin (Merlin)

6. Loki (MCU)

7. Charles Xavier (X-Men)

8. Ender Wiggin (Ender’s Game)

9. The Doctor (Doctor Who)

10. Zuko (A:TLA)

smile; a quirk that you find cute/attractive?

not to be that guy but honestly everything my boyfriend does knocks me out… especially the stuff he does when he’s happy…. he has an extremely distinctive silly sounding laugh and we just LOVE to hear it… he has an offbeat fashion sense and we love to see it… one of the things i like about him is how idiosyncratic he is like he really makes no apologies for being himself … so even the quirks i don’t really vibe with, i can’t help but appreciate

fantasy; which movie/tv show do you wish you could live in?

sorry i cant NOT say doctor who hello its the ultimate wish fulfillment the only limit to what you can experience is your imagination 

sweet dreams; what is the weirdest dream that you’ve ever had?

hard to say .. what qualifies as weird? maybe the most unsettling i can remember is a dream where my ex-best friend tried to hurt me i definitely woke up from that thinking man i have some issues i still need to resolve

soulful; what is/are your passion(s)?

kissy kissy; how old were you when you got your first kiss?

i haven’t had one yet bc i like getting temporary crushes, flirting with cute boys, and even occasionally dabbling in some unrequited pining for a friend but if u thought i was gonna devote my limited time and emotional resources to a boy then u got me STRAIGHT wrong. actually i just don’t wanna commit to anything rn but we don’t have time to talk about that

smile; a quirk that you find cute/attractive?

umm so many little things!! rolled up sleeves. people who always make cute peace signs/surfer hands/whatever when they’re talking. laughing so hard their eyes disappear. people dancing absentmindly cause their body knows a song they like is on even though they aren’t paying attention? devastating. when people tap you or put their hand on ur back as you slide by??? hhhhhhhngnh

sweet dreams; what is the weirdest dream that you’ve ever had?

i actually keep like, a record of my dreams?? and i can’t even imagine picking a “weirdest” one. like, the time a bear mauled my brother and we buried him in a cardboard box?? the time i was being chased by a giant dinosaur??? the time i had to kiss my best friend to keep him from being arrested? the time i was stuck in the tiger king’s zoo, when i haven’t even seen the tiger king?they’re always weird, bro. idk what to tell ya.

soulful; what is/are your passion(s)?

i really think we should start adopting more children. there are a lot of young humans who need families and love and that should be like, really valued and excellently done. 

umm “”””christian”””” art sucks. start being honest and maybe then people will begin to listen to you!!!!!!!!!!!!! but that tea might be a lil too hot 

Between Two Lungs by Florence + The Machine

4. Talk about the thing you regret most so far.

Every single time I had a crush on someone I regretted not telling them about it sooner. Not sure it would have turned out better, in any of those cases, even if I had done it. But It’s probably better to rip off the band-aid. I’d rather know as soon as possible and not waste my time.

Actually, whenever I think about the fact that most of my former crushes knew me exclusively as “that weird obsessed girl” I lose sleep

10. Talk about the biggest fight you've ever had.

With... who? My parents? I’ve had big fights with them. Or... something. I don’t really know how to rank them. No one incident stands out above the others. When I was little it wasn’t “fight” it was “get in trouble and get yelled at” but somewhere along the line that morphed into “fight”, albeit that doesn’t happen often now. I don’t really know how to answer. I guess this is hard to answer because I typically don’t fight by fighting, I just talk calmly to try and defend myself or my ideas and get shouted over so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Idk. I get into “fights” with my sisters rarely, but they are low-drama and over quickly. I know I’m forgetting something I could be talking about here. I’m not actually some kind of angel. I have gotten better about de-escalating things though.

24. Talk about something someone told you that meant a lot.

One time I was at my church and a girl I know said to me “You know how some people when you meet them you can tell immediately they’re Christians without them talking it’s just a sort of feeling that you get” I said “yeah” thinking of some people I know like that.