The Six Word Challenge Reminder
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The words:
Wacky
Patch
Moldy
Voiceless
Easy
Ragged
Episode 2634: Finn Diesel: Fast and Injurious
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Now, technically a handbrake turn shouldn't work like this on a vehicle that doesn't have wheels, but don't argue with the Rule of Cool. Especially when you're in a setting that takes contemporary things and just dresses them up in a science fantasy veneer.
aurilee writes:
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Looks like the other speeder gets to be removed first, then. And in a way unique to ground vehicles as well! I guess that's the real reason these weren't hoverbikes then. It'd be really hard to have a grapple get wrapped around an axle if there's no axle in the first place.
And hopefully the grappling hook exploded too! Pulling around a burning treadspeeder sounds like a problem. Of course, there's only the two jet troopers now, so maybe that's the next part of this scene: dealing with towed burning wreckage. It shouldn't be much of a problem on its own though since it's just rope; maybe Finn's got the rope wrapped around a foot or something so getting rid of the rope is the real challenge.
I don't think the players have beaten the "flaming wreckage per metre" record though. There'd need to be a lot more vehicles around for that to happen.
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Thursday 12/06/2025
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1) Gorgeous weather - going to enjoy reading in the sunshine during lunchbreak
2) Delicious little piece of cake and yummy cake
3) Very early night in
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Chicks of the laughing dove
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It was their first day out of the nest, which they spent on a branch just opposite our window.
For more information (in Russian), see here.
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Just One Thing (12 June 2025)
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Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.
Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!
Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.
Go!
Shoes and other
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This morning my mom's seven month old phone was totally dead. Not battery wise, but just dead. It had randomly turned off a few times in the last few days. It was a 2023 Motorola Razr--the foldable one. So this morning was spent setting up her new Pixel 9a. I have the Pixel 9 pro XL, so it's familiar to me.
This afternoon one plug on my power strip lost power. That was weird. And I guess I'm getting muscle memory for my new automatic, because when I was setting up Bluetooth in my mom's car, it wouldn't start because I forgot to clutch. I still really miss shifting, so it's probably a good thing I'm at least adjusting.
I also went to the boardgame cafe with a teacher friend. So it was a very full day!
Which Books Gave You the Perfect One-Off Reading Experience?
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Thanks to Jen B. for submitting this interesting take on rereading:
Sarah: It’s like the opposite of “in case of emergency, break glass” books – the “a perfect experience, place this behind glass”This is very random, but I thought of a topic for the SBTB editors to bat around: I know you’ve done comfort reads and favorite re-reads, but does anyone have a book that you read at such a perfect time in your life that you won’t re-read it, because it will never be as good? I had just moved to a new state, the pandemic lockdowns started the day after I arrived, I was in a half-furnished apartment, and I read Evvie Drake Starts Over. It was such a gentle, healing novel about finding yourself, and it was exactly what I needed. While I’m a big novel re-reader, I’ve never touched this one again because I don’t think it will ever hit me with that much force again. Does anyone else have a book like this? Or is this a me thing?
In college we had a tiny shelf of popular novels (it was a tiny school) and there were occasional Elizabeth Lowell, Amanda Quick and Nora Roberts novels. Maybe 4? Not many.
But one day I picked up Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons.
I don’t remember a single thing about this book except the tranquil and hopeful feelings that it left me with when I was done
If I went back now 30 years later, this book might not work for me at all. I just remember the experience of having it ease a considerable amount of stress at a time when I needed comfort.
I’ve never read it again.
Amanda: TW for depressionI’m not a re-reader typically, so I think this is an interesting way to view the decision not to reread books. I do worry that some of my favorites won’t hold up and I’m fine to just preserve that singular reading experience in my mind.
For me, I think I’d pick The Bride by Julie Garwood for my top spot of “perfect experience place behind this glass.” I was really deep into my depression and it was the year I read 212 books because all I did was read and make daily trips to pick up my library holds. (Shout out to the Alachua County library and their amazing Friends of the Library sales.) I really lost myself in this book and it gave my bad brain such a distinctive restful break. I’m perfectly okay with freezing that experience in time.
Sneezy: Oh dang, this is such a good question.
Sarah: Amanda, yes – exactly that. I was miserable and stressed and lonely and that book turned all that off for a while.
Sneezy: It’s not until I was thinking about this question that I realized I don’t want to reread Pride and Prejudice. The first time I read the book, it was a translated version edited for children. I did try when my English got better. I was excited to read a famous author in her native language, especially a book I had such fond memories of, but was never able to read more than a few pages. I felt guilty about it for a while, because it felt like a book I was ‘supposed’ to read and one I know I like. Reading what Jen, Sarah, and Amanda wrote made me realize it wasn’t a matter of want, but can’t. Of all the books I read before my family moved to Canada, somehow that book belongs specifically to Smol Sneezy, the one who’s yet to be hyphenated. It got ambered in dimming afternoons and extra thick white toast slathered with peanut butter and my mom’s favourite violin album, well beyond my reach.
It’s a little strange to realize this. It’s not a feeling of nostalgia in the sense that I yearn to return to that time, just a deep sensory memory that cannot be intruded on even if I wanted to. The book feels like an embodiment of paths forever closed, or perhaps more accurately, sacrificed to forge vastly different ones. I have great appreciation for what I have now, but it is a loss all the same.Sarah: You were a different person when you read it, and you can’t go back?
As in, you and the circumstances around you were different and that can’t be replicated?
Lara: Such a great question! I went through a horrific breakup in 2011 and had temporary insomnia. By chance, a friend recommended the Carol Jordan and Tony Hill series by Val McDermid. I was wrapped up in it. Obsessive. It was precisely what my broken heart needed. I haven’t been tempted to revisit these books because they so perfectly met my needs in that moment.
Tara: I used to reread Jane Eyre at least once a year when I was in high school and university. I have a notoriously bad memory, but I remember the day my grade 9 English teacher handed it to me in the library because she thought I’d love it and she was right! Now, I can’t go back because I think Jane could have done so much better than Mr. Rochester. It’s better to have positive memories of it as a comfort reread than to bring my current lens and get mad about it.
What about you? Do you have special books that you can’t bring yourself to reread?
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