Full disclosure , I am an adult and I still like reading fantasy books. For anyone who has not read Jonathan's Stroud's books please do so , they are one of the best series I have read.

Edit: Thank you everyone for so many recommendations ! I have the biggest wishlist of books that for the first time in a very long time that excites me . Hopefully I will build my reading habit back . Thanks once again to everyone who recommended the books ❤️

Hello there! I want to read fan fiction, in which the dynamics of the world Building and the magic itself of the Harry Potter saga intertwine with those of the "Bartimaeus Sequence" written by Jonathan Stroud. Could you recommend me something, please? Thank you!

I was watching the Harry Potter movies recently and realised that the apparition scenes are INCREDIBLY TERRIFYING if you pause them. Check it out!

This saves nearly 8 minutes, skipping two classes - Potions (which has a fleshed-out section involving trolls, acid, and levers) and Verdimillious (which is only needed for the blue/transparent platforms you'll see in the videos.) Coupled with the Fire Seeds Skip that had a more RTA-friendly set-up earlier this month, which saves 6 minutes, the game has the potential to go from sub 1:40 being a god run, to sub 1:30 being free... As long as you can pull off some RTA-viable but still quite tricky skips.

The original finding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZugSWpuIaQ
Pr0te's more RTA-friendly set-up (without the final jump align the original video tries): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZz01e_eV6M

Looking for new fantasy series for 10yo reading around 12yo level. So, beyond elementary but before teenage angst. Recommendations?

Edit: wow, thanks everyone. List compiled and submitted to the little boss for consideration.

Mostly I thought there was too much teen angst and not enough good story telling and when I actually saw some good story on the screen I was enthralled with it and it was gone much too quickly.

Other examples include the Lloyds TSB adverts. Films/animated sequences in which interesting colourings, framings or a slightly distorted perspective are offered i.e. the shapes of buildings, objects, and people are somewhat elongated or compacted.

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WELCOME, AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Hello all, and welcome to the 2021 Holiday MegaSale brought to you by Wraithmarked Creative, Mountaindale Press, Aethon Books, Shadow Alley Press, and Portal Books!

If you didn't know, this year we've turned the sale into a charity event to support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!

ST. JUDE & DONATION BY AUTHORS:

While last year this was only a holiday sale, this year:

• Each of our 150+ participating authors has agreed to donate at least $0.01 per book they sell or give away!

AND:

• All five sponsoring publishers have agreed to each donate at least $0.01 per book sold or given away SALE-WIDE.

That means every book you buy/pick up for free net's St. Jude at least $0.05 in donations! If we only do as well as last year, we are likely to raise over $10,000 USD for the Hospital!

For those of you who aren't familiar with the organization, St. Jude's mission statement reads as follows:

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay.

So, every book you pick up helps further R&D of pediatric disease prevention and treatment!

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MEGASALE INFO:

Nothing excessive here, just a bit of information!

1. This event will run for 48hrs, through December 26th and 27th, 2021.
   1. If you missed the sale, but are reading this within a few days of this post, still check the links below. Many of the books are discounted through the new year.
2. All 400+ books listed below should be free or $0.99 in the US and free or £0.99 in the UK at LEAST.
   1. If any book is NOT listed for these prices, please ping me (u/BryceOConnor) and I will see it removed. With so many books in this MegaSale, there's bound to have be

My husband died on November 18th, 2021, after fighting osteosarcoma for three years. We were together for almost 8 years. I took care of him through it all.

I pushed him to get diagnosed in the first place - it took 6 months of visiting various urgent cares, GPs, ERs, orthopedic doctors, until finally he couldn’t walk without crutches due to the bulge and pain in his left knee and I wheeled him into the orthopedist’s office and demanded an MRI immediately. Sure enough, the orthopedist came in, almost in tears, apologizing and telling us which university hospitals we could go to, because this type of cancer was out of our town’s league. In fact, out of our state’s league entirely.

We spent the next three years at NYU, Weill Cornell, NYP, and Columbia.

Dillon was the toughest motherfucker to ever exist. He tried literally every treatment for osteosarcoma known to mankind - that is NOT hyperbole. Every approved or experimental chemo regimen. Immunotherapy. His tumor was DNA sequenced two different times to try and match him with potential trials. EBRT radiation, SBRT radiation. 12 major surgeries, including losing his left leg at the hip in January 2020. He rehabbed himself out of partial paralysis due to spinal tumors not once, but twice.

I learned how to pack surgical wounds and drain serosanguinous fluid. I spent years of my life covered in literal vomit, shit, piss, blood, wound juice, and tears. I slept on the floor of NYC emergency rooms more times than I can count on two hands. I spent thousands of hours researching and learning and arguing with doctors. I helped come up with a treatment regimen that will probably be used in some academic papers eventually regarding osteosarcoma patients whose tumors are susceptible to ifosfamide but who have dose limiting complications.

He turned 30 on October 24th, 2021. The cancer had major presence throughout his body; lesions and/or masses on the front and back of his skull, his left shoulder, nearly every vertebrae on his spine, his sacrum, right hip bone, right femur, right tibia, several ribs on the left side of his chest, the entire left lung and left side of the pleura, the lower right lung, and his sternum. I’d later learn that he lived longer with this type of progression than anyone on record, but to us, it was just the reality. But at this point, we had exhausted all known options. He went into the hospital on Halloween due to a nosebleed that would not stop due to a nearly nonexistent platelet c

I was rewatching the season, and along the way I had a few items that I thought could either be edited slightly to show a more “accurate” representation of the books, while still working within the framework that this is a different turning of the Wheel. It started with a specific scene in episode 7, but I realized that some changes would need to be made all the way back in episode 1 to have a better narrative impact. In general, I’d like a few more minutes for each episode to give just a bit more time for some plot points, character development, etc., but the changes I’m suggesting essentially seek to work within the existing scenes.

• Episode 1
  • Make Perrin’s bloodlust worse – rather than have him wail on one trolloc repeatedly, have him turn into a whirling dervish taking out an extra 2-3 all by himself, and then swing blindly and kill Laila. This would really show the violence and strength inherent in him, and that when he’s stirred to anger, he loses himself, which leaves a permanent mark on him.
  • Don’t have Tam reawaken after being healed. This is nitpicky, but it would give more weight to Rand leaving his family behind like the others have, and Rand would have to leave without any chance to address Tam’s fever dream (which we wouldn’t know about yet, just being consistent with future callbacks).
• Episode 2
  • When Moiraine is healing the horses, have her note that Bela doesn’t need healing, and have her glance sideways at Egwene suspiciously.
  • Do not have the Whitecloak suggest to Moiraine that she seek out an Aes Sedai for healing – that is antithetical to the Whitecloaks, period dot.
  • At some point, have Lan mention Rand’s heron-marked blade, and that it only belongs to a blademaster; this would hint at the fact that Rand doesn’t know Tam’s backstory. You could also have Lan offer to teach Rand someday.
  • Better explain Aridhol/Shadar Logoth’s story, which was a city that essentially tried to out-evil evil itself, only to succumb to their own brand of evil instead. This would help plant the seeds down the road for the cleansing Saidin.
  • Show Padan Fain in Shadar Logoth as everyone is fleeing, and specifically show him somehow absorb a bit of Mashadar with a self-satisfied smirk. This would show that he’s going to become a much eviler source of evil going forward.
• Episode 3
  • As the wolves chase Perrin and Egwene, show that somehow Perrin can sense that the wolves are trying to herd them somewhere (maybe he can he

I know this is probably going to be one of the most downvoted posts in this sub, but it's true. I watched all movies and read dozens of fanfics. I watched most of the discussions in this sub and entered here practically every day for more or less 2 years. I've seen summaries and read the wiki of the series, watched all of the Very Potter musicals (and the very potter sequence and the very potter senior year), and what I read from the books comes from that reading the books fics that copy and paste entire paragraphs.

I tried to read the books but they did not attract me. It's so weird, I've read fanfics from practically all genres and focused on most of the characters and most of the pairings/ships, and I still didn't read the books. I don't understand why. There is something in fanfiction that gets me addicted even though I didn't liked the original story (I didn't dislike it, I merely didn't liked) how the authors portray the world or the characters. I mean, even the magical school story I created only uses some ideas from Harry Potter, like the houses or the dark lord, and the only reason I keep creating this story is because of the fanfics I've read along with the pandemic, it's basically a giant A.U that differentiated to much from the canon because I actually never read the canon so I just take the concepts and modified it.

That's my confession, Never read the books, only fanfictions. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, I'm a Harry Potter fanfiction fan (mostly due to this sub)

Hi everyone! I know there are a lot of year-end retrospectives flying around the sub and in that sense this is just another drop in the bucket, but I wanted for my own sake to create a summary of my gaming year so I could keep my thoughts organized and have a more permanent reference point back in the future. With that in mind feel free to disregard this post if it adds nothing new, but of course I welcome any and all discussion as well!

First, some background: I keep pretty meticulous track of what games I play and especially games I've finished. I started a list perhaps 15 years ago that has only continued to grow in both size and detail. While that means that for quite some time my completed gaming efforts have been well-organized, it was only around 2019 that I made a point of organizing my upcoming gaming as well, confronted as I was by a frankly intimidatingly-sized backlog. I've found that, more than any other factor, this simple act of organizing/planning my backlog has enabled me to really start taking chunks of it away. How effective has it been?

• In 2019, I set a new personal record, completing 69 total games.

• In 2020, I completed a respectable 45 total games, despite welcoming a newborn and spending hundreds of hours on a massive creative writing project.

• In 2021, with fewer restraints on my time and even better organizational methods, I shattered my previous record and completed 94 games.

This brings my lifelong total up to 606 completed games and counting. While my backlog remains large, the number of games I'm actually really excited about playing has shrunk significantly, so I'd expect the pace to slow a bit for this year and beyond - but we'll see!

Without further ado, here's the list, presented in chronological completion order, along with my personal ratings for each game. Unfortunately two of these games are too recent to be included by name here, so please pardon the redactions where relevant.

What's the funniest chapter in Harry Potter for you?

Mine's the chapter "A Very Secret Diary" from Chamber of Secrets.

The entire Valentine's Day sequence is completely hilarious, from Lockhart decorating the Great Hall with heart-shaped confetti and embarrassing the other professors, Hermione sending a valentine to Lockhart (and Ron getting annoyed at that), the dwarves delivering singing valentines and disrupting classes, and of course, the classic valentine Harry gets.

Another chapter I love is "Grawp" from Order of the Phoenix.

I really love it when everyone at Hogwarts rebels against Umbridge. The best scene for me has to be McGonagall telling Peeves the chandelier unscrews the other way.

So, I haven't been keeping up with the anime because the pacing is awful and I dislike the direction the animation has taken. What I mean by that is that they basically made the action into DBZ like flashy lights spectacles which just doesn't fit OP at all.

Today a friend of mine who still watches the anime sends me a clip of Kinemon and Kaido having a "beam battle" that's taken straight out of DBZ, like sound effects and all. I realized that it's supposed to be Kinemon cutting Kaido's Boro Breath, but this shit looks so ridiculous that it's hilarious. If I didn't know better I would think it's an One Piece parody of Harry Potter spell battles.

So, wtf are Toei doing and is there any info whether the audience likes these kinds of "DBZesque" action sequences in One Piece? I guess they do otherwise they wouldn't continue doing it, and Japanese audiences are weird (to me) in general.

Do your worst!

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Holy shit the ending. It kind of reminded me of the end of Harry Potter, and how there was the big dream sequence where we get a bunch of plot twist story stuff dumped on our heads. Overall the ending was really good. Although, I feel empty inside. I felt the same thing when I finished Stranger Things and I can't pin what the feeling is, but it means that the writers did a great job with the story. I tried to play The Outer Worlds afterwards, and I just couldn't get into the game. The jokes didn't hit the same and none of the stuff that is normally amusing simply wasn't, and I'm pretty sure it's because of how serious and emotional the ending to re8 was. Over excellent game 8/10 still like the re2 remake better.

Also love how even in the third person cutscenes, capcom still manages to hide ethans face from us.

Edit: Forgot to say this, but i don't really understand the rose is eveline thing, which i kinda what drives the game. I got too caught up with ethan being molded and all.

What's the funniest chapter in Harry Potter for you?

Mine's the chapter "A Very Secret Diary" from Chamber of Secrets.

The entire Valentine's Day sequence is completely hilarious, from Lockhart decorating the Great Hall with heart-shaped confetti and embarrassing the other professors, Hermione sending a valentine to Lockhart (and Ron getting annoyed at that), the dwarves delivering singing valentines and disrupting classes, and of course, the classic valentine Harry gets.

Another chapter I love is "Grawp" from Order of the Phoenix.

I really love it when everyone at Hogwarts rebels against Umbridge. The best scene for me has to be McGonagall telling Peeves the chandelier unscrews the other way.