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ysabetwordsmith ([personal profile] ysabetwordsmith) wrote in [community profile] followfriday2025-07-18 12:25 am
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Follow Friday 7-18-25

Got any Follow Friday-related posts to share this week? Comment here with the link(s).

Here's the plan: every Friday, let's recommend some people and/or communities to follow on Dreamwidth. That's it. No complicated rules, no "pass this on to 7.328 friends or your cat will die".

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-07-17 06:59 pm

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 4 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers for the earlier books.

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fennectik ([personal profile] fennectik) wrote in [community profile] gaming2025-07-16 09:02 pm

Digimon World 3

One regret I have about this game is that I sold it some years ago and realized what a huge mistake that was. The game is charming and it felt pretty nostalgic playing it on my PS1 long ago.

Not sure what compelled me to sell it. When I browse at how much it costs the lowest is almost 100 dollars nowadays.

If anything, I might buy it yet again to add it back to my collection. For now I will just dwell on memories of fascination and regret.

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-07-16 05:27 pm

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 3

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 3 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers for the earlier books ahead.

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rocky41_7 ([personal profile] rocky41_7) wrote in [community profile] books2025-07-15 05:35 pm

Recent Reading: The Once and Future Witches

On Monday I finished The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow, about a trio of sisters in the American city of "New Salem" in Massachusetts in 1893 who take it upon themselves to revive witches' magic.
 
The Once and Future Witches dovetails historically with the movement for women's suffrage, creating some parallels between seeking the right to the vote and seeking the right to practice magic. I would have liked to have seen this carried more through the latter half of the novel, but I suppose I can see why it wasn't, particularly given it would be another nearly thirty years before the passage of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote. The suffragettes played a long game. 
 
The core focus of the novel is sisterhood, both blood and otherwise. Harrow presents a beautifully wounded and layered portrait of siblinghood in the relationship between the three protagonists: Bella, the oldest; Agnes, the middle child; and Juniper, the youngest. Raised without a mother (she passed birthing Juniper) under the thumb of their abusive and alcoholic father in rural poverty, all three girls learned early on what they would do to ensure their own survival. And while there is great love between them, there is also great hurt, and by the start of the book, the three are not on speaking terms. Harrow did a great job with the complexity here, and watching their relationships develop and begin to heal was very enjoyable. 
 
 

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-07-14 06:39 pm

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 2 by Kanehito Yamada

Spoilers ahead for the first volume.

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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote in [community profile] books2025-07-13 01:26 pm

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 1 by Kanehito Yamada

Prologue: the hero and his companions -- one the elf Frieren -- are honored for the defeat and death of the Demon King. They watch a meteor shower and Frieren speaks of seeing it in a better place to view, in 50 years.

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