Reflective Rambling / Nalana / Cassie
@reflectiverambling.bsky.social
Your fandom Auntie. Hobbyist prone to fanatical ranting over various things primarily of the fictional kind. Book, Tea, Puppy addict, She/Her💜🤍🖤
#fanart ~*~ #saplingnote (RoP-based OCs/ AU) ~*~ #fanfic ~*~ #books ~*~ #booksky ~*~ #netgalley ~*~
#fanart ~*~ #saplingnote (RoP-based OCs/ AU) ~*~ #fanfic ~*~ #books ~*~ #booksky ~*~ #netgalley ~*~
You know there seems to be a pattern in this series of age gap attractions or all out relationships...and I wish I was more bothered by that given conventional gender dynamics in that regard... But I've been eating them up. 😶
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 AM
You know there seems to be a pattern in this series of age gap attractions or all out relationships...and I wish I was more bothered by that given conventional gender dynamics in that regard... But I've been eating them up. 😶
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Books have a magical way of illuminating truths we often overlook. Each page turns into a refuge, inviting us to explore identities, beliefs, and dreams. Let’s cherish this journey together! #booksky #books
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Books have a magical way of illuminating truths we often overlook. Each page turns into a refuge, inviting us to explore identities, beliefs, and dreams. Let’s cherish this journey together! #booksky #books
November 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Analog Sun - 3/5
A modern parable about the healing of nature and the step away from technology
#netgalley #myth #naturefiction #bookreview #novella #shortfiction #booksky
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A modern parable about the healing of nature and the step away from technology
#netgalley #myth #naturefiction #bookreview #novella #shortfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1eec...
Cassie's review of Analog Sun
3/5: Taking a detour from his brother's itinerary after their father's death, Adam finds himself crashing from his high, mugged, and discarded. No one could be more shocked than him when he finds hims...
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November 20, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Analog Sun - 3/5
A modern parable about the healing of nature and the step away from technology
#netgalley #myth #naturefiction #bookreview #novella #shortfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1eec...
A modern parable about the healing of nature and the step away from technology
#netgalley #myth #naturefiction #bookreview #novella #shortfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/1eec...
This. And props for anytime little 'glazed over' factors are brought forward.
I was writing a sentence about Agamemnon returning home from Troy laden with booty, when I remembered that he has brought Cassandra with him as a slave. Booty indeed, I thought. Then it occurred to me how well Cassandra' story describes what victims of rape go through. No one believes her.
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This. And props for anytime little 'glazed over' factors are brought forward.
With the second installment on the doorstep this is your reminder.
IF YOU HAVE A CHILD WHO LOVES #WICKED -/make sure/ if you buy them a book it's a FILM adaptation. The original has completely different tone.Very mature content. If you would not let your child watch and R rated film alone,skip it.
IF YOU HAVE A CHILD WHO LOVES #WICKED -/make sure/ if you buy them a book it's a FILM adaptation. The original has completely different tone.Very mature content. If you would not let your child watch and R rated film alone,skip it.
November 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
With the second installment on the doorstep this is your reminder.
IF YOU HAVE A CHILD WHO LOVES #WICKED -/make sure/ if you buy them a book it's a FILM adaptation. The original has completely different tone.Very mature content. If you would not let your child watch and R rated film alone,skip it.
IF YOU HAVE A CHILD WHO LOVES #WICKED -/make sure/ if you buy them a book it's a FILM adaptation. The original has completely different tone.Very mature content. If you would not let your child watch and R rated film alone,skip it.
The Definitions - 4.25/5
When memories and words are lost, how do you determine who you are, what is normal, what is right? #scifi for the #literary reader
#netgalley #booksky #dystopia #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fb7a...
When memories and words are lost, how do you determine who you are, what is normal, what is right? #scifi for the #literary reader
#netgalley #booksky #dystopia #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fb7a...
Cassie's review of The Definitions
4/5: 4.25 /5 In a nameless seaside location, an unmarked time, in a nondescript institution led by a group of an unaffiliated organization, people whose memories have vanished are sent to be rehabil...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
The Definitions - 4.25/5
When memories and words are lost, how do you determine who you are, what is normal, what is right? #scifi for the #literary reader
#netgalley #booksky #dystopia #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fb7a...
When memories and words are lost, how do you determine who you are, what is normal, what is right? #scifi for the #literary reader
#netgalley #booksky #dystopia #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/fb7a...
In case anyone was curious. Looking through health insurance plans w/o subsidies...current plan's monthly payment would go up 3.5times. Plans that have a similar monthly? Out of pocket?10-12 times.
I've no dependents, spouse, or major health issues. No Dental or Eye.
Thanks, senators and rep.
🙃
I've no dependents, spouse, or major health issues. No Dental or Eye.
Thanks, senators and rep.
🙃
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
In case anyone was curious. Looking through health insurance plans w/o subsidies...current plan's monthly payment would go up 3.5times. Plans that have a similar monthly? Out of pocket?10-12 times.
I've no dependents, spouse, or major health issues. No Dental or Eye.
Thanks, senators and rep.
🙃
I've no dependents, spouse, or major health issues. No Dental or Eye.
Thanks, senators and rep.
🙃
YEEEEEEEEEEESSS... Nontraditional family structures, adopted fathers, and non-father father figures all day every day.
#TolkienTrewsday Week 143: Fathers and Sons
Even though they’re cousins and Frodo calls him “uncle,” I always liked seeing Bilbo as Frodo’s adoptive father.
He loved and cared for him, and even helped prepare him for his grand quest.
(This illustration was originally for Hobbit Day 2024.)
Even though they’re cousins and Frodo calls him “uncle,” I always liked seeing Bilbo as Frodo’s adoptive father.
He loved and cared for him, and even helped prepare him for his grand quest.
(This illustration was originally for Hobbit Day 2024.)
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
YEEEEEEEEEEESSS... Nontraditional family structures, adopted fathers, and non-father father figures all day every day.
Racial Fictions - 4.5 /5
Essays exploring racial dynamics of history, politics, academia, publishing, social interaction, and even performance
#netgalley #essays #race #nonfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d51e...
Essays exploring racial dynamics of history, politics, academia, publishing, social interaction, and even performance
#netgalley #essays #race #nonfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d51e...
Cassie's review of Racial Fictions
5/5: While race is at the core of each essay, this collection is strikingly eclectic in the assorted angles and questions that revolve around that center. Traversing social interaction, politics, hist...
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November 18, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Racial Fictions - 4.5 /5
Essays exploring racial dynamics of history, politics, academia, publishing, social interaction, and even performance
#netgalley #essays #race #nonfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d51e...
Essays exploring racial dynamics of history, politics, academia, publishing, social interaction, and even performance
#netgalley #essays #race #nonfiction #booksky
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d51e...
...a woman I casually know just told me she named her new dog after me because "I really like the name and I wanted to name her after someone who is truly a good person"
I don't even know her that well
I have no words
I don't even know her that well
I have no words
a girl with blue hair is crying with the words " these are tears of joy so it 's okay " below her
ALT: a girl with blue hair is crying with the words " these are tears of joy so it 's okay " below her
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November 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
...a woman I casually know just told me she named her new dog after me because "I really like the name and I wanted to name her after someone who is truly a good person"
I don't even know her that well
I have no words
I don't even know her that well
I have no words
....you don't want to know how many digital bookmarks for notes later I have
Starting work week(end) with this upcoming work thanks to #netgalley
#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
....you don't want to know how many digital bookmarks for notes later I have
Starting work week(end) with this upcoming work thanks to #netgalley
#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
November 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Starting work week(end) with this upcoming work thanks to #netgalley
#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
#booksky #nonfiction #essay #racism #politics #history #contemporaryfiction
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Shop update, print sale, and commissions! (Free-for-all post)
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November 15, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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Just caught up to episode six of Hazbin Hotel. I am -not- okay with what they're doing to Angel. Not okay at ALL.
a close up of a cartoon character with white hair
ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with white hair
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November 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Just caught up to episode six of Hazbin Hotel. I am -not- okay with what they're doing to Angel. Not okay at ALL.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Within Our Seams Update Act II: The Fissure
Vaelah faces her greatest challenge as a healer in training yet with danger still breathing down necks.
archiveofourown.org/works/443638...
#fanfic #ringsofpower #bronwyn #arondir #theo #ocs #saplingnote #rop
Vaelah faces her greatest challenge as a healer in training yet with danger still breathing down necks.
archiveofourown.org/works/443638...
#fanfic #ringsofpower #bronwyn #arondir #theo #ocs #saplingnote #rop
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Within Our Seams Update Act II: The Fissure
Vaelah faces her greatest challenge as a healer in training yet with danger still breathing down necks.
archiveofourown.org/works/443638...
#fanfic #ringsofpower #bronwyn #arondir #theo #ocs #saplingnote #rop
Vaelah faces her greatest challenge as a healer in training yet with danger still breathing down necks.
archiveofourown.org/works/443638...
#fanfic #ringsofpower #bronwyn #arondir #theo #ocs #saplingnote #rop
Self Portrait - 4 / 5
#comingofage novel that is about all of the factors that are folded in identity as seen through a teen's struggle to draw themselves.
#translated #queer #booksky #netgalley #ya
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d647...
#comingofage novel that is about all of the factors that are folded in identity as seen through a teen's struggle to draw themselves.
#translated #queer #booksky #netgalley #ya
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d647...
Cassie's review of Self Portrait
4/5: Jip is stuck. They shouldn't be. They're good at art. They like art! I mean, really, shouldn't their teacher appreciate the creative suggestions to the assignment they've already passed in? Why t...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Self Portrait - 4 / 5
#comingofage novel that is about all of the factors that are folded in identity as seen through a teen's struggle to draw themselves.
#translated #queer #booksky #netgalley #ya
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d647...
#comingofage novel that is about all of the factors that are folded in identity as seen through a teen's struggle to draw themselves.
#translated #queer #booksky #netgalley #ya
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/d647...
My personal letter to @senangusking.bsky.social . I urge others who feel similarly to also write, call, and tag to let his office know where you stand.
I would prefer socials to be more of a haven from politics, but silence is also complicity.
I would prefer socials to be more of a haven from politics, but silence is also complicity.
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
My personal letter to @senangusking.bsky.social . I urge others who feel similarly to also write, call, and tag to let his office know where you stand.
I would prefer socials to be more of a haven from politics, but silence is also complicity.
I would prefer socials to be more of a haven from politics, but silence is also complicity.
No. No thank you, Morpheus. I would NOT LIKE to wake up from a dream where I'm about to be 🔪 only to immediately start to nod back off into that same scene -where it left off-
a man is holding a cat in his arms
ALT: a man is holding a cat in his arms
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November 11, 2025 at 8:39 AM
No. No thank you, Morpheus. I would NOT LIKE to wake up from a dream where I'm about to be 🔪 only to immediately start to nod back off into that same scene -where it left off-
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - 4.25/5
Dark, Informative, narrative that highlights horrors of real life by mixing them with the fantastical
#booksky #bookreview #wwi #historicalfiction #fantasy #war #ptsd
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
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Dark, Informative, narrative that highlights horrors of real life by mixing them with the fantastical
#booksky #bookreview #wwi #historicalfiction #fantasy #war #ptsd
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a079...
Cassie's review of The Warm Hands of Ghosts
4/5: Laura thought she had left the war front behind when an accident sent her home to Halifax. Instead, the healing nurse is left with new horrors of her parents' deaths when tragedy visits the docks...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Warm Hands of Ghosts - 4.25/5
Dark, Informative, narrative that highlights horrors of real life by mixing them with the fantastical
#booksky #bookreview #wwi #historicalfiction #fantasy #war #ptsd
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a079...
Dark, Informative, narrative that highlights horrors of real life by mixing them with the fantastical
#booksky #bookreview #wwi #historicalfiction #fantasy #war #ptsd
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/a079...
Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd - 4/5
"Bloody Hell and an order of TimBits!" what a fun lil' romp with an unexpected #Maine connection
#scifi #historical #lgbt #indigenous #booksky #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c855...
"Bloody Hell and an order of TimBits!" what a fun lil' romp with an unexpected #Maine connection
#scifi #historical #lgbt #indigenous #booksky #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c855...
Review by reflectiverambling_nalana - Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd.
After the loss of her family, Wilda gave up being a time agent to start her own company. Creat...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Time Tourist Outfitters, Ltd - 4/5
"Bloody Hell and an order of TimBits!" what a fun lil' romp with an unexpected #Maine connection
#scifi #historical #lgbt #indigenous #booksky #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c855...
"Bloody Hell and an order of TimBits!" what a fun lil' romp with an unexpected #Maine connection
#scifi #historical #lgbt #indigenous #booksky #bookreview
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/c855...
Finally getting around to this darling ahead of Veteran's/ Remembrance Day #booksky #historicalfiction
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Finally getting around to this darling ahead of Veteran's/ Remembrance Day #booksky #historicalfiction