~The Priory of
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~The Priory of the Orange Tree~
Hello, sorry it took me so long to make this! I'm pretty behind on CB stuff rn... but anyways! Priory of the Orange Tree!! Yayy!! :DD
***WARNING: SPOILERS TO COME***
First things first Ig, favorite characters? Little worldbuilding details? Quotes? Other things I'm too tired to think of rn bc it's 10:28 and I'm tired (I already said this didn't I) but I'm trying to do this tonight anyways bc it's the last day before midterms start and things Officially Get Busy and eek I'm so excited for this!! :DD? (question mark bc this was originally a question before I went on tangents btw) Any complaints/questions/observations? Did you want to talk about something specific? (I'll post my answers later)
btw you don't have to read all the rest of this post (except maybe the very end paragraph) if you don't want to/are too busy, don't ask why I'm including it all anyway :/
It took me sooo ridiculously longgg to finish Priory and I must confess, the only reason I got to doing so before the library due date (well, the renewed due date) is because of my dance concerts. And before you ask, yes, I do find it necessary to tell you all the following paragraphs, because [totally make-sensy reason here]. Did I mention I'm tired? Haha usually night times are my productive times but idk
Basically I joined a dance group at school and so we had two performances in November + one dress rehearsal which was literally us running through the whole performance 2 times (also in November). There are 20 acts/dances in total. So the whole dress rehearsal took 4 hours, with performances being like 2 hours. I'm only in 1 dance that lasts for a few minutes + final bows that lasts for a few minutes + blech social life that lasts for hopefully not my whole life which means like 1-3+ hours of mostly uninterrupted reading time down in the (oh-my-super-so-awesome-the-kind-you-only-read-about-in-books) basement under the stage!! x3!! Which means finishing Priory before having to disappoint librarians! Yayy!! :D
The only downside was that I was finishing the book up so basically a lot of people were dying (well, I mean I thought they had died, which is almost the same thing in the moment) and big dramatic sad stuff was happening and Igrain Crest was getting her head chopped off as really loud bouncy happy peppy music was being blasted over the speakers bc why did so many of the dances have bouncy happy peppy music again?!??? I'm trying to mourn some of my favorite characters almost-dying here! Hello! But oh well it's fine I'm used to it :)
Also I was sitting on the floor next to a trash can (I wonder if this has something to do with my blech social life? :) ) so once someone dumped their trash on me... which I'm fine with it's my fault choosing to sit where I sat but it's kinda like, NOOO!!! EADDDD!!! WHYYYY?!????? Oh hey there's suddenly a candy wrapper on me. BUT EADDDD!!! :)
As you can see, I was pretty devastated when I thought Ead had died cuz she's like my favorite character... I literally burst into tears on multiple occasions and literally no one noticed, everyone around me just kept on doing their makeup and stuff like EAD DIDN'T JUST GET SHOT WITH A POISON DART BY HER OWN SISTER!! BETRAYED! NO! XD Not to mention everything else...
I was still devastated when they call came that it was my turn to go up on stage and perform for the audience so like my whole performance my body's doing the movements but my mind's just EADDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!! Almost messed up cuz I was so distracted XD
anyways sorry enough rambling about myself, Priory! Yay! :D
(also I thought I'd put the thread on BaB because I'm gonna be absent for like 2 weeks soon + if you're gonna be busy; currently I think BaB is kinda sorta the most inactive place here so it's less likely to get pushed to the bottom if one of us is too busy to respond; I'm fine with moving it too though if you want (though sorry admins if so cuz extra work...)
(December 14, 2023 - 2:19 am)
And I love the little unemotional smirks the Dinos get too!!
(January 8, 2024 - 11:20 pm)
Thank you so so so much @Hex I love you so much /p (for clarification) just finished Ch5 of HPMoR and now I'm cracking up instead of crying and though it's still about to be 2:00 this is so much better thank you for making me read this book and for recommending it and just thank you in general for being an awesome person and yeah I'm feeling pretty emotional/complimenty right now but this has always been true even before this sorry if it sounds weird
(also Ik it sorta sounds like I'm slightly crazy maybe rn.. sorry, maybe please just ignore that edge??)
Feiya says OYDBF. Old best friend? Thanks Feiya... :)
(January 9, 2024 - 4:56 am)
Haha, I just got an email from my mom... sent at 12:35am. Glad to know this is her productive time too! :)
(January 9, 2024 - 6:47 am)
And welp guess the whole household is awake I can hear my brother coughing and my mom and dad are still moving around... we're all pretty much nocturnal, and we have to be diurnal, soo.. wait, when do we sleep again? Bc I've totally given up on sleep now. I'm supposed to wake up in 2 hours anyway. Off to do math homework!
andd a door just closed somewhere nearby..
(January 9, 2024 - 7:31 am)
um did I say unemotional? I meant emotionless... :/
but seriously!! The Dino comics!! I've switched to reading them now and eek they really are so cute and sweet and funny and relatable ("do you want to dance with me?" "no." "do you want to stand awkwardly in the corner with me?" "now you're speaking my language.") and true and hopeful and I love them sooo much <333 and all the characters too!! And jessica XDD ("sometimes I worry I'm too cool...") And then the little dino with the floppy ears or whatever, so cute how when they're happy the flaps go up!!
ok. Now actually math... and sorry I'm commenting every like 30 minutes or so. It's making this more bearable. Can't believe I'm gonna go to school today too...
(January 9, 2024 - 8:15 am)
My back is sore from crouching on the bathroom floor but... hey! At least one less thing to worry about! Math homework... check! And now gonna go try to take a quick power nap in the 30 minutes I have left before I'm supposed to wake up bc I just realized... after school today THEN I have soccer practice... then tennis practice... and homework... ughh
Oh, but forgot to say. Happy National Word Nerd Day!! :DD you can see random thoughts & things I got there 12am to say it, forgot to do it here too :/
(January 9, 2024 - 9:01 am)
and now I see the results of my nighttime rampage... sorry...
Also I forgot to bring my math hw to school today to turn in so there goes that. Sorry not responding to the rest, just popping in to say...
- Forgot if I've already brought this up but if not I've been meaning to ask... have you read I Am the Messenger yet? It's SO GOOD and I think you would like it?? But then I'm honestly not a great judge on who likes what books bc I tend to think that everyone loves all the books I do... which is quite a lot of books... if that makes sense? It is a bit inappropriate too... but love it so so much (originally heard of it from Artemis I think, who loves it too) it's genius and so clever and sort of puzzley too and just SO unique and the whole thing's just... woah.
- Allie Brosh, the Alot... if you don't already know about this, please look it up?
- do you know/like the Daily Farside
(January 9, 2024 - 7:41 pm)
gosh you had a posting explosion XD I think it's cool you manage to do that lol (and it's fun to read) but uhhh sleepppp (and ik I'm a total hypocrite about that but we don't need to talk about my horrible sleep schedule again, I've already had multiple "take care of yourself" lectures today)
every time you say something like "I see what you're saying" I never remember what I said you're replying to and I'm to lazy to scroll up like half a page so that's going to be forever shrouded in mystery to me~
ok but have you ever gotten rickrolled by someone's calculator :0 I was at a sleepaway math camp thingy and someone came up to me :/ that was something I never thought would happen...
yeah dino comics are amazing! They're slightly depressing and deal with serious topics but in such a cynical and hilariously funny way that somehow works really well with whatever twisted sense of humor I have. (Jessica is awesome yes seriously where do I get sunglasses like that) I have the books, I haven't really read them online but I think they're pretty much the same content. (have you noticed that some of the dinos are pride flags? I think there's a lesbian one and a regular rainbow one and maybe an enby one?)
and tysm for all that (for clarification the post after Ch. 5 lol) I had a rough day but that made it slightly better <33
it's impressive that your entire house is still awake at three am?? I have to sneak my computer into my room (horrible life choices ikkkk) after like 10:30 so whenever I stay up I'm either having a horrible day and need distraction or am reading or both lol
ummmm seriously back to the take care of yourself part of the post ok you need to do good stuff like that yay we love my pep talks
I've never heard of I am the Messenger.
XD THE ALOT IS AMAZING (I hate to admit that I used to spell it "alot" back in first grade... I remember being shocked to find that it's actually two words) and the Daily Farside is pretty great too!
(January 11, 2024 - 1:54 am)
...well, I tried?
The "H" is probably copyrighted but oh well. And I was already up late and on the screen btw and yes I love your pep talks and yup byee! G'night! :) And happy MLK Day thanks the-Google-doodle for reminding me! :)
Feiya said WUHTE... like "what"? But... fancier??
(January 15, 2024 - 3:46 am)
!! XD DID YOU JUST DRAW ME BRANDON SANDERSON SOCKS—
WAIT I LOVE THESE SO MUCH YOU'RE AMAZING
seriously thank you that basically made my entire week ;D
(also I saw you started The House on the Cerulean Sea recently? lmk when you're done, I loved that book!)
(January 15, 2024 - 11:01 pm)
What?? Has it already been a week and 3 days?? We're in two-digit numbers!! Not good!
but hello! Sorry for my absence from this thread, I've been pretty busy with school and scouts and sports and wait why do all these things start with an "s"? Oh yeahh, and sleep (another "s")... uhhuh... totally... um. Ok, ok. I mean, in my defense! I've been going to sleep early, ok? So yay! And so what if it's only to wake up at 5:00am (well, 3:30 today, but that was only cuz my body woke up at that time naturally (my body seems to have some sort of internal alarm, which is awesome, I just have to tell it the time I want to wake up and it does all the rest!)) in order to go do homework? But seriously. Would you rather:
a. Get enough sleep! But also fail school and have everyone disappointed in you and feel really bad all the time :( ok maybe not that dramatic but still
b. Get some decent hours of sleep! As in, stay up late doing homework and get your parents stressed out bc they want you to grow bc apparently you're kinda short and you need sleep to do that but you're not getting it and them getting stressed makes you get stressed and it's Not Fun. But at least you can finish homework (well, as much as you can finish before they make you go to bed) and get some sleep! :/
c. Get little to no sleep but finish your homework (ok, except that this morning one math problem is giving me a whole ton of trouble, but usually I can finish everything) bc you can control how much time you have and it's just you and the house and your parents don't know you're up (ok idk what kind of a daughter this makes me but at least it doesn't stress them out when I do this even if it's dishonest) and you don't feel stressed at all! You feel energized and happy and productive! Yay! But also sleep is important and you may or may not regret it later (usually you don't though) :)
but anyways. Ok and now I'm too lazy to go see what I was saying whenever I said the "I see what you're saying" so Ig that'll forever be shrouded in mystery for the both of us... but I'll try to reference things more, sorry, it's an ongoing problem I have irl, I'll just randomly like quote things out of nowhere and my dad's always like "we don't understand your esoteric references!" and my mom's like "you and your books... :)" and my brother's like "you know, someday, when I'm old and forgetting things, I feel like I'm going to always forget my phone number because my brain's just going to be filled with random facts like what a cassowary is because of you :/" :DD my poor brother though. :/ yeah I don't feel sorry though. Cassowaries are important to know about!! What would you do if one attacks you and you didn't even know it existed?? "wary" is literally in its name!!
trademark tangent: my brother basically knows all the lyrics to the hundred million songs I sing every day and all my random fun facts and all these eekkkk animals (viscachas and quokkas and numbats and quolls and cassowaries and-) and a bunch of my book/TV show/movie/random (e.g. the radio my grandpa likes to listen to. I soak in like everything the ppl say and report it back when I see fit. Which somehow is never the right time?) references I make, so yay for him! I mean, I think... anyways, there was no point to this tangent! Um yeah! :)
um sorry wait. How do you get rickrolled by... a calculator??? I mean, is it like... can that even... please elaborate that sounds awesome???
Yess!! And no way, you have the books?? :D I only have the Allie Brosh books (remember the Alot? Yup) which is basically dino comics but the humans are depressed (ok, just Allie is, but she's also super funny) and more bad words, and longer, so yeah I totally recommend them whenever you have time (most of the ones in the books are webcomics too btw). And yess I noticed (how the dinos are the colors of pride flags)!! At first I wasn't sure if it was just me looking too much into things or if it was actually possibly true, but yess!! Which is so awesome, like, just, awesome. :D
hmm I should probably go get changed for soccer and get ready for school now... I don't think my parents are up yet somehow?? So I should go wake them and my brother- WAIT. Doesn't my brother have... if he doesn't... ACK GOTTA GO WAKE THEM I THINK MY BROTHER MISSED HIS THING AND I'M JUST SITTING HERE TYPING CASUALLY BYE-
(oh but yup House in the Cerulean!! Soo good so far!! I'm on p200 something, so I'll let you know when I'm finished! And btw idk if I already said but I put Way of Kings on hold (it's checked out right now) so I'll let you know when I get/finish that too!)
(oh nvm my parents are up k that's fun bye!)
(and also I just remembered my brother's school isn't as far away as my school bc remember Celine you go to a private school now??? (*cries for no reason I'm so lucky nope not crying*) so not everyone has to wake up like 2 hours before class starts in order to get to school on time your brother's fine your parents know what they're doing duh that one time the whole house overslept doesn't count)
ok um I'm lecturing myself now bye! fr :)
Feiya says MRVYR??
(January 26, 2024 - 9:59 am)
Thank unions it’s finally the weekend!! I can finally finish work efficiently without getting buried again immediately after! Yay! :) ok well only sorta bc I had cub scouts today and did not, in fact, finish work, but that's besides the point!
just popping in cause I saw your post on the recommendations and remembered I've been meaning to ask if you've ever read the York trilogy? It's scifi and.. more MG than YA Ig, but it's superrr good I think! I read it last year for book battles and wasn't sure if I would like it but I remember loving it (and I mean the ending of the trilogy?? Was just so?? I mean?? o_O). I totally recommend!
Feiya said NPYXU... no problem! Why ex you??
(January 28, 2024 - 2:58 am)
Ack sorry for so many posts, but we finally got The Way of Kings today (I asked abt 2 months ago, and it was checked out), and it's already so good!! Thank you!! That, like, 3rd paragraph (about how Kalak was dead oh so casually) threw me off for a moment :) And An (yes I'm saying An and R everywhere here aren't I? eVeRyWhErE) said she really liked the first few books of Skyward (but she also said she didn't like the later books as much??) which is pretty cool, cause I was thinking of reading that too (saw some quotes over on the book quote thread that I liked :) ). Anyways, thanks!
Feiya said HAUFE
(January 31, 2024 - 6:38 pm)
anywaysss- forgot to attach. These are my only interesting socks, but I love them :)
the picture's probably gonna come out all weird oh well
(January 31, 2024 - 6:55 pm)
two-digit numbers are hard to count to sometimes... and don't even get me started on three digit ones...
I'd lecture you about healthy sleep habits, except I'm currently typing this at around 1 a.m., so I think my point'd be a bit lost. Still! Sleep! Sleep is good! I made one of my friends a presentation on why she needed to sleep more and why that'd give her more time to do things she wanted to do (it included numerous calculations including estimated date of death, amount of football fields of Dante's Inferno [laid out in a tessalation] she could read, number of hours she could spend hugging a Blahaj, and how much stress this would cause on a hypothetical thirty year old man named Jeff, who is me for the sake of the argument). It was glorious~
...I appreciate your logic; however, I think you could probably sleep and not fail school or stress parents out as much? actually I don't have any advice lol that sounds annoying
cassowaries are pretty cool (and no I didn't have to look that up, are you proud) although I did have to Google what a viscacha is
I don't even know how it happened?? It was a super fancy graphing calculator that I guess you could load images/videos/gifs/whatever it was on somehow? I'm not sure lol
ok, I'll check out Allie's stuff! They were pretty cool. Have you ever heard of Part Time Dragons? More online comics, pretty funny and not as depressing for a change
I play soccer too, although you probably maybe somehow knew that? I knew you did but I don't think we've ever talked about that but uhh what position do you play?
MRVYR is obviously the sound a washing machine makes when it has a stomachache. am I wrong??
wait imagine having time on the weekend— ahahahaaaaa nooope couldn't be me I'm fine not stressed or doing badly or anything whaaaat haha
I think I read the first book in the York trilogy a few years ago but wasn't hooked enough for the others. All I remember was that the covers are super cool! I've also ofc read Ender's Game (from your post on the book rec thingy), as well as the second and the third in the series and Ender's Shadow (the one from Bean's perspective). The second and third were super weird—basically Ender goes to another planet and raises pigs and then the third one introduces another world with genetically induced hyperintelligence and OCD and then the stories intersect (ok that's a total oversimplification and sounds really weird but it also kind of makes sense if you read the books I swear)
It's cool you're reading Way of Kings! I originally got recommended it by a teacher who told me there was a line (I think somewhere in the 1100s pages) that made him cry every time he read it. I didn't have any emotional attachment to it but let me know if you notice something specific there, I'm curious. It's a really good book in terms of worldbuilding but say goodbye to all your reading drive and free time (what minimal inventory you currently have) and ofc! anytime you want more book recs lmk :DD
HAUFE is the sound of a tired baby dragon who just ran a marathon and is now curled up in a little ball on their small hoard of gold-covered chocolate coins for a nap :) don't disturb them
NICE SOCKS LOL maybe I'll post a picture of some of my cool ones if I remember
also if you like HPMOR, I'd recommend UNSONG by Scott Alexander. It gives similar vibes and is similarly wacky (maybe even more) but it's also a religious satire of kabbalistic Judaism (America monetizes names of God, Henry Kissinger enlists he-double-hockey-sticks to help fight the Soviet Union, the Archangel Uriel struggles to restart New Zealand from a backup copy to fix continental drift, etc), so it's kind of a niche thing to enjoy and if that's not for you (idk if you're religious or anything too). Seriously though, it's ridiculous and a guaranteed waste of time :)
Nox says {czdyv}
(February 1, 2024 - 4:00 am)