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This is just a disorganized ramble on some of the hockey discourse going on. I keep seeing people talk like hockey players aren't responsible for their actions because they all come from 'the same system' and 'have no education'. And that's just bullshit. All this 'they are all the same' stuff is weirdly doomer, but also not true.

I also hate all the 'that's just what hockey is' shit.

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The little nerd show was good. Never really busy, but steady-ish. Mostly a Pokemon/card-heavy group, didn't move any of my animanga stuff, but sold a few TFs and some random other things. Sold video games, and at the end another vendor offered me half of what I had marked on my 'expensive' PS1 games which was still way more than double? triple? what I'd paid and I said "sure!" because, like, they are out of my sale box and I have cash in hand. Next show is in April and I suppose I'll be best served by picking out more games that I'm never going to play. (Also the vendor beside us kept coming over and looking at a couple of random PSP games but said he hadn't done well enough to justify buying them. He had Pokemon plushies and I said I'd trade for a couple of cool critters. I got a Pikachu and some sort of mushroom with tentacles that made me laugh.)

It's March, so I have communities to do things with and promote in general... I have a lot of stuff to do in general. While it is still chilly at the moment, the end of the week is supposed to be impressively warm and I will be able to hopefully do a quick garage-clean. Yay!

I suppose this week, if it's as quiet as it's looking like it might be, I can work on my Redacted III contest entry. That should be easy-ish to do? Hopefully? Just need to find momentum...

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That if I am walking around without my camera I'll come across things like this:

At least I know the route for my next photo walk. I was out on an unsuccessful book errand, that I will probably talk about in another post when I get around to making it

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The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

Blurb:

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world.

Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light.

The House in the Cerulean Sea is an enchanting love story, masterfully told, about the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.

I had high expectations for this book based on my love of In the Lives of Puppets which I read last year and was in my top 10 of books for 2025. However, this book didn't hook me in emotionally. I found it too juvenile, and the conflict was resolved too easily and too unbelievably. It was published earlier so the author's writing may have matured by the time of In the Lives of Puppets. Some of the themes and style choices from the first book show up in the later book, but they are reeled in, making them a cute addition instead being overwhelmingly sweet.

Things I loved though - the description of the island, the town, the house, the gardens. Zoe, the forest sprite. Linus was incredibly naive for a middle-aged man, but also unfailingly kind. I appreciate that.

I absolutely love the cover art.

As far as the author blurb bingo square, this one was really difficult for me because most all of my favorite authors are dead. But Charlaine Harris blurbed this one, and I did really like the True Blood books back in the day.

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