Sylvartas

Yes. I don't have kids though. Also I work in games so I can persuade myself that I'm doing market research or whatever

It follows. Go for a little roadtrip, ez 3 billions.

RIP

It's alright but it's definitely got more popular than literally all the other coming of age teen fictions through sheer luck. And I read a lot of these as a kid so I know what I'm talking about.

I've also heard that she was immensely helped by translation because when her shit was translated she was already starting to get famous, so the publishers contracted their best, and apparently the originals are a lot less "well written" than e.g the french version. I personally never bothered to check because I have more interesting things to read.
Fun fact about this one : when my librarian mom brought the first volume of Harry Potter home, I remember she told me that it must be good because she had never heard of the author (and she was specoalized in kids literature so she knew a thing or two about children and teens book authors) but she knew the translator

JK Rowling:

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Proceeds to fund fascists

Ursula K. Le Guin :

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.

(Apparently frequently misattributed to Tolkien. I love his writings but the man was not nearly as based as Ursula Le Guin)

I know this has energy, but I did try to look for a Rowling quote that wasn't some uninspired one-liner that she unconsciously copied from some Disney movie

Isn't that the subs that France would have already delivered years ago for a fraction of the price, had Australia not cancelled the contract to order American subs that everyone told them would be late and over budget ?

I do it all the time. The deeper the gameplay (and the more I like it), the higher the chances that I won't finish it

Fucking immigrants from third world countries taking our jobs /s

As far as I know they can all act as a bootleg external wifi adapter though (via USB sharing)

Definitely supreme commander

Yeah and I won't stop eating this delicious chocolate until my cat starts speaking German. See, we can all make insane demands to keep doing something.

I'm gonna save this for the next time I encounter someone who can't wrap their head around the idea that dogs likely self-domesticated