I’m currently reading Hamnet. I’m enjoying the book so far. There’s some small stuff I don’t like but overall it’s quite good.

Very cute and adorable!

I’m currently reading Beyond Bananas and Condoms by Dee Whitnell. It’s an inclusive sex education book that has a focus on the LGBTQ+ community. So far I think it’s very well done.

I’m currently reading The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang. It’s Joan of Arc meets Pacific Rim but done really well. I have about 130 pages left before I finish.

I understand what you mean. I think it would have been nice to have something unique like not all sith are pure evil or not all Jedi are good.

I know some of the other shows portray this concept to varying degrees.

That’s understandable. I’m glad you gave it a second try.

I’m currently reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El- Mohtar & Max Gladstone.

I really love it and it feels like I’m reading poetry.

I really loved The Last Jedi and how Rian tried to take it in a new direction. But the sequel series was honestly all over the place.

The Force Awakens was good but essentially a copy & paste of A New Hope. While Rise of Skywalker just did a 360 to change what The Last Jedi built upon and threw in Palpatine out of nowhere.

The original trilogy is the only one where all of them were good.

I just finished Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler. It’s such a good book and the second in Lilith’s Brood (or Xenogenesis trilogy).

I’m reading Network Effect by Martha Wells. It’s the fifth book in The Murderbot Diaries series. I love it so far and 30% done with the book currently.

I started reading Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I wanted to read the book before the adaptation comes out.

Other than that I’ve also been reading The Murderbot Diaries. (Read 4 of the 7 books published so far).

I haven’t played 99% of the games listed here. Pokémon Shining Pearl has been the only one I played.

I don’t support any of the other companies either and I’m well aware they donate to fascists.

The reason I brought up the HP game is because the author directly has been doing a lot of harm to trans people. This doesn’t condone what these other companies are doing but I find that many people tend to look the other way with the HP franchise as a whole.

It’s awful seeing a game based on a bigots work being bestselling.

It just feels like a reminder that so many people don’t care about trans people at all because of “nostalgia” and not caring that Rowling benefits and hurts us.

sighs I’m sorry for that rant just sad/disappointed/angry to see this.

It’s only from what I heard from others and online articles. I haven’t read the books personally but that’s why I avoided them.

I didn’t read that series (referring to Ready Player One) since there was transphobic stuff the author put in the book.

But in terms of fun reading I would recommend the Monk & Robot series by Becky Chambers. It’s wholesome and heartwarming. It’s two sci-fi novellas.

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That’s a really good point and I had forgotten about the updates being behind. Thank you for bringing that up!

There’s a lot of good suggestions here and I wanted to add pop os! it’s a beginner friendly Linux distribution but with more of a focus on gaming.

I’m a fairly new user to Linux and I first got a laptop with Pop OS since I read that it was a beginner friendly distro and great for gaming. Although I didn’t use it for gaming it was great to get to learn how to use Linux and use it for everyday purposes.

Later with lots of trial and error got Fedora Linux working on an old laptop with bad battery life that was lying around. I wanted to try my hand at a bit more of an advanced distro. So far I’m loving both distributions and learning more each day about how things work.