Aly(ria)

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Sci-fi and fantasy, prog metal, and education. Boy, do I like a good creature. I teach special education full time at a middle school somewhere in Appalachia. Sometimes I write reviews on NetGalley and for Fantasy-Faction.

A hard cover copy of Hekate The Witch by Nikita Gill resting against a moss green pillow. The cover is mostly black with silver gray and gold details, featuring three statuesque women holding torches with their backs together, a fox, and an owl on either side of the book.
Five crusty kittens in a playpen, looking to be between 3 and 5 weeks old. Two are dilute tabbies, one is a normal tabby, one is a dilute orange, and one is a dilute max white calico.
A "water breed" of mweor, a type of fantasy cat. It is similar in body and shape to a fishing cat. This one is predominantly white and black, with some dark red accents. It displays the markings Whale Shark, Tobiano, Caiman, and Stardust.
A crude drawing of the Cooperative Focus mission "Iconoclasm" in Destiny 2.
The book cover of Warriors: The New Prophecy Part 1 graphic novel, written by Erin Hunter, adapted by Gibson Twist, and illustrated by Sammy Savos. A three-quarters view of the bust of an orange cat with green eyes (Squirrelpaw), looking determined against a forested green background.
An extensive list of symptoms, side effects, and comorbidities of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I have 29 of them.
The cover of Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher, New York Times Bestselling Author of A Sorceress Comes to Call. The cover is black and has a three-line green and gold border that ends in a bundle of hemlock in each corner of the cover. The center features a ruby red apple with a snake coiled around it. The snake is made up entirely of easily recognized poisonous plants including belladonna, nightshade, and more hemlock. The color palette is predominantly green, with pops of white, purple, and pink within the foliage.
The book cover of Warriors: The New Prophecy Part 1 graphic novel, written by Erin Hunter, adapted by Gibson Twist, and illustrated by Sammy Savos. A three-quarters view of the bust of a orange cat with green eyes (Squirrelpaw), looking determined against a forested green background.
"Welcome: all sizes, all colors, all ages, all sexes, all cultures, all religions, all types, all beliefs, all people safe here at Yassin's Falafel House."
Calamari and zucchini fritte on appetizer plates at a restaurant.
Two bowls of rice with corn, meatballs, Sriracha, chili crisp, and Kewpie mayo.
A hand drawn, 6 panel doodle featuring a pair of different animals in each panel. Each panel includes a word, forming the sentence "In every life, on purpose. 🖤". The feature animals are opossums, fairy blue penguins, beagle dogs, whale sharks, cats, and worms.
A "not recommended" review on Steam for Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library, detailing the pros and cons and disappointment in the usage of generative AI.
The May design from Corvid Cache stationary club by Acorn and Crow Studios, titles The Depths and featuring two manta rays swimming in the ocean. It comes with a print, a small sample of washi tape, a small sticker sheet, a big design sticker, and custom made matching tissue paper.
A doodle showing personal fraction stars as a solar system.
A book mark showing 2/13 nonfiction books and 11/13 fiction books with the quote "Books are a uniquely portable magic".
The cover of The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee, showing a figure in a red coat holding a long blade walking towards a domed city.
The cover of The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee. It shows a long-haired figure in red holding a long knife as they walk towards a domed city with a moon almost mirroring the dome directly above it.
A blue, teal, and purple theory board for Serafina and the Twisted Staff on a classroom whiteboard. Names and important details are interwoven with areas and lines showing their connections in the plot.
A mom and daughter taking a selfie in front of a baseball statue.
The back of a Beastie + Bone print, plugging the artists' wonderful socials.
Covers, spines, and backs of the luxe edition Hades x Persephone series by Scarlett St. Clair through Bookish Box, art by Elithien.
Dinner of leftover white rice, tuna steaks, and soup dumplings with appropriate Asian accoutrements.
A disgruntled gray long hair cat with a shaved patch on his spine towards his tail.
A gray long hair goblin cat lounges in displeasure on a leather window seat.
An emotional journal entry talking about the murders committed by ICE agents and how it feels unfair to be using reading as an escape. It ends with "When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty." By Thomas Jefferson.
A massive long-haired gray cat sleeping with his paws crossed.
A NetGalley listing showing the cover of Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar at 100% read. The book cover depicts a rabbit chasing the tail end of a fox, with both of them phasing in and out of a non-Euclidian shape.
A gray long haired cat is snuggled into my arms, a blue dino blankie over top of us.
A heroquest board game is laid out, with a line of 8 goblin enemies trailing the hero party.
In the game Pokopia, an Aurorus stands high in the air, floating above a fossil of her species, saying "I feel so at peace here..." while the player looks away.
A collection of goodies purchased from the Fable Hollow Bookshoppe in Knoxville, TN. Included is the Lore Olympus cookbook, an illustrated copy of The Princess Bride, a copy of Brandon Sanderson's Isles of the Emberdark, Nikita Gill's Hekate, Moniquill Blackgoose's To Ride A Rising Storm, and branded stickers, mugs, and tshirt celebrating the birthday event.
CPAP tubing with two holes in it, spaced suspiciously canine-teeth distance apart.
A collection of bookish stickers, enamel pins, and claw hair clips displayed on a keyboard with a story-book style map "passport" behind it showing five of Knoxville's locally owned bookstores.
A copy of Erin Hunters' upcoming new book, Renegades: The Magic Awakens. It has sprayed orange edges, and depicts a running/jumping black and white cat seemingly on fire with no signs of distress.
A copy of the original Warriors: Into the Wild is propped against the wall on top of a shelf. In front of it is a 6" mini plushie of a ginger cat (Firestar) and small plastic figurines of other cat characters from the series.
A book cover of Every Day I read, depicting a cozily cluttered library with a personal writing desk, scattered books, an autumn scene out the window, and two lounging calico cats.
A book cover of The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, depicting a mostly blue scene of a pyramid structure with three celestial bodies visible in the sky.
Messages reading: "the universe as a machine with a routine, mechaniations, and malfunctions earth = double shell sphere that swells and shrinks" "I guess its more meant to represent that if you can't predict life, then there's no way to protect yourself? paired with the countdown causing dread" "aliens?! I know Euclid was a mathematician and physicist, but I need to actually research what they did and why it's important since this book and Katabasis is based upon Euclidian concepts" "non-Euclidian - elliptical, ignoring distances, curved lines, theoretical not physical or currently proveable/tangible Euclidian - straight lines and angles, what most everyone knows willy wonka space shapes like mobius strips and dyson spheres and that nonsense are non-Euclidian - it relies on a non-linear/non-rigid form of math and physics"
A handwritten journal entry showing my January reading in shades of blue and green. I am reading Silverwing by Kenneth Opell, Serafina and the Splintered Heart by Robert Beatty, The Books of the South by Glen Cook, Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson, and The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu. I've added details under each title regarding what categories, genres, and formats they check off my challenge list.
A blonde-ginger cat with a bob tail sleeps curled up against a white pillow on a blue-gray couch.
Discord messages of mine in a private server, showing my thoughts/annotations as I listen to the first few chapters of The Three Body Problem including symbolism such as the colors red, black, the theme of anti intellectualism in the book and how it relates to modern political climate, etc.
A white serving tray with mini sugar cookies and cut up chocolate chip cookies. In the center is orange, red, and brown buttercream icing layered and shaped to look like a turkey.
A water-themed fantasy cat from the game mweor. It is designed based on the song Infinite Baths by Sleep Token. It features lots of shades of blue, with hints of gold, orange, yellow, and red peeking through.
An audiobook cover for Legendborn by Tracy Deonn, read by Joniece Abbott-Pratt. The image features a young black girl with natural unbound curls framing her head, the right side of the image and her left arm are covered in red flame-like swirls, while the left side of the image and her right arm are covered in blue tendrils.
A box filled with copies of The Cinderella Theorem by Kristee Ravan and Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins.
The cover of To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. It is red with yellow and gold detailing, and features a head on image of an antlered dragon.