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I am back and ready to talk Atlantis!

Let’s talk Wraith again cause I love ‘em so.

Early in the book we have Ember working on the retrovirus. (I like that Guide decided to take another route on it because the humans might be overlooking something ya know?)

He’s called to meet with Bonewhite and the other masters’ of the Hive. Essentially the meeting is to let them all know what Guide has decided to do in regards to the Lanteans, his daughter, and such.

You’d think it would be a simple and short meeting.

It was short, but not so simple and things are brought up that are fun to know!

Ember is new to the Hive, but in true Guide fashion he let Ember make a place for himself through his own skill (I wonder if that part of Guide is due to Snow and how she saw things?) and so Ember is particularly loyal to Guide.

Bonewhite starts by letting them know that Alabaster is in fact alive and that she has a son.

Everyone assembled is relieved at that fact because it’s already stressful having Steelflower (their true Queen) and Death demanding Guide’s loyalty. Adding Alabaster to the mix would have been worse, but somehow her having a son makes things different?

I’m not sure how but the way it’s phrased makes it seem that since she had a son she won’t be as inclined to try and take the Hive from Steelflower? Or maybe it’s because she’s still so young and untried (it’s mentioned later on) that it’s a relief to find out she’s only had one child and not a daughter she’d be inclined to fight for a Hive for?

If that makes sense…

Anyways.

The idea is tossed out there that Guide may be planning on putting Alabaster as their new Queen and denouncing Steelflower. Something that’s apparently been done before.

This is not what they’d like happen, but considering how Guide is when it comes to his daughter…

Ember, not having been born of the Hive, doesn’t know that story and so asks.

Bonewhite (being the closest thing Guide has to a friend and was there for pretty much all of it) tells him about how after the battle that killed Snow, Alabaster went missing. An enemy Commander said the ship was destroyed, but Guide didn’t believe it. Later, a worshipper claimed that a young Queen was dead on a human world.

That’s when Guide was taken captive by the Genii.

The implications and suggestion here, though very carefully said of course, is that Guide is not rational when it comes to his daughter.

This is true.

But you can’t blame him.

Poor dude lost the love of his life (be honest here, that’s exactly what Snow was to him otherwise a Queen like Death would have been more of an enticement to him) and his daughter at the same time.

Even the hint or suspicion that she could still be alive had him racing to find the truth.

Ember, understanding all of the undertones and inuendoes and such going on here, challenges Bonewhite (very lightly but still challenges) when it seems the others are planning something they may all regret.

The challenge is simply that he asks Bonewhite what their next move is.

Bonewhite (and I love him for this and all the years he’s stood by Guide and his crazy schemes) says that they will be doing as commanded and joining Guide in orbit around Atlantis.

Why are all my Wraith posts longer than planned?

Next week will be more Wraith because there was another part during this meeting that I wanted to look at, but alas, time has run out.

Till then!

Kind of but kind of not my fault?

I intended to upload a new Atlantis post for today but my laptop took over 30min to boot up.

However, I need sleep since I work the next 3 days in a row both places and I work 8 days in a row between the two. Which means I can’t wait for my laptop to load anything else.

I might see about posting it tomorrow instead or maybe just plan a big ‘I’m sorry for all the missed posts’ post.

In other news! I’ve asked for a little over two weeks off at the end of May and as soon as it’s approved I’ll see about my part time job. Presumably I’ll have vacation time by then so hopefully I can ask off both places.

Only thing left to do after that is get everything set up so all I have to do is write!

Exciting!! (Especially since I haven’t written in over a year and by May it’ll be a year and a half).

That’s all for this Monday. I’ll see everyone next week with a certain post I won’t mention since it seems like it never happens when I do.

There was an ice storm that caused a power outage and we only just got power back yesterday afternoon.

We were out of power for four days with freezing and below freezing temps outside. At one point it hit 43 degrees inside.

Thankfully we have a gas fireplace but we really couldn’t leave the living room if we wanted to be even remotely warm.

This isn’t even bringing up the whole work thing either cause that was slightly stressful.

Anyways, I’ll get an Atlantis post done for next week and hopefully nothing happens to stop me this time.

Sorry y’all. It’s been a long last week and I work every day this week at one place or the other or both.

I have some written up, but I was too tired to get on my laptop. I’ll try and do better for next week.

Till then, try to stay positive, cause you’ve got this!

It came!!

(You’ll have to tilt your head for the pic)

Isn’t it awesome!! The rest of my stuff from the Kickstarter finally arrived!

The dice have some serious weight to them and came in individual bags within a bigger bag. I appreciate that because I don’t want them getting scratched up.

I have every intention of using them and they might get scratched that way, but until then I’m not taking chances.

I plan to either make a storage box for them or buy one. There are plenty of such stores in the area for me. Thankfully!

I love my dice!

I love my Phoenix site patch!

I love my Determination Point chips!

I love my Item Cards!

I love all of it!!!

They did a fantastically great job with this and I can’t wait to start playing!

(Which unfortunately won’t happen until I’m back to just one job, but hopefully that won’t be too long now!)

THIS IS SO COOL!!!

And right after my birthday too! How cool of a present is this!!

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rodney stole Hyperion’s weapon.

Apparently, Sheppard was thinking about where he’d hidden it so loudly that Rodney heard and decided that it wasn’t safe anymore. He stole it and hid it somewhere else in Atlantis.

Which is actually not a bad idea considering that Wraith can somewhat hear human thoughts I think, depending on the lineage and circumstance, so he wasn’t wrong to move it.

The problem comes from when Sheppard has to retrieve it so it can be destroyed to get Guide to join them in fighting Death. Since it isn’t there Guide refuses.

When Radek and Sheppard realize that the only person capable of messing with the security measures is Rodney, they put him in a cell.

Kind of understandable, but also heartbreaking because Sheppard doesn’t want but he also can’t not ya know?

Worse, is that Rodney can’t even disagree with the decision and say that he isn’t under Death’s influence subconsciously.

Now, Teyla does check him and verifies that he’s telling the truth about the weapon. He honestly doesn’t know where it is anymore and can’t help with that, but they still need help getting Atlantis ready to fly and without Rodney, it ain’t happening.

O’Neill suggests that Ronon keep an eye on Rodney and stun him if he starts acting out of character.

Here’s the problem.

Ronon has Hyperion’s weapon.

He figured out during the search that Rodney would have hidden it in one of his bolt-holes that everyone on Atlantis has (places that hold supplies in case something happens and they need to hide) and he took it. He’s been carrying it around ever since deciding whether to use it or not.

The entire time Rodney is professing his innocence, Ronon is silent and letting everyone think Rodney is still compromised.

He let’s Rodney think he’s still compromised.

Ronon is the one who was fed on and turned against his friends and his friends understood that it wasn’t really him. The fact that he is letting Rodney suffer for something that he went through himself is not a good indication of his character.

It’s great character development though because he was coming along so well and now suddenly he’s contemplating using a weapon that will kill Teyla, Rodney, Torren and thousands of other humans with Wraith DNA who most likely don’t even know it.

He’s actually okay with it on one hand because he thinks he’ll just kill himself after the fact since Sheppard won’t be able to even look at him if he goes through with it and the best part is that all the Wraith will be dead.

Isn’t it worth a few human lives to end the Wraith once and for all?

His entire mindset in this book and the last is really scary because of how much he loves his new family. That he hates the Wraith so much that he would even consider his family’s lives worth ending is a terrible thing.

That he would actively let a friend suffer like he did when he was addicted to the enzyme is concerning too.

It’s great character development for both Ronon and Rodney, but I think mostly Ronon in this case because he has to live with the knowledge that he was willing to kill innocent people when there were other options.

Maybe not options he supports, but options that others in the galaxy might be happy or just okay with.

That’s all for this week!

I’ll be real with y’all.

I honestly meant to get the next Atlantis book re-read and some posts ready since I had Christmas Day off (from both jobs) and the day after off too.

Unfortunately, my Christmas Day was not a good one.

Early in the afternoon one of my dogs threw up twice and the second time it looked like blood was in it. My mama took him to an emergency vet clinic and they waited for 7 hrs.

Part of the time was the wait time in general because they were busy, but the rest of the time they had my poor puppy and just wouldn’t tell us anything.

So at 8pm my mama finally gets home with said puppy dog having been told he just has an upset stomach.

I’m deliriously happy that’s all it was (though we plan to take him to our vet and get him looked at again) but I don’t handle such personal emergencies well.

Reading wasn’t going to help so I instead spent the day cleaning the kitchen. We have company coming next week and the whole house needs a going over.

Yesterday wasn’t too bad but I forgot what day it was and instead of reading I finished the big cleaning parts still needing to be done around the house.

At which point it was late.

And not enough time to read the whole book. Which I want to do.

Thus, I will either have the post up later today or just scheduled for next week… probably scheduled for next week. I have a three day both job thing happening so…

Stay safe peeps and I hope your Christmas was a good one no matter how you celebrated (or didn’t!).

Hi peeps!

Pretty sure I’ve mentioned previously that my mama and I attend a book convention almost every year, but COVID has interfered two years now.

It just so happens that scuttlebutt says the convention for next year might be in August.

We couldn’t go this year because it had to be held this last weekend and our jobs wouldn’t let us attend, but august should be doable.

And now for the reason of the title this week!

If it is going to be in August, than that means I have two weeks of vacation time I need to take up in addition to a couple personal days.

As soon as I get confirmation of the dates I’ll be making firm plans to take all my vacation together. It should give me time to plan and possibly outline a little because if I can take the time all at once I want to spend it writing.

Obviously I don’t have time at my second job because it’s part time, but I’ll check anyways and even if it’s not possible to take time off it’s a way to get me out of the house in the morning and I can certainly write there after work for several hours.

I’ve been thinking about writing the last couple weeks but there’s always something needing to be done. This would definitely give me the time to get a clean rough draft going if not done.

Wish me luck on that front!

On the Atlantis front, I feel like I need to watch the series again. It’s been a good year or so and my favorite peeps voices are fading in my mind a little. Takes a bit of enjoyment out of the reading ya know?

So I may do that and my posts might be littered with episode reviews again.

It all depends on if I have time…though I only work four days at both places this week and I believe my full time job has me off four days in a row this weekend so…

Y’all have a great week, a very merry Christmas and I’ll see ya next time!

Interesting thing about book reviews is that you first have to read the book.

My bad!

This coming Saturday will be the thirteenth day in a row I’ve worked. I’ve been reading books (I swear!) just not Atlantis because I want to be able to read it in one sitting and not have to put it down (which is what happened with the last book).

With that being said, it’s not an Atlantis post but it is a book review post. Hopefully y’all enjoy!

I just finished reading ‘The Folk of the Air’ trilogy by Holly Black. I’ve read her before and had mixed reviews depending on the book so I didn’t know what to expect.

‘The Cruel Prince’ (the entire series technically but book 1 especially) has been trending for some time but has been on my TBR list since 2017 or before.

It just happened to be the first one available to checkout digitally from my library so I figured why not.

I’ll be honest, it started out like a lot of YA books do and I actually rolled my eyes when a boy winked at the main protagonist. I thought it was going to be another love triangle thing and would have put it down right then and there but it has the Fae in it and they actually acted like Fae and not Tinker Bell.

Y’all know what I’m talking about.

I’m glad I kept reading though and even gladder that the series is already done because I devoured the books in a week!

If I hadn’t been working both places so often I would have finished earlier but I do need sleep.

If you’ve been thinking about reading the series I definitely encourage it, but make sure you have the entire series first! The first two end in REALLY bad cliffhangers and I don’t know how the fans stayed sane until the last book came out.

I’d go into detail (I may be adding another non-Atlantis book review to each week soon) but it’s late when I actually wrote this and I still have to the end of the week before I get an actual day off.

Thus, I say good day(or night!) to everyone and see y’all later!

Gonna be a really short one this week, but at least it’s actually the next book as I’ve been promising for a month now… sorry.

Anyways!

You know at the beginning of certain episodes they do a ‘last time on…’?

Some of the books do a quick catch up too and for ‘Inheritors’ it covers everything from the first Legacy book. Several pages dedicated to reminding everyone what’s been happening.

I was going to skip it but my eyes kept getting caught on something else I forgot happened so far!

It was fun to see how the authors slowly went from calling Guide ‘Todd’, to actually using his name. It was also fun to read (in brief) how O’Neill saved the day and got Atlantis back home with some good old fashioned tricky maneuvering and sneakiness.

Reminds me of Guide actually and I would love to see the two Blades try to one up each other in the sneaky department. It would be even funnier if they started to compare notes and give constructive criticism on the others’ ideas.

I think the two of them would get along quite well if they got the chance, and who knows? Maybe that’s what happens in the future.

Anyways, the last sentence in the catch up is about how Death has ordered the final assault on Atlantis which means that this book should actually cover the battle I believe.

If not then at least we are really close!

Some really great stuff is going to happen in this book regardless of if the battle happens so I can’t wait to delve in.

I just wanted to mention the catch up part because it was funny to me, but just slightly too long to add to a regular post.

On another note, ya’ll know I usually do a special Christmas post and it’s not actually on Christmas because of how my family’s schedules work out. We were aiming to celebrate the week after Christmas, but once again things happened and so we area now aiming for a couple/few weeks after. Not sure exactly when yet, but I’ll give ya’ll a heads up. Mostly because I put some mini things on my list including a mini ice cream maker kit and I really hope I get it because some crafty posts are long overdue I believe!

Ta for now!