Alive.

I’ve been thinking a lot about the overlap between people who devour books and people who sink hours into video games.

If you’re a reader and a gamer, I’m curious: • What are you playing right now? • Do you gravitate toward story-heavy games, cozy games, chaotic multiplayer, RPGs? • Do you feel like gaming scratches the same itch as reading - or a totally different one?

And if you don’t game, I’d love to know why. No judgment - just genuinely interested in how these hobbies intersect (or don’t).

I’m fascinated by the reader/gamer venn diagram. Where do you land?

I'm only about 60% of the way through the novel right now, so please no spoilers for the rest of it, but I feel I've read enough of it to form an opinion on what we've seen of the costumes.

Obviously, the film is not out yet, so we can only speculate and the costumes may be different in context & we haven't even seen everything.

I'm finding that I actually like what we've seen of the costumes? I know they've gotten criticism online for not being historically accurate. That's fair. But I don't think they need to be? The novel is highly dramatic, and it seems like the costumes are reflecting that and heightening that drama. (Edit: lol I forgot the film released- I haven't seen it yet tho.)

Very curious to see if this is an unpopular opinion here. What are your thoughts on what we've seen of the costumes so far?

So I'm a floral designer recovering from Valentine's Day. I'm realizing I've never read a book with a florist in it. Open to any recommendations of books about florists or even with a florist character. It doesn't necessarily have to be a major part of the plot!