let’s roll it back to this game again! pls share a gif that captures your feelings about your current read or the plot or the vibe. totally up to you how you want to interpret the challenge!

i’ll go first (and i feel like this could apply to a few of my current reads):

What snack/food would you eat to match the vibes of one of your current reads? For example: I'm currently reading Strange Houses 2. It would definitely be some stale sour dough bread you suddenly find hidden behind other food. Who knows how long it's been there but... if it doesn't look too suspicious... might as well crack out the butter and snack! (I feel like that's gross of me but I'm a hard bread addict- I need my fix!)

in honor of my husband successfully passing his master's defense, I want to know what's one new thing you want learn? or what would you want to learn as a way of continuing your current education?

for me, I did research as an undergrad developing an adeno-associated virus to sequester (turn off) a gene that gets upregulated in pancreatic cancer (and breast cancer, but I worked primarily with the pancreatic cancer). currently, I work in an evolutionary biology lab and I'm sitting in on a cancer biology class. together, these three things have "opened" up the category of cancer evolution. I'd like to learn more about it and see if we can control the evolution as a therapeutic. or to stop the evolution so cancer is easier to treat

(don't ask me details for my husband's work. all I can tell you is he's "really good at making sparks" which is a direct quote from him giving a TLDR of his research)

I apologize if this is out of place. I have no idea how the quests are made. 😅 But I noticed there's wlw quest, an mlm quest and multiple queer quests. With everything going on right now it'd be mice to have a dedicated trans/genderqueer quest. 🏳️‍⚧️

Also feel free to leave book recommendations in the comments. 👇🏻

(Please read she who earned her wings by Micah Iannandrea, Vaela Denarr. It's has a lesbian dragon polycule, one of members of which is nonbinary and very shy but god forbid you try to mess with them and their loved ones. They'll make you regret the day you were born)

What snack/food would you eat to match the vibes of one of your current reads? For example: I'm currently reading Strange Houses 2. It would definitely be some stale sour dough bread you suddenly find hidden behind other food. Who knows how long it's been there but... if it doesn't look too suspicious... might as well crack out the butter and snack! (I feel like that's gross of me but I'm a hard bread addict- I need my fix!)

If you could only read from one genre ever again in your life, what would it be?

Bonus if you rec a book in that genre.

For anyone interested:

Apocalyptic fiction - 1 Classics - 1 Domestic/Literary Fiction - 4 Fantasy - 20 History - 2 Historical fiction - 2 Horror - 9 Magical realism - 1 Mystery - 3 Nonfiction - 4 Romance - 6 Romantasy - 1 Sci-fi - 1 Speculative fiction - 9 YA - 1

who was the first shadow daddy? who started it all? is this a more recent phenomenon or is it something that’s been happening for a long time now?

these are the questions that are currently plaguing me now that i have finished reading shadow and bone. this book was published in 2012, making it one of the earliest instances of a shadow daddy i’ve encountered.

so now im on a quest to find the Original Shadow Daddy™️

i’ll put a timeline here:

Tall Dark and Brooding™️ era (the predecessors): lord byron (the guy) (1788) pride and prejudice (1813) by jane austen jane eyre (1847) by charlotte bronte batman (1939) by bill finger and bob kane divergent (2011) by veronica roth

Heathcliff™️: wuthering heights (1847) by emily bronte

Powers™️ era (with powers but not shadow powers): dracula (1897) by bram stoker elric of melnibone (1792) by michael moorcock interview with a vampire (1976) by anne rice the darkangel (1982) by meredith ann pierce the awakening (1991) by lj smith dark visions (1994) by lj smith twilight (2005) by stephanie meyer

Shadow Daddy™️ era (with the shadow powers): hades, thanatos, erebus (8th century bce) first mentioned in the iliad and the odyssey? nine princes in amber (1997) by roger zelazny daughter of the blood (1998) by anne bishop cassandra clare and her black leather pants draco (c. 2000s?) city of bones (2007) by cassandra clare princess and the frog (2009) the disney movie the hundred thousand kingdoms (2010) by nk jemisin the red pyramid (2010) by rick riordan shadow and bone (2012) by leigh bardugo acotar (2015) by sjm fourth wing (2023) by rebecca yarros

and if you know of an earlier occurrence please let me know im so curious 🙏🙏

I just want to know your choice of books when it comes to no-spice or low-spice. Because I'm not a fan of heavy spice but I want some good slow burn, angst and a chemistry to die for.