Welcome to the Ratlands | Ratlands
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thanks for following!! i really love your site & especially appreciate its readability, plus all the personal touches leave me inspired to work on my own site! i'm also excited to check out your recommended media!!
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brittanymarie
1 month ago
also, i loved reading about your thoughts on the opening paragraph to Moby Dick because they exactly mirror my own. i used to go on about how excellent that opening is to whoever would listen!
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ratlands
1 month ago
Ahhh thank you! I really enjoyed exploring your website and reading all your book reviews. I'm glad it's not just me getting worked up about how good that opening paragraph is, hahaha. Something about it just activates my inner lit professor every time.
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hello, you have a very enjoyable website :D also your images have a really cool texture! is it some kind of halftone compression, or a deliberate styling choice? :D
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ratlands
1 month ago
Thank you very much! I dithered the images using ditherit.com, partly because I like the look but also because it usually reduces the file size and I like things to load quickly.
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1 month ago
Added a list of Wikipedia articles that I like for whatever reason (I've seen some other people do this and I always think it's fun!). Also updated my list of recommended free ebooks and the links page.
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ratlands
1 month ago
Although I guess posting a comment explaining what's been updated is now a little less necessary with the new Newsfeed design? Showing non-itty-bitty thumbnails of the modified pages is definitely an improvement imo.
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very sleek format and 100% navigable on mobile. I see you hate caves, how do you feel about underground mines?
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ratlands
1 month ago
Thanks! Some day I'm gonna sort that menu out so it doesn't take up an entire phone screen, haha. Haven't been in a mine since I was a little kid and visited the Big Pit in Wales but I don't think adult me would like to go in one.
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thanks for the follow!! i love your CD collection, i need to make a page for that myself!
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ratlands
1 month ago
Ahh thank you! The page getting a little unwieldy now, but I'm still having fun adding all my little notes to it.
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distillation
1 month ago
The only thing keeping Tomodachi Life from eating my entire brain is that I don't have a switch.
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distillation
1 month ago
I haven't taken the time to get into her but I really appreciate her career arc and am so happy for her.
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oopsiedoodle
1 month ago
I really love visiting caves as long as it's an organized cave tour where i'm vertical 100% of the time. But I'd probably also hate them if I'd been forced to blindly crawl around in one as a kid. That seems like an insane school trip!
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ratlands
1 month ago
Guaranteed verticality definitely improves the cave experience. But I think even then I would be suspicious!
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ratlands
1 month ago
Today I am yapping about finishing a draft of my book, and also about my love for the Nine Inch Noize album
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Blog post shouting about movies, plus a few minor tweaks to the CD, Best of 2026 and Wikipedia article lists.
I feel you on the TV. My husband has been watching The Diplomat while I play video games next to him and he made me google to see how many seasons Netflix had approved. Honey. Bby. They're all one season at a time. Who knows if your writers get to plan a real plot? We'll never know.
Obsession was great!! Maybe the best horror all year