Snowflake Day 3

Day 3

Share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favorite interview, a book, a scene from a movie, etc) and explain why you love it so much. 

I spent a little while thinking about what I wanted to share for this, and then I just decided fuck it, I'm gonna share a couple things. 

Song:
Lord Have Mercy - Empires
Time doesn't make me scared at all / It only makes me think I better jump not fall
I listened to this song obsessively, like literally 30 times a day, for most of being 19, and still listen to it a lot when I'm having a hard day, or need to just lie still and listen to music. It's helped me through a lot of bad days, and always reminds me of what I want to do. I want to be a person who can say they aren't afraid of time, who's ready to jump. Listening to this doesn't make me happy per se, but it makes everything easier. 


Book:
All the Tamora Pierce books honestly changed my life. I was obsessed with them from the age of 9 upwards. I read every one multiple times, and I was on a messageboard (remember those!) for Tamora Pierce fans that was the first step in my internet life. I made a lot of great friends, and that messageboard was really the place that opened the doors of fandom for me, and helped me grow as a person, and I wouldn't have had that without Tammy and her amazing books. 


Interview/Ephemera:
The Washington Capital Parade Speeches
These are the speeches the Caps gave at their Stanley Cup win and are very important to me as the stuff as I was consuming right after I got into hockey. The link starts at Ovi's speech (What's up babes!!), but all of their dumb speeches make me so happy. Nicke's clearly tipsy speech. Tom's earnest happiness. TJ's absolutely dumb-as-a-brick fratboy self. Ovi saying "My team are babes!!" Everyone doing a crappy bird celebration for Kuzy. Holtby wearing his wine-mom sunglasses. All of them cuddling on the back benches together. Getting into hockey was so much fun, and I'm having so much fun in it, and this was such a happy thing to happen and be part of. 

current reading list

 One of my new year's resolutions was to work through all the books I've bought but not read (this is not a moratorium on buying books, I will definitely do that. Just a determination to read the ones I have!). This is especially true of the non-fiction books I keep buying and then not reading because I keep buying non-fiction I don't like/enjoy that much. 

The list is 

fiction

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell - Susanna Clarke
Court of Broken Knives - Anna Smith Spark
A Confederation of Valor - Tanya Huff
Record of a Space Born Few - Becky Chambers
The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller
The Odyssey - Emily Wilson

Non-fiction

The Origins of Political Order - Francis Fukuyama (this was a gift and I don't actually like political science books, so we'll see how far I get with this)
Bury Me At Wounded Knee - Dee Brown (non-fiction I actually like, i.e. history, but will probably be insanely depressing)
The Muslims Are Coming - Arun Kundnami (I actually got about half way through this and then got distracted, it's very good. Take down of the surveillance state in Western Europe combined with the continued bad Islamic theology of Westerners)
Crusaders Kingdom - Joshua Prawer (one of the seminal books on the medieval crusader states. I read part of this for uni, want to finish it)
Turkey Unveiled - Nicole Pope (Dad keeps harassing me to read this)
Living by Numbers - Steven Connor (book about Math)
Hard Choices - Hillary Clinton (this was a gift, I am trying to actually read it cause I think they'll be some interesting stuff.)
Talking With Female Serial Killers  (I bought this because I wanted a book that would satisfy the "binge reading wikipedia articles about female serial killers" I do sometimes, but I tried it and I think I like the wikipedia articles more. Will try again)
A People's History of London (actually excited to read this)
The Signal & The Noise - Nate Silver (reading this right now. Nate Silver shouldn't be allowed to talk about history but aside from that he's a very clear writer)
Jerusalem The Biography - Simon Sebag Montefiore (I'm like three quarters of the way through this on my kindle. I like it a lot! A bit overblown at times maybe, but engaging)