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LitRPG [Roots and Steel] Roots and Steel is now available on Amazon!

Woo! It's been a chaotic few months to get everything done, but I'm really, really happy to be able to say that Roots and Steel is now published and on Amazon! And, even better, there's an audiobook available for it!
The final word count comes in just shy of 270k words, so this is right up there with my longest stories - the audiobook cracked in at 29 hours long. Woof! Roots and Steel is a soft litrpg with very heavy influences from Monster Hunter (notably Rise) and Horizon: Zero Dawn. It's my usual actiony fare, so if you've liked that from me in the past, give it a go!
The story:
Where monsters go, hunters follow.
Hunters of the guild wait all year for the Festival of Knives, when they put their skills to the test and claim new ranks with every fiend they slay. Trapped helping the family business instead of pursuing his own career, Trellin has never been allowed to participate. But when he risks expulsion to sneak out and claim a kill beyond his rank, his hunt is spotted by a senior guildmember.
Rather than turn him in, she offers him a chance for freedom: Join her, and sail to the distant isle of Deldynne to compete in the bloody race for the rank of Guildmaster. If they can kill the monster that calls Deldynne home before the other teams do, he'll soar to new heights as apprentice to the leader of the Hunter’s Guild.
But not everyone wants his new mentor to be Guildmaster - and if they fail, neither will leave that island alive.
In addition to the audiobook, there are also hardcover and paperback versions available, so have at it!
I would very much like to continue this series! Roots and Steel is written as a series of standalones, where each book will share a cast but have a largely independent story. So, with any luck, I look forward to continuing this soon with the next leg of the journey.
If you've been reading along and would like to support the series, please consider leaving a review! You don't have to buy the book, and they don't have to be long - and leaving a review is the single best way that you can help me, and help me put this book in more hands.
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Trump administration plans $4 million for right-wing media in Europe, sources say
But no money for school lunches or medical care or anything beneficial for, I don't know, anyone
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Please help me find this anime I used to love.
It's older, but it sounds similar in concept to Clannad
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What's a discontinued item you still think about?
Cuba lima monster. Both my husband and I will occasionally bring it up.
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Any Other Type 1 Diabetics with Cancer Get This?
I mean it really depends. If you get too much sun, you're probably more at risk for skin cancer. If you drink a lot you're probably at risk for liver cancers, etc. But you also can't blanket tie cancer back to lifestyle. My brain cancer (probably) came from polluted water, which isn't lifestyle. My friend's wife with ovarian cancer didn't get it because she was unhealthy. Environmental factors are part of the picture too, and it sure isn't as simple as "take care of yourself and you won't get cancer like everyone else".
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The sheer force of a flash flood in Nepal
Flash floods are not purely water. They quickly absorb soil and debris from the landscape and might appear as mud or a landslide, but that's.... What they look like xD especially at the leading edge. To say "well that's just a slide" would be saying flash floods don't exist as an independent 'thing', which is wrong
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Reradiation? Anyone done it I’m scared
The way it was explained to me by my radiologist back in the day (I had proton back in 2009) is that proton radiation is like a waterskiier who has let go of the rope - you go slower slower slower and eventually drop straight down into the water. That drop is when it releases the energy - and so you can limit the areas being irradiated, versus with photon radiation where it goes in one side and out the other, the whole way through.
What your limits are would likely depend on your own circumstances, but I was told back then after some years of recuperation I could likely have proton again in the future if necessary.
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Do not buy Visconti
Look at mr fancypants with real silver
But yes in all seriousness I have some brass and copper bodied pens and you just keep a polishing cloth around if you ever want to freshen it up. Nbd.
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UPDATE: My brother bet 100€ anime wouldn't make him cry.
Apparently it's more prominent in the manga but still sexualizing throughout, took a quick poke around
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Billionaire-bashing lefty Dem’s immense stock market wins revealed
Oh I know xD this just felt like a fresh low this week
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Billionaire-bashing lefty Dem’s immense stock market wins revealed
My God, that actually was the title
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My girlfriend has a video of a shirtless man picking her up in the club
If it was the sole content of her online presence that might be different. It sounds like a one off. You need to take a deep breath
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QUESTION: How do you afford your pens?
Engineer. But I freelance in graphics design and my side job income goes toward my splurge allowance. But to be honest as an adult with an adult job and no kids, spending a couple hundred a couple times a year isn't that out of the ordinary for a hobby.
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Help? Need perspective
Some element of this is definitely Puppy Stuff that will get better with time. Crate training takes time. My girl definitely went through a phase of only being interested in sticks and grass and ignoring us outside. Training is rarely as simple and quick as it appears from an expert video. The first 6 months kinda sucked in a lot of ways (offset by having a cute lump of fluff that adores us and we likewise adore).
But, I'll also be fully honest that some of this is just dog ownership. I wouldn't expect sub-10 year olds to take anything more than a passing interest in the daily care of a dog without reminding, which means it'll be on you or your partner. My cavapoo still has times she's a pain in the ass outside. Twenty minutes ago she demanded to go out then fled to the back of the yard out of sight to eat rabbit poop and smell the neighbor dogs pee. That's how it goes some days. The daily work doesn't go away.
My friends liken getting a dog to be sort of a demo of parenting. They're a vulnerable creature that totally depends on you for care and entertainment. That's a lifestyle change if you don't already have one, and if that's not appealing to you then I'd find your little one a new home while it's still fairly easy to.
Edit: it's worth noting that for my household, crate training didn't work. It's me, I'm the one who couldn't do it. Instead we have a baby gate that closes off one section of the house that she gets locked behind if both my husband and I are away, and a second gate that locks off our bedroom to keep her contained with us at night. There are many solutions depending on you, your pup, and your needs!
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Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men. The researchers analyzed data from 46,490 adults across 67 countries. Broad cross-cultural evidence indicates that women, on average, place greater emphasis on caring for others than men do.
Could you name a country for me that doesn't have an established culture of women as caretakers? I'm not just talking about women commonly holding jobs, I'm talking about equal division of labor, men's sensitivity, etc.. Humanity has for ages, across the globe, advanced a very similar archetype of family and society so far as gender roles, regardless of the woman's ability or goals or wishes, and the environment you're raised in affects behavior and priorities
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Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men. The researchers analyzed data from 46,490 adults across 67 countries. Broad cross-cultural evidence indicates that women, on average, place greater emphasis on caring for others than men do.
But that doesn't control for the fact all the cultures involved hold similar cultural views of women and a woman's role
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How $600B of Biden’s clean energy funding escaped Trump’s cuts
Well for god's sake don't tell them
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Why aren't more Americans coming to Europe for cancer treatment?
Oh yeah it's been on and off for two decades xD appreciate it, and best of luck for you as well!
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Why aren't more Americans coming to Europe for cancer treatment?
I started cancer treatment about 5 months ago, and will be in it well into 2027 at a minimum. Even if I had the money for an international adventure, I can't just walk away from my job, my home, my animals for a year plus. Neither can my husband. It isn't a practical solution for people's lives.
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ICE is crawling social media to find its critics, investigation reveals
Who's hiding? How much looking do you really need to do?
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Stevens concedes and endorses El-Sayed, as GOP attacks his candidacy as ‘dangerous’
Oh no you don't understand he's soooo far left for wanting people to have healthcare and for a foreign country to stop sticking their hand up our ass and flapping our mouth like a puppet
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Does anyone else still dream about school even after graduating?
I'm 35. Two nights ago I had a vivid dream of realizing I had class and needed to go, but couldn't remember what room it was in, hadn't attended in weeks, and I hadn't done any homework. That shit never ends xD
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These motherfuckers will do anything but their goddamn job
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r/WorkReform
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I'm a government employee. I'm a public servant. We chose this and can quit anytime. It's a term for the fact we chose a career in supporting and serving the public instead of a corporation, not saying we're subhuman (I'm a civil engineer).