{"id":375,"date":"2024-12-09T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/?p=375"},"modified":"2025-10-06T21:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:55:46","slug":"what-year-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/?p=375","title":{"rendered":"What Year Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>*<em>Surfaces, gasping for air<\/em>* Oh, hi, how are you? I&#8217;ve been spending the last roughly a week on a dive back into the audio books for Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson because the last book in the first half of the arc released last week and it&#8217;s big enough I like to refresh my memory before each new book. (Also I enjoy the books and get sucked in easily.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are also very captivating so I&#8217;ve been ignoring other things to an extent to read\/listen. I have been enjoying audio books lately because they leave my hands free to pursue other things like dishes, folding laundry, pretending to pay attention to &#8220;Mario Chess-t&#8221; with my youngest, etcetera, but on my first read of a book I really enjoy or am anticipating, I like to hold it in my hands. So I expect there&#8217;ll be about a day this week when I do nothing but sit on my bed excitedly paging through it. Honestly I read faster than audiobooks go so I don&#8217;t expect it&#8217;ll take me long to finish. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this does mean I&#8217;ve not been pursuing a lot of writing this week. I can write while I listen to music but I can&#8217;t split my brain for word-processing. And things I write after this week might be slightly tainted by Sanderson script. (Tainted isn&#8217;t the word I want here; flavored? Flavored is probably closer.) For similar reasons that I mentioned in the style post- immersing yourself in a certain style of art is going to change the flavor (yep, that&#8217;s the metaphor I wanted) of what you then output. But since my current project is pretty far removed from Sanderson content and I&#8217;m not final-drafting it, I&#8217;ll probably be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I&#8217;m gonna get back to listening. Shallan is facing down the Midnight Mother and I&#8217;m excited. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/elizabethdoman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Midnight_Mother_2-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"A painting by Peter Penev of Shallan facing the Midnight Mother.\nA blue-gray background with shapes and figures of goopy monsters surround a bright gold-red center of Shallan bringing light to the pillar of inky weirdness.\" class=\"wp-image-376\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Midnight_Mother_2-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Midnight_Mother_2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Midnight_Mother_2-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Midnight_Mother_2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Midnight_Mother_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artwork by Peter Penev, sourced from the 17th Shard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Intellectual Property of Elizabeth Doman<br>Feel free to share via link<br>Do not copy to other websites or skim for AI training<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*Surfaces, gasping for air* Oh, hi, how are you? I&#8217;ve been spending the last roughly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[351,67,353,354,96,352],"class_list":["post-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-posts","tag-audio-books","tag-audiobooks","tag-brandon-sanderson","tag-immersed","tag-reading","tag-stormlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedomanfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}