yer girl is still alive i was just schoolmaxxing + here are the 10 best books I read in 2025

what's up fam it's yer girl. I wanted to post this to give a life update so you know that I'm still alive. I managed to get out of the suburbs, which has always been my life goal. And I have been schoolmaxxing. I have been doing a lot of random stuff. For example, I wrote this article on a very obscure book I read. I am also considering starting a podcast soon. Sorry if you think podcasters are cringe, but I will be contributing to their population increase soon. 

I read 73 books in 2025. I wanted to make a list of the books I thought were the best in case y'all want bookmaxxing recommendations. I have chosen 10 of my favourite books and tried to cover different genres so that there's something for everyone here. 

1. The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson 

I actually read this whole trilogy this year and LOVED all three books, but I would also recommend this book as a standalone because it is quite beautiful and complete on its own. It's one of those fantasy books that doesn't involve any magic, but it involves extensive world-building. There are fictional countries with different languages, cultures, religions, governance systems, literary traditions, gender roles, etc. And Seth Dickinson has put so much effort into creating each one. It's so fun to immerse yourself in the geopolitics of this world. The protagonist is a brilliant savant from an island that has been colonized by an evil empire, but can she dismantle it by working within the system or is that a hopeless idea?

2. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt 

I had an obsession with Genesis this year, so I read Milton's Paradise Lost and a monograph about how the New England Puritans were influenced by the story of Adam and Eve called Inventing Eden by Zachary Hutchins. I gotta say I loved Greenblatt's book on how Adam and Eve went from having multiple interpretations to how it came to have a literal interpretation because of Augustine and Milton. Adam and Eve could have been allegorical figures, according to some Jewish commentators. They could have simply represented the reason and desire of a single person. However, Augustine interpreted Genesis literally and came up with the idea of Original Sin. Milton was influenced by this interpretation and it became the dominant one in our culture since then. Now we think of it as the only way to correctly interpret Adam and Eve's story. I would recommend reading the original story in Genesis before diving into this book because it's very short and you will see that it leaves a lot of room for asking questions. Greenblatt writes extensively about Augustine and Milton's personal lives and you will feel as if you know these people by the end of the book, and Milton's loneliness and marital problems will increase your appreciation of Adam and Eve's wholesome relationship in Paradise Lost before the fall and of Satan's loneliness and his jealousy at seeing Adam and Eve happy. Unforunately, I have not read Augustine's Confessions. But Greenblatt makes it sounds like he crashes out a lot in it so I mentally refer to it as Augustine's Crash Outs now and I will be reading it in 2026 to let y'all know what I think!!!!

3. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I gotta warn y'all that this is considered one of the saddest novels ever written. I adored it and I think it is one of my favourite novels now, but my heart has also been absolutely destroyed. It criticizes education, marriage, gender roles, parenting, and religion. It was so controversial in 1895 that people burned copies of it. I don't wanna give spoilers, but this book turned me into a marriage abolitionist even though I've never even been remotely close to being one before (literally never throughout my life). If you want to read about how education keeps out some of the smartest people because of class discrimination, and about marriage is done more to avoid social stigma than because people love each other, and if you want to become absolutely doompilled and hopeless and depressed then I recommend this book. It was very beautifully written and I genuinely believe tragedy is the highest art form. Also I have another ultra sad book on my shelf right now, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and I will get to that in 2026. Pray for yer girl I will probably be languishing. 

4. The Language Warrior's Manifesto by Anton Treuer 

As I have mentioned on this blog before, I am a non-Indigenous learner of Anishinaabemowin. Ninanda-gikendaan ji-anishinaabemoyaan. Gaawiin anishinaabe ndaawsii. Aapiji niminwendaan o'ow mzin'igan. I have no doubt that Anishinaabemowin will have more speakers in the future, even though it is an endangered language right now. Treuer talks about how this can be done. He wants to move past simply making people memorize word lists in Indigenous language classes for learning things like animals, numbers, or colours. Instead, he wants speakers to be not only fluent but creative. He envisions a world where Anishinaabemowin children's books are not just translations of English stories or bilingual books for second language learners, instead they should be fully in Anishinaabemowin and have culturally-relevant messages. And of course he thinks there should be Anishinaabe literature available for all ages. He talks about his personal life and how this can not be separated from his language journey and I am sure you'll find this very moving and inspiring, especially how he aims to make sure that all his children are fluent speakers. 

Also just to be clear, I'm sure you'll love this book if you care about endangered language revitalization in general, not just for Anishinaabemowin. And if you don't, then it's even more important for you to read this. 

5. Imaginary Maps by Mahasweta Devi 

 Perhaps this is the most problematic book on this list, only because it talks about the Indigenous Adivasi communities of India and the author is not actually from these communities (I could not tell you which community the stories in this book would be the most applicable to as a major flaw of this book is that it homogenizes them!!!!) However, to defend this choice a little, I will say it does an excellent job of criticizing the Indian state, or perhaps the concept of a nation state in general. You can see that it is only able to survive through exploitation of Gond and Santal people and other such communities as most of India's electricity is generated on their land. Resources are extracted from communities that are not fairly compensated for them (Sounds just like Canada or Russia too). There is one story in here about a reporter who sees a pterodactyl in the jungle, and the pterodactyl is a metaphor for knowledge so ancient that he can not even be able to comprehend it, and of course this knowledge precedes the state. I will say this book gave me a lot to ponder about and that's why I think it should be on this list.

6. The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance by Leah DeVun

The subtitle is extremely misleading as this book is actually about intersex people, not nonbinary people. But it was still incredible. I think having the phase where I was obsessed with Genesis was what drew me to this book, as it does talk about the interpretation of Adam as possessing characteristics of both sexes before Eve is separated from his body and they become two distinct people. Intersex characteristics are associated both with demons and angels in the Middle Ages. The theological discourse around them affected how real people were treated (most obviously when it came to nonconsensual surgery on intersex people). It is horrifying to think that these nonconsensual surgeries still continue all around the world. We have literally learned nothing and that's probably what most horrified me about this book even though I think it is a very important topic for the author to write about 

7. Shakespeare's Sonnets

I loved the experience of reading all 154 of these together rather than reading them as standalone poems, because some of them are like series of sonnets that relate to each other (the reproduction sonnets, the horse and rider sonnets, the fair youth sonnets, the dark lady sonnets, etc.). I literally cried over some of these. These were not the only sonnets I read this year, as I also read Sidney's Astrophil and Stella, but nothing can top Shakespeare's sonnets. I read Venus and Adonis a few years ago, and I have not read the Rape of Lucrece, but in 2026 I might make it a point to read it as I would like to read more of Shakespeare's poetry (and honestly Venus and Adonis is worth a re-read! I realllyyy liked it last time I read it). 

8. AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What it Can't, and How to Tell the Difference

Now I'm no technology understander, and I lowkey wish I lived in the 1500s sometimes. However, this book is pretty easy to understand even if you are medievalbrained. The authors are computer science professors but they try to make this accessible for people. They tell you why the existential threat of Artificial General Intelligence may actually be overhyped, and that the most dangerous thing about AI is what humans are going to do with it, or what humans with bad intentions and who have power are already doing with it. You will learn why artificial intelligence is terrible for trying to predict the future (whether a criminal will continue committing crimes, if a condition will develop into a more serious disease, if a student's performance will improve, etc.) You will also learn why humans should probably be involved in social media content moderation and it shouldn't just be left to AI to make those decisions as they do not understand human culture. I will certainly be reading more on AI in 2026, especially the ethics of it.

9. All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie 

Just a gorgeous historical novella that's impossible to put down, and the kind of thing I hope I'll write someday as it's my dream to write historical fiction. Eyvind of Eyri does not believe that his early tenth-century world is very complicated, even as many of his fellow Icelanders convert to Christianity and forget the old ways. According to him, the world is simply composed of humans, animals, ghosts, and luck. I love how simple and straightforward he is as a character, and also how he believes farming is the most noble profession and his dream is to own a farm!! When the Khazar adventurer David presents Eyvind with the opportunity to travel across the known world, Eyvind sees many things he doesn’t understand, like the nameless a nameless white mare who's bewitched. The message seems to be that magic cuts across all cultures, but only Eyvind seems to be smart enought o see this even though he's so humble. 

10. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 

I read this because my based bigbrained chad sigma stoic boyfriend likes this book uwu. The idea of “Reason” being like your inner god and something that no one can disturb or take from you was very powerful. No matter what the circumstances are, you still have your reason. Before reading this, I had the mistaken notion of Stoics as isolating themselves from the world. I thought that in order to avoid being carried away by their emotions, they must avoid socializing or it would cause them to form attachments to people. But Marcus Aurelius actually preaches love, compassion, and community, as long as you don't form attachments that make you forget that you have Reason, or logos, or free will, purpose, an inner light... however you want to think about that. I should read more philosophy. Also, I swear he gives advice that sounds like my dad sometimes. And my dad studied Sanskrit. So I wonder if there's a school of thought in Indian philosophy that's actually very similar to Stoicism? Also I want to read Epictetus, as Marcus Aurelius admires him a lot and mentions him in this book. 

Honourable Mention: What the Chicken Knows by Sy Montgomery

And lets end off on something extremely silly, but lowkey kinda based. Yer girl had plans to start a chicken farm but that didn't pan out. Nevertheless, this book reminds me that I will never give up on my dream! If you're a hater, just know that I'm sure you'll be paying premium prices for organic eggs from my farm one day lmao. Anyway, chickens have a lot of instincts we don't understand like pecking aggressively at the sight of blood. They are also affectionate to their owners. Roosters are protective of their flocks and can warn others of danger. These are just some incredible facts about them. And I will continue reading about nature and creatures in 2026.

What is Snekcoatl going to read in 2026?????

• More fantasy because I loved the Masquerade trilogy!!! I'll be checking out some of R.F. Kuang's novels, as well as the Dune books and LOTR.
• More nineteenth-century fiction because I loved Jude the Obscure and Great Expectations! I would really like to read Dracula, as well as books by Austen and the Bronte sisters.
• More books by Anishinaabe authors because I liked Moon of the Turning Leaves by Waubgeshig Rice. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Louise Erdrich will be next.
• More nonfiction books about India for tradmaxxing purposes. The Argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen sounds great, as does The Burning Forest: India's War in Bastar by Nandini Sundar.
• More Shakespeare of course!!!
• More philosophy, probably Plato's dialogues.
• More nonfiction about nature, creatures, and ecology. Give recs if you know about CREATURES, I don't really know where to start.
• More historical fiction. I also want to write more of it :)
• More nonfiction on AI such as AI Morality by David Edmonds and Brave New Words by Salman Khan

To all the bookmaxxers out there, whether you are a giganerd or just getting into reading, and whether you plan to read philosophy books or manga in 2026, I wish you the best of luck with your bookmaxxing goals!! Bye, fam!!!

im still alive

 yo i havent updated this blog in two months because sch**l is literally k-wording me im so stressed aaaaaahhhh *ScrEAms* and I honestly don't even know what to write about but I just feel like I should update it because it's been two months and my last post was on a pretty cringe topic so I feel like I should write something more interesting this time to make up for it. No one actually reads my blog though so it doesn't matter. Okay um... how about this? I'll make a list of some things I've been thinking about these days and then I'll go through the list and talk about each thing. 

1. Historical time periods I am currently obsessed with 
2. How disappointed I am with the books I've had to read this year for sch**l 
3. My relationship ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
4. Songs I've been listening to 
5. How my writing hobby is going 
6. How much Vicky sucks (lmao if ur reading this hi Vicky) 

Okay so as you can see by the first item on the list, I'm going to be discussing historical time periods I am currently obsessed with. I basically go through phases like these where I get hyperfixated on stuff. So over the summer I read The Romance of Tristan and Iseult and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. I became fascinated with Arthurian legend and decided to buy Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory at the recommendation of one of my English professors when I asked him how I could learn more about this topic. There are like a million different adaptations of these stories, but I wanted to acquaint myself with the original myths first before reading the adaptations. The only problem is I haven't really had much of a chance to indulge my obsession because of sch**l taking up all my time and my essays and exams consuming my soul so I don't have time to read things I like anymore. The good news however is that I'm taking a course on medieval literature next semester. I've already had a look at the reading list and it includes Le Morte d'Arthur as well as some other texts I'm really looking forward to reading such as Pearl (written by the same anonymous poet who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) and the Book of Margery Kempe. I'll let you know how that goes. 

The other historical thing I'm obsessed with right now is Puritan New England. This is because for an American literature class I had to read The Scarlet Letter and a short story called Circumstance, both of which are set during this time period. I'm also helping one of my professors with some research right now on the history of female authors and one of the things I'm researching are captivity narratives written by white women who were kidnapped by Native American tribes. All this stuff has kind of captivated my imagination and just lives in my mind rent-free and I've even been thinking about writing my own historical fiction novel about the Puritans but for that I would have to do way more research because right now it's just a vague fascination. I'm probably going to re-read The Scarlet Letter and probably also check out that one short story everyone always talks about called Young Goodman Brown or something. 

This brings me to the next topic on the list, which is how I'm not really satisfied with the books I've had to read so far in school. It's not that I hated all of them. I actually enjoyed most of them. But I can't really said I've read anything that will be dear to me for my whole life or anything. At the beginning of 2021, I set my Goodreads target as 100 books. So far, I've only read 52. And the two books I enjoyed the most were The Song of Achilles and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, neither of which were school books. I also have so many books that I really want to get to but I don't know if I'll have the time to because school is really frying my brain right now. I want to read Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Jones, The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber, and the list just goes on lol. 

That last book I mentioned was recommended to me by an e-girl, which brings me to topic number 3 on the list, my based e-girlfriend. I don't know if you recall my last post, but I had some vague yearning for the touch of a woman but also felt like I was too busy to have a relationship so didn't really want one but then i changed my mind lmao cause the girl I'm with right now is amazing. I will let u know more about her in a different post cause i should probably ask her how much she is okay with me sharing about her. 

Okay now I'm going to interrupt this post to recommend some bops because I've been listening to a lot of good music lately and I wanna recommend these songs to people. Here's a list of good songs:

1. Halloween by Faun 
2. The Dawning of the Day by Celtic Woman
3. Galdra by Faun 
4. Black is the Colour by Celtic Woman

Yeah it's all just Faun and Celtic Woman basically. 

How my writing hobby has been going 

It's been going alright I guess. The professor I'm working for wants me to contribute a chapter to her book. I'm planning to submit an essay to a literary criticism journal as well. I also wrote a poem for a magazine. And a vignette I'm using as a sample of my work to apply to a creative writing workshop I really want to get into. I also have an idea for an anthology of poems, but I don't have any time to work on that. I have no time to do things I actually like I stg.

And now to talk about my favourite topic on this list:

how much Vicky sucks 

So unfortunately i'm not good at socializing in real life so I probably have only like 2 friends irl. Maybe 3 if we stretch the definition of "friend" a bit. Unfortunatley one of the people who I became friends with is Vicky, and my life has not known peace since then. Every time I check my phone, I have like 49329904994 notifications from Vicky. She stalks me on Goodreads. She makes fake accounts on Twitter to harass me. She spams me random gifs on Discord. She's even worse than my crazy ex. She is deranged. She is like the trickster archetype from mythology. Like Loki. Like Coyote. Like Kokopelli. Vicky if you are reading this, u suk and u should seek help. That is all. 

Okay bye. 

About this Blog

I'm writing this post to explain what my blog is about for those who are new here.

First of all I change the layout of my blog completely like once a month. This time, I really like how it looks so I don't think I'll change it. But that's what I say every time. To view the blog go to freyathefrypan.blogspot.com. If you're reading the synced version of this blog on Goodreads or by email subscription you won't see the new layout I did. 

Now everything looks very cringy, like a website from the 90s. But I did this on purpose. The terrible font choice, the atrocious colour scheme, the Lisa Frank art and everything else was done on purpose. This is because I gave up trying to make the blog look modern or professional because that just doesn't suit the content. 

This blog is meant to be informal. I definitely write serious posts once in a while, but it just wasn't meant for that kind of thing. When I write good stories or poems I usually submit them to magazines. Same with the thought-provoking articles I write once in a while. 

You see folks, I made this blog when I was 10. This is a safe space for me to cling to my childhood and the cringy interests I had in the past. 

I'm going to write about my life. It will be like a diary except one I'm a little careful about because I know it's technically public even though very few people read it. 

Some cool features I added are a chatbox, which I'm going to have to moderate from now on because I don't want anyone spamming it with inappropriate content. I also added a list of books from my "read" shelf on goodreads along with my ratings for each one. 

I honestly feel way better now that I just admitted this is a shitposting blog and not meant to be extremely impressive or anything, because now I feel like I can write anything I want. 

K bye. 

Blog Updates

Hey everyone. So my blog is linked with Goodreads, which means anyone who follows me on Goodreads can see the posts. Although Goodreads messes up the formatting considerably. So this blog is also hosted on its own site at freyathefrypan.blogspot.com. I know that URL is ridiculous, but let me explain why it is so weird.

I started this blog in 5th grade (I was 10 years old). My name is Freya. The kids in my class thought my name was weird so they called me "frypan." So I decided to call my blog that. Blogger lets you change the URL if you want now. But I decided to keep it the same. I don't care if it's weird or cringy and prevents people from taking it seriously. It makes me nostalgic. Its been the name of the blog for 8 years. So it will stay that way.

A lot of people criticized the original layout of the blog, saying it looked like a website from the 80s. I tried modernizing it and experimenting with different themes and blog titles. But they all seemed inauthentic. So I think I will revert it back to a cringy website from the 80s now. Deal with it.

The blog right now is simple if you visit the URL. There is a feed where you can scroll through all my posts. The sidebar contains book reviews that I wrote on Goodreads and a search bar if anyone wants to find an old post that is no longer in the feed. And that is all. 

If I'm ever in a chaotic mood, I'll add a chatbox (the original blog when it first started had a chatbox. But it started getting spammy and annoying so I removed it) and an artist shoutout page where I promote the work of artists, writers, etc. who I admire. Maybe an "about me" page and maybe a page for pictures of my cats. Idk. We'll see. I also play a game called Chicken Smoothie which is for collecting and trading virtual pets. I might make a page for discussing it. 

In its 8 years of existing, this blog has never been popular. But that's okay. Blogs usually aren't popular, because social media kind of made blogging obsolete. But I don't feel like deleting something I've worked on for 8 years. So I will continue it. Even if no one reads it.

Kokopelli- the humpbacked flute player and venerated fertility deity of the Southwest

It's about time I got serious with this blog, so now I've recreated it entirely and even changed the name to reflect my interests better. I'm wannabehistorian1491. That shall be my nickname on the internet from now on. I originally started this blog when I was 10, which explains the awkward name this blog used to have. But now I'm going to become legit. You can now access this website with the URL www.wannabehistorian1491.tk  as well as the previous address it used to have. This is to avoid losing followers. I've also changed the appearance of this blog greatly. The background is now a tiled kokopelli design. 

Kokopelli was a deity of southwest native americans, such as the Hopi, Zuni, Apache, Navajo, and Pueblo people. Depictions of Kokopelli have been found on pottery as well as on prehistoric American rock carvings. He loves music and can be seen playing a very ancient Anasazi flute. He's also a trickster god like Loki from Norse mythology and is associated with agriculture, pregnancy, rain, childbirth and fertility. He's humpbacked because he carries seeds on his back. So why did I use Kokopelli to represent this blog? Well because in addition to being a fertility god, Kokopelli was the deity that ruled over creativity. I think that makes it have a more special meaning for me.

Shameless Self-Promotoion of my Worthless Creations

I haven't updated this blog in like four months because I am degenerate af. I also am too lazy to write anything decent right now, so I'm just going to use this post to highlight some drawings I've made recently and some poetry I've written. Do you think it would be cool if I made videos of myself reciting the poetry like some cool spoken word artists I know do? Let me know if you would like that.  The purpose of this post will mostly be to show my followers that I'm not dead. The pressure of school and the weight of existence have just prevented me from posting anything here. I'll never abandon this blog though. I hope this art will help to justify my absence. 

General Updates to the Blog 

I've made some layout changes, although this blog still looks like a website from the 90s. It used to be a bright lime green and orange colour, but I changed it to a dark navy blue, grey-green, and grey. The theme used to incorporate frying pans, but now it incorporates rainforests and mysterious Mayan ruins. I think that matches my personality more. Blogger has released new templates that look super modern, but I'm scared to implement the minimalist designs for now. Eventually I'll have to change the layout to one of the new templates to keep up with the modern bloggers. Maybe I'll even be able to look as good as a Tumblr blog. 

Before 



After 




Possible change 



There are also tabs at the top of the page which link to my DeviantArt and written works, but I assume people will be too lazy to check those out, so I guess I'll just dump all my recent good stuff here. 

Australian Aborigines 

Their culture has fascinated me and I will continue to read about them. Here is a poem I wrote inspired by them, called "the Nomad's Walkabout": 

The nomad wanders through the desert,

Many things can hurt him.

His tribe is nowhere to be seen and all he has is a boomerang to hunt with,

He must wander from waterhole to waterhole,

He sings as he does so,

As if it would make the waterhole appear faster,

As though he was born singing.

Perhaps the first language of humans was in song as we learned to imitate the calls of birds,

As the nomad is now doing with the voice of a kookaburra.

He comes across the nest of an echidna but he can not eat it though his stomach rumbles,

The echidna is the totemic symbol of his tribe, after all,

He kills a wallaby instead,

The nomad wanders through the desert,

Many things can hurt him.

He must survive in the desert for many weeks alone,

Only then will he be allowed to return to his tribe,

Only then will he be permitted to start a family,

He needs to prove his adulthood,

Such is the way of the ancient walkabout.

The nomad wanders through the desert,

Many things can hurt him.

He takes out his didgeridoo and begins to blow a long, echoing note as lonely as the world around him,

He believes all problems can be solved by walking,

The nomad's way of life was already old when the pyramids were being built in Egypt,

But he keeps an ancient world alive,

The nomad is overwhelmed by the desire to walk.

He's never had such freedom before.

He wants to see the whole world and walk until the point where the orange sky meets the golden dunes.

The nomad wanders through the desert,

Many things can hurt him.

Wandering is in the blood of every human.

It is one of our most suppressed instincts.

Even a mother goose abandons her fledglings if 

they can't migrate with her,

The desire to fly becomes more important than her love for her offspring.

The nomad is me.

I can not sit still as long as there are places to see and worlds within this world,

As long as there are beautiful cultures.

You do not really understand the worth of humans until you travel.

Wanderlust is the most dangerous type of lust.

The nomad wanders through the desert,

Many things can hurt him.

I've been occupied these days by wondering about different cultures and wanting to know how they think. Here is a charcoal drawing I made of a didgeridoo player: 

The Mexica and other Nican Tlaca

Indigenous people of the Americas are my favourite thing. Here are some drawings I have made: 

Here are some cross stitches: 

National Romanticism 

After reading about the history of European thought, the cultural epoch that stood out to me the most was National Romanticism. Here is a poem that I wrote inspired by all that called "the World Spirit": 

The lyre has been left outside by the musician who plays in the forest, 
now it plays a ghostly chain of notes as the wind blows across its strings, 

Waves gently reach the shore, 
as a scientist is reduced to a child gathering shells on a beach, 
just mere shells washed up from the vast, infinite sea of knowledge,

The mountains stand proudly, 
and many artists have wandered that way, 
failing to capture the immutable forms of the eternally beautiful snow capped peaks, 

An enchanting flower unfurls its petals, 
as a poem unfurls its lines, 

and the whole universe is contained within everything, 
inside every tree are mysterious woods on which hundreds of stories of lost children and talking animals can be written,

all of us are capable of of wondering about the starry heavens above us, 
being outraged by injustice because of the moral law within us, 

History is just the journey of the collective human spirit, 
evil ideas were conceived but they did not know the power we have, the strength we have to survive, 
and as the hatred grew stronger so did our resistance,
we learned to stand up for Truth, 
that Good and Evil aren't subjective, 
they are innate knowledge, 
which is why those who stand silent in the face of Evil are part of the Evil themselves! 

Within every culture the World Spirit reflects itself, 
in the hearts of the nomadic and the settled, 
all cultural groups of the human race know what is wrong,
and they punish wrongdoers, 
they must punish the evil members of their own culture most severely, 
to keep pure their nation and their descendants, 
for no nation can be great until it acknowledges its flaws and rights its past wrongs, 
takes responsibility, 

The World Spirit does not freeze to death in the Arctic, nor dehydrate in the Sahara desert, 
it lives everywhere humans live, 
manifesting itself in tribes and nation-states, 

It beckons us to stick to our internal moral law, 
even if you stand alone, you must stand!
Forgive but do not forget! Do not be weak! 

and if you feel powerless, 
voiceless, 
hopeless, 
and melancholic, 
if they silence you or if you see others oppressed and feel guilty for being free yet being useless, 
if you feel yourself being driven to madness by pondering the world's condition, 
then let wanderlust be your source of healing, 
and travel far from the eyes of humans, 
and listen to birdsong, 
and dress as nomads do, 
and listen to waterfalls, 
and see that even in that atmosphere of divine sublimity, 
predators still hunt prey and natural selection occurs, 

Lean over the clear pool of water not yet polluted by your kind, 
and see through to the bottom, 
to the fish, 

Now your hands have made a ripple, 
and to the edges of the water it will spread, 
and to the ends of the earth your good deeds will spread, 
your name shall not be forgotten, 
and the evil will forever tremble at the sound of your name as it rings throughout the ages.

I really like that grey green colour now, after having been on DeviantArt for so long. 

Other notable creations 

This attempt at a sonnet:

Behind your world the silver shadows flow,
Under your great resplendent wings
the shadows would be all that most would know,
had they not met the sage above all kings

Your words knew no eloquence but the truth,
Saved hordes from drowning in a sea of lies,
The confusion only your help could soothe,
made me become enchanted with your eyes,

Waiting for my knight in shining armor,
was replaced by a more hopeless desire, 
to win the people's fine dragon slayer,
The sin of lust had scorched my soul like fire,

I wanted this lord of humanity,
never to see me as ordinary.

I like drawing cute couples sometimes:

That's all for today, folks. 

*Insert witty title here*

Look who's back, it's the best shitposter ever! You missed me, didn't you? Tyrian Purple is a beautiful colour. 

Aite, first of all, this blog has had some dank updates to the layout. I will go over them now. 

 New default font set! I thought this font set looked cute. Let me know if you think it isn't legible enough though. 

 Search bar moved to side of page instead of top top avoid clutter and to draw attention to the controversial new header. 

 Removal of the tiled frypan background, which has been on this blog since like forever, but some feedback from Aspen, who despises tiled images, and my boredom of it, caused me to change it. See the decorated frying pans in this picture? They were the background before. I may bring them back if I can't find a better image. For now, enjoy the green.  Personally, I want to add a cool Mexica/Aztec-looking background such as the one Zoe Saadia uses on her author site. Read her books! She is the best historical fiction writer ever, hands down. She's better than Gary Jennings! Anyway, I haven't been able to find a good enough image yet, but I want something like this. If we're going to go with another frying pan background, then something related to this frying pan-like object would be cool. My favicon would also make a good tiled background, but I am bored of tiled backgrounds now. A blog that uses tiled background's well is, A Lonely Potato. Those cacti are cute. I love cacti. 

 At the very bottom of the blog, I have inserted a tag-cloud. Tag-clouds help me to consider which topics I have written a lot about, and which topics I should cover more. Certain keywords, such as "Mexica" pertain to the originally decided theme of this blog, and so I will be able to see if I am diverting too far from that theme. 

YOU KNOW, IF YOU THINK YOU SUCK AT WEB DESIGN, REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO STILL USE THE "DYNAMIC VIEWS" BLOGGER TEMPLATE. I MEAN, SOME OF THOSE BLOGS ARE AWESOME, HAVE AWESOME CONTENT, AND ARE WRITTEN BY AWESOME ADMINS, BUT THEIR TEMPLATE IS UGGGGLLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYY.

cLICK HeRe foR aN ExAMPLe

also please follow that blog^ it is very nice despite the template.

Frypania is always open to new web design suggestions so feel free to comment, use the chatbox, or the "Stalk Me" page to send us a message!

That is all, really! Sorry that this post is boring af. I should do a long post about an interesting historical topic soon. Thank you to all my faithful Frypanian followers.

I leave you with this dank Norwegian mixtape to listen to:

AU REVOIR, FAM!

Shitpost #139183842492992939339484024949

What is a shitpost? What is the art of shitposting? Lets look to Urban Dictionary and other sources to clarify the meaning of this fascinating word!

 Shitpost v. {verb forms: -ed -ing -s} (ʃɪtpóst) 1. To make utterly worthless and inane posts on the internet. n. 2. An utterly worthless text post, image, or video on social media and blogs. Usage: "Everything on Frypania is a shitpost!" 
Etymology/Origin: From Middle English shiten and Old High German skizan (modern German: scheissen) and Latin postis.

^ English is my second favourite subject after history TBH. I'll also add this to the Frypanese-English dictionary page.

Here are some more examples of shitposts. These are my tweets, in case you needed to see more after reading this blog:

I wanted my twitter name to be aztecatl13 but that was in use already 😒

— Aztecatl52 (@aztecatl52) March 5, 2016

The cross of Burgundy looks really easy to draw but it's actually hard to get it all symmetrical and stuff.

— Aztecatl52 (@aztecatl52) May 25, 2016

I think I look like a stalker on twitter

— Aztecatl52 (@aztecatl52) March 8, 2016

OKAY TBH I'M JUST REALLY SALTY BECAUSE ONE OF MY FRIENDS UNFOLLOWED THIS BLOG :'( R.I.P. I GUESS HE COULDN'T HANDLE THE SHITPOSTS. WHAT, DOES HE THINK HE CAN WRITE SOMETHING THAT ISN'T A SHITPOST?

nowww whatt?!?!??!?!?1?!!

I guess I could tell you about what I did a few weeks ago to morally support indigenous people living in Attawapiskat. I sent them a 5-paged letter with fanart. If I get a reply I'll post a word document with the original letter and reply. I typed the letter before I wrote the handwritten one, so that I could remember what I wrote to them. I also scanned the fanart, so I'll post it here l8r.

Also, you all should check out this cool app + website thingy called Habitica which increases your productivity. You can add me on that site as well. My username is aztecatl13. Basically, you get rewards such as pets and armor for your character in the game for doing your homework and other things. You lose coins and health if you do bad habits. It's an addictive concept and saved my grades this semester. It motivates me to maintain my Facebook hiatus, which has lasted for 5 days now. My record has been one month of no Facebook. Lets see if I can beat that? My record for no computer/internet/devices use has only been like 2 weeks or something though. That was when I went to India and didn't have internet access for some time. I still had a computer for typing shitfictions (very lame stories) on but I wasn't tempted because India is 2 gr8 2 stay inside on a computer all day like I do in Kanata.

Anything else? oh yeah, I got Spotify, not to listen to degenerate American pop or anything stupid like that but to listen to other things. The options are still very limited though. I still prefer making a youtube playlist of national anthems of various countries and listening to that instead, but I like how Spotify has the lyrics provided for most songs and stuff. Currently I am obsessed with a song called "all'armi" which was the anthem of fascist Italy (I'M NOT EVIL THOUGH. I JUST LIKE HOW IT SOUNDS. BETTER THAN MODERN MUSIC IS ALL I AM SAYING....) Mio dio though, I have that song on loop right now. I HATE HOW THE ITALIAN FLAG USED TO LOOK LIKE THE MODERN MEXICAN FLAG WWWTTTFFF:



Italians also used to use this flag:



MEXICO IS A WAYYY BETTER COUNTRY THAN ITALY. IT SHOULD REALLY CHANGE ITS FLAG SO THAT IT CAN BE LESS SIMILAR LOOKING TO ITALY'S :'((((( .

So those are some updates about mein life. Sorry that I don't have anything very interesting to share.

Going to India on Saturday!!

update from my life

Well? I'm going to India on Saturday. I go there every summer so no surprise there.... but I'm still SO excited :P 

Let me clarify something.... 

Most peoples idea of vacation is doing cool stuff and going to all the tourist attractions and indulging in the local culture and taking lots of pictures and doing fun things.

My idea of vacation is sleeping in & visiting relatives. However, I will be stalking certain historical places. Sounds awesome, doesn't it?!

But I won't tell you exactly where I'm going or exactly what I'll be stalking (yet). 

Instead, I promise to give you an excellent 5-star blog post with photos and information and stuff when I get back. I promise I'll do a better one than last year which was just photos and captions. 

update to the blog 

We now have a new header. People were complaining about the last one like crazy, saying it was too flashy, too cluttered, and too hard to read. 

I enjoy making things cluttered X-D but I love my 9 faithful followers (I am the 10th follower, yes I follow my own blog, please don't judge me) and other frequent readers that I have. Therefore, I have made a simpler version with a title, caption, picture, and tiny Mayan pyramid icons. 

Mayans  

Anyway, I guess people were right about the last one. Despite having awesome photos of Teotihuacan, Machu Picchu, El Castillo, and Haida Gwaii, it was too cluttered.

I would like to improve on the last version with more pretty photos of Teotihuacan, Machu Picchu, El Castillo, and Haida Gwaii (places that I have to visit before I die) but planning a new header will take some time :P 

Bye, folks!! 

How do these people do it?!

Right.... so.... 
Some people may point out that this video is new agerish. Well, it sort of is..... just a little bit though.

Ok so I'm not sure what the song is called but I know that it's in Runasimi (Quechua) the language of the Incas.

See this video on Youtube and scroll down and click on 'about' then 'show more'. It should give you lyrics, information and even a translation.

Here's the video:



What fascinates me about this is
1. the singer's voice O.o
2. the pretty Nican tlaca (indigenous stuff) O.o
3. & the awesome musical instruments

the first time I watched it I wuz like

wow
such Runasimi
so fab
very Nican tlaca
wow

Seriously, the song sounds so mysterious and awesome. What do you think?!



More coming up on Frypania: 

• Details about an awesome school assignment
• Stuff I will be doing/seeing this summer vacation 
• More detailed historical posts (I haven't done these in sooooo long. I am  ashamed. I'd better research something interesting and talk about it.)
• More video posts like this one (I know some of you hate them but I'll continue them anyway)
• Art & craft posts

Also, I've been considering guest posts. If anyone is interested in sharing anything on this blog, you know how to contact me. Click the 'stalk me' button and just ask. I might let you post.