Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21

Aug. 19th, 2025 01:55 pm
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Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21: An Entertainment in Londinium by Kaja Foglio and Phil Foglio

Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes

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Tuesday DE

Aug. 19th, 2025 07:21 am
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Your character is now tied up with all day training.

How do they feel about this?

Recent Reading: Welcome to Night Vale

Aug. 18th, 2025 04:08 pm
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Now that I don’t have a commute, I really had to create time to finish my latest audiobook, but it was worth it. Today I finished Welcome to Night Vale: A Novel, the first book put out by the team behind the Welcome to Night Vale fiction podcast and set in the same universe (as is likely apparent by the title). This book was written by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink.

First, I don’t believe you need familiarity with the podcast to enjoy the novel. Nor do you need to read the novel if you’re a podcast listener; it builds on what listeners may know, but also centers incredibly peripheral characters from the show (local PTA mom Diane Crayton and pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro), so if you’re a podcast only fan, you’re not missing any crucial story information by forgoing the book. If you’re not a listener of the podcast, I think as long as you go in understanding that the core of Night Vale is the absurd and the surreal, you’ll be okay.

This was a fun book! I was curious to see how the Night Vale Presents team would manage a longform story in the world of Night Vale (podcast episodes are about 25 minutes and almost always self-contained), and I think they did a solid job! The book can be a bit slow, especially in the beginning; the drip of information it feeds you about the mysteries at the center of the story is indeed a drip. But it wasn’t so slow I found it tiresome, and the typical Night Vale weirdness and eccentricity kept me listening even where I wasn’t sure where this story was going (if anywhere).
 

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Monday DE: What's a-motto with you?

Aug. 18th, 2025 03:11 pm
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Afternoon all!

Sorry I missed last Monday.

Spider-Man has "With great power comes great responsibility." The Thing has "It's clobberin' time!" (even if he'd rather he didn't). Wolverine has "Snikt!". (Okay, okay, technically he's got "I'm the best there is at what I do... but what I do best isn't very nice.") Timon and Pumbaa, of course, have "Hakuna Matata".

What is (or would be) your character's motto or catchphrase?

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 3

Aug. 17th, 2025 11:58 am
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Kill the Villainess, Vol. 3 by Haegi

Spoilers for the first two volumes ahead.

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Title: I Transmigrated Into Cordelia Naismith!
Author: [personal profile] lannamichaels
Fandom: Vorkosigan Saga
Rating: G
A/N: I love reading fics about an OC transmigrating and fixing everything. I've wanted to write one of my own and here it is. For those seeing this plot for the first time: the narrator is an OC who has transmigrated into the character of Cordelia Naismith. There is no other Cordelia Naismith running around, it's just her.
Archives: Archive Of Our Own, SquidgeWorld

Summary: What was I supposed to do? Not fix everything?


So this was fun. )

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Idols and wine issues, and what exactly was going on with wine libations that just mixing the wine around was considered an issue, I would love to know.

The perek ends tomorrow, I got ahead For Reasons.

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Today I finished book #11 on the "Women in Translation" rec list: Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang. This book is about an a widow in her mid-70s who ends up sharing a home with her adult daughter and her daughter's partner. Her contentious relationship with her daughter pits her long-held beliefs and societal viewpoints against her love for her child; simultaneously, she struggles in her job caring for an elderly dementia patient in a nursing home.
 
The protagonist is a person who values, above all, keeping your head down and doing what's expected of you. She does not believe in standing out; she does not believe in involving yourself in other people's problems; perhaps for these reasons, she believes the only people you can ever count on are family. This is how she's lived her whole life, and she believes it was for the best. However, this mindset puts her directly in conflict with her daughter, a lesbian activist who is fighting for equal employment treatment for queer professors and teachers in the South Korean educational system. 
 
When her daughter, Green, runs out of money to pay rent after a quarrel with the university where she was lecturing, the protagonist allows Green and her partner Lane to move in, despite their fractious relationship.

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The Proving Trail

Aug. 15th, 2025 12:57 pm
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The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour

The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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wait wait wait

Aug. 14th, 2025 10:25 pm
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What do you mean, Brandi Carlile and Belinda Carlisle are TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE???? I thought Belinda Carlisle had reinvented herself and made a comeback, what do you mean it's a completely different person.

I have not been this betrayed since finding out that Carl Sandburg and Carl Sagan were different people, but at least these are still two singers. WTF.

Thursday DE

Aug. 14th, 2025 08:16 am
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One more sleep until Friday.

Does your character actively read the news or just comes across it from time to time?

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader

Aug. 13th, 2025 01:07 pm
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Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.

Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.

Wednesday DE: free fallin'

Aug. 13th, 2025 08:13 am
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Hello folks, it's Wednesday and I'm here with your DE.

Today's DE:

Would your pup ever go skydiving?

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