Agatha Heterodyne, Girl Genius #21
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Spoilers ahead for the earlier volumes
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Tuesday DE
Aug. 19th, 2025 07:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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How do they feel about this?
Recent Reading: Welcome to Night Vale
Aug. 18th, 2025 04:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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).
Monday DE: What's a-motto with you?
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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?
"I Transmigrated Into Cordelia Naismith!" (Vorkosigan Saga) G
Aug. 17th, 2025 03:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Title: I Transmigrated Into Cordelia Naismith!
Author:
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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?
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[Daf Yomi] Maseches Avoda Zara, perek 4 Rabbi Yishmael
Aug. 17th, 2025 02:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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Recent Reading: Concerning My Daughter
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The Proving Trail
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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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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
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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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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'
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Today's DE:
Would your pup ever go skydiving?