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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-07 09:12 am

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, volume 2) by T. L. Huchu



Discovering what she expected to be a lucrative new job is instead an internship, Ropa Moyo tries to pay her bill by resorting to her avocation of detective.

Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments (Edinburgh Nights, volume 2) by T. L. Huchu
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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-11-07 07:33 am
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podcast friday

Double feature because there was too much good content this week.

I'm going to take the rare step of recommending a two-part episode before I've finished listening to part 2, because I've listened to the Conspirituality episode on the same subject and I know who Peter Thiel thinks is the Antichrist. Through all of part 1 and the beginning of part 2 of Behind the Bastards' "Peter Thiel and the Anti-Christ" you can just feel Robert getting increasingly excited about telling Sarah Marshall who Thiel thinks the Antichrist is and she keeps guessing and getting close but missing, critically, how fucking insane Thiel is.

You should listen to this because the people making all of the decisions in our lives with all of the money are actually batshit and believe batshit things and we all need to adjust our political strategies accordingly.

The flipside is Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff's "The Gallae: Trans Priestesses of Ancient Rome," where Magpie talks to Gabriel Dunn about how ancient trans women were persecuted but powerful and badass, into noise music, and did rave culture. Part 1, part 2. Not as much on Sumerian civilization as I'd like but maybe that's another episode.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-06 09:00 am
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 02:04 pm
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Over the Edge 3E



The Third Edition corebook, scenarios, and 18 music tracks

Over the Edge 3E
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 03:25 pm

Time Well Spent

Invested too much time statting out a character I will probably never use.

Evan Mason: Captain Jetpack!

Read more... )
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-05 09:14 am

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa



Hinako Yaotose is saved by certain doom... by a monster who wants to let Hinaka ripen a bit before eating her.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, volume 1 by Sai Naekawa
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sabotabby ([personal profile] sabotabby) wrote2025-11-05 06:55 am
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Reading Wednesday

 Any day that starts with Cheney dying and ends with Mandami getting elected as New York mayor, even with the forces of both wings of the Party allied against him, is a pretty good day.

But onto the books.

Just finished: Nothing.

Currently reading: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang. Okay "academia is hell" is a cheap premise but 1) it's true, and 2) she does it splendidly, and I am devouring this book. It's so good. I love Alice. She's awful and such a fuckup and makes the wrong decision at every turn and I'm here for it. As I'm reading I just want to screenshot every page and text it to my academic friends.

I'm about 3/4 through and if Kuang lands the ending, this is going to be one of the best things I've read this year.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-04 11:14 am

My terrible confession

Because both shows feature a red-haired teenaged girl with a monosyllabic name and a troubled relationship with their family, my brain merged the continuities of Son of a Critch and Stranger Things.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-04 08:43 am
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Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh



A trading voyage leads to first contact and a delightful process of mutual discovery.

Voyager in Night by C J Cherryh
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 09:54 pm

Annoyed

Tried to move my dinner time in just two days, ate too late, crashed my blood sugar, and had to cancel gaming.

(It's not diabetes. It's just that I am incredibly intolerant to eating late)
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 02:03 pm
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 12:48 pm
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Five Ways Science Fiction Can Expand Beyond Homo sapiens



Modern humans are fine, but what if we had a bit more variety in our stories?

Five Ways Science Fiction Can Expand Beyond Homo sapiens
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-03 09:06 am
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-02 09:54 pm

Achtung! Cthulhu

My character discovered that using his acting skills to look like a dangerous opponent kind of backfires if it gets the full attention of something that is a dangerous opponent.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-02 03:58 pm

This went over well



In case the image does not load or someone cannot read it: it is a Bluesky post reading "I firmly believe the Jays would have won had Diefenbaker not cancelled the Avro Arrow."

There are 7 reposts, 2 quotes, and 48 likes.
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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-11-02 07:52 am

Moon of Mutiny (Jim Stanley, volume 3) by Lester del Rey



Was Fred Halpern the boy space hero the papers believed him or the headstrong fool his teachers saw?

Moon of Mutiny (Jim Stanley, volume 3) by Lester del Rey
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the_siobhan ([personal profile] the_siobhan) wrote2025-11-02 02:12 am
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Fashion Plate: Chapter Five

Dione! Bed!

Turning off my alarm clock for tomorrow because oucyh.

final chapter )
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the_siobhan ([personal profile] the_siobhan) wrote2025-11-02 01:47 am
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Fashion Plate: Chapter Four

At least one more gin & tonic went into this chapter.

Everybody else hsa buggered off to bed and I really want to be done so I can do that too.

chapter four )
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the_siobhan ([personal profile] the_siobhan) wrote2025-11-02 01:42 am
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Fashion Plate: Chapter Three

I have legit lost track of where I am.

I think two gin & tonics went into this chapter. Ish

chapter three )