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If Roxane/Tom is endgame like she's telegraphing, I'm gonna scream, lol

My heart is MELTING at the image of four grown adults of a crime club sitting on blankets around a fire while their 9-year-old daughter/member roasts them marshmallows (and potatoes).

How are we gonna wrap this up in 110 pages, Samantha?!

My FACE every time Nicalys appears. UGH

"Spirituality is essentially the act of breathing." - quoting Lynn Margulis. I love that.

I listened to a hefty chunk of this book on my drive today, and I'm delighted that it is about teenage girls:

a. doing Shenanigans and giving Quarsh Panaka mini heart attacks, and
b. becoming absolutely, irrevocably devoted to each other

I don't know if I'll finish this. I picked it up on a whim because my podcasting partner is watching the series and I thought it would make a good segment. But I'm only #6 pages in, and the author has already used "asexual" as a negative or derogatory (and inaccurate) term TWICE now. In 26 pages... Might skim the rest just for the plot, but yikes.

I love Annabel St. George.

I mean, so far we have:

- a group of mostly queer lady knights
- two absolute idiot main characters whom I adore with all my stupid heart
- and a fantasy world that has a word for ace people! or at least ace knights. and that word is "shieldwed," which is rad

so it's going great!

Surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?), I really identify with the guy so ornery that he built an entire house where everything--the room corners, the stairs--was just a few degrees off.

"I don't want to end up simply having visited this world."

Okay, Mary, sum up my anxiety in one sentence, why don't you?

"...I love everything my country can one day be" hits extra hard at this point in time

This is delightful so far.

Well, fuck...

If you pass me while I'm listening to this in the car, don't be alarmed as I scream back at the narrator in frustration and disgust.

HELENA! <3

I'm actually really stressed about where this is going. If it keeps on like it is, I don't think I'll like how everything wraps up...

I'm interested and optimistic.

Sarah and Delphine are my favorite badasses. They're also my favorite dumbasses. Wow.

Love the Frankenstein quote: "I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other."

But crap. Now I have to wait till Nov 7th?!

I think there are 10 or 12 episodes, so I'm just going to do 10% for each. I loved that more favorite characters popped up this episode. I screamed in my car when Alison appeared! I especially love that so far, Cosima has a big POV and that Charlotte's seems like it will be increasing. It's just so fun to spend time with these characters again.

Am I using these weekly updates to get through my work week?

Maybe so. Maybe so.

(P.S. Where's Helena?!)

I was THRILLED when I found out there'd be an audiobook continuation of Orphan Black, one of my all-time fave series. I have no idea how many episodes this is going to be. I listened to the first one last night (about 30 minutes, and apparently half the first episode). It's a pleasure to be back in the world, and it's a pleasure to listen to Tatiana Maslany bringing these characters to life again.

I'M SO CLOSE TO FINISHING, BUT I HAVE NO HEADPHONEABLE-WORK LEFT FOR THE NIGHT, SO I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL MY DRIVE HOME. I AM SO EMOTIONAL ABOUT THIS BOOK.