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Hey, would you do subs for Zarah Wilde Jahre?

Haha, that was the first thing I ran to see if I could find after I realized the login was real and worked. It didn’t have the little closed captioning button so I sadly slunk away and then months later decided to try it again and realized it had hard subs! 

But I can’t figure out a way to rip the eps. So either I’m going to have to screen record or transcribe them, which I absoLUTELY have already planned on doing, one or the other, the show’s too good to not get out there, but I just haven’t gotten around to doing it. I’ll bump it up, anon.

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Hmm, finished Gideon the Ninth! I didn’t mind the ending personally, maybe ’cause I’m still processing right now, though I can definitely understand! But wow, all I can say is that I’m really looking forward to the sequel and Gideon is just so ??

Damn, since you sent this late last night, you must have read nonstop. Glad the ending didn’t send you reeling, BUT! Anon! Were you warned? Instead of being COMPLETELY blindsided? Like one poor innocent reader who had NO IDEA what was about to happen and blithely read the ARC she trusted with her foolish girlish heart? Hmmmmm? 😛

But yes, the need I had for the sequel upon finishing! I don’t even think there’s a date, although, there are titles! Not just for the second, Harrow the Ninth,

which you probably saw at the end of this one, but the third one is called Alecto the Ninth?? What is that?? Who is that?? Did I miss some random mention of some being who’ll become significant? Is it like, a combination of Gideon and Harrow?

Oh, I just checked again on goodreads, Harrow the Ninth, June 2nd 2020. That’s…not that far from now? I had to literally check my desktop calendar to make sure this year was 2019, it feels crazy that the sequel’s coming out in less than a year? I’d expect, if June, of 2021. The second Teixcalaan book will come out 18 months after the first one. But maybe part of the reason it took so long for Gideon to come out was the polishing up of the next one? And it’s almost ready? …assuming the date’s even correct, of course. Heh.

But anyway, I loved Gideon the character, and I absolutely need her to be a major part of the next book.

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you can’t just reblog paris/rory like that with no warning, its one of those ships i always forget about but it suddenly will pop up out of nowhere and emotionally drag me back into the early 2000s. but i love that there are still ppl writing it after so long haha

Heh, awwww, yeah, the fandom’s keeping it afloat! If anything, though, doesn’t it feel stronger now than back then? But maybe I just think that because I didn’t ship it at all back then. I wasn’t aware of it as a ship and wouldn’t even suspect I was gay until after the show finished. And then I read good ole Boston Marriage and was like…you know whattt. 

You have read The Best of It, right? Just in case the early ‘00s really were your last time with them, I don’t want you to continue living without it in your life

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I’m 1/3 through Gideon the Ninth, and independent of everything, it’s funny! “He had the eyes of a very beautiful person, trapped in resting bitch face.” I think I gurgled a little.

Ahhh, that’s right! It’s outtttt today. That’s exciting!

It is! Isn’t it? It’s funny in a way that really worked for me, so irreverent and modern amid like, very classical gothic scifi. I highlighted so many lines like that. Especially for Harrow, who I adored. The humor was the throughline for me and the strongest justification for keeping it as a rec no matter what else happened.

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I’m all for Demi and Kristian because I’m just desperate for any and all of wlw couples in the media but I still can’t get over the fact that Demi didn’t know how Nelson Mandela was. Like… that’s seriously one of the most cringe moments that my brain could only translate to “ah, white American” and I hate that I was forced to be so judgmental.

Heh, anon, that was so unfair to you. But judgmental to, like, the system that created the situation, right? I don’t really blame people for not knowing things, you never know how they grew up, and it’s really difficult to not know…what you don’t know. I grew up switching between different school systems and you’d be shocked at how much I never learned.

What I might have side-eyed her for is if she’d responded in a “who cares?” kinda way but I think her response was pretty solid? 

Explained it, owned it, and apologized for it.