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osprey_archerasakiyume’s place just a couple of days before St. Patrick’s Day, so we decided it would be the perfect time to catch up on the latest movies released by the Irish animation studio Cartoon Saloon, still perhaps most famous for its first movie The Secret of Kells. We perhaps should have saved Wolfwalkers for St. Patrick’s Day itself, as it’s actually set in Ireland. Young Robyn Goodfellowe has just arrived in Ireland with her father, a professional hunter who has been hired by Oliver Cromwell to eliminate the wolves in the nearby woods. Once the wolves have been driven out, the wild woods can be cut down and converted to farmland, thus by proxy also taming the wild Irish people.
Young Robyn is supposed to stay home and do chores, but in classic heroine mode, she would much rather dash about the woods hunting with her father. Unable to accompany him on his hunt, she instead goes into the woods on her own, and accidentally falls into one of her own father’s snares!
Robyn is released by mischievous young wolfwalker Mebh, and they spend a happy day frolicking through the forest together. But in the process of releasing Robyn from the trap, Mebh nipped her. And that night when she falls asleep, Robyn’s spirit rises from her body in the form of a wolf…
Absolutely gorgeous animation. I particularly loved all the sequences featuring the wolfwalkers in wolf form, particularly the eerily beautiful image of Robyn’s wolf-spirit frantically trying to return to her body when the whole town is attempting to hunt down this wolf that inexplicably got into the town walls.
I was also impressed ( spoilers )
The animation in My Father’s Dragon wasn’t quite as lovely, or rather didn’t have quite as many opportunities for numinous loveliness. But I also enjoyed it, which surprised me because I didn’t particularly like the book it’s based on and likely wouldn’t have tried it if it weren’t Cartoon Saloon.
The book (also called My Father’s Dragon) is a straightforward tale about a boy going to an island where he defeats and/or escapes various ferocious animals (crocodiles, tigers etc) in order to rescue a baby dragon. The end. A brisk recitation of a series of events without much character development or worldbuilding of the island or anything else.
The moviemakers clearly realized that in order to stretch the story to feature-length, character development and worldbuilding and so forth was just exactly what they’d need. The result is a much richer story, where the various ferocious animals are no longer basically an obstacle course but characters with their own motivations. Also, the human protagonist meets the baby dragon much earlier, which changes his journey from a solo quest into a sort of heartwrenching buddy comedy.
The filmmakers were trying very hard, and unfortunately sometimes you could see the gears grinding as they strained to get the emotional effect they wanted, which of course serves to undermine that effect. But still, an ambitious “shot for the moon and landed among the stars,” which is still a pretty decent place to land.
podcast friday
Mar. 27th, 2026 06:58 amsabotabbyMy biggest disagreement with people who I'm otherwise in political lockstep with is Ukraine. Most (North American) leftists are wrong about this. I know this because I have actually been to Ukraine (and Russia), not just in touristy areas, and they for the most part haven't and don't know what they're talking about and are generally basing their opinions on either Cold War nostalgia, residual anti-imperialist trauma, or the appalling behaviour of some diaspora Ukrainian communities. My shitlib position is that you shouldn't invade other people's countries and kill them because you want their land or resources. Even if—and this is critical when we're talking about Palestine or Iran too—you don't like them and some of them are bad people. If that makes me a NATO stooge or CIA asset so be it.
Margaret and guest Charles McBryde share my opinion and also argue with other leftists about this, so you already know I'm going to agree with them. (Though not totally—we are all leftists here after all.) And you know who else does? A fuck of a lot of Russians. These two episodes focus on the frankly heroic actions of the Russian activists who resist Putin's authoritarianism, including Ruslan Siddiqui, who is genuinely cool not just for his political convictions but with the truly brass balls panache with which he acted. Margaret refers to him as the most cyberpunk guy she's ever heard of and this is true. I should write to him.
Anyway, it's a really wild ride about how to resist authoritarianism when regular political channels are cut off, which is of relevance in Russia and only in Russia, given that it's the only country that disappears people off the streets, murders its dissidents, and cracks down on freedom of expression.
The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories by E. M. Forster
Mar. 27th, 2026 09:53 amregshoe...on the back he saw a neat little résumé in Miss Pembroke’s handwriting, intended for such as him. “Allegory. Man = modern civilization (in bad sense). Girl = getting into touch with Nature.”—The Longest Journey, chapter 12
Then he showed Maynard what the story was about. B—— by a waiter at the hotel, Eustace commits bestiality with a goat on that valley where I had sat. In the subsequent chapters, he tells the waiter how nice it has been and they try to b—— each other again. [...] I was horrified and did not want to meet Charles Sayle. In after years I realised that in a stupid and unprofitable way he was right and that this was the cause of my indignation.
What shall I say about them, then? The stories, which may or may not be variously about Nature and b——y, are all more or less fantastical. The title story is meant very literally; it's about an omnibus that goes to Heaven (from Surbiton), and the bus is driven and Heaven peopled by famous authors and literary characters from through the ages. 'The Story of a Panic', 'The Road from Colonus' and 'The Curate's Friend' all feature classical themes; the first two are set in Italy and Greece respectively, while the Faun of the latter, haunting the hills of (of course) Wiltshire and usually 'only speaking to children' who forget him when they grow up, reminded me for a moment of Kipling's Puck, though Forster does more adult things with him. 'The Other Side of the Hedge' is also about Modern Civilisation and what it loses sight of, and is really more of an allegory than 'Other Kingdom', despite Agnes Pembroke's comment on the latter—for, what delighted me most of all in this collection, that story is (with a few minor alterations of detail) Rickie's story about the Dryad described in chapters 7 and 12 of The Longest Journey. Apparently Forster had written but not yet published it when he put it in the novel. Important and highly recommended reading for any Forster fan and anyone else who thinks this sort of thing sounds worthwhile.
Group Dynamics
Mar. 27th, 2026 09:58 ampoliphilorecentish android game tastings
Mar. 26th, 2026 08:19 pmthistleingreyI've tried some diversions on my Android phone, over some months:
* CookieRun: Oven Smash (released this week) brings the franchise's extant characters into ad hoc PvP (player versus player), initially three against three. I like the idea that one may fall into combat alongside strangers and work together (presumably one may also play alongside in-game friends), but I'm not into real-time PvP. Time elapsed: about 15 minutes, including listening to the cutscenes---I set it to English text and Korean audio.
( there's a bunch of these because none of them lasted )
That's a lot of casual disappointments that didn't matter! The thing about many puzzle diversions that're slightly more challenging than "too simple" is that they increase eyestrain or require my hands in ways that I currently can't support. Like, I very briefly tried Strange Jigsaws on the laptop, and then I stopped because of eyestrain and hands. It's good, though!
Laptop demos I haven't tried yet (but have installed): Aethus, Hozy, Momento, Relooted, Scriptorium, Winter Burrow.
Have you played something lately that you didn't dislike? I'm still looking. :)
Daily Happiness
Mar. 26th, 2026 07:51 pmtorachan2. Molly's showing off her cutie calico beans, too.
asianjunkie_feedmangabookshelf_feedBy Takamedou and Nemusuke. Released in Japan as “”Jishou Akuyaku Reijou” ni Korosareta Last Boss no Yarinaoshi: Bocchi na Reitetsu Koujo wa, Dai Ni no Jinsei de Riajuu wo Mezashimasu” by DRE Novels. Released in North America by J-Novel Heart. Translated by Sheldon Drzka.
The famous Bible quote “the sins of the father are visited upon the son” can apply to daughters as well, and it certainly does here. Milly may be doing her best to make friends, show off, and live her best second life, but her father Kyle is still regarded by everyone as the absolute worst, and he is certainly not above destroying families because he’s in a bad mood. As such, no one wants to be close friends with Milly except those who know her really well – why risk it? What’s more, it turns out that her life is still in danger, mostly because there’s someone else trying to change the current timeline. Not, I hasten to add, because they’re another person who remembers the otome game. No, they just remember the first timeline, and they think the country is headed to ruin and Milly is helping it.
Milly is a bit stressed. She still hasn’t made friends beyond the Student Council and the girls she saved from Angelina’s evil plan in Book 1. And since final exams are upon them soon, there’s no time to make them. Fortunately, she’s good at studying, so can help the others, even if they may not really want her to. And then there’s her class, who are still terrified of her… at least until they see how adorably socially awkward she is, whereupon they fold like card tables. She’s even getting closer to her father, who she still sees as evil incarnate, but who we the reader see is simply very overprotective and even more socially awkward than she is. Will she be able to take first place in exams and get the First Dance at the next ball? Wait, isn’t Angelina still around? And is she the ONLY villain?
Last time I said I wanted to see more of Kyle, Milly’s father, and we do get a lot more of him here. The reason this plot is happening at all is that he’s got so much power, and the future shows him betraying the country, which almost destroys the country. Unfortunately, Milly is not really dealing with that end of the problem, focusing instead on not having everyone at school not care if she gets brutally murdered. She’s also still not great at picking up social cues. She gets that Ike hates her, and wants to fix it, but she hasn’t noticed that there’s someone else in the Council who remains cool to her, and that becomes a big issue. Also, the Council very quickly learns that “we want to keep this quiet so we’ll just keep her under house arrest” is not a great move if she, y’know, escapes. On the bright side, possibly as this is mostly not from the webnovel, Milly’s characterization is more consistent – not too stoic or too goofy.
This is a Dre Novels series, so I assume it will end with Vol. 3, which I don’t believe is out yet. Milly, talk to your father.
Manga the Week of 4/1/26
Mar. 26th, 2026 08:30 pmmangabookshelf_feedSEAN: It’s a Marchey, Apriley sort of week.
ASH: That it is.
SEAN: Airship’s print title is the 13th volume of Failure Frame.
For early digital we debut Classroom of the Elite: Year 3 (Youkoso Jitsuryoku Shijou Shugi no Kyoushitsu e: 3-Nensei-hen), the sequel to the first two years, which explores what to do when the protagonist is now your enemy.
Also early digital: Betrothed to My Sister’s Ex 2 and She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man 16.
Cross Infinite World has a new one-shot, The Brooding Duke’s Guide to the Lie-Detecting Lady (Fukigen na Koushaku-sama wa Uso Hakkenki Tsuki Reijou no Torisetsu wo Goshomou desu: Ophelia ni wa Uso wa Tsukenai). A girl who can tell is someone is lying… and thus her life among petty nobles is a living hell… is recruited by her crush the Duke to ferret out vice.
ASH: I feel like I’ve read something else along these lines recently, but can’t quite recall what it was.
MICHELLE: Usotoki Rhetoric, perhaps?
ASH: Oh, right! That’s the one.
SEAN: CIW also has Breaking Up Was the Plan, the Duke Falling For the Villainess Was Not! 2 and Dinners with My Darling 3.
Drawn and Quarterly has a 5th volume in their Complete Yoshiharu Tsuge library. He Rolled Me Up Like a Grilled Squid collects stories from the mid-late 1970s.
ASH: This series has been so good.
SEAN: Ize Press has the 3rd volume of the Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint novel, as well as Radio Storm 4.
No debuts for J-Novel Club. For light novels we get DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level 12, Long Story Short, I’m Living in the Mountains 5, Peddler in Another World 12, and The Tanaka Family Reincarnates 6.
And for manga, we get Demon Lord, Retry! R 10, Fushi no Kami 9, The Invincible Little Lady 12, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life 9, and What’s with the Bag, Kamiyama-san? 2.
Kodama is putting out Sun-Ken Rock: Perfect Edition. The digital version had come out here years ago, but now it’s in print. Delinquent Japanese guy chases a girl to Korea and winds up in the Korean mafia. This is classic Boichi.
ASH: This should make some people happy.
SEAN: They also have Baki the Grappler 13 and 14 and Me and the Alien Mumu 2.
Kodansha Manga debuts Fruit of the Underworld (Meiou no Zakuro), the latest title from Aya Kanno. This runs in Champion Cross. A young man fell into a well as a child, and since then has been cursed with bad luck. But when he tries to get rid of what he thinks led to the bad luck, he finds himself in a much worse situation.
MICHELLE: Huh. Aya Kanno does shounen.
ASH: I’m looking forward to giving it a try!
ANNA: I’m curious!
SEAN: There’s also Dragon Head Omnibus 2, Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards 8, Omega Megaera 3, Senpai is an Otokonoko 5, The Seven Deadly Sins: Four Knights of the Apocalypse 21, Shangri-La Frontier 21, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime 29, and Wistoria: Wand and Sword 12.
ASH: I should really give Dragon Head a re-read.
SEAN: Digitally we get The God-Tier Guardian and the Love of Six Princesses 17.
Seven Seas’ one debut is When a Clueless First-Person Shooter Player Falls into Another World (Manuke na FPS Player ga Isekai e Ochita Baai), a seinen manga from Young Ace Up! based on the light novel they’re releasing digital only. The manga has print, though. Gun guy ends up in RPG fantasy world.
Other manga from Seven Seas: CALL TO ADVENTURE! Defeating Dungeons with a Skill Board 11, Chillin’ in Another World with Level 2 Super Cheat Powers 12, Drugstore in Another World 12, DUNGEON DIVE: Aim for the Deepest Level 8, Dungeon People 6, Grand Metal Organs 2, Headhunted to Another World 10, His Majesty the Demon King’s Housekeeper 12, Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! Omnibus 2, The Lying Bride and the Same-Sex Marriage Debate 2 (the final volume), Made in Abyss 14, Magic Artisan Dahlia Wilts No More 8, The Masterful Cat Is Depressed Again Today 11, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Elma’s Office Lady Diary 10, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Kanna’s Daily Life 14, Nakamura-san, the Uninvited Gyaru 5, and Reborn as a Space Mercenary 10.
ASH: That’s a fair amount!
SEAN: Titan Manga has Villain Actor 2.
Tokyopop has a 2nd volume of Fated NOT to Meet.
And Udon Entertainment has Hidetaka Tenjin’s Artistry of Gundam, an artbook.
ASH: Udon’s artbooks are generally solid, quality-wise.
SEAN: And that’s it for a very Marchey, Apriley sort of list. Did something catch your eye?
MICHELLE: Not much, honestly.
ANNA: Yep, more time to get caught up on things!
Embracing Original Works
Mar. 26th, 2026 08:40 pmsquidgestatusSecond, we know there are quite a lot of people who not only write fanfiction, but original fiction as well - fiction that is not tied to a fandom. Because of this, we have created a standalone fandom of "Original Works", which you can think about more in the concept of "Movies and Film" and "TV and Streaming Video." This is the "parent" collection, and (as of Sunday when we perform weekly maintenance), will appear along as one of the lists of Fandoms on the upper left menu. Under "Original Works", we have created multiple types of works available for tagging purposes. When creating an original work, you have the following options available, along with a little explanation:
Original Works - Diaries and Journals: This is where you can create something with your own personal thoughts. Almost like a blogpost or such.
Original Works - Epistolary and Letters: Writing the letters between two lovers? This is where those would go.
Original Works - Essays and Meta: Think of this as the, "I'm here to convince you to watch more science fiction shows" or "Here is what action movies get wrong about female characters" and the like.
Original Works - Guidance and Instructions: I don't think this will get quite much use, but you never know. Things under this "fandom" are truly instructions, like "How to save money in THIS economy" or the instructions I wrote on how to implement the OTW code to bring a new archive online.
Original Works - Long Form Prose: Basically, something longer than a short story. A few chapters of a work you've created. Think "novella" which is one or more chapters, and 17,500 to 40,000 words.
Original Works - Lyrics and Music: As it sounds, maybe you've written some music and want the lyrics posted somewhere. Or you've rewritten the lyrics to a popular song. This is where you'd document it.
Original Works - Novel: If you've got an original idea and want to write a novel, use this one. These typically will be multi-chapter and have at least 40,000 words
Original Works - Poetry: Write some original poetry? Use this fandom.
Original Works - Screenplays and Scripts: Screenplays, scripts, and plays have very particular writing styles with dialogue, actions, and stage direction amongst other elements.
Original Works - Short Form Prose: This is a quick short story, or in terms of book size, a novellette. Those range anywhere up to 17,500 words.
Original Works - Others [Unlisted]: This is the catch-all if something else here doesn't fit. This is where most of the existing Original Works were documented under.
Per our policy on original works in the Terms of Service, point 7, these works CAN have Ko-Fi and Patreon links. Just FYI. All other links for Ko-Fi, Patreon, and the like that are intended for fanfiction-based works are not allowed.
If you have questions, please let us know! And as for now, back to tag wrangling.
Due South fic question
Mar. 26th, 2026 01:24 pmaurumcalendulaETA:
ride_4ever found it! It's Unplanned by Beth HEven Exiled, She’s Still the Beloved Saint! St. Evelyn’s Weird and Wonderful Friends, Vol. 2
Mar. 26th, 2026 10:40 ammangabookshelf_feedBy Harunadon and Kurodeko. Released in Japan as “Tsuihousareta Seijo desu ga, Jitsu wa Kunijuu kara Aisaresugitete Kowain desu kedo!?” by Earth Star Luna. Released in North America by J-Novel Heart. Translated by Camilla L.
It can be difficult for me to do a review of a title that relies so much on just being funny. We aren’t really going to get much in the way of ongoing plot, and while there is character development, it’s not really why folks would want to read this book. This book is read for the laughs. Watching Evelyn suffer, seeing her misunderstand, seeing everyone else just completely losing their minds when she supposedly vanishes, and of course everything about the curse and its aftereffects that we get in this volume. The translator must have had a ball, as there a whole lot of puns that will make even the most inveterate jokester feel a bit sheepish. (Ahem.) Fortunately, there is a dramatic nugget to grab a hold of here, and it’s actually very interesting. It also involves a new character who is, rest assured, just as weird as the others, but can also give Evelyn something she desperately needs – a mother figure.
Evelyn is going through some tough times. She’s trying to learn how to be a proper noble lady, after years of only having to be The Saint. The problem is, she’s not very good at dancing, posture, etc. The bigger problem is all her tutors insists she’s perfect, they have nothing to teach her, and then they quit. Kira is the only one who seems to recognize that she’s upset at all this. So she decides to run away for a bit, taking Kira with her and leaving a note to explain things. Unfortunately, she tried to write the note in poetic language, which means folks think she ran off to commit suicide. She actually ends up at the shore of a lake, one with gorgeous scenery, a mysterious curse, and Europa’s mother, who has a tendency to pass out at the drop of a hat but is otherwise exactly what you’d expect from a light novel mother. She’s called Mamaropa, because of course she is.
There’s some other interesting things in this book, particularly the unexpected friendship (and maybe more? Yuri?) between Theodore’s younger sister Karin and Evelyn’s evil sister Mary, who is still a bit of a brat but is now far less evil thanks to Karin’s tutelage. But the main reason I enjoyed this is seeing Evelyn and Mamaropa interact. Evelyn’s issues in this book stem from one very specific problem – almost everyone in her life puts her on a pedestal, and refuses to tell her she’s doing anything wrong. She needs family guidance, and her family are either dead or mostly still bad people. Mamaropa is very silly (it is a comedy book), and the Mommy jokes can wear a bit thin, but she doesn’t talk to Evelyn like she’s The Beloved Saint, and may even manage to teach her – we’ll see, a third book is coming. Technically there’s also Kira, and he does function as a little brother, but he has to be there to be the tsukkomi when Evelyn can’t do it herself, so he’s too busy.
I think I enjoyed this a bit more than the first book. Assuming you don’t mind – I emphasize once more – this being very, very silly, it’s a fun read.
Book Review: New Grub Street
Mar. 26th, 2026 08:01 amosprey_archerThis is even more obvious in New Grub Street, which takes as its cast a motley crew of struggling writers in 1880s London, and as its themes money and love. More specifically, its themes are:
1. Poverty is horrible and degrading and undermines every other facet of life; and
2. Money is a necessary but not sufficient condition for love. That is to say, you can have money but not love, but love without money cannot last.
Of course these themes are implied in other books (think of Jane Austen’s characters breathlessly discussing the marriage prospects of so-and-so who has thus-and-such pounds a year), but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them expounded with Gissing’s brutal clarity. It’s bracing, stimulating not always to total agreement but certainly to deeper thought, for instance about the fact that people marry not only because they fall in love with an individual but because they love the image of the lifestyle and status they think they’ll have with that person.
Gissing has the Zola-like gift of creating an ensemble cast of characters who illustrate different facets of his theme while also being interesting and individual people in their own right. Gissing is trying to give them all a fair shake, to portray them all so clearly that we can see why they act the way they do. Readers may or may not find it in our hearts to sympathize, but that will be our own decision, not a result of Gissing putting his finger on the scale.
--Sensitive Edwin Reardon, who married upper-middle-class Amy on the strength of one well-received novel and now suffering immense writer’s block. Amy fell in love with both Edwin and the idea of being a successful novelist’s wife, and is appalled to see this dream crumbling under what appears to her to be his refusal to work.
As I’ve struggled with writer’s block for the past couple of years, I feel a great sympathy for Edwin: he quite literally cannot write anything good right now! It’s not his fault! But I can also see why it doesn’t look that way to Amy and her family, especially because the social rules of 1880s London mean there is no graceful road of retreat. Not only is it impossible for Amy to get a job (this is literally unthinkable: not one character ever even imagines it), but now that Edwin has set up as a full-time writer, the whole family would lose caste if he took a job for wages.
--Jasper Milvain, debonair man about town who approaches writing as a business and forthrightly says his goal is to earn a thousand pounds a year. A character type who in many books would be a villain, and I won’t say that he’s not just a bit villainous at times, but he’s also a complex character who definitely has a point. In the tradition of an Austen baddie, he ends up perfectly happy with himself and his choices.
--Alfred Yule, a cranky aging writer of moderate abilities who was never very financially successful, and married a working class woman because he never made enough to support a wife of his own class. There’s a section where Gissing lists a whole bunch of similarly positioned writers who made a similar decision and makes it clear that he thinks this is pretty much always a mistake that will lead to marital disharmony.
--Marian Yule, Alfred Yule’s daughter and assistant, who is to an ever-greater extent perhaps simply writing his articles for him. (We also get a glimpse of two other women writers in Jasper’s sisters, who at Jasper’s suggestion take to writing Sunday school stories to support themselves.)
--Whelpdale, an unsuccessful writer who makes a success of it telling other writers how to write to market. A jolly young man despite all his setbacks.
--Harold Biffen, an extremely poor though talented writer of the realist school who sticks fast to his principles and loves discussing Greek and Latin literature with Edwin Reardon. Would be the tragically romantic starving artist in a garret in another book. Unfortunately wound up in a Gissing book instead.
Having set these and various other figures going, Gissing simply observes them, like a naturalist watching a particularly interesting species of cockatoos. The result is absorbing, as
skygiants and genarti can attest, having been subjected to various rants and wails as I tore through the back half of the book. Highly recommended on account of quality, recommended cautiously on account of emotional intensity.Handy
Mar. 26th, 2026 07:50 ampoliphilo
Daily Happiness
Mar. 25th, 2026 07:15 pmtorachan2. I have to wear insoles with my shoes or I get terrible foot pain, but for some reason the ones I have can be very squeaky. I tried some of the tips for making insoles stop squeaking, but it didn't work, so I ordered a different brand ones, which I found on some hiking website as like the best of the best, and they came today and do not squeak! The fit is honestly not quite as good as the ones I usually get, but I also just wore them for a little over a mile walk this evening, so I'm hoping that I can break them in a bit more before our trip.
3. Look at these calico beans of Chloe's!
wednesday reads and things
Mar. 25th, 2026 06:27 pmisisCinder House by Freya Marske, which is a gothicy Cinderella retelling except that Cinderella is a ghost. For some reason I had osmosed it was f/f, which it is not, though it's not strictly het. The various analogs to the fairy tale were mostly quite charming, and the various rules of ghostness and magic as well - I enjoyed it a great deal. More of a novella than a novel.
What I've recently finished watching:
It looks like I didn't say anything after I finished Pluribus; it was...okay, interesting, some weird plot-gaps (not exactly holes, but) that had me thinking, "yes, but..." a lot.
We watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms which was enjoyable enough, though I could have done without certain graphic disgustingness.
Bridgerton S4 was fun as usual. Sophie was delightful (another Cinderella story, hee, complete with evil stepmama!) and the resolution there surprised me a little but I liked it. I was expecting a different outcome of Francesca's story due to osmosis about the books, but I guess that will happen next season. I was completely gobsmacked to see Cressida again but as usual her terrible sartorial choices made for excellent comic relief.
Okay, this was definitely a shorter media review than usual, but I need to finish packing - we're heading out on a camper van roadtrip vacation tomorrow morning. See you all sometime in April!
Reading Wednesday
Mar. 25th, 2026 06:01 pmtroisoiseauxRead Diary of a Cranky Bookworm by Aster Glenn Gray (DW's own
osprey_archer!), which was a delight. On a general note, this is a fun and thoughtful coming-of-age YA novel in which the characters are great both at being characters and at feeling like people; on a personal one, this was very fun to read as a book about a bookworm by someone who I became friends with over books, because protagonist Sage's literary landscape felt immediately and intimately familiar. :)