Spoil Me

Thank you so much to Claire for commissioning this episode! This is a positively delightful installment of the show, and I'm certain that the wrestling motif is only here for this one episode but I kinda wish it would stick around. The whole thing with Alba and Petra's mother Magda really begins to come to a head here, and I have to confess that I'm really proud of Jane for deciding to ask for ful...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! These are some of the most satisfying chapters in all of Cradle. That is all.

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! This is the section in which most of the gang ascends without Lindon, and I really didn't fully appreciate how this was going to go. They're held and questioned by the Abidan RE: becoming executors, and meanwhile Lindon is down with Orthos and Blue. He hosts a meeting with the Eight Man Empire and sets some restrictions in place to ensure M...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode. These are the chapters in which Mercy winds up having to kill Malice. Despite being really relieved that Malice is no longer part of the equation, for Mercy's sake I appreciate the seriousness of the writing in this scene. It's a real testament to Will's ability to get me to care. Thanks for listening, and I will see you shortly with a new...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we have the final confrontation between Malice and Mercy, and it's truly a heartbreaking sequence of events. There's just enough humanity left in Malice that I have a moment of thinking she can be saved...but then she just does the thing she always does. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, Lindon uses the echo of Northstrider to remind the monarch of what his values used to be, and get the man to finally ascend. I'm so here for this, I can't even tell you. Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you very much to Andy for commissioning this episode! In these chapters we find out that Reigan Shen not only can make and break a soul oath with no repercussions on himself whatsoever, but that he has created a device which transfers the pain of it to the remnant of Tiberian Aurelius. GROSS. We also get to watch as Lindon summons Northstrider through space, and it's very very satisfying. Th...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters in which the Weeping Dragon finally dies, and it very nearly causes everyone's deaths. It's so close, indeed, that Dross doesn't want to even tell Lindon what the odds were even after the fact. However, Lindon does indeed end up with the binding to create a weapon, and we are left to wonder what he's going to make wit...

Thank you once again to Andy for commissioning this episode! In these two chapters we've got Lindon pushing himself to the absolute limit in order to save his friends because they've come through a portal to help him at the almost exact moment that Dross realizes they've been fooled by the Weeping Dragon. I'm delighted with the progress our friends have made, especially getting to see Mercy really...

Thank you so much to Andrew for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters where Orthos and Little Blue turn fully into humans (well mostly full human), and get rescued from the pocket world by Larian of the Eight Man Empire. I am very excited for them joining the fray, even though I understand Lindon's anxiety. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you to Andy for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters in which Reigan Shen attacks Ghostwind Hall, and Yerin comes out to face him before having to back right the hell out into the pocket world just before the portal out is destroyed. This turns into a race against time as Mercy and Ziel join her in a battle against the Thunder Fairy and the Sage Of Calling Storms, and I'm over...

Thank you to Andy for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters in which Lindon continues to go after the monarchs and we get to see a shiny new trick of his in which he manages to use Dross to overtake Northstrider's codex and feed him false information. This in turn allows Lindon to feed on Northstrider. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! So these are the chapters in which Ziel seems to make a conscious decision to really try to focus to the best of his ability instead of just going through the motions, despite the fact that he truly seems to think there's no way he is catching up. He's TRYING TO BELIEVE! Also, we get more interference from Monarchs and Lindon pulls an oh-so...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! These are the chapters where Reigan Shen is attempting his first assault to lure Lindon out of Ghostwind Hall and hopefully waste a bunch of his time so that he can't advance. We get to see Lindon put the fear of Ozmanthus into him, and we also get something that I absolutely loved that is very petty. Thanks for listening, and I will see yo...

Thank you so much to Andy for commissioning this episode! I'm so delighted to be getting into this final book and I'm also extremely upset that this book marks the end of the line for our beloved Cradle universe. It feels so good to be back here, and it's really fun to get into the chapter that Will read aloud at that convention, for those who have seen the video. I can't wait to talk about all th...

Thank you very much to Natalia for commissioning this episode! Yes, this is out of order. But that's because I watched them out of order. Sorry about that. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!

In case you missed the convo on Discord, (which you can join here! ), YES I COMPLETELY SKIPPED EPISODE SEVENTEEN. I will also be going back and editing the shownotes for Chapter Eighteen to avoid confusion. Thank you to Lauren for commissioning this episode! This is the episode where Jane copes with the breakup, and I'm personally feeling like it's better in the long run but I think I'm supposed t...

Thank you very much to Lauren for commissioning this episode! And before you ask, YES I ACCIDENTALLY SKIPPED EPISODE SEVENTEEN I WILL GO BACK AND DO IT I'M SO SORRY In this episode, we get the most infuriating episode so far in my opinion because it seems like absolutely everyone around Jane is acting like she's being so unreasonable about her expectations for her relationship with Rafael. Thank y...

Thank you to Lauren for commissioning this episode! In this episode, I am absolutely disgusted with Alba and I'm really hoping that she snaps the fuck out of it in the next episode because as far as I'm concerned she's 100% in the wrong and Jane is 50% in the wrong for the way she's trying to police her mother's reaction to extremely shitty, dismissive treatment. Other stuff happens, but that's th...

Thank you so much to Natalia for commissioning this episode! In this installment, we get to see some super sus behavior on Aaron's part, and I have my doubts about whether the "captured by the cartel" thing is really what it looks like. Meanwhile, Jane is struggling with writer's block, and is similarly blocked about what to do what to do about Rafael's proposal, and Xo is worried she's pregnant....

Thank you very much to Joanna for commissioning this episode! This is a pretty wild episode, because we find out that Zaz's brother is his twin, which needless to say causes some confusion for people. Rafael's father is discovered in the fountain, and Rose is over here contacting Luisa to run away with her? And maybe Luisa AGREED? Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you soon with a new ep...

Thank you so much to Lauren for commissioning this episode! This episode was full os surprises, because I definitely didn't think we were going to get Michael figuring out that Rose is Sin Rostro this early in the season. There's also an extremely emotional storyline about Jane's baby having a potential marker for a chromosome abnormality, and I get extremely weepy about it. Thanks so much to you...

Thank you to Joanna for commissioning this episode, this whole book, and the previous book, because I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! Let's all cross our fingers that we get another installment of the series soon, and that I'm commissioned to read it, because ohmigod I need it immediately. Thank you all so so much for listening, and I hope to see you very soon.

Thank you to Lauren for commissioning this episode! This is the one where Jane is asked to write the episode where her own father is killed off of HIS OWN SHOW. Literally what are they doing?! Are they going to change the whole name of Passions Of Santos? This is also a really fun one because we're getting an inadvertent live-react of me finding out something very important that I SOMEHOW MISSED T...

Thank you so much to Joanna for commissioning this episode! This is the section of chapters in which Alex & Co. return to hell again, and she finally shares the thing that she feels is the most horrible and selfish thing she's ever done: adopting Babbit Rabbit. This is a rough one, guys. Prepare for some tears on my part. Thank you for listening!