Spoil Me

Thank you Max for commissioning this episode! This is the one where our dudes go get their metal parts repaired by Pinako and Winry, and Ed zeros in on an alchemist who has successfully made some close approximations of the Philosophers Stone. CLOSE. But not quite. I get mad at Ed.

Thank you to Max for commissioning this episode! This time around, we're talking about the State Alchemist Murderer, AKA Scar, and how he's really pretty much totally justified in his desire for revenge, no matter what Ed may say. Also, Hawkeye should be in charge and Mustang needs to be demoted. Thanks for listening!

Thank you again to Max for commissioning this episode. I guess. Actually, no. I hate you, Max. I really do. I hate all of you.

Thank you very much to Jacqui for commissioning this episode! I'm really happy with the ambiguity of the way this story ends, and as usual Brando Sando's worldbuilding is impeccable. As Jacqui also pointed out in the chat, it's great to see how far he has come in terms of making complex and compelling women characters, which is really encouraging. Thank you all for listening, and I will see you ag...

Thank you Max for commissioning this episode! I hadn't expected for things to get theological in this show, and the focus on a church and priest in this episode surprised me. There's also a faithful follower who gets a very unpleasant dose of reality after believing for a long time that her dead fiance can be brought back to life, and I honestly feel really bad for her. Thanks so much for listenin...

Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode! So we're getting into it now, and I'm taken by surprise when we get into the story behind what happened to Ed and Al. Turns out that Ed was the one at fault for sure, although most of what actually happens regarding to the rebound was not what I was expecting. I'm so freaked out by this weird parallel world and the being that Ed spoke to. An...

Thank you so much to Max for commissioning this episode! I'm so excited to finally be starting this series, and despite warnings that the first episode isn't that great, I really enjoyed it and was pleasantly surprised at how immediately engaged I was by the plot and the universe. However, I have a LOT of questions about what happened to Ed and Al. Thanks so much for listening, and I will see you...

Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode! In this chapter, there's a totally bizarre turn of events in which the Hesper, which I think we were all anticipating would be complicated and difficult to reach, winds up walking right up to our people with no fanfare whatsoever. TWIST! Thanks for listening!

Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode! This chapter is the one in which our crew that's still on the Yaldiv's planet put on their costumes and infiltrate the main hive to get closer to the Hesper. None of this goes the way I expected all, and it turns out that the King knows that they're there, and that they aren't working for the Lone One. What?! I truly can't imagine how this continue...

Thank you very much to Jacqui for commissioning this episode! Brando Sando wrote what I think a short story although it's not that short, so perhaps it technically qualifies as a novella. It's a really enthralling story so far, and I'm a little sad that there's only one more episode's worth of coverage. However, this gives me a bit of a peek into the other universes that I haven't seen in my cover...

Thank you so much to Patricia for commissioning this episode! This chapter is a really high-octane for this series, with an actual shoot-out that happens in the apparently abandoned Crossings. Not only that, but we get a rescue from someone that I was definitely not expecting to show up here. And it is AWESOME. Thanks so much for listening!

Thank you so much to Candace for commissioning this episode! This is the second Makota Shinkai film that Candace has commissioned, and apparently he's working on a third one that I'm hoping to get to cover eventually. I have to admit tho, this film didn't work for me nearly as well at Your Name because the ending felt like it didn't really know what it wanted to be. Shinkai made some statements ab...

Thank you ever so much to Joyce for commissioning this episode, and especially for commissioning me and RoShawn to cover it together. I will let this episode speak for itself. Enjoy!

Thank you to Patricia for commissioning this episode! This chapter is the one that has made me the most nervous so far. We are finding out that a whole planet is populated by beings that are not JUST overshadowed, but are literal avatars of the Lone Power. I honestly don't even know what to do with this information. Also, there's the whole thing with Nita's father being totally MIA (not to mention...

Thank you so very much to Heather for commissioning this episode! I'm delighted that we're getting into some really unexpected territory here, but also I was so unprepared for this shit to actually WORK that now I'm a little bit freaked out. I mean, Elgen Spears can be an evil genius all he wants when he's just TRYING to do something...but him SUCCEEDING? No, I don't like that at all. This is wher...

Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we get to a really freaky destination that makes Nita feel so disturbed and upset that she's physically nauseous, which I deeply do not care for. Meanwhile, Dairine is going back to the original location of her ordeal and her creation of an alien robot race, and honestly it's pretty heartwarming. My heart is warmed. Tha...

Thank you to Heather for commissioning this episode! It's been a bit since the last episode covering Evolve, and we've moved along into some NEW POVs this time around. I'm very much into seeing Jordan through Brian's eyes, and I'm shocked at how insecure he is about her. I can understand it of course, but I didn't expect it based on the way he behaves around her. Which I guess is actually impressi...

Thank you to Patricia for commissioning this episode! This chapter is one where I start to get truly anxious in a way that doesn't feel totally safe. First of all, there's the fact that time is working against them and things are passing way faster on earth, which I can't imagine means anything good for us no matter where they happen to be. Then there's the fact that Nita's father is all cryptic a...

Thank you so much to George for commissioning this episode! It's the last section of the booooook! Nooooooo! That's all I have to say.

Thank you Patricia for commissioning this episode! So in these chapters our friends split up into two teams, and Nita & Co. go to the Crossings and meet Skerrit's ancestor, while Dairine & Roshaun go to his home and she gets to meet the family. Both are very illuminating in their own ways, because Skerrit and Roshaun are each so clearly influenced by familial expectations and obligations. Thank yo...

Thank you ever so much to George for commissioning this episode! This is the penultimate episode of coverage of the Elder Empire series (so far at least) and I'm so sad about it. I really loved this pair of books, and I'm really enjoying getting to see the same story through two very different pairs of eyes. This leads to discovering things like what kind of potential Meia is working with, and tha...

Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode! So in these chapters, after getting the absolute worst news imaginable, our team is joined by an old flame, in more ways than one! Get it!? Because he's basically inhabited by a holy fire of goodness? Also, there's a whole thing with Carmela starting to get into both Ronan and wizardry, and while Ronan is essentially on the table (albeit with some...

Thank you to Patricia for commissioning this episode! Patricia I'm sorry that I credited Yama, I was looking at the wrong day! In this chapter (and a bit) we get more details on what the absolute crisis is that we're dealing with here, and turns out that basically there is dark matter out there multiplying and warping space, warping time, warping people's perspectives and priorities, and warping w...

Thanks ever so much to George for commissioning this episode! HURRAY! I'm finally able to continue on my journey through the Elder Empire, and we get to see how Calder's conversation with Jyrine winds up going now that he knows that she's part of a secret cult that worships the Elders. Not only that, but he asks some very important questions, and he does NOT like the answer he gets. Thanks for lis...

Thank you ever so much to Yama for commissioning this episode! Well this book is coming out swinging for the fences immediately, huh? We start very nearly exactly where we left off in the last book, and turns out that there's a whole OTHER conversation that was happening between Tom and their dad in the last book! It had nothing to even do with the whole Sun thing at all! And we're getting one of...