Spoil Me

Thank you to Andrea for commissioning this episode, and my apologies for calling this episode by the wrong name! I'm so excited to get back into this series, and I'm delighted to be seeing what appears to be genuine emotion coming from Villanelle. She's so devastated by the fact that Eve has apparently lost interest in her, and the fact that she falls apart while nobody is watching means that this...

Thank you very much to Yama for (kind of) commissioning this episode! YAY! I really really enjoyed the start of Season 3. I wasn't sure what it was going to be like to go into this other world, but the fact that we've gotten to know the original world so well makes this upside-down version very very effective. Seeing a world in which Jonas doesn't exist is really odd and throws me off completely,...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning these chapters! I am so excited because there's a whole lesbian relationship forming and I really am rooting for it. I hope that things go better for them than they seemed to between Dannyl and Tayend. Although, now that Tayend is here in Sachaka maybe something will work out regarding their relationship? So with Lorkin has an interesting conversation with t...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! I can't get over how the stakes, which are already so high, are made to feel even higher by this damn visit from Thuran Tacsis. (It's Thuran, right? Damn, I can't keep these assholes straight.) Letting me know that Nona will be tortured if she isn't rescued in time is a helluva tension-raiser and adds so much more to the whole story. Al...

Thank you so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! We're in the home stretch for this show, and I'm kind of dreading things ending...and episodes like these make me dread it all the more. I mean, the prison of Mabel's fantasies is one of the most packed episodes, both in terms of plot and in terms of jokes, and I had to pause it so many times to let some truly great moments sink in. I ca...

Thank you to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! We're starting a new book, and I'm already more interested than I was in the last one, so I'm feeling good about this. I'm delighted that there's a new character being added, and I don't know if it's my imagination but I think there my be a ship coming into port! The whole thing with Skellin remains unresolved, and I'm really wondering what has...

Thank you so much to Yama for commissioning this episode! By the time I publish this episode, I've seen news that Garth Nix is planning another book in this universe and I'm delighted about it. I really enjoying the time I spend in Old Kingdom, and I just wish that he would let the stories breathe by the end. By this time, after reading so many books by him, I'm just realizing that Nix doesn't rea...

Thank you so much to Nancy for commissioning this episode! Alright kids, I'm gonna be honest. I'm pretty worried about where this show is going because of the subject matter and the way it's being handled so far. I'm just not really sure that I understand the motive of the show, and I'm getting nervous about the direction in which I think they're headed, and at this point kinda just waiting and ho...

Thank you again to Yama for commissioning this episode! I'm really beginning to get into where this is all going, and I was surprised by how affected I was by the fact that Lirael gets to see her mother again. Last time if I'm not mistaken, we see scenes of her mother's past, but I don't think she actually addresses Lirael, does she? Either way, her telling Lirael "I love you" was really something...

Thank you so much to Agnes for commissioning this episode! This was one of those episodes where I'm not really sure what I feel because the issues we're dealing with on this show this season are so fraught. This episode revolves around Veronica getting hired by the frat to clear their names, and in the end she finds out that it most likely wasn't them...but the feminists are mad at her? For not, l...

Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode! This section of chapters is delightful because it mostly concerns a romance that I've grown very invested in. I just really like Nick and lot and I figure if he's picked one of the most badass women in recent history (his world's history) as his aim, he's got excellent taste and I like him even better. And I just want him to be fucking HA...

Thank you very much to Rachel for commissioning this episode! It's been a while since I've covered the last episode of Veronica Mars and I had forgotten how we had no update on Weevil until now. Things seem to be going pretty badly and I'm hopeful that this new job he ends up with actually works out because I want stuff to be better for him? I'm weirdly invested in what happens to Weevil, okay? Me...

Thank you very much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! I can't believe that we're in the final stretch now, and I am starting to get the jitters about saying goodbye to this show that I've started to get super attached to. This episode is all about how everything finally perfectly coalesces to fall apart because Mabel is super duper sad and makes a really terrible mistake. Honestly, I feel...

Thank you very much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! These two episodes are the last of the doubled-up episodes of Gravity Falls, which makes sense because they're sort of the last of the one-off lighter stories before the season begins to wind to a close. The Last Mabelcorn is a hilarious and frustrating jaunt into high fantasy, and Roadside Attraction is partially about fucking up Stan...

Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode! So I'm very curious about how y'all feel about this book because I can't tell if I'm being reasonable or impatient regarding my expectation that we should be a little further along with things by now. Ferin I'm mostly okay with, because she is a character that I expected to have a long travel-focused quest...but I really didn't expect for...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! I can't lie, I'm absolutely stoked at the team of badasses being assembled in these chapters. Granted, they haven't quite come together in a group yet, but I have no doubt they will get together eventually and I'm so looking forward to watching an odd friendship blossom between Nona and Zole. Maybe more than friendship? Who can tell? Me...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! So this was the last recording covering The Ambassador's Mission, and I really have to say that I was baffled at the way it wrapped up...or really, at the way it didn't wrap anything up at all. The only thing that feels like a conclusion here is that Tyvara is sentenced, but otherwise there is still a problem with Skellin and roet, Lo...

Thank you Yama for commissioning this episode! These chapters are really funny in their way, because there's such total awkwardness between Lirael and Nick. God the two of them have no real idea how to talk to one another, and I'm just over here praying that they figure it out before they have to face a monster together or something. Meanwhile, the woodweirds are chasing Ferin along with the rest...

Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode! This section of the story is just devastating, and I was not ready at all. There were some personal things going on that made it hit me harder than it might have otherwise, and it was also just SO well-written. I'm really worried about what it's going to look like going forward. Thank you so much for listening, and I will see you soon wit...

Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode! So these chapters completely confirm the fact that it's Chlorr who is demanding women be trained and kept waiting for her to possess, and there's something way more upsetting about that now that we know who Clariel is and who she used to be. She's a mess now, apparently. Speaking of messes, here comes a fisherwoman to be totally immoveabl...

Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode! And apologies for fucking up the reading order for anyone who is reading along, but after messing it up on Week 1, I've thrown it all out of wack. So this episode will be covering pages 55-101 and I hope you can forgive me. I really liked this section because we get to see more of Kit and his own home life, and we also get to learn about the way th...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I'm sorry I was such a mess with scheduling due to losing internet, but I promise I will have it together more (not completely, but MORE) next episode. In these chapters, we've got the confrontation between Lorkin and Dannyl, in which Lorkin has to explain to Dannyl why he doesn't want to be found. It's an interesting moment when you...

Thank you so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! This episode is about Stan dealing with feelings of inadequacy in comparison with his brother, which come much more to the fore when he's dealing with Dipper and Mabel. And there's something really really sweet about that? In the end, though, we get Little Gideon back as an adversary, and I'm totally here for it. Thank you so much for li...

Thank you to Yama for commissioning this episode! This book is really fun because it starts before the end of The Creature In The Case, but it's from Lirael's perspective (for some of it, at least) so we get to see what she's thinking and experiencing in the same situations as Nick. She's super into him, and unwilling to admit it to herself, and it's adorable. Meanwhile, Chlorr is out here basical...

Thank you so much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! In these chapters, we've got a surprise new character in Cery's daughter, who is kinda badass but also very young and inexperienced. She reminds me of a more violent version of Sonea, and she's here for some revenge. Meanwhile, fucking Skellin, man. He bad news. Thanks for listening, and I will see you soon with a new episode!