Spoil Me

Thank you so much to D'Nique for commissioning this episode! This section is so rough, y'all. Oof. That's it. That's the post.

Thank you so much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! From here on out, Melanie wants me to cover these episodes one at a time...and I'm gonna take that as an indicator that shit is really about to pop off. It sure seems that way from this episode! We're beginning to get a look at some of the secrets of Gravity Falls, and it turns out that a lot more people around here are aware of weird sh...

Thank you again so much to D'Nique for commissioning this episode! Well, we're finally into the section of the book I had not yet read, and unexpectedly, Olamina is reunited with one of her family whom she had long thought to be dead. I feel really bad because Marc has really been put through it, but he's really so insufferable here. Oof, he gets on my NERVES. But yeah, the people that she bought...

Thank you very much to Yama for commissioning this episode and getting me started on the next book! I'm really REALLY into this all so far. I feel like I'm finally getting a more detailed look at the world Garth Nix has created, and I don't think I had really realized how much I wanted this. I am fascinated by the ways of life we see in these books and how different they are from one another, and...

Thank you very much to Ashleigh for commissioning this episode! I'm glad to be getting back into this world at last, and I'm surprised at how touched I was to see Sonea and Regin on the same side after all that went down between them. I just really like to see people actually learning from their mistakes and regretting their bad behavior, you know? It's a shame that his daughters seem to be kinda...

Thank you so much to D'Nique for commissioning this episode! This is the last of the redo sections, and after this one we will be getting into new territory. I'm honestly a little worried about it. I hate the world that this is set in, and I'm really imagining some horrific shit could be coming. Everything is too idyllic right now, and Acorn is growing a little too prosperous to continue flying un...

Thank you very much to Denise for once again commissioning a voyeur-level episode so that I can yammer on for a half hour longer. because shit just got very very real. So it turns out that things are in many ways worse than I had suspected, although there's at least the mercy of painlessness. The stone people are kept around to make the propoganda about this other lost civilization seem true, but...

Thanks so much to Megan for commissioning this episode, as well as commissioning the voyeur live-watch of it! I'm blown away at all the twists and turns this episode. Omg but it's a rollercoaster, and I'm in love with the way the show gets us to feel the same confusion and whiplash that Josh feels when he's first told that Rebecca is pregnant and then told that she's not. Then, to top it off we ge...

Thank you so much to D'Nique for commissioning this episode! It has been nearly a year since the first time I covered these sections, hence me covering them again in full to refresh myself. D'Nique was able to commission the entire book upfront to ensure its completion, and I'm looking forward to finding out what happened beyond the point I had to leave off reading last time. It's startling how mu...

Thank you very much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! These two episodes are very fun, and I'm really glad to have a Soos-centric episode considering how often I have felt like his character doesn't entirely work for me. I actually really liked getting a better look at his life and some details that make him seem like more of a full character. The second episode is a series of short stori...

Thank you very much to Denise for commissioning this episode! Whew boy, these are some really tough fucking chapters. First off there's the reveal that the way that the stone people were made is actually in reverse of what I had thought; the orogenes as we know them appear to have come BEFORE the stone people, which is totally confusing and yet, once explained, makes the most sense. Then there's t...

Thank you so much to Abbey for commissioning this episode, and thank you to Yama for correcting my mistake on the earlier post in which I thought that I had fucked up and in fact HAD, but in a different way than I thought. Oof! It's been a confusing month, y'all! It's finally the finale episode! And I was really impressed with the way this book ended, even despite the fact that there's not a horri...

Thank you very much to Denise for commissioning this episode! In this section, there's still a lot of mystery surrounding what the history of the stone people is, and although I'm getting to the point where I'm almost formulating theories, it's still a little too soon for me to grasp enough for those theories to make much sense. Nassun, for her part, is getting into the heart of this creepy dead c...

Thank you very much to Michael for commissioning this episode! So this episode was a bunch of my worst fears realized because I want so much for Kathryn to be trusted and become a part of things, but it looks like that's simply not an option. Instead, we have to jump to PRO-LEVEL GASLIGHTING, which lemme tell ya...not my first choice. And I have a lot of questions about the loose ends being tied u...

Thank you very much to Nikolai for commissioning this episode! Well then, I guess it's about to pop off, huh? I cannot figure out what could have happened to Jonas to cause him to become Adam, but whatever it was it must have been fucking traumatic. And considering the way that Noah behaved when he saw the pages that have been missing, he's not telling anyone the whole story anymore which makes me...

Thank you so much to Yama for commissioning this episode and starting us off on the next book! It's going to be a minute before the next one starts, but I'm already into it and I'm mad about where this section stops. Nita gets sent to fucking Scotland! I mean, there's a shock. And I have to say that I don't really feel that her parents are being fair with trying to separate her from not only her b...

Thank you so much Denise for commissioning this episode, and making it an extra-long episode because apparently I need it. This section is when we start getting into Hoa's history in earnest, and there's something not being said that's being hinted at and I am trying to figure out what it is. I'm feeling that there's going to be a twist regarding how the stone people are made, or how the obelisks...

Thank you very much to Karyn for commissioning this episode! I'm so glad to be continuing my journey through this show because it really does seem to be the gift that keeps on giving. I mean, this episode is BONKERS and I'm so unsure how the hell we can possibly move forward from here effectively. I mean, there's the whole implication that maybe McClaren might be ordered to assassinate his wife be...

Thank you very much to Melanie for commissioning this episode! I am very excited to be getting further into this season because it looks like we're going to get even deeper into the mysteries while STILL continuing to meet new and fun characters. But mostly, I'm loyal to the old, and I'm delighted to see Pacifica Northwest is back. Golf War is a particularly weird and bloodthirsty episode, conside...

Thank you very much to Martin for commissioning this episode! I can't believe that we've reached the end of this book and we still haven't found out exactly what the hell happens with the big showdown at the Abbey! Does Ara live? I'm hoping so, but what a cliffhanger to end things on! But I'm getting ahead of myself. First there's the whole thing with Clera to deal with, and boy it's ugly and sad...

Thank you ever so much to Nikolai for commissioning this episode! This episode is the second one in a row I believe in which we do not see Jonas, and let me tell you, I'm dying to know what the hell he's up to. However, we get some more Claudia and I'm really intrigued by the way she is apparently playing the game. What is up with the pages she has that Noah seems to covet? And who the fuck is Ada...

Thank you very much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! We've only got one more to go before this story wraps up, and I for one am still on the edge of my seat. I want to know what exactly Mogget is up to, I want to see Sam reunited with Sabriel and Touchstone, I want to see Nick rescued (PLEASE let him be rescued) and I want to see what it looks like to bind a creature of this kind of power....

Thank you so much to Nikki for commissioning this episode! I am really loving this show, and this episode gets to the heart of one of the reasons why; the overall implications to what the ability to "travel" means when it's given to human beings. Regular old human beings who maybe don't have the purest intentions. It turns out that this episode is a little ambivalent about whether Donner was lying...

Thank you very much to Devin for commissioning this episode! Wow, I wasn't ready for this book to be over. I had no idea we were so close to the end! That's not to say that I think this book is badly paced, because in fact I'm rather impressed with how compact the whole thing it, while still managing to be complex and wildly imaginative. The ending of this story is just as compassionate as the end...

Thank you very much to Abbey for commissioning this episode! Y'all I have to tell you YET AGAIN how fucking nervous it makes me when Lirael goes into Death. Omfg it just gives me the worst anxiety, and she is spending SO LONG in there this time around! And still isn't even halfway to the gate she needs! I can't handle it. There's a lot going on with Mogget, too, which I didn't really pick up on la...